THE first of 47 CAF Urbos LRVs ordered by Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) for the tram network in the Hungarian capital entered service on Line 3 on September 17.

THE first of six passenger trains being built by CAF was handed over by the company's CEO Mr Andres Arizlorret to the chairman of Saudi Railway Company (SAR) Dr Saad A Al Qadhi and SAR's CEO Dr Rumaih Al-Rumaih at the new station in Riyadh.

TRIMBLE, United States, announced on August 27 that Irish Rail will be deploying Nexala's R2M remote diagnostics monitoring system across its CAF class 29000 commuter fleet.

NEW ZEALAND's prime minister Mr John Key attended a ceremony at Auckland Transport's Wiri depot on August 13 to mark the delivery of the last of 57 AM class EMUs from CAF.

SPAIN's national operator Renfe will launch a tender in September for the supply of 40 high-speed trains under a €1.1bn framework contract to be awarded during 2016, according to its president Mr Pablo Vázquez.

THE mayor of Freiburg-im-Breisgau Dr Dieter Salomon has officially unveiled the German city's new fleet of CAF Urbos 100 LRVs, which have been ordered as part of a €150m investment in modernising and expanding the metre-gauge network.

ARTIST's impressions of the CAF Urbos low-floor LRV for the first light rail line in Luxembourg were unveiled on July 1 by the country's minister for sustainable development and transport François Bausch and mayor of Luxembourg Mrs Lydie Polfer.

TRANSPORT for London (TfL) says it will award a £260m contract to Bombardier for 45 EMUs for the expanding London Overground rail network. Delivery of the trains will start in 2018.

THREE years after the first train arrived in Italy, the fleet of CAF Civity EMUs ordered by the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia finally entered passenger service with the timetable change on June 14, when three ETR 563 sets were introduced on the Tarvisio - Udine - Trieste route.