Argentina: ABB has a US$50m contract to supply traction equipment for nine-car EMUs Emfer is producing for TBA’s Sarmiento route in Buenos Aires using refurbished Toshiba cars and new double-deckers (RG 4.11 p9). NREC has delivered two TZV Gredelj G26CWN locos to Ferrosur Roca. Australia: QUBE is taking delivery of eight US-built NREC E-series locos with refurbished EMD 16-645E3B engines. Austria: On December 16 Wiener Linien exercised a €60m option for Bombardier/Vossloh Kiepe to supply five T1 trainsets for Wien line U6. Canada: RJ Corman Railpower is to supply a fourth 2000 hp RP20BD genset loco to the Port of Montréal. Metrolinx has exercised a C$22m option for six cars to lengthen the two-car DMUs which Sumitomo and Nippon Sharyo are to supply for the future Toronto airport service. China: Alstom and Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment have a €26m contract to supply Optonix traction equipment for 144 cars CSR Sifang is building for the opening of Qingdao metro Line 3 in 2014. Europe: Eberspächer is to supply exhaust systems for Bombardier’s Traxx multi-engine loco family. GySEV has bought four Class 5147 single-car DMUs from ÖBB for €1·2m. France: Last month VFLI ordered six Vossloh Euro 4000 diesel locos for delivery from January 2013. 77 Euro 4000s have now been sold. Under a contract worth €439m, SNC Rames Bail 11 is to provide leasing finance for the acquisition of 16 Bombardier trainsets for TER services by Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, which will have the option to acquire them under the 34-year contract. Germany: In December DB Regio placed a €500m order for 90 four-car Bombardier/Alstom Class 430 high capacity EMUs to be used on Netz Kleyer S-Bahn services in the Rhein-Main area from December 2014. Polish firm Pesa Bydgoszcz has won its first order from Germany, a contract to supply 12 two-car Link DMUs to Netinera subsidiary Regentalbahn for use on Oberpfalzbahn services from late 2014. Within a 2008 framework, in December DB placed a €34m firm order for a further 18 Bombardier Twindexx Vario double-deck coaches for use on Kreuz Bremen services. Plauen has placed a €4m order for two Bombardier Flexity Classic trams to be delivered in 2013, with an option for eight more. The 2300 mm wide metre-gauge cars will be similar to vehicles for Dessau and Halle but with improved braking. On December 21 Essen transport authority EVAG signed a €72m order for 27 Bombardier Flexity Classic trams to be delivered from August 2013. In December Frankfurt transport authority VGF exercised a €169m option for Bombardier to supply an additional 78 high-floor Flexity Swift LRVs in 2014-17 and a €23m option for 10 more Flexity Classic trams to be delivered this year. Faiveley has won contracts worth €210m to supply doors, air-conditioning and brakes for the 130 Siemens/Bombardier ICx trainsets ordered by DB. Finland: VIS of Halberstadt has won a €4·5m contract to modernise a further 10 of Helsinki’s NRV1 trams by mid-2013, inserting a low-floor centre section. There are options for 10 more. Hungary: Budapest operator BKV has bought 10 TW6000 trams from Hannover’s Üstra for €35000 each. Indonesia: PT KAI and Bombardier have signed a MoU which could see the state railway participate in the production of Traxx Asia diesel-electric locos in Surabaya for the domestic and southeast Asian markets. PT KAI is currently procuring 144 locos to replace 40-year-old machines. PT KAI has put into service six EMD GT38Ace locos as Class CC205. Italy: To support expansion plans, Genova port rail operator FuoriMuro has ordered two Siemens Vectron locos for delivery in late 2013. Poland: PKP IC has awarded Pesa a 6·7m z More...
