The Transmashholding-Hungary consortium has been awarded a five-year contract worth €1bn ($1.17bn) for the delivery of passenger car trains to Egyptian National Railways (ENR).

Transmashholding-Hungary will be responsible for the supply of 1,300 sitting passenger cars to ENR under the contract.

It will deliver 500 three-class forced ventilation cars, 500 three-class air-conditioned cars and 300 two-class cars with air-conditioning and an on-board café.

Trainline has partnered with ticketing agency Real Russia to expand its operations in the country.

The partnership enables Trainline customers to access the Trans-Siberian Express and the high-speed Sapsan trains operating between Moscow and St Petersburg or Nizhny Novgorod.

Trainline will have an opportunity to work with rail and coach companies across the world under the partnership.

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The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to provide loans worth $1.01bn to the Indian Government for the development of two rail projects.

The 508km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project will be developed using $790m of the loan, while the remaining $230m will be used for development of the Kolkata East-West Metro Project.

“The 508km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project will be developed using $790m of the loan.”

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project will be developed by National High-Speed Rail (NHSRCL), based on the Shinkansen system network in Japan. Project construction started in 2017 and is expected to be completed by December 2023.

The Kolkata East-West Metro is a mass rapid transit system, which is scheduled to start operations in June 2021.

China Railway (CRC) has awarded a $324m contract to Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation (BST), Bombardier’s Chinese joint venture (JV).

The contract includes delivery of 120 CR400AF new Chinese standard high-speed train cars, which will constitute five eight-car trains and five 16-car trains.

Deliveries of the vehicles are expected to be completed by the end of 2018.

Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Station&Service has reached an agreement with euromicron Deutschland for the extension of its existing contract by three years.

euromicron Deutschland will equip long-distance train stations with optimised video surveillance solutions under the contract.

The agreement includes an option for extension of the contract by one more year.