AZERBAIJAN Railways (ADY) president Mr Javid Gurbanov and Stadler Rail CEO Mr Peter Spuhler signed a contract worth around €70m at the TransCaspian 2015 international transport and logistics exhibition in Baku on May 13 for five 1520mm-gauge Kiss double-deck EMUs.

THE Valle d'Aosta region in northwest Italy has awarded Stadler a €43m contract for five three-car bi-mode Flirt trains for the inter-regional passenger service between Aosta and Turin.

THE first of four additional Variobahn low-floor LRVs being supplied to Transport for London (TfL) by Stadler Pankow for the Croydon Tramlink network was delivered by road to Croydon over the weekend of May 3-4.

FORTH WORTH Transportation Authority board of directors has approved a decision to award Stadler a contract to supply eight DMUs for the 43.5km Tex Rail commuter rail line, which will link Fort Worth city centre with Grapevine and Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Airport Terminal B.

NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has finalised a €280m contract with Stadler for the supply of 58 160km/h Flirt EMUs.

THE government of Luxembourg has given Luxembourg Railways (CFL) the go-ahead to order 11 additional Kiss double-deck EMUs from Stadler.

DUTCH Minister of Finance, Mr Jeroen Dijsselbloem, has informed the Dutch Parliament that Netherlands Railways (NS) will stop ordering trains through its Irish leasing subsidiary NS Financial Services Company which will be wound down.

MOSCOW tram operator Mosgortrans has begun four months of trials using a prototype V853000M Metelica low-floor LRV supplied by the Stadler Minsk joint venture of Stadler Rail and Belkommunmash, Belarus.

BERLIN Transport (BVG) unveiled the first of two prototype new-generation trains for the city's narrow profile U-Bahn lines at Olympia-Stadion station on February 3.