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Latest news about train technology, including diesel and electric locomotives, multiple units, coaches and wagons.
Chengdu airport express metro trains delivered
CHINA: CRRC Sifang has completed a fleet of 26 trains for Chengdu’s 66·2 km metro Line 18, with commissioning and trial running underway ahead of the planned start of services this summer.
UWC wins Azerbaijan wagon orders
AZERBAIJAN: Russia’s United Wagon Co has entered Azerbaijan’s railway market with two orders for its Tikhvin plant to supply 25 tonne axleload wagons.
ETCS tested successfully on Heathrow Express Class 387s
UK: An initial series of test runs using Class 387 EMUs equipped with ETCS on the Great Western Main Line has been completed, leasing company Porterbrook announced on April 3.
Bodyshells ordered for Praha tram rebuild programme
CZECH REPUBLIC: Praha transport operator DPP has awarded Pragoimex a contract to supply its VarCB3LF partly low-floor tram bodies to replace the life-expired and corroded bodies of the city’s Tatra Type T3R.P and T3R.PV trams.
Osaka’s Hankai Line expands low-floor tram fleet
JAPAN: A three-section low-floor tram supplied by Alna Sharyo has entered service on the Hankai Tramway in Osaka, where it is operating alongside the oldest trams in the country which are still in commercial service rather than run as heritage vehicles.
TMH delivers electric traction units to mine
RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant has delivered the first of two Type NP1 electric traction units ordered by EVRAZ’s Kachkanarskiy Mining Plant last October.
Northern Lights tram delivered to Bremen
CRRC delivers DMUs to Angola
Auvergne-Rhône Alpes region orders EMUs
Locomotive for Guinea rolled out
Hessische Landesbahn orders Stage V compliant Alstom DMUs
Öresundståg ETCS contract awarded
MKB orders Vectron Dual Mode locomotives
Sofia Metro cars to be modernised
Transitio opts for Civity Nordic
East Coast resignalling partners appointed
Samara Metro train delivered
Krasnodar orders 56 trams
TOAZ orders high-capacity fertiliser wagons
Hakone Tozan replaces funicular trainsets
MBTA to roll out Violet Edge across commuter rail fleet
Steelworks locomotive order
Stadler wins €3bn Berlin U-Bahn car order after legal dispute
Seoul GTX Line A train contract awarded