Traction & rolling stock news – Page 196
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NewsAMP Capital increases Angel Trains stake
UK: Australian pension investor AMP Capital Investors has increased its stake in UK rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains by acquiring minority interests previously held by Prime Super and STC Funds Nominee. AMP Capital Investors has been an investor in Angel Trains since 2008. It had increased its stake ...
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NewsPredictive maintenance at the heart of Thameslink EMU depot
UK: ‘We want to prevent malfunctions before they even occur,’ said Siemens Mobility Division CEO Jochen Eickholt when Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin officially opened the new rolling stock depot at Three Bridges on October 15. The depot will maintain the 115 Class 700 Desiro City electric ...
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NewsTrinity Industries and Element Financial extend wagon alliance
USA: On October 14 the TrinityRail Asset Management Co subsidiary of Trinity Industries announced an extension of its alliance agreement with Element Financial Corp, which expects to acquire additional wagons leased to third parties worth up to $1bn in 2016-19. As with purchases made under the existing alliance agreed in ...
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NewsÖBB calls tenders for 200-locomotive framework contract
AUSTRIA: Austrian Federal Railways has invited expressions of interest in a framework contract for the supply of up to 200 electric and electro-diesel locomotives equipped to operate in various combinations of European countries. The tender is divided into three lots. Lot 1 covers a ‘Standard Locomotive’, which would be a ...
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NewsSiemens supplies locomotives from stock for rapid delivery
EUROPE: Mitsui Rail Capital Europe has ordered a further 21 electric locomotives, Siemens announced on October 13, which will take the leasing company’s Vectron fleet to 56 locomotives. The latest order includes 10 locomotives equipped for 15 kV 16·7 Hz operation in Germany and Austria, and 11 multi-system locomotives also ...
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NewsKanchrapara EMU factory prequalification begins
INDIA: The Ministry of Railways has issued a request for qualifications for a contract to set to establish on a joint venture basis an electric multiple-unit and metro car factory at Kanchrapara, north of Kolkata in West Bengal. Around 150 acres of railway land has been allocated for the project. ...
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NewsProgress Rail buys fuel injection system supplier
USA: Progress Rail Services has acquired Haynes Corp, which manufactures precision diesel fuel injection systems for heavy duty engines. Products includes injection pumps, injector assembles, nozzles, delivery valves, plungers, barrels and electronic injectors. Haynes also undertakes contract manufacturing. ‘This acquisition is a good strategic fit to expand our offering of ...
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NewsSBB orders maintenance fleet
SWITZERLAND: To handle rising volumes of infrastructure construction and maintenance traffic, Swiss Federal Railways has placed two orders totalling SFr265m for Alstom to supply 47 mainline and shunting locomotives and Windhoff 35 self-propelled infrastructure maintenance vehicles. SBB had called tenders in March 2014 as part of programme to renew its ...
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NewsSaudi Railway Co orders 1 200 Greenbrier wagons
SAUDI ARABIA: The Greenbrier Companies announced its entry into the Middle East wagon market on October 7, with a contract to supply approximately 1 200 tank wagons of three types to Saudi Railway Co. The wagons will be used to carry molten sulphur and phosphoric acid on the North–South Railway ...
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NewsPueblo wagon repair plant announced
USA: Wagon repair company Freedom Railcar Solutions and International Engineering have announce plans to develop a full-service wagon repair and modification facility in Pueblo, Colorado, by January 2017. This would offer services for tank and other wagons including interior cleaning, repairs, modification, exterior painting, interior lining and fabrication. The ...
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NewsOpen access operator NTV to order Pendolinos
ITALY: The board of open access high speed train operator NTV has approved the award of a contract for Alstom Transport to supply and maintain a further eight trainsets. Branded EVO, the new trainsets would be part of Alstom’s Pendolino family which NTV said offers ‘a brilliant mixture of reliability ...
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NewsCummins delivers first QSK95 locomotive engine
USA: Cummins has shipped the first production QSK95 diesel engine built to a rail specification. The QSK95 is to power the 35 Charger passenger locomotives ordered by the states of Illinois, California, Michigan, Missouri and Washington and now under construction at the Siemens plant in Sacramento, as well as future ...
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NewsEMD unveils its first Tier 4 diesel locomotive
USA: The first of six pre-production Tier 4 compliant diesel locomotives being built by the Electro-Motive Diesel subsidiary of Progress Rail Services was unveiled at the Railway Interchange 2015 exhibition in Minneapolis on October 4. On show at the outdoor display in BNSF’s Northtown Yard, the SD70ACe-T4 locomotive is powered ...
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NewsAlstom multiple-unit maintenance site goes electric
GERMANY: Alstom Transport has opened an electric multiple-unit servicing, repair and refurbishment facility at the Braunschweig site where it undertakes similar work on diesel multiple-units under contract to various train operators. The €15m expansion of the site’s facilities includes two additional workshops, 1·5 km of 15 kV 16·7 Hz ...
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NewsModernised EMU presented to Przewozy Regionalne
POLAND: The first of 21 EN57 electric multiple-units modernised by Pesa subsidiary ZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki was presented to national regional train operator Przewozy Regionalne at the Trako trade fair in Gdańsk on September 22. The three-car EN57AL-2102 has a new livery, as well as a reconfigured interior. it has ...
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NewsSiemens opens locomotive servicing and data analysis centres
GERMANY: Bayern Transport Minister Joachim Herrmann and Siemens Mobility CEO Jochen Eickholt officially opened a locomotive service centre at the manufacturer’s München-Allach plant on October 1. Siemens says the new 2000 m2 covered hall will enable it to undertake locomotive manufacturing and maintenance at a single location for the first ...
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NewsMidi-Pyrénées orders more double-deck EMUs
FRANCE: SNCF has exercised an option for a further eight Bombardier Transportation Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units to be delivered in 2017-19. The €56·5m contract announced on October 1 is being financed by the Midi-Pyrénées region, which ordered an initial 10 Regio 2N EMUs in December 2013. In ...
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NewsHigh volume open wagon certified
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co has obtained federal certification for the Type 12-9869 open wagon designed by its VNICTT development centre and built at its Tikhvin plant. UWC has already received an order for the design, and plans to begin series production in the first quarter of 2016 with a ...
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NewsTilting E353 to serve Chuo Main Line
JAPAN: A pre-series Series E353 tilting EMU to operate Azusa limited express services on the eastern portion of the 1 067 mm gauge Chuo Main Line between Tokyo and Nagano has been unveiled by East Japan Railway. The Series E353 sets are being built by the railway’s rolling stock subsidiary ...
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NewsNewag to build TSI-compliant multi-system freight loco
POLAND: The National Centre for Research & Development has awarded Newag a 10·9m złoty grant to support the development of what the company says would be Europe’s first TSI-compliant six-axle multi-system electric freight locomotive. This programme is expected to cost a total of 27·2m złoty. Announcing the grant on September ...