VIA Rail Canada has awarded a three-year contract to Cara Operations Ltd for provision of on-board meals for trains in the Windsor - Québec corridor. From November 1, Cara will provide 400000 meals a year from food preparation centres in Toronto and Montréal.
Iarnród éireann and Northern Ireland Railways will formally launch the revamped Enterprise express service between Belfast and Dublin on October 21. A joint pool of four 7-car push-pull trains built by De Dietrich and four dedicated General Motors 201 class diesel locos took over the services on September 1. Journey times for the 183 km will be cut from 2 h to 1 h 20 min when EU-funded track upgrading for 145 km/h is completed next year.
Amtrak hopes to improve the financial performance of its Los Angeles - FloridaSunset Limited with the restoration of rail service on the 32 km section from Sanford, Florida, to Orlando in August. The busy tourist destination had only been served by a road coach connection since the eastern terminus was cut back from Miami to the former Auto-Train maintenance base at Sanford last year.
Seeking to reinforce its corporate image, Rotterdam Metro is to replace external vehicle advertising with more spaces at stations. With a panel on an LRV costing typically 4000 guilders a year and an all-over advertisement 42000 guilders, the company earned 1·4m guilders last year from external vehicle spaces.
Hungarian State Railways is seeking to undertake a system-wide station modernisation programme following the completion of work at V
