Main line rail industry news – Page 93
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NewsStadler awards long-term brake systems support contract
EUROPE: Knorr-Bremse RailServices has signed a contract to provide Stadler with comprehensive rolling stock braking system maintenance, repair and spare part supply services The contract runs until the end of 2028, with an option to extend. ‘This major service contract represents a new phase in our ...
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NewsUnion Pacific ready to test hybrid locomotive
USA: Union Pacific is to begin testing the first of six diesel-battery-hybrid shunting locomotives during May. The railway has produced a prototype locomotive at its workshop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, working with loco control technology supplier ZTR which designed the hybrid propulsion system. A second ...
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NewsJapanese DMUs find second homes in Thailand and Cambodia
ASIA: Japan’s JR Hokkaido and JR East have sold cars of ex-Series KiHa 183 diesel multiple-units to Thailand and Cambodia. JR Hokkaido announced on April 12 that it had sold its remaining 11 cars, which had served as Series KiHa 183 diesel multiple-units, to Cambodia’s national ...
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NewsChinese trainsets arrive in Europe
EUROPE: Subsidiaries of Chinese rolling stock group CRRC delivered passenger trainsets to two operators in southeast Europe during April. CRRC Changchun has delivered the first of five electric multiple-units ordered by Serbian national operator Srbija Voz. The €54m order was signed by Minister of Construction, Transport & ...
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NewsSNCF and RATP to sell majority stake in Systra
SYSTRA: French national railway SNCF and Paris transport operator RATP have entered into exclusive negotiations for the sale of a majority stake in transport engineering consultancy Systra to Latour Capital and Fimalac. Latour Capital is an independent French asset management company investing primarily in companies where ...
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NewsSNCF unveils TGV-M livery
FRANCE: SNCF Voyageurs and supplier Alstom have revealed the colour scheme for the operator’s future fleet of TGV-M trainsets.
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NewsChina applies to become associate member of OTIF
INTERNATIONAL: On April 26 the People’s Republic of China deposited an application to accede to the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail as an associate member. Unless five OTIF Member States object, the application will be deemed to be accepted three months after the first ...
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NewsRegional governments keen to keep Deutschland-Ticket
GERMANY: Transport ministers in the Länder favour keeping the flat-fare Deutschland-Ticket for the long term. In a debate on April 18 in Münster about the future of the ticket, currently priced at €49 for one month’s travel on local and regional rail services, as well as ...
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NewsCross-border train services stepped up
EUROPE: Slovenian Railways and Austrian Federal Railways have launched two cross-border passenger services as an initial step towards better and more frequent connections between the two countries. One links Ljubljana with Villach and the other connects Ljubljana with Pragersko, Maribor and Graz. An inaugural train between ...
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NewsÖBB orders electric multiple-units for eastern Austria
AUSTRIA: Austrian Federal Railways has placed a firm order for Siemens Mobility to supply a further 21 Desiro ML electric multiple-units, which the operator brands as Cityjet. The order announced on April 29 takes ÖBB’s Desiro ML fleet to 294 units, of which 236 are now ...
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NewsCSX rolls out hydrogen fuel cell locomotive
USA: CSX has rolled out the first hydrogen-powered locomotive it has produced as part of a partnership with Canadian Pacific Kansas City which was announced last year. The rebuilt EMD GP40-2 was modified to work with fuel cells and batteries at CSX’s Huntington, West Virginia workshop. ...
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NewsAmtrak seeks fleet decarbonisation options
USA: National passenger operator Amtrak on April 16 issued a Request for Information from suppliers as part of its efforts to decarbonise its rolling stock fleet. Amtrak said that the RFI would ‘seek options to help transform the company’s rail fleet with zero-emissions technology’. In September ...
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NewsBogie maintenance contract
DENMARK: Regional operator Nordjyske Jernbaner A/S has awarded VR FleetCare a contract covering the overhaul of bogies and pneumatic components for its fleet of Alstom Coradia LINT multiple-units. The work will be undertaken by VR FleetCare’s Component Services business unit at facilities in Helsinki and Pieksämäki. ...
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NewsRack railway tests collision warning system
SWITZERLAND: Trials with a collision warning system as the first stage in a project to switch to GoA4 driverless operation have begun on the 1 200 mm gauge Rheineck – Walzenhausen line in the canton of St Gallen. Part of the Appenzeller Bahnen group, the 1∙96 ...
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NewsPrivate rooms to be revived on Tokaido Shinkansen
JAPAN: Central Japan Railway has announced plans to reintroduce private compartments on the Tokaido Shinkansen.
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NewsONCF seeks to complete Kénitra – Marrakech high speed line before 2030 World Cup
MOROCCO: National operator ONCF is stepping up the pace of planning and preliminary construction work for the 40bn dirhams high speed line between Kénitra and Marrakech. Due to open between September and November 2029 in time for the FIFA World Cup being staged the following year ...
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NewsPomorskie orders more Impuls2 EMUs with EU funding
POLAND: Pomorskie voivodship has exercised an option to purchase nine more four-car Impuls2 electric multiple-units from Newag, the region’s Marshal Mieczysław Struk announced on April 16. The Marshal’s Office signed a contract with Newag in August 2023 covering the supply of one Impuls2 EMU plus an ...
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NewsAbellio Deutschland sold to BeNEX
EUROPE: German regional operator BeNEX is to acquire Abellio’s German subsidiary from Dutch national operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen.