TRENITALIA has been awarded concessions to operate passenger services in the Umbria and Valle d'Aosta regions of Italy.

TRENITALIA and Hitachi Rail Italy have signed a €1.6bn framework agreement for the supply of 135 new diesel-electric regional trains.

HE first Pop regional EMU for Trenitalia was unveiled at Alstom’s Savigliano plant in northern Italy on June 26.

A new 15-year contract for the operation of regional train services in Lazio was signed on June 22 by the region’s president, Mr Nicola Zingaretti Trenitalia CEO and Mr Orazio Iacono, in the presence of Italy’s newly-appointed minister of infrastructure and transport, Mr Danilo Toninelli.

ITALY’s Puglia region signed a concession agreement with Trenitalia in Bari on June 13 to operate regional rail services. This is Italy’s first 15-year regional rail concession.

ITALY’s Ministry for Infrastructure and Transport and the National Railway Safety Agency (ANSF) have rejected a plan by Italy’s infrastructure manager Italian Rail Network (RFI) to increase the maximum speed on some sections of the high-speed network from 300km/h to 350km/h plus a 10% tolerance.

THE president of the Sicilian Region, Mr Sebastiano Musumeci, signed a €1.6bn contract with Mr Orazio Iacono, managing director of Trenitalia, covering the operation of passenger services on the Italian island of Sicily up to 2026.

FIRST Group and Trenitalia have withdrawn from the competition to run the new East Midlands franchise as the partners seek to concentrate their resources on their bid for the West Coast Partnership (WCP).

THE first Rock double-deck regional EMU for Trenitalia was officially unveiled at a ceremony at the Hitachi Rail Italy (HRI) plant in Pistoia on April 18 in the presence of Italian State Railways (FS) CEO, Mr Renato Mazzoncini, Mr Orazio Iacono, managing director of Trenitalia, and Mr Maurizio Manfellotto, CEO of HRI.

TRENORD, the joint venture between North Milan Railways (FNM) and Trenitalia which operates regional services in the Italian region of Lombardy has unveiled plans to refurbish 33% of its rolling stock fleet at a cost of €415m.