What moved on the public record this week — every Monday.

European Union

TED — EU rail notices (via Latvia ATD connector fallback)

• Czech Railways (České dráhy) tenders CZK 142.4m for repair of rolling-stock electromagnetic brakes, closing 4 November.
• AŽD Praha tenders CZK 708.0m for new battery-electric multiple units to serve a regional line in Czechia's Ústí nad Labem region, closing 15 October.
• Germany's DB InfraGO tenders railway construction works on the Uhingen–Süßen section, closing 6 November (value undisclosed).
• Spain's ADIF tenders €128.6m of site-preparation and clearance works for an undergrounding project, closing 1 December.
• Czechia's Správa železnic tenders signalling-modernisation works between Hradec Králové and Týniště nad Orlicí, closing 16 October (value undisclosed).
• Czechia's Dopravní podnik měst Liberce a Jablonce nad Nisou tenders CZK 289.0m to modernise a tramline in Liberec, closing 16 October.
• Budapest's BKK tenders phase two of a platform renovation on tram line 50, closing 15 October (value undisclosed).
• Germany's DB InfraGO tenders a framework agreement for structural-engineering repair services, closing 18 November (value undisclosed).
• Germany's Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr puts its Rhein-Emscher-Express (RE 3) regional rail operating contract to tender, closing 6 November (value undisclosed).

  A multi-year passenger-operating concession — unusual on this feed, and relevant to train-operating-company bidders.

• Germany's DB Netz tenders four lots of track-construction work under its 2027 maintenance programme, closing 2 November (value undisclosed).
• Hamburg's Hochbahn tenders construction of a second access point at a U-Bahn station, closing 3 November (value undisclosed).
• Czechia's Správa železnic tenders phase three of a capacity-increase programme between Týniště nad Orlicí, Častolovice and Solnice, closing 30 December (value undisclosed).
• Italy's Rete Ferroviaria Italiana tenders €83.8m for traction-electrification equipment.

Source: TED — EU rail notices (via Latvia ATD connector fallback) (Primary) — source. Checked 5 October 2026.

Ireland

Iarnród Éireann — news

• Iarnród Éireann awards Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group a ten-year, €140m contract.
• Iarnród Éireann issues a design-and-build tender to deliver DART electric services to Wicklow.
• Planning permission is set to be granted for a new railway station at Blackpool in Cork.

Source: Iarnród Éireann — news (Primary) — source. Checked 5 October 2026.

Ireland

Transport Infrastructure Ireland — TII news

• Transport Infrastructure Ireland appoints Amey to its Luas overhead-line-works framework.

Source: Transport Infrastructure Ireland — TII news (Primary) — source. Checked 5 October 2026.

Latvia

Satiksmes ministrija — news

• Latvia's transport minister, Kozlovskis, says Rail Baltica cannot be delivered in Latvia under the current approach.

  A signal of schedule or scope risk for suppliers positioned on Rail Baltica's Latvian section.

Source: Satiksmes ministrija — news (Primary) — source. Checked 5 October 2026.

Hungary

BKK Budapesti Közlekedési Központ — Hírek

• Budapest's BKK inspects the first of its new, long CAF trams during production.

  Confirms CAF as the tram supplier for BKK's fleet renewal.

Source: BKK Budapesti Közlekedési Központ — Hírek (Primary) — source. Checked 5 October 2026.

Finland

Fintraffic — uutiset (news)

• Finland's Fintraffic begins renewing its rail traffic-control system, bringing traffic controllers into the redesign.

  A control-room/signalling modernisation — relevant to digital-operations and signalling vendors.

Source: Fintraffic — uutiset (news) (Primary) — source. Checked 5 October 2026.

Canada

Metrolinx MERX e-tendering portal (all current Metrolinx opportunities)

• Metrolinx tenders rehabilitation of two bridges, on Don Mills Road and Tara Avenue, crossing its rail corridor and Toronto's TTC busway, closing 26 October (value undisclosed).

Source: Metrolinx MERX e-tendering portal (all current Metrolinx opportunities) (Primary) — source. Checked 5 October 2026.

Archive

Earlier weeks

• Week to 28 September 2026 — Network Rail tenders £949.9m of rail haulage, Madrid puts an €873.3m metro extension to tender and Gujarat opens eleven Ahmedabad Metro packages, in an issue rebuilt from a full read of the register.
• Week to 21 September 2026 — Ireland's Cabinet clears the €15.7 billion Dublin MetroLink to proceed to detailed tender stage, as India completes more than 365 km of viaduct on the Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train and the UK brings Chiltern Railways into public ownership.
• Week to 14 September 2026 — India commissions a 1,506-km freight rail corridor connecting JNPA to New Dadri, as Poland's Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia tenders PLN 4.52bn for zero-emission rail rolling stock and Hungary opens a HUF 60.55bn ETCS signalling tender for the Debrecen–Nyíregyháza line.
• Week to 7 September 2026 — New Delhi approves ₹18,131 crore for Mumbai Metro Lines 5 and 5A and clears the DPR for the 671 km Hyderabad–Mumbai bullet train, as PM Modi prepares to inaugurate ₹20,703 crore of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and lay ₹30,766 crore of rail foundations in Vadodara.
• Week to 31 August 2026 — An Adani Group arm wins ₹665.61 crore to build civil works on the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project, as CMRS clears rolling stock for Mumbai Metro 4/4A and Tamil Nadu reopens its metro expansion review for five cities.
• Week to 24 August 2026 — Maharashtra's ₹17,725 crore sanction for Mumbai Metro Line 13 and MRVC's ₹19,293 crore Vande Metro trainset order lead a week that also brought three new Ahmedabad Metro Phase 3 tenders and a ₹879 crore GMRC airport package.
• Week to 17 August 2026 — A quiet week on the wire: Chennai studies a water metro and maps multimodal access for 41 stations.
• Week to 10 August 2026 — Delhi and Noida move ₹2,600 crore of civil work while Bengaluru's CBTC upgrade clears the Railway Board.
• Week to 3 August 2026 — The Centre redraws the metro map: one RRTS extension cleared, four city proposals refused, and a national train-control system planned.
• Week to 27 July 2026 — Chennai maps two extensions while the Centre counts 1,159 km of metro — and allocates ₹30,942 crore more.
• Week to 20 July 2026 — Bengaluru puts ₹1,274 crore of platform screen doors on the table — the week's biggest buyable package.
• Week to 13 July 2026 — Two rolling-stock tenders open in one week. (This issue carries a correction on the Guwahati item.)

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Compiled by Watchtower, Mainline's automated weekly watch over the public procurement record — portals and trade pages in India, open procurement data services in the other markets — and verified to editorial standards set by the Managing Partner. How the platform is compiled →