All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2016 – Page 8
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NewsAbellio orders DMUs with electric bike charging sockets
GERMANY: Alstom announced on April 1 that Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland had placed a €170m firm order for 52 Coradia Lint 41 regional diesel multiple-units, the largest contract for the type to be placed by a single customer. The DMUs are to be manufactured at Alstom’s Salzgitter plant. They will ...
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NewsTIFIA loan to fund Chicago L cars
USA: Federal Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on March 30 that the Federal Transit Administration had agreed a $255m low-interest loan to Chicago Transit Authority under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act. This will partially fund the operator’s next generation of metro trainsets. Earlier in the month CTA awarded ...
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NewsSiemens and Huawei successfully test CBTC over LTE
SIGNALLING: Huawei announced on March 29 that it had completed interoperability testing of communication-based train control over LTE with Siemens France, and an on-site dynamic test would take place in April. The laboratory tests saw CBTC, passenger information and CCTV streams carried over an LTE network. Huawei and Siemens ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
NS subsidiary NedTrain is to build a €30m wheelset maintenance and refurbishment hall at its Haarlem site. The current hall with life-expired machinery will become a wheelset storage site. The new facility will employ about 100 people, have the capacity to handle 3 000 bogies/year and be responsible for inspection ...