This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. A 1.4 km extension of Taipei metro’s Tamsui-Xinyi (Red) Line opened on August 30, running from Xiangshan to Guangci/Fengtian Temple ...

SPAIN: The first five of 79 Series 453 partly double-deck electric multiple-units being supplied by Stadler València for use on Madrid suburban routes entered service on August 24. It is expected that ...

INNOTRANS: Beijing Zongheng Electro-Mechanical Technology has developed a Fully Electric Drive Integrated System which simplifies rolling stock by unifying traction and braking functions and ...

AUSTRALIA: Following a competitive process, the High Speed Rail Authority has selected groups of international suppliers to provide early contractor involvement services for the Trains, Systems & ...

This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. The last of 85 six-car C2 metro trainsets supplied to München by Siemens Mobility’s Wien plant under orders placed from 2010 to ...

UK: German national railway group Deutsche Bahn has begun the process of selling British rail freight business DB Cargo UK, as it focuses its attention on markets closer to home. In a statement ...

A long-running programme to double-track much of Thailand’s legacy metre-gauge network is making progress, with particular emphasis being placed on connectivity with neighbouring Laos. But perhaps ...

MALAYSIA: A 3.03bn ringgit railway systems contract for the 23·7 km Penang LRT Mutiara medium capacity metro line has been awarded to a joint venture of local companies Malaysian Resources Corp (90%) ...

A flurry of announcements in June and July from the authorities in Vietnam’s two principal cities promised to add 600 km of metro in Hanoi by 2035 and 187 km in Ho Chi Minh City by 2030. Benjámin ...

GERMANY: Bonn local transport operator SWB Bus und Bahn has temporarily withdrawn 60 of its 75 Stadtbahn light rail vehicles from service following the discovery that some components may be suffering ...

CZECH REPUBLIC: Polish company Enik has won one of its largest export orders, a €16.2m six-year framework agreement to supply air-conditioning units for retrofitting to up to 123 Škoda 15T ForCity ...

Funding agreements are now in place to support a suburban rail project in Cluj-Napoca and the tram-train in Oradea reflecting government plans to catalyse tren metropolitan rail schemes in cities ...