INDIA: Bengaluru suburban rail network development agency Bi-RIDE has placed a Rs15.1bn order for Integral Coach Factory to supply 51 metro-style trainsets for the future Mallige and Kanaka lines. The ...

USA: Alstom has announced a series of agreements with academic institutions across the northeastern USA aimed at strengthening its skills base in the rail and wider transport sector. The company said ...

UK: ‘Passengers will see bread and butter improvements to their services’, the Department for Transport said when Britain’s biggest train operator transferred to the public sector as part of the ...

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 ...

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GERMANY: Rhein-Ruhr transport authority VRR has unveiled the first CAF Civity battery-electric multiple-unit for the Niederrhein-Münsterland network, as part of what it says is Germany’s largest ...

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 ...

MONTENEGRO: National passenger train operator ŽPCG has awarded Stadler a contract to supply three Flirt electric multiple-units to enhance the attractiveness of public transport and enable modern ...

SWEDEN: Vossloh has opened Sweden’s first new turnout factory in more than a century, commissioning an automated plant at Sannahed to boost production capacity as infrastructure manager Trafikverket ...

EUROPE: Stadler has unveiled the first Flirt Evo France EMU at its Erlen plant, with the fleet intended for future S-Bahn Basel services that will form a tri-national network linking Switzerland, ...

FINLAND: Infrastructure manager Väylävirasto has signed a €70 million service alliance deal with six companies to support the rollout of ERTMS in southern and western Finland, advancing the Digirail ...

This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. Three stops at Wilshire/La Brea; Wilshire/Fairfax; and Wilshire/La Cienega in West Hollywood on Los Angeles Metro’s D Line opened ...