German railway news – Page 60
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NewsMittelsachsen transport authority orders own EMUs
GERMANY: Transport authority Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen has awarded Alstom a €150m contract to supply 29 Coradia Continental 160 km/h electric multiple-units and maintain them for 16 years. The EMUs are to be built at Alstom's Salzgitter plant and are due to enter service in June 2016 on Elektronetz Mittelsachsen II services ...
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NewsEuropean Locomotive Leasing signs framework for 50 locomotives
EUROPE: New entrant to the leasing market European Locomotive Leasing has signed a framework contract to acquire up to 50 Siemens Vectron AC and multi-system locomotives. The agreement announced on March 31 includes a firm order for an undisclosed number of locomotives to be delivered immediately, with the rest to ...
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NewsOverhead inspection vehicles with ETCS
GERMANY: DB Netz is taking delivery of a further four Robel Bahnbaumaschinen 57.44 catenary maintenance vehicles, fitted with two independent work platforms. Eight vehicles of this type have been in service since 2010, but the latest batch is equipped with ETCS.
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NewsCantus retains Nordost-Hessen-Netz contract
GERMANY: Following a Europe-wide tender, on March 24 Nordhessen transport authority NVV selected incumbent Cantus for a 15-year contract to operate Nordost-Hessen-Netz regional services between December 2016 and December 2031. The services linking Kassel, Göttingen and Fulda and between Bebra and Eisenach have been operated by the Cantus joint venture ...
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NewsDB orders S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland EMUs
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn placed a €146m contract for 29 Bombardier Talent 2 electric multiple-units on March 20, the 13th firm order under a €1bn framework agreed in 2007. The 19 three-car and 10 five-car EMUs are to be manufactured at Bombardier's Hennigsdorf site. They are due to enter service from ...
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NewsFirst private customer for Traxx Diesel Multi-Engine locomotives
GERMANY: Special-purpose joint venture Paribus-DIF-Netz-West-Lokomotiven has become the first private-sector customer for Bombardier's Traxx Diesel Multi-Engine locomotive, with an order for 15 of the four-engine locos announced on March 19. Bombardier said the value of the Traxx ME order 'based on the list price' is €60m. Delivery is scheduled for ...
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NewsThyssenKrupp to close track business
GERMANY: ThyssenKrupp has announced plans to close its ThyssenKrupp GfT Gleistechnik track component business, which it says is unprofitable and 'under extreme cost pressure'. The company said the decision would result in the sale or closures of sites and the loss of up to 260 jobs by the end of ...
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NewsFirst blast for the Falkenberg tunnel
GERMANY: Construction of the 2·6 km Falkenberg tunnel as part of the upgrade of the Hanau - Aschaffenburg - Würzburg corridor was ceremonially launched on March 6 with a first blast triggered by Gerswid Herrmann, wife of Bayern transport minister Joachim Herrmann. The twin-bore tunnel is the longest of three ...
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NewsDB’s London – Frankfurt plan in doubt again
EUROPE: Deutsche Bahn has cast further doubt on the introduction of direct high speed services between Germany and London, citing authorisation delays to its fleet of Class 407 Velaro D high speed trainsets now being delivered by Siemens. At a press launch on February 18 marking the introduction of the ...
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NewsIC double-deckers to serve Baden-Württemberg
GERMANY: Inter-city operator DB Fernverkehr has reached agreement with Baden-Württemberg to introduce double-deck inter-city trainsets on its Gäubahn route between Stuttgart and Zürich. A fleet of 17 push-pull trainsets will provide an hourly service from December 2017. In order to free up paths for the enhanced IC service, the Land ...
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NewsCIT expands into Europe with acquisition of Nacco
EUROPE: US asset financing company CIT Group Inc announced its acquisition of European wagon leasing business Nacco SAS for undisclosed terms on February 3. Nacco has its headquarters in Paris and subsidiaries in Hamburg and Crewe. It owns more than 9 500 wagons, which are leased to more than 150 ...
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NewsStudy sets out ways to cut Denmark - Hamburg journey times
EUROPE: Passenger journey times on the 337 km route between Aarhus in Denmark and Hamburg in Germany could be reduced by 97 min to 2 h 53 min without requiring major infrastructure works, according to a study undertaken by Atkins on behalf of 17 local authorities. Atkins has produced a ...
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NewsVareo diesel multiple-unit unveiled
GERMANY: The first of 56 Alstom Coradia Lint diesel multiple-units for Dieselnetz Köln services was unveiled at Köln Hauptbahnhof on January 15. The 140 km/h DMUs units have real-time information screens, at-seat power sockets, CCTV, an accessible toilet and multi-purpose spaces for bicycles and prams. The 390 kW MTU powerpacks ...
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NewsVossloh delivers a train of locomotives
GERMANY: The first six of 16 Vossloh G6 three-axle diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives ordered in December 2011 were delivered to chemicals company BASF in Ludwigshafen during December. Delivery of rest of the Kiel-built 671 kW shunters and four 1·2 MW DE12 Bo-Bo locomotives is scheduled for completion in February.
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NewsDB to spend €4·6bn in 2014
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has set out its plans to spend €4·6bn on modernisation and renewals on the 34000 km network during 2014. Maintenance spending will increase by €200m compared to 2013. More than 3000 km of track is to be replaced at 755 sites on 65 corridors. Major ...
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NewsIntermodal wagon order
EUROPE: AAE has ordered 300 Sggnss 80 ft four-axle intermodal wagons from Tatravagonka Poprad. They are to be leased to the Metrans subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen & Logistik, for use on North Sea port hinterland traffic. The single-unit wagons with two bogies offer more flexibility in the type of container ...
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NewsEBA approves Velaro D high speed trains for domestic operation
GERMANY: After many months of delays, the first four of 16 Class 407 high speed trainsets for Deutsche Bahn have been approved for use in Germany by EBA, the national railway safety authority. DB placed an order worth around €500m with Siemens in November 2008 for 15 Class 407 trainsets ...
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NewsLocomotive completes reformed vehicle approval process in just 11 weeks
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation announced on December 14 that its Traxx P160 multi-engine diesel locomotive had become the first vehicle type to be approved under national railway authority EBA's reformed authorisation programme. A memorandum of understanding to reform the approvals process was signed in June by the Ministry of Transport, EBA ...
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NewsICE-T fleet refurbishment underway
GERMANY: The first of 42 tilting inter-city trainsets operated by DB has entered DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung’s Nürnberg workshops under a €30m refurbishment programme running to 2015. The fleet of 11 five-car and 31 seven-car ICE-T trainsets is to receive a series of exterior and internal enhancements, including an external repaint, seat ...
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NewsYou'll do better with us
GERMANY: Industry association VDB and its 180 members have launched a high-profile marketing, press and social media campaign to encourage more school-leavers and graduates to join the rail sector. Entitled 'You'll do better with us', the initial campaign features a series of adverts showing young people dressed in outlandish costumes ...