BOMBARDIER announced on March 19 that it has received an order worth around €60m for 15 Traxx DE ME multi-engine diesel locomotives from Germany-based financial joint venture Paribus-DIF Netz West Lokomotiven.

TRANSNET celebrated its biggest-ever locomotive order on March 17, when it signed contracts worth Rand 50bn ($US 4.7bn) with four international suppliers for a total of 1064 locomotives for its Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) subsidiary.

The Saudi capital Riyadh has set itself a daunting task: to build an automated metro comprising six lines simultaneously in five years. David Briginshaw explains how this ambitious project will be implemented.

BOMBARDIER's F140 AC LM 'Last Mile' electro-diesel locomotive entered service with Swiss railfreight operator BLS Cargo on March 6, when one of the class 187 locomotives was used to haul new multiple units from the Stadler plant at Bussnang to a non-electrified freight terminal in Visp.

THE first services have operated over the $A 291m ($US 260m) Seaford extension in South Australia, coinciding with the introduction of the first electric suburban services on the Adelaide Metro network.

ITALIAN open-access operator GTS Rail has awarded two contracts to supply locomotives and wagons for use on intermodal services.

LINZ Linien, Austria, has awarded a €19m contract to Bombardier for six Flexity LRVs to be delivered in mid-2015 for operation on an extension to Traun in the southwest of the city.

TRANSPORT for London (TfL) and Britain's Department for Transport have announced that Bombardier will be awarded a £1bn contract to supply and maintain 65 trains for the new Crossrail network under construction in London, subject to a 10-day standstill period.

ROTTERDAM Electric Tram (RET) has exercised an option worth €66m with Bombardier for 16 Flexity Swift LRVs for operation on the Hook of Holland, which is being converted from heavy rail to light metro operation.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) confirmed on January 31 that the delivery of a fleet of 59 long-distance trains from Bombardier will be delayed by two years.