Traction & rolling stock news – Page 159
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Rail Business UKA ride on TransPennine Express Nova 3 coaches
UK: Railway Gazette went to the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic for a ride on a set of the Mark 5A locomotive-hauled coaches being built by Spanish company CAF for TransPennine Express inter-city services across the north of England. The push-pull trainsets financed by Beacon Rail will ...
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NewsSKM Warszawa signs Pesa Elf2 order
POLAND: Suburban operator SKM Warszawa signed a contract with Pesa on May 21 for the supply of up to 21 Elf2 electric multiple-units. Deliveries of the base order of eight five-car and five four-car trainsets are due to be completed within two years. The contract is worth 310·5m złoty ...
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Rail Business UKGreater Anglia electro-diesels under construction
UK: Swiss manufacturer Stadler is producing a total of 58 Flirt UK electric and electro-diesel multiple-units for use by Greater Anglia. The order placed in August 2016 as part of a programme to completely renew the Greater Anglia fleet includes 24 four-car and 14 three-car electro-diesel units which will ...
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NewsWabtec to merge with GE Transportation
INDUSTRY: Wabtec Corp has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with GE Transportation, the companies announced on May 21. The transaction is expected to close in early 2019, subject to approval by Wabtec shareholders, and regulatory authorities, making Wabtec ‘a global leader in the rail equipment, software and services ...
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NewsŠkoda becomes sole owner of Transtech
FINLAND: Škoda Transportation Group signed an agreement to purchase the remaining shares in Transtech on May 21. With the purchase of the 25% stake from Sinituote Oy, Škoda becomes the 100% owner of the Finnish rolling stock manufacturer. In 2015 Škoda Transportation Group acquired 75% of Transtech from investment ...
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NewsBangladesh Railway orders 10 locomotives
BANGLADESH: Hyundai Rotem is to supply 10 mixed-traffic diesel-electric locomotives to Bangladesh Railway under a 41bn won contract announced on May 18. Intended for mixed traffic use on the metre gauge Dhaka – Chittagong route, the locomotives will be delivered from Hyundai Rotem’s Changwon plant in South Korea starting ...
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NewsRegioJet puts Traxx locos into service
CZECH REPUBLC: The first of eight Bombardier Transportation Traxx multi-system electric locomotives ordered by open access operator RegioJet in April 2017 entered service on May 16. The first passenger train to be hauled by one of the new locomtives was RJ1017, the 17.48 from Praha to Ostrava and Návsí. After ...
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NewsSrbija Kargo to purchase Vectron locos
SERBIA: National freight operator Srbija Kargo has successfully completed negotiations with Siemens for the purchase of eight multi-system electric locomotives, CEO Dušan Garibović said on May 15. The procurement is being supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development. Garibović said financial terms were favourable, and the agreement ...
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NewsZillertalbahn selects hydrogen train supplier
AUSTRIA: Zillertalbahn operator ZVB announced on May 15 that it had selected Stadler to supply five hydrogen fuelled multiple-units for its 760 mm gauge line. A prototype is expected to be ready for trials in 2020, with the remaining four trainsets expected to be delivered in 2022. ZVB currently ...
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NewsAlstom and Eversholt plan fuel cell EMUs
UK: Plans to fit hydrogen fuel cells to redundant electric multiple units were announced by Alstom on May 14. Confirming that ‘hydrogen technologies and solutions will play a key role in our global vision for the future’, the manufacturer said it was working with rolling stock leasing company Eversholt Rail ...
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NewsRevolution VLR railcar to be demonstrated in 2020
UK: Leasing company Eversholt Rail has joined the Revolution VLR consortium of Transport Design International, Cummins, Prose, Transcal Engineering, RDM Group and the University of Warwick, which has secured government funding to design and build a lightweight diesel-battery railcar demonstrator by early 2020. The concept is intended for low-traffic and ...
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NewsHull Trains reveals ‘luxurious and aesthetically appealing’ AT300 design
UK: Open access operator Hull Trains has revealed the appearance of its future fleet of five Hitachi AT300 trainsets, following the completion of the engineering and design phase and the sign-off for production to begin. The £60m order for five five-car inter-city electro-diesel multiple-units was placed by ...
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NewsVirtual Bodensee line testing for MTU Hybrid PowerPack
GERMANY: Rolls-Royce has used a computer-controlled simulation of operating conditions on the Radolfzell – Friedrichshafen route for bench testing of a real MTU Hybrid PowerPack to demonstrate its potential for use on services around the Bodensee. This included a demonstration of the feasibility of using battery power to provide locally ...
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NewsMRCE orders 25 more Vectrons
EUROPE: Leasing company Mitsui Rail Capital Europe announced an order for further 25 Siemens Vectron locomotives on May 8. The order includes 10 multisystem 6·4 MW locomotives suitable for operation ‘across Europe from the Netherlands to southeast Europe’ which will be delivered at the end of 2018, as well as ...
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NewsUnion Pacific orders low-emission shunters
USA: Union Pacific has ordered 10 EMD24B low-emission locomotives from Progress Rail for yard shunting work in California. Announced on May 1, the order is the first for the EMD24B design, following the testing of a demonstrator by Pacific Harbor Line at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. ...
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NewsGreat Northern Class 717 EMUs unveiled
UK: Siemens has unveiled the Class 717 Desiro City electric multiple-units which it is building for Govia Thameslink Railway. Being built at the Siemens plant at Krefeld in Germany, the 25 six-car units are scheduled to enter service from September on GTR’s Great Northern commuter services from Welwyn Garden City, ...
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NewsAlstom trainset for Senegal on test
SENEGAL: The first of 15 four-car Coradia Polyvalent electro-diesel multiple-units ordered for the Train Express Régional project in Dakar is now on test at Alstom’s plant at Reichshoffen in France. The Train Express Régional will link the centre of Dakar with the new Blaise Diagne international airport in Diass, serving ...
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NewsNo ‘ironing board’ seats, Greater Anglia promises
UK: With advice from consultancy Schoenemann Design, operator Greater Anglia has selected Italian company FISA's Lean seat design for used on its future Stadler trainsets, and has made adjustments to the shape of the base cushions, lumbar support and headrests. The Bombardier Transportation Aventra EMUs ordered for Greater Anglia's commuter ...
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NewsNigerian railway modernisation agreement signed
NIGERIA: An agreement to proceed with the interim phase of a concession to upgrade the 1 067 mm gauge rail network was signed by federal government and an international consortium on April 27. The consortium is led by GE and includes Chinese construction company SinoHydro, South African transport and logistics ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market - April 2018
Bulgaria: DMV has taken delivery of two Siemens Vectron locos. Canada: Vancouver’s TransLink has signed a 62·1bn won contract for Hyundai Rotem to supply 24 metro cars for the driverless Canada Line. Denmark: Metroselskabet has awarded Hitachi Rail Italy a €50m contract to supply of eight driverless trainsets ...