Australia: Queensland Rail has chosen GIRO’s Hastus-Rail software suite to optimise staff scheduling and operations-management.
Austria: ÖBB has terminated the on-train catering contract held by Do & Co, which was to have run to 2017. A new contract is to be tendered.
UK: Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has selected Atkins Transportation for a five-year contract to provide technical advice for the Glasgow Subway automation project.
SPAIN: The RENFE board has selected CAF to supply 37 metre-gauge trains for its former FEVE routes under a contract worth €258m. Photo: Carmelo Zaita Among recent CAF designs for Spanish narrow gauge lines are these metre-gauge Series 950 EMUs operated by Euskotren. ...
FINLAND: Wabtec announced on June 26 that the first two of nine broad gauge PowerHaul diesel locomotives had been delivered to the port of Hanko in Finland for use by the local arm of Estonian state-owned operator Operail. The 1 524 mm gauge locomotives are being ...
Green Cargo has renewed contracts with two industrial customers for the transport of wood chips and pulpwood from Norway to Sweden. The contract extensions take effect from December and will see Green Cargo move the commodities on alternate days. Trains in Norway are operated in ...
