Traction & rolling stock news – Page 192
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NewsFour to submit best offers to supply Dutch inter-city fleet
NETHERLANDS: National passenger operator NS announced on January 19 that it had invited Alstom, Bombardier, Siemens and Stadler to submit best and final offers for the Inter-city New Generation contract to supply its next fleet of long-distance trains. It expects to award the contract this summer, with the trains ...
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NewsRussian wagon certified for 120 km/h operation
RUSSIA: Wagon manufacturer Altaivagon has obtained type approval for its Type 13-2114-11 container flat wagon design with 18-2145 bogies, which it says will be the first Russian wagons able to operate at 120 km/h, loaded or empty.Certification enables production to begin, with the first batch of the wagons to be ...
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NewsTRB and Seisenbacher announce train interiors partnership
EUROPE: Train interior product suppliers TRB Lightweight Structures of the UK and Seisenbacher of Austria have announced that they are to co-locate staff and machinery to offer their design and manufacturing services closer to their customers. The companies supply products including floors, partitions, ceilings, storage units, galleys and doors. ‘Working ...
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NewsGTWs delivered for La Pobla de Segur route
SPAIN: This spring Catalan regional operator FGC is due to place into service two Stadler Rail GTW 2/6 diesel multiple-units on the 1 668 mm gauge Lleida — La Pobla de Segur route. Ordered at a cost of €9⋅4m and designated Class 331 by FGC, the new DMUs should ...
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NewsPakistan Railways orders 800 coal hoppers
PAKISTAN: China Railway Rolling Stock Corp signed a Rs3·92bn agreement for its Jinan Railway Vehicles subsidiary to supply 800 hopper wagons to Pakistan Railways on January 14. Deliveries are scheduled for six to 10 months, with 205 of the wagons to be supplied from China and 595 produced at ...
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NewsUnited Wagon Co delivers first high-capacity tank wagons
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co recently delivered the first wagons manufactured by TikhvinChemMash. The subsidiary was established at UWC's Tikhvin factory to produce tank cars to modern designs developed by its Centre for Transportation Technologies. The chemical tanks were delivered to Ural Mining & Metallurgical Co’s Sredneuralsky Copper Smelter and Yekaterinburg ...
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NewsDouble-deck coaches presented to Koleje Mazowieckie
POLAND: A ceremony at Warszawa Wschodnia on January 13 marked the official presentation of Sundeck double-deck coaches that Pesa has supplied to Mazowieckie voivodship passenger operator Koleje Mazowieckie. The first set then made an inaugural journey to Rembertów. Deliveries of the 20 double-deck intermediate coaches, two double-deck driving cars ...
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NewsIndian Railways unveils refurbished coaches
INDIA: A initial 24 coaches which have been fitted with new interiors, colour schemes and passenger amenities as a ‘model rake’ for a mid-life refurbishment programme were unveiled at Delhi’s Safdarjung station on January 11. Indian Railways said it was ‘committed with renewed vigour to improve upon the interior furnishing ...
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NewsFive shortlisted for Merseyrail train replacement
UK: Transport authority Merseytravel announced the five shortlisted bidders for a contract to supply around 50 new electric multiple-units for the Merseyrail suburban network centred on Liverpool on January 11: Bombardier;CAF;Mitsui in a consortium with Alstom and East Japan Railway’s rolling stock manufacturing business J-TREC;Siemens;Stadler. Tender documents are scheduled ...
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NewsCZ Loko unveils EffiShunter 500
EUROPE: Czech rolling stock manufacturer CZ Loko has delivered the first EffiShunter 500 shunting locomotive, with a second to follow shortly. The Bo-Bo design retains the underframe and bogies of the ČKD-built Class 740 locomotive, but is otherwise newly built to the customer’s requirements. It powered by a 522 kW ...
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NewsPortugal's CP to lease Spanish trainsets
PORTUGAL: Subject to government approval, national operator CP plans to lease four or five CAF Class 120 four-car 250 km/h trainsets from RENFE while its fleet of Alfa Pendular trainsets undergoes a €19m half-life inspection and refurbishment programme which is to be undertaken by EMEF. CP uses the 10 ...
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News€300m loan to finance Italian regional trains
ITALY: A €300m corporate bond subscription agreement which will finance the acquisition of new passenger rolling stock for regional routes was signed by the European Investment Bank and national railway FS on December 23. The bond is guaranteed by the European Fund for Strategic Investments, and according to EIB is ...
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NewsBlueCube to monitor Great Western train doors
UK: Rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook has awarded Barnbrook Systems a ‘five-figure’ contract to supply BlueCube wireless sensors to provide remote condition monitoring of the doors on Class 158 diesel multiple-units operated by Great Western Railway. The sensors will monitor the opening and closing times of every door at ...
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NewsHakodate Liner is ready to roll
JAPAN: JR Hokkaido has unveiled the first of its Series 733-1000 EMUs for the Hakodate Liner shuttle service, which will be introduced on March 26 to coincide with the opening of the first phase of the Hokkaido Shinkansen. Four three-car sets are being built to operate the shuttle which will ...
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NewsCentral Suburban Passenger Co orders GTW+ DMU
RUSSIA: Central Suburban Passenger Co announced on December 28 that it had ordered a Type DP-M diesel multiple-unit from Transmashholding subsidiary Metrowagonmash for use on the Golutvin – Ozyory line south of Moscow. This follows the granting of approval for series production of the DP-M design, which has a separate ...
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NewsTransmashholding presents EP2D electric multiple-unit
RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Demikhovo plant has unveiled the EP2D electric multiple-unit, developed to the specification of Moscow commuter operator Central Suburban Passenger Co which is DMZ’s largest customer. The first unit is to undergo trials at the Shcherbinka test circuit with certification expected in 2016. Central Suburban Passenger Co said ...
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NewsTraxx AC Last Mile on test in Croatia
CROATIA: A Bombardier Traxx AC3 Last Mile locomotive owned by leasing company Railpool has been tested in Croatia, with the aim of obtaining certification for operation during the first quarter of 2016. Static testing was followed by dynamic tests which focused on performance under different braking modes. On December ...
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NewsLotos Kolej orders last-mile Griffins
POLAND: Open access freight operator Lotos Kolej has placed the first series-build order for Griffin electric locomotives from Newag, placing a contract on December 23 for an initial build of five locos valued at 56·2m złoty. Designated E4DCU-DP, the four-axle locomotives will be a 3 kV DC variant of the ...
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NewsWheelslip control
RETROFITTING: ZTR Control Systems has launched a new wheelslip control system for retrofitting to older locomotives. The US firm says its new BOA-II platform offers advanced excitation and superior protection to improve tractive effort and reliability. Users can install a series of basic modules as an upgrade to other ZTR ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market December 2015
Australia: Adani has ordered 1360 coal hopper from CRRC Yangtze, the Chinese firm’s largest export order. China: Voith is supplying RailPack 400DE power packs with 375 kW engines for use on 30 electro-diesel multiple-units which Changchun Railway Vehicles is building for suburban services running onto non-electrified lines. Czech ...