DB plans giant coach order

German Railway is to call tenders ’in the next few weeks’ for around 1000 loco-hauled inter-city coaches. DB expects to place the contract in the autumn, with first deliveries scheduled for 2006. The contract is likely to be tied to purchase of DB’s workshops in Delitzsch near Leipzig, and DB ...

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