THE latest commuter rail line in the United States opens today in Florida following an official opening ceremony for SunRail on April 30.

With passenger traffic having topped one million passengers a day for the first time and the railfreight sector back in profit after decades of losses, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) appears to be on a roll.

CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock has unveiled the first of 18 low-floor Flexity 2 LRVs for the first phase of the city of Suzhou's under-construction light rail network.

AT the request of manufacturer Bombardier, Netherlands Railways (NS) withdrew its entire fleet of Traxx F140 MS (class 186) multi-system locomotives from service on April 8 due to excessive pantograph wear.

THE governor of Riyadh Prince Khaled bin Bandar officially launched construction on April 3 of the six-line metro to be built in the Saudi capital.

DANISH State Railways (DSB) has been granted permission to purchase 67 Bombardier double-deck coaches, which it has leased from Luxembourg-based Ascendos since 2002, to avoid what DSB describes as potential capacity problems caused by the continuing unreliability of its IC4 dmus supplied by AnsaldoBreda.

ISRAEL Railways (IR) has received the first six of 72 push-pull double-deck coaches currently being built by Bombardier to serve new electrified services which will be introduced on the Tel Aviv - Jerusalem and Acre - Carmiel lines from 2018.

ZAMBIA Railways Limited (ZRL) has selected a consortium of Bombardier, Huawei and local contractor GMC Technologies in a $US 51m contract to supply and install ERTMS Regional on the 980km Chingola - Livingstone line.

GERMAN Rail has signed a €146m contract with Bombardier for 29 class 442 Talent 2 suburban emus as part of a framework deal for up to 321 trains, which was agreed in 2007.

THE Mayor of Eskisehir Mr Yılmaz Büyükerşen formally opened the latest addition to the city's EsTram light rail network on March 18 when he made an inaugural trip over Line 3, which serves eastern districts of the Turkish city.