Passenger Bus, Rail and Motorcoach Industry News

The manufacture of these vehicles will follow straight on from the ones currently being built for Manchester and the first of these additional 14 vehicles (tram 49) is scheduled to be delivered to Manchester in October 2011.

With this additional order, a total of 1,280 CRH1 cars have been ordered from Bombardier Sifang in China so far.

The order, worth approximately $42 million, is based on a 2003 framework agreement for the delivery of 298 doubledeck coaches with an option for a further 300.

Delivery of the TWINDEXX trains will begin in 2012, and the first vehicles will feature in the standard timetables from December 2013. All 59 trains will be delivered by the end of 2019.

Will supply brake system, doors and air conditioning units. Part of the equipment will be delivered to the Bombardier Transport factory in Ontario between December 2010 and January 2011.

Through a competitive RFP process, CTA selected Bombardier Transit Corp. located in Bensalem, Penn. for the contract.

Bombardier manufactured 12,000 torches — one for each torchbearer — with final assembly completed by hand in Montreal, Quebec.

Bombardier Transportation and the City of Vancouver are co-sponsors of the 1.1-mile Olympic Line where Bombardier is operating two BOMBARDIER FLEXITY streetcars. Free service will be provided 18 hours a day, seven days a week, between Jan. 21 and March 21.

The locomotives are intended for passenger service in Hungary as well as for cross-border transport to Austria and Germany.

Thousands of miles of lines in China will be equipped with the new system as part of the development of the DPL network, planned to include 8,000 miles of high-speed lines by 2013.