REPRESENTATIVES of Dunakeszi Railway Works, Hungary, and CAF signed a contract on November 4 to localise the final assembly of CAF Urbos LRVs for Budapest Transport Company (BKV).

STADLER Rail has approved a Forints 1bn ($US 3.5m) investment in the bogie overhaul facility at its Szolnok plant in Hungary which will enable the site to begin producing bogies for new trains.

AUSTRIAN Federal Railways (ÖBB) has launched an international tender for a contract to supply up to 200 electric freight locomotives.

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.

BUDAPEST Transport Company (BKV) signed a €219.2m contract with Metrowagonmash, Russia, on August 7 for the refurbishment of 37 six-car trains used on Budapest metro Line 3 after Hungary's public tendering court (KDB) rejected a complaint against the decision brought by Estonia's Skinest Rail.

BUDAPEST Transport Company (BKV) may be forced to restart tendering for a contract worth more than €200m to refurbish 37 ageing six-car trains used on Budapest metro Line 3 after one of the bidders raised objections to how the procurement was handled.

HUNGARY's national operator MÁV-Start has selected Stadler out of two bidders for a contract to supply 21 four-car suburban EMUs.

THE Municipality of Budapest voted on June 23 in favour of building a connection between metro Line 2 and the HÉV suburban rail line to Gödöllő to allow through running between both lines.

PLANS to extend Budapest metro Line 4 east from its current terminus at Keleti have effectively been abandoned after the municipal goverment voted instead to expand the city's tram network.

A consortium of Főmterv and Ecoroad has won the tender to prepare the detailed feasibility study for building the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade high-speed line. The study will cost Forints 527m ($US 1.8m).