German railway news – Page 60
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NewsNEB signs Netz Ostbrandenburg operating contract
GERMANY: The Länder of Brandenburg and Berlin signed contracts for local railway company Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn to operate Netz Ostbrandenburg regional passenger services on July 10. The services on routes north and east of Berlin were tendered as two lots totalling 5 million train-km/year, with NEB named as the winner ...
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NewsCzech-German cross-border reopening
EUROPE: Passenger services returned to the line between Dolní Poustevna in the Czech Republic and Sebnitz in Germany on July 4, almost 70 years after it closed in the aftermath of World War II. The reopened route is used by eight Route U28 return services a day between Rumburk and ...
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NewsBombardier opens Bogie Technical Centre
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation inaugurated a new Bogie Technical Centre at its Siegen site on July 10. Bringing together the specialist engineers and tools needed for the development, testing and certification of Bombardier’s bogie portfolio, the technical centre is located alongside the company’s bogie headquarters and final assembly, wheelset and repair ...
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NewsDB Schenker Rail launches Köln - Istanbul semi-trailer service
EUROPE: DB Schenker Rail has launched a freight service carrying road semi-trailers between Köln and the Çerkezköy freight terminal near Istanbul. The journey time is five to six days. The semi-trailer service follows the launch of DB Schenker Rail’s Germany – Turkey Bosporus Shuttle container and wagonload service in ...
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NewsStorm damage is worse than thought, warns DB
GERMANY: Initial inspections have found that damage to the rail network in the Rhein-Ruhr region caused by a major storm on June 9 is worse than had been feared, Deutsche Bahn announced on June 11, and it is not clear when it will be possible for services to return to ...
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NewsDB orders multi-engine locos for Sylt Shuttle service
GERMANY: Deustche Bahn has awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract to supply seven Traxx Multi-Engine diesel-electric locomotives for use on the Sylt Shuttle car-carrying service across the 11 km Hindenburgdamm causeway which connects the North Sea island of Sylt with mainland Schleswig-Holstein. The contract announced on June 6 has been placed ...
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NewsDB Schenker Rail opens European control centre
EUROPE: As part of its transition from being a German rail freight operator to a ‘truly European’ business, DB Schenker Rail inaugurated a new European Operations Centre in Frankfurt on June 2. At present, the company operates through 15 national companies, but its CEO Alexander Hedderich said the intention is ...
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NewsTraxx ME handed over in Bayern
GERMANY: The first of eight multi-engined Traxx P160DE diesel locomotives being built for Sudostbayernbahn services by Bombardier was formally handed over in Müldorf on May 23. SOB ordered the 2 252 kW Class 245 locomotives under a framework contract for up to 200 locos placed by DB Regio in April ...
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NewsVeolia Verkehr awards heavy maintenance contract to DB
GERMANY: Veolia Verkehr has awarded DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung a 'double-digit million' euro contract to undertake the periodic heavy maintenance of 78 diesel multiple-units in 2014-20. The Alstom Lint and Bombardier Talent DMUs are used on services operated by Veolia's NordWestBahn, Bayerische Regiobahn and Nord-Ostsee-Bahn subsidiaries. The contract covers heavy maintenance ...
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NewsOaktree Capital Management buys Railpool
EUROPE: HSH Nordbank and KfW IPEX-Bank sold their shares in rolling stock leasing company Railpool to funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management on May 9. The price was not disclosed. The two banks founded Railpool as an equally-owned joint venture in 2008, and will continue to act as lenders to ...
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NewsS-Bahn Rhein-Main EMU deliveries begin
GERMANY: The first of 91 ET430 electric multiple-units ordered in November 2011 for use on S-Bahn Rhein-Main services was displayed to the public at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof on April 11. DB Regio Hessen is initially putting the units into service on route S1 and airport services, before deployment across routes S1, ...
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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 ...