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Leasing company Industrial Division has signed two agreements to acquire a total of 36 locomotives, which will take its fleet to 170.
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THE two-month closure of the Karlsruhe - Basle Rhine valley line at Rastatt, Germany, and the immense problems it is causing railway transport on this key route has led Kombiverkehr, a leading European intermodal operator, to call for an immediate injection of €250m in aid from the German government.
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United Wagon Co’s bulk freight transport subsidiary Unicon 1520 and petrochemical exporter Avestra Group have agreed to develop the use of modern tank wagons and tank containers to transport liquefied hydrocarbon gases, methanol and other chemicals.
Posted 2 days ago by newsbot
Estonians celebrated the first milestone in the launch of a new tram line yesterday.
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Swiss Federal Railways and regional operator BLS have submitted separate bids to the Federal Transport Office to run long-distance passenger services under the concession which is due to come into effect from December.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
The first of a fleet of Elf2 electric-multiple units being built for Koleje Śląskie by Pesa was officially launched in Katowice on September 13.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Plans to replace ÖBB’s rolling stock used on daytime inter-city services to Italy and to update its overnight fleet with new trains are in doubt after Austria’s Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) ruled that the tender process should be stopped.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
The first of a fleet of Elf2 electric-multiple units being built for Koleje Śląskie by Pesa was officially launched in Katowice on September 13.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
Italian state railway group Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane completed its acquisition of Greek national train operator Trainose on September 14, when the €45m transaction was officially closed during an Italy-Greece bilateral summit.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
A contract to supply full-service leasing company Mitsui Rail Capital Europe with 30 Vectron electric locomotives was announced by Siemens on September 14.
Posted 5 days ago by bevans
Reactor vessel delivered to Belarusian nuclear power plant construction site
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Trenitalia-operated regional trains reached the French alpine town of Modane on September 10 for the first time in a decade in what the regional authorities in both France and Italy hope will mark the start of a renaissance in cross-border rail provision.
Posted 6 days ago by Railpage System User
Regulator UTK has granted Arriva’s Polish subsidiary train paths for the operation of open access passenger services on several routes.
Posted one week ago by bevans
As many as one million French people are set to lose their right to free travel under plans by the state-owned rail operator to scrap complimentary tickets for the families of staff members, outraging unions.
Posted one week ago by bevans
Swiss police say none of the people hurt in a train crash in central Switzerland has life-threatening injuries.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Arrival of a special InterRegio train from Chur marked the opening of the rebuilt Rhätische Bahn station on August 26. The train broke through a polystyrene barrier in front of guests who included Deputy President of the Graubünden Canton Mario Cavigelli.
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Kazakhstan’s national railway KTZ is implementing a capacity optimisation plan which will see the containers from three 1 435 mm gauge intermodal trains arriving at the Dostyk border crossing from China being loaded on two trains for the 1 520 mm gauge leg to the Polish border near Brest in Belarus.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
‘The European system of rail logistics is about to collapse’, warned more than 20 trade bodies on September 4 in an open letter to European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc and German Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Budimex has taken delivery of a 6Dh diesel locomotive rebuilt from a Class SM42 by locomotive repair and wagon manufacturing company Tabor Dębica.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
A ceremony in the suburb of Fløen on August 29 marked the breakthrough of the 7·8 km Ulriken tunnel, which construction authority Bane NOR claims is the first main line railway tunnel in the country to be bored by tunnel boring machine.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Passenger links between Poland and Ukraine have been improved with the launch on August 24 of a Ukrainian Railways Intercity+ service from Przemyśl to Kyiv via Lviv, Ternopil and Vinnytsia.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Vinci subsidiary Eurovia announced on August 31 that it had become the majority shareholder in rail infrastructure contractor THG Baugesellschaft.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Transport infrastructure authority Trafikverket formally launched its 2018-29 national plan on August 31, submitting its spending proposals to the government and starting a three-month public consultation process. Formal adoption of the plan is expected in the spring of 2018.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
National operator VR has awarded Škoda Transportation subsidiary Transtech Oy a €50m order to supply a further 20 Type Ed double-deck coaches as an option on a contract signed in 2015. Production is scheduled to begin next year, for delivery in 2019.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
National operator CP reinstated a daily return passenger service on the 141 km Eastern Line between Entroncamento and the Spanish city of Badajoz on August 29, using Allan diesel railcars built in the 1950s and refurbished by EMEF Contumil in the early 2000s.
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