COLOGNE Transport Authority (KVB) and Düsseldorf's Rheinbahn have issued a joint invitation to tender for a contract to supply 66 high-floor LRVs with an option for 12 additional vehicles.

RHINE-RUHR Transport Authority (VRR) has invited bids by March 11 for three concessions for the five-line Rhine-Ruhr Express (RXX) network in Germany's Ruhr area.

DB Fernverkehr, German Rail's (DB) inter-city operating subsidiary, and the German state of Baden-Württemberg, have reached an agreement to introduce an hourly double-deck inter-city service on the Stuttgart - Zurich main line from December 2017.

VOITH confirmed on January 27 that its management board has decided not to resume talks on the sale of its locomotive production unit, which is based in Kiel in northern Germany.

GERMANY's Federal Cartel Office announced on January 30 that it has launched an investigation into German Rail (DB) following allegations that it has abused its dominant position in ticket sales and distribution for rail passenger services.

MUNICH Transport (MVG) and Munich City Authority (SWM) have announced they will invest €335m in the expansion and modernisation of the city's public transport network this year, more than double the amount invested in 2013.

LOHR Industrie, France, has rolled out a prototype of a new low-floor intermodal wagon designed to carry semitrailers with a corner height of 4m on routes where this has previously not been possible.

GERMAN Rail (DB) subsidiary DB Regio NRW unveiled the first of 56 class 620 Alstom Coradia Lint dmus for the Cologne Diesel Network regional concession on January 15 with an inaugural run from Cologne Main Station to Cologne Deutz.

DB Networks and local authorities in Bavaria are set to begin planning work for the electrification the 147km line from Munich East to Mühldorf and Freilassing.

GERMANY's Federal Railway Authority (EBA) has granted Vossloh's G12 and G18 four-axle single-cab freight locomotives an authority to place into service for operation on the German network.