THE first of 26 LRVs being built by Stadler for the light rail network in Aarhus arrived in the Danish city for testing on August 11.
THE Norwegian city of Bergen opened a further extension of its north-south light rail line on August 15 when the city’s mayor Mrs Marte Mjøs Persen and Hordaland county mayor Mrs Anne Gine Hestetun cut the ribbon to inaugurate the 4.8km southern section between Lagunen and Birkelandsskiftet.
CALTRAIN, which operates the San Francisco - San Jose commuter rail line in California, has awarded contracts to Stadler Rail for new trains and Balfour Beatty to electrify the 83.7km line.
TRENITALIA signed framework contracts with Alstom and Hitachi Rail Italy (HRI) on August 3 for up to 450 regional trains.
CATALONIA Government Railways (FGC) marked the completion of a project to upgrade the Lleida – La Pobla de Segur line on July 24 with the launch of new rolling stock and a significantly improved service on the 89.8km line.
GEORGIAN Railway (GR) launched its new fleet of Stadler Kiss double-deck EMUs on July 25, when the first two trains were introduced on express services from Tbilisi to the Black Sea resorts of Batumi, Kobuleti, and Ureki.
THE board of Californian commuter rail operator Caltrain has approved contracts with a total value of $US 1.25bn for the electrification of the San Francisco - San Jose line, together with a new fleet of electric trains for the 82km route.
RHINE-Ruhr Transport Authority (VRR) announced on July 7 that it has selected Abellio and Keolis for two contracts to operate Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and regional services from December 2019.
THE first of 10 Kiss 2 double-deck inter-city EMUs ordered by Austrian open-access operator Westbahn in May 2015 was presented to the company's CEO Mr Erich Forster at Stadler's plant in Altenrhein, Switzerland, on July 6.
BERLIN Transport (BVG) has exercised an option worth around €140m with Stadler Pankow for 27 additional type IK small-profileU-Bahn trains, taking the total number of trains on order to 38.
