NUREMBERG Transport Company (VAG) has received two modern LRVs on loan from Munich and Krakow as it prepares to launch a tender for up to 85 new vehicles.

FOLLOWING a European tender, Bavarian Railway Company (BEG) and Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport have awarded Go-Ahead Transport Germany a contract to operate the Allgäu Electric Network for 12 years from December 2021.

THE city council in the Bavarian city of Regensburg has voted overwhelmingly to back plans for the construction of a light rail network.

BAVARIAN Railway Company (BEG) has agreed to fund the procurement of trains to operate on the 14.6km Gunzenhausen - Wassertrüdingen line in Germany, an extension of the current DMU-operated Pleinfeld - Gunzenhausen service, for 12 years from 2024.

GERMANY’s Federal minister for transport and digital infrastructure, Mr Andreas Scheuer, attended a groundbreaking ceremony at Memmingen on March 23 to mark the official launch of electrification works on the Munich - Lindau line.

PROPOSALS to significantly reduce the use of diesel traction on regional services in southern Germany were presented to the Bavarian cabinet by the state’s transport minister Mr Joachim Herrmann on January 23.

A joint declaration of intent to electrify the 16km cross-border line from Reutte in Austria to Pfronten-Steinach in Germany was signed on September 29 by Mrs Ingrid Felipe, second deputy of the province of Tyrol, and Bavaria’s interior and transport minister Mr Joachim Hermann.