TRENITALIA has exercised four options with Alstom worth a total of around €330m for 54 additional Pop regional EMUs.

THELLO, the French subsidiary of Trenitalia, has announced plans to launch high-speed services in France in direct competition with French National Railways (SNCF).

THE president of the Italian autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia Mrs Debora Serracchiani and deputy regional councillor for transport and mobility Mrs Maria Grazia Santoro attended the inauguration of a new station at Trieste Airport on March 19.

CALABRIAN Railway invites bids by April 17 for a €63.1m tender funded by the Region of Calabria for 950mm-gauge diesel railcars.

Italy’s minister of infrastructure and transport, Mr Graziano Delrio, explains to Marco Chiandoni how the government is pressing ahead with its rail investment programme.

ITALY’s infrastructure manager, Italian Rail Network (RFI) has awarded a €67m contract to Astaldi to complete a project to increase capacity in Genoa following its decision to rescind the previous contract after the original consortium exoerienced financial difficulties.

Italy has bold plans to update its key signalling infrastructure with some of the latest available technology, including high-density ETCS and Ersat EAV satellite signalling. Maurizio Gentile, CEO of Italian Rail Network (RFI), provides an update on progress so far.

PLANS for a new tram line in the centre of Rome were unveiled on February 6 by the city’s mayor Mrs Virginia Raggi.

THE first Bombardier Traxx DC3 electric locomotive left the company’s plant at Vado Ligure near Genoa on February 12 bound for Trenitalia’s Osmannoro test centre near Florence, where static and dynamic testing will be carried out.

THE first of seven Hitachi Rail Italy Sirio LRVs for Florence light rail Line T3 arrived in the Tuscan capital on February 9.