FRANCE: Greater Paris transport authority Ile-de-France-Mobilités has awarded incumbent SNCF Voyageurs a competitively-tendered contract to operate Transilien Line J commuter services. RATP Cap IDF ...

POLAND: A Škoda ForCity Plus 52T tram being supplied for use in the Czech capital has been presented in Wrocław ahead of the city’s light rail fleet renewal plans being confirmed. The tram was ...

Locos ordered to strengthen rail freight in Spain and the Mediterranean Corridor SPAIN: Alpha Trains has ordered a further 25 Stadler Euro6000 multi-system electric locomotives in what the leasing ...

POLAND: The Centre for EU Transport Projects, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure, has launched preliminary market consultations to assess interest in operating inter-voivodship and ...

This week’s news from the global railway supply chain. A coach repair plant operated by the private transport company Maral Nur has been opened in the Kyzylorda region of Kazakhstan, creating 100 jobs ...

This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. The first two of 10 three-car electric multiple-units CRRC Qingdao Sifang is supplying for Biotren suburban service Line 2 which ...

This week’s round-up of business news from the global rail freight market. On May 19 Botswana Railways began operating through freight services from South Africa to Gaborone as part of an initiative ...

VIETNAM: Hyundai Rotem has signed a 491bn won contract with Vietnam’s multi-sector industrial holding company THACO for the supply of three-car driverless metro trainsets for Ho Chi Minh City metro ...

USA: Industry regulator the Surface Transportation Board has accepted for consideration a revised major merger application filed by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. However, it has asked the two ...

This week’s news from the global railway supply chain. Austrian company DPB Rail Infra Service has begun manufacturing signals in-house, producing 24 for ÖBB’s Lieboch – Köflach line. Preparations got ...

FRANCE: SNCF Voyageurs has secured the first formal authorisation for its next-generation TGV M high-speed train, clearing a key regulatory step towards the domestic launch of Alstom’s Avelia Horizon ...

ITALY: Regional operator EAV has signed a €238m contract for a CAF-led consortium to supply railway systems and rolling stock for Napoli metro Line 10. The consortium comprises CAF, AET, Francesco ...