MUMBAI Metro Line 1 – India's first metro rail project built under a PPP model – launched on June 8, with chief minister of Maharashtra Mr Prithviraj Chavan riding the first train on the elevated 11.4km route from Versova to Ghatkopar.
CAMEROON and its landlocked neighbour Chad reached an agreement on June 3 to carry out a feasibility study into the construction of a 700km line linking Ngaoundéré in northeast Cameroon with Ndjamena, the Chadian capital.
SWEDISH transport administration Trafikverket has awarded Strukton a five-year contract worth SKr 367m ($US 55.8m) to provide maintenance services on 310 track-km in southern Stockholm.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has awarded Bombardier a €27m contract to supply seven Traxx DE ME multi-engine diesel locomotives for use on DB Autozug SyltShuttle car trains, which link Niebüll with Westerland on the island of Sylt in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
ATHENS Metro authority Attiko Metro announced on June 5 that its new fleet of 17 Hyundai-Rotem trains for lines 2 and 3 has been approved for passenger operation, enabling the first sets to enter service over the next few days.
THE European Investment Bank has granted a €268m loan to Poland's infrastructure manager, PKP PLK, to rehabilitate a 58km section of the 78km main line linking Katowice with Kraków.
GERMANY's Rhine-Main Transport Authority (RMV) has awarded a 12-year contract to operate the Odenwald regional network south of Frankfurt-am-Main to Vias, the current operator of these routes.
THE Council of the European Union has reached political agreements on the three texts that comprise the Technical Pillar of the Fourth Railway Package following a meeting held today in Brussels.
FRENCH Rail Network (RFF) and Synerail, the PPP consortium appointed by RFF in 2010 to install, operate and maintain GSM-R, have selected Kapsch CarrierCom to install an all-IP core solution based on the supplier's new R4 architecture.
SPAIN's Transport Ministry yesterday published the final investigation report into the Santiago de Compostela accident on July 24 2013, when a train derailed while travelling at 180km/h on an 80km/h curve killing 79 people.
