Light Rail

Gatwick Express, the non-stop rail-air link between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport, has created new roles to enhance their customer service provision at the stations. Research has revealed that customers want interaction with staff at the station more than any...

Transport Union RMT has confirmed that its members on the Tyne and Wear Metro working for DB Regio and Nexus have voted by large margins for 'strike action and action short of a strike in the dispute over pensions'. In the...

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will be adding 103 km to its network in Phase III of construction. The section is scheduled to be completed by 2016, costing Rs 35, 242 crore ($7 billion). Speaking at a press conference discussing...

Bombardier Transportation will help Munich Airport authorities to realise their strategic expansion plans with a new INNOVIA APM 300 automated people mover (APM) system. The contract, signed with Terminal 2 Betriebsgesellschaft mbH & Co oHG, represented by FM Bau (Flughafen...

The Siemens Rail Systems Division will manufacture 40 four-unit low-floor Avenio trams for the HTM Materieel B.V. operator in The Hague. With this contract, the seat of the Dutch government is the first city in the world to decide in favor...

Alstom and its strategic partner in Russia, Transmashholding (TMH), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the city of Saint Petersburg which establishes a programme of cooperation for the development of a modern tramway network. The agreement was signed by...

Saft, leader in the design, development and manufacture of high-tech batteries for industry, has completed a contract worth well over one million dollars (US) for CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. (CNR CRC) to supply the onboard battery systems...

A special poppy tram will run on the Metrolink network in Greater Manchester until Sunday 13 November as part of the Armistice Day commemorations. The Lancashire Fusiliers tram, named after the historic regiment, has been decorated with poppies in support...

The President of the Algerian Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika inaugurated the first metro line in the capital of Algeria, Algiers on 31 October. Siemens, as the consortium leader, delivered the complete rail system as a turnkey project. The Siemens scope of supply...

On Thursday, 3 November, Pierre Mongin, Chairman and CEO of RATP inaugurated the commissioning of the first automatic trains on Line 1 of the Paris metro in the presence of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transportation and Housing and Jean-Paul Huchon, President...