Buckingham Group has been contracted by Worcestershire County Council to design and construct Worcestershire Parkway regional interchange station.

The interchange station will be near junction 7 on the M5 in Norton, UK.

The £22m ($27m) contract includes design and construction of the station. The station will include a single platform on the North Cotswold Line linking Worcester, Oxford and London Paddington.

Another two platforms will be built for the Birmingham-Bristol line that will connect Worcestershire to the Cross Country network.

"The £22m ($27m) contract includes design and construction of the station."

Berlin Transport Authority (BVG) has placed a $76m order for a further 21 Flexity Berlin trams with Bombardier Transportation.

The Flexity low-floor variant is a bi-directional tram of 40m length and features a regenerative braking system. The trams will be used by BVF to increase capacity and meet demands of increasing passenger base.

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Alstom has received a rolling stock order worth more than €20m ($21.05m) from German company Bentheimer Eisenbahn for the supply of five Coradia Lint trainsets.

To be built at Alstom’s Salzgitter plant in Germany, the train sets will be 42m-long and will be operated on the 28km-long Bad Bentheim-Nordhorn-Neuenhaus route in Lower Saxony, Germany.


Image: Worcestershire Parkway station will be located at Norton, Worcester, England. Photo: courtesy of Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd.