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TUNNEL Euralpin Lyon Turin (Telt), the French-Italian state-owned company overseeing construction of the 270km Lyon - Turin cross-border railway, has awarded two contracts for project management of station construction and open-air structures.
A consortium of Italferr, Systra France, and Pini Group has won a contract worth around €18m for management and supervision of works planned for sites 1 and 2 around Susa, Italy, notably the 2km dual-bore Susa-Bussoleno interconnection tunnel, Susa international...

INDIAN Railways (IR) has issued a tender for the design and manufacture of 200 sleeper variants of the 160km/h Vande Bharat EMU, looking to award a contract worth up to Rs 260bn ($US 3.4bn).
The successful bidder will also be responsible for maintenance of the new fleet of 16-car sleeper EMUs over a period of 15 years....

METRO de Granada has awarded CAF a contract to supply eight low-floor LRVs for Granada’s light rail line, opened in September 2017, which will join the 15 previously delivered.
CAF was the only manufacturer to submit a bid for the tender.
The new units will each have space for 221 passengers and a maximum speed of 70 km/h. The units are due to be delivered 22 months after the contract is signed, and will meet growing demand by both increasing the number of seats available and enabling...

TURNOVER at Spanish high-speed infrastructure manager Adif AV was up 19.3% in 2021 at €390.6m, driven by a 22.8% increase in train-km operated on its network following the relaxation of travel restrictions imposed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic...