AUSTRIAN Federal Railways (ÖBB) CEO Mr Christian Kern and CFO Mr Josef Halbmayr presented the company's annual results at Vienna's new Main Station on April 17, revealing that the railway maintained its recent strong financial performance in 2014.
PLANNING began on March 18 for Hungary's first tram-train project, which will link the tram network in the city Szeged and a planned light rail line in Hódmezővásárhely via Hungarian State Railways' (MÁV) Szeged – Békéscsaba line.
BUDAPEST Transport Company (BKV) began operating over the 3.2km southern extension of its circular tram Line 1 on March 20, when trams began using Rákóczi Bridge across the Danube, which was built 20 years ago with space allocated for the track.
THE first of 37 Urbos low-floor LRVs being supplied by CAF for the tram network in Budapest arrived in the Hungarian capital in the early hours of March 11.
ROMANIAN rolling stock manufacturer Softronic and LAC Holding, Hungary, have signed an agreement to establish a locomotive assembly plant in Hungary.
THE Hungarian government has acquired a 64.9% stake in the carriage works at Dunakeszi near Budapest from Bombardier in a deal worth Forints 2.1bn ($US 7.8m).
BUDAPEST Transport Company (BKV) has published a tender to rebuild 222 metro cars used on Line 3 with an option to rebuild a further 42 cars.
THE Hungarian government has approved the purchase by MÁV-Start, Hungary's national passenger operator, of six EMUs with an option for 15 more units.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2014: HUNGARY's national transport authority has approved the trial passenger operation of MAV-Start's two prototype IC+ coaches, which have been designed and built in-house at the national passenger operator's Szolnok workshops.
BOMBARDIER handed over the first of an order for 20 Traxx MS multi-system electric locomotives for Metrans, the open-access railfreight subsidiary of Hamburg Ports and Logistics (HHLA), on September 19.
