SWITZERLAND's Rhaetian Railway (RhB) has awarded a SFr 285m ($US 292m) contract to Stadler for 27 new Flügel EMUs with an option for up to 20 additional trains. The trains will be built in Altenrhein, Switzerland, and the first will be handed over in summer 2019.

SWITZERLAND's Southeastern Railway (SOB) signed a SFr 170m ($US 173m) contract with Stadler Rail in Herisau on June 27 for 11 Flirt EMUs, which will be used on Lucern - St Gallen Voralpen-Express services.

STADLER Minsk has completed delivery of an order for five Kiss double-deck EMUs for Azerbaijan Railways (ADY), with the final two sets completing their journey to Baku this week.

STADLER, Switzerland, says the decision to remove the Swiss Franc's exchange rate cap with the Euro in 2015 has cost it more than SFr 100m ($US 103.6m) on top of a fall in orders for new trains.

STADLER Pankow presented the first Flirt 3 regional EMU for the Dutch-German Lower Rhine Network to operator Abellio Rail NRW and Rhine-Ruhr transport authority VRR in a ceremony at Abellio's Hagen depot on June 9.

SWITZERLAND's metre-gauge Rhaetian Railway (RhB) has introduced the first of six sets of seven-car locomotive-hauled coaches into public service.

THE first of 26 LRVs of two types being built by Stadler for Aarhus Letbanen, Denmark, has been completed and will arrive in Denmark for testing at the end of the summer.

ROCKY Mountaineer which operates tour trains in western Canada and Washington state has awarded a contract to Stadler to build 10 double-deck passenger coaches for delivery in 2018.

GO-AHEAD Transport Germany has awarded a contract to Stadler for 45 Flirt EMUs to operate on Lots 2 and 3 of the Stuttgart Network 1 concession which Go-Ahead will take over in April 2019.