Russia: Last week, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin launched the tests at the opening of the capital’s development Centre for electric transport and unmanned technology.
Brief overview of key events and news in the passenger rolling stock markets.
China: Ten six-axle FXN3B locomotives are performing shunting operations at two Beijing railway stations.
France: The manufacturer has delivered the first of 35 Citadis 402 low-floor trams to the Lyon's Public Transport Authority SYTRAL.
Australia: Two weeks ago, the mining company Rio Tinto announced that its freight train hit a set of loaded stationary cars 80 km from the city of Karratha.
USA: The Wall Street Journal has a great article on the prospects and limitations of alternative traction for diesel locomotives.
India: The American company inaugurated a 10,000 m² manufacturing campus with 300 employees in Rohtak.
The Spanish team of experts in cryogenics and gas chemistry and the Czech engineering company have announced their intention for further merger.
Canada: The light metro Vancouver’s transportation authority published a video of the interior of the first five-car train, which is to run on the SkyTrain network.