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Spanish national rail operator RENFE is developing plans for a Paris – London train service which would compete with Eurostar and provide it with an alternative route into the French passenger market.
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Driverless shunting locomotives are expected to be operating in commercial service at DB Cargo’s München-Nord marshalling yard by the end of 2024, following the award of contracts for the development of onboard systems for both train positioning and ATO.
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THE Normandy region in northwest France has awarded French National Railways (SNCF) two contracts to refurbish its AGC multiple units manufactured by Bombardier between 2004 and 2010.
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SWEDISH operator SJ has awarded CAF a SKr 3bn ($US 348.2m) contract to supply 25 new regional EMUs, which have been ordered after passenger numbers more than doubled over the past two decades.
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Prime Minister Jean Castex, Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari and SNCF President Jean-Pierre Farandou formally relaunched the Perpignan – Rungis overnight express freight service on October 22.
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PKP Intercity has ordered a build of 200 km/h multi-system electric locomotives from Newag for use on international and domestic services.
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NEWAG has signed a Zlotys 258m ($US 65.3m) contract to manufacture 10 200km/h multi-system electric locomotives for PKP Intercity.
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CZECH Railways (ČD) plans to introduce a number of new and refurbished trains when it launches the 2022 timetable on December 12.
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The recently elected Norwegian government intends to pursue an aggressive policy of investing in rail, with a view to driving modal shift, but plans to end the competitive tendering of passenger train operations and to simplify the structure of the country’s rail sector.
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DB Cargo UK has launched its ‘Freight belongs on rail!’ campaign in a bid to support the Governments key aims for achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Railrelease has acquired maintenance company Combo Wagon Service with the aim of strengthening its position as a full-service wagon leasing company.
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NEWAG has handed over seven Impuls 2 EMUs to the Lublin Voivodship Board in Poland with another two to be delivered by the end of the year.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Spain’s leading high-speed rail operator ILSA has given Hitachi Rail España a 30-year contract for the maintenance of its fleet.
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INFRASTRUCTURE Portugal has issued an international tender to complete the design and environmental studies to quadruple the Lisbon Roma/Areeiro – Braço de Prata section of the Cintura Line, as well as modernise the Braço de Prata – Sacavém section of the North Line, as part of the 2030 National Investment Programme (PNI). The contract is worth €9.4m.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Problems at Keolis and Abellio suggest that Germany’s long-standing model for contracting out the operation of regional and local rail services may no longer be fit for purpose. Murray Hughes investigates.
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BULGARIA, North Macedonia and Albania have signed an agreement to complete Corridor 8 of the Pan-European corridors, including a range of rail projects to be completed by 2030. The corridor runs from Durrës to Varna via Elbasan, Skopje, Pernik, Sofia, Plovdiv, and Burgas.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
DB Regio has won a contract to operate initial regional services on the new 60km 250km/h Wendlingen – Ulm high speed line which opens in December 2022.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
SPANISH new entrant Ilsa has appointed Mr Simone Gorini as its new CEO, replacing Mr Fabrizio Favara who has been appointed chief strategy corporate officer at Italian State Railways (FS).
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
Excavation of the first major tunnel for the Ankara – Izmir high speed line was completed on October 16, with a holing-through ceremony presided over by Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
CZECH infrastructure manager SZ has signed an eight-year cooperation agreement with SNCF Network to develop the country’s first high-speed lines, continuing an agreement with French National Railways’ (SNCF) holding company signed in April 2019.
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HITACHI says its Dual Energy Charge Train (Dencha), the world’s first battery-powered train charged by ac overhead lines, has reduced CO₂ emissions by 2700 tonnes in the past five years.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
SPANISH new entrant Ilsa has awarded Hitachi Rail Spain a €737m, 30-year maintenance contract for its 20 new ETR 1000 trains which are due to enter service in the second half of 2022.
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‘Wagons that seemed new and innovative a few years ago already feel dated. They pale in comparison’, said Johan Roswall, Roundwood Sales Executive at Green Cargo, as the operator announced the first customer for Golden Bullet 2.0, ‘the market’s most efficient timber wagon’.
Posted 6 days ago by Railpage System User
THE German state of Baden-Württemberg has approved and presented its 2030 Public Transport Plan for stakeholder consultation.
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Ministers from Bulgaria, Albania and North Macedonia have signed a memorandum covering plans to complete the missing rail links between their countries by 2030, but cautioned that this will require signficant investment.
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