CATALONIA Government Railways (FGC) is celebrating the entry of the first two of seven new three-car class 114 trains purchased from a CAF-Alstom consortium for its standard-gauge Barcelona Metro line L7, which runs 7km from Plaça Catalunya to Avinguda Tibidabo.

THE Catalan autonomous government presented proposals on October 16 for a project to extend the Catalan Government Railways (FGC) Llobregat-Anoia metre-gauge suburban lines from its current Barcelona terminus at Plaça de Espanya beneath the city's central Eixample district to Gràcia.

BARCELONA Metropolitan Transport (TMB) is installing new energy-saving technologies at Passeig de Grácia station on Metro Line 3 as part of the European Union-funded SEAM4US project, which is developing systems to reduce non-traction energy consumption at metro stations by at least 5%.

THE Catalonian autonomous government has confirmed its intention to open a second section of its ambitious Barcelona Line 9/Line 10 metro project in the first half of 2016, connecting the south of the city with the two terminals at El Prat Airport.

CATALUNYA Railways (FGC), which operates commuter rail services in the Barcelona area, has signed an agreement with Awaait Artificial Intelligence to install and market an automatic system based on artificial intelligence algorithms to detect and warn about passengers trying to access stations without valid tickets.

CATALAN Government Railways (FGC) celebrated the introduction of its new fleet of class 113 1.5kV dc suburban emus on January 27, when the first train was named Barcelona in a ceremony at the city's Plaça Catalunya station.

THE Catalan Ministry of Territory and Sustainability (TES) and Barcelona Metropolitan Transport (TMB) are to head a European project to provide technical and legal support for the reform of the safety regime on the Cairo metro.

SPAIN's state-owned train operating company, Renfe, and the country's infrastructure manager, Adif, have started passenger service tests on the mixed traffic high-speed line between Barcelona and the French border.