LATVIAN Railways' (LDZ) passenger operating subsidiary, Pasazieru Vilciens (PV), has received bids from three manufacturers to lease 25 to 45 EMUs over a period of 15 years.

WITH passenger volumes on non-electrified lines in the Dutch province of Groningen increasing steadily, Arriva Netherlands has ordered additional intermediate sections for six of its Stadler GTW 2/6 dmus.

STADLER Rail handed over the first two of an order for 42 additional Flirt emus for Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) passenger unit MÁV Start on March 19 at a ceremony attended by Hungary's national development minister Mrs Lászlóné Németh.

APPENZELL Railways (AB), Switzerland, has awarded Stadler a contract worth around SFr 60m ($US 66m) to supply seven Tango low-floor LRVs.

STUTTGART Tramways (SSB) has ordered an additional 20 Tango S-DT8.12 high-floor LRVs from Stadler Pankow, exercising an option from an initial contract for 20 vehicles, which was signed in January 2010.

STADLER Rail announced on December 2 that it has signed a contract with Voith to acquire the company's Dutch train maintenance subsidiary Voith Rail Services (VRS) for an undisclosed sum.

MTR Corporation, Hong Kong, has awarded a SFr 85m ($US 13.4m) contract to Stadler, Switzerland, for six 200km/h trains for a new open-access express service to be launched in Sweden.

THE FIRST of 10 Stadler Flirt emus for Györ-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) was delivered to Stadler's Hungarian maintenance centre at Pusztaszabolcs on October 20 for commissioning.

THE first two of eight new Stadler Flirt emus purchased by the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol, local transport authority STA, and Trenitalia at a cost of €69.5m were delivered to Bolzano on September 3.

POLISH long-distance operator PKP Intercity has selected a consortium of Stadler and Newag, Poland, as preferred bidder for a contract worth more than Zlotys 1.5bn ($US 472m) to supply and maintain 20 160km/h emus.