Traction & rolling stock news – Page 212
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NewsCSR delivers first Mitre cars
ARGENTINA: The first 12 of an initial batch of 30 electric multiple-unit cars delivered by CSR of China for the Mitre commuter route were unloaded in Buenos Aires on September 6. CSR is supplying a total of 30 six-car EMUs to operate Mitre routes electrified at 830 V DC third ...
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NewsEast Japan Railway targets Californian high speed contracts
USA: JR East is to lead a Japanese consortium in bidding for railway systems contracts for the Los Angeles – San Francisco high speed line now being developed by the California High Speed Rail Authority. JR East announced in Tokyo that it expects to work in partnership with six other ...
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NewsStadler ships first Aeroexpress EMU
RUSSIA: The first of 25 double-deck electric multiple-units which Aeroexpress has ordered for its services to Moscow's Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports has begun its journey to Russia from Stadler Rail's Altenrhein factory in Switzerland. The €381m order for 16 four-car and nine six-car aluminium-bodied EMUs based on Stadler's Kiss ...
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NewsTrain location and energy metering units ordered
AUSTRIA: Infrastructure manager ÖBB Infrastruktur and Symeo have signed an agreement to jointly manufacture more than 400 Railpower Box train location and energy consumption recording units. The main component of the TSI-compliant Railpower Box is a customised version of Symeo's Datros data handling technology. This monitors power consumption while tracking ...
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NewsSiemens wins South West Trains suburban EMU order
UK: South West Trains announced on September 3 that it had selected Siemens and leasing company Angel Trains for a £210m contract to supply 30 five-car electric multiple-units. The Desiro City EMUs would be ‘similar in style to the Class 700 units being produced for the Thameslink route’. Deliveries ...
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NewsAlstom awarded ScotRail EMU refurbishment contract
UK: Leasing company Eversholt Rail has awarded Alstom a two-year contract worth £36·1m to modernise 40 Class 334 three-car 25 kV electric multiple-units. These were built by Alstom in 1999-2001 and are operated by ScotRail. The work is due to start in early 2015. It will be led by Alstom’s ...
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NewsKirow cranes shipped to China
CHINA: Six Kirow Multi Tasker KRC 2880 construction and accident recovery cranes are being delivered from Germany to China, and a further 20 KRC 1680 cranes are to follow next year. Kuehne & Nagel is responsible for freight forwarding and booking of the initial six cranes, which were transported from ...
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NewsMore Transperth multiple-units wanted
AUSTRALIA: Western Australia’s Public Transport Authority is to issue a request for information to gauge manufacturers’ interest in supplying at least 50 six-car electric multiple-units to double the size of the Transperth fleet. The additional EMUs would support anticipated ridership growth on the 1 067 mm gauge network, as well ...
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NewsDSB sets out long-term rolling stock requirements
DENMARK: National passenger operator DSB has supplied the Ministry of Transport with an assessment of the rolling stock needed under the government’s Togfonden DK strategy. This aims to use taxes on hydrocarbon extraction to fund electrification and infrastructure works to provide 1 h journey times between Denmark’s main cities. The ...
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NewsAlstom selected for Algerian inter-city contract
ALGERIA: National railway SNTF has selected Alstom Transport as preferred bidder for a contract to supply 17 electro-diesel multiple-units for long-distance services. Award of the €200m contract announced on August 19 is subject to a 10-day standstill period. The trainsets would be based on the Coradia Liner design ordered by ...
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NewsAkiem orders more Traxx Locomotives
EUROPE: Bombardier Transportation has signed a contract to supply leasing company Akiem with 10 Traxx DC locomotives for use on freight services in Italy and Poland. The order announced on August 21 is worth €33m at list prices. An option for up to 10 more could take the total ...
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NewsFirst Haramain high speed trainset revealed
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Railways Organization President Mohamed Khaled al Suwaiket visited the first trainset for the Haramain High Speed Rail project at the Talgo’s factory at Rivabellosa in Spain on August 11. The 450 km high speed line will link Makkah with Madinah, via Jeddah and King Abdul Aziz International ...
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NewsGE builds metre gauge Evolution
BRAZIL: GE Transportation has announced the development of the Evolution ES43BBi design, an eight-axle diesel freight locomotive aimed at the 1 000 mm gauge railways which with a total length of 23 000 km form 80% of the national network. Featuring GE’s new AC traction motor for 1 000 mm ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market August 2014
Argentina: Rioro SA has been awarded a 166m pesos contract to repair 28 type CT16A wagons for Belgrano Cargas y Logística. This and a 60m pesos contract to repair 10 CT54 wagons are being undetaken by the Rioro workshops at Pérez. Brazil: Porto Alegre metro operator Trensurb has awarded ...
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NewsToronto airport rail link DMU delivered
CANADA: The first two of 18 diesel multiple-unit cars being supplied by Sumitomo for Toronto’s Union-Pearson Express airport rail link has been delivered to regional transport agency Metrolinx. The US$75m order placed in 2011 covers 12 Type A driving cars and six Type B intermediate cars with toilets, which will ...
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NewsNippon Sharyo expands US rolling stock plant
USA: Nippon Sharyo USA has opened a third production hall at its plant in Rochelle, Illinois. ‘We will now be able to fabricate, weld, and assemble parts for our car bodyshells right here, making Nippon Sharyo a 100% Buy America compliant rail car builder’, said Nippon Sharyo Chairman ...
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NewsBattery EMU test running begins in Derby
UK: An electric multiple-unit which has been retrofitted with lithium iron magnesium phosphate battery packs is now undergoing trials on the test track at Bombardier Transportation’s Derby plant. A series of fast runs is to be undertaken later this year at Network Rail’s Rail Innovation & Development Centre on the ...
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NewsHSL-Zuid Traxx locomotive delivered
NETHERLANDS: The first of 19 Traxx F160 MS electric locomotives being built at Bombardier Transportation’s Kassel plant for NS Reizigers arrived in Amsterdam on August 11. The 160 km/h locomotives are to be operated with refurbished ICR coaches on domestic services from Amsterdam to Rotterdam and Eindhoven using the HSL-Zuid ...
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NewsPacific National takes delivery of locomotives
AUSTRALIA: Pacific National has taken delivery of the first two of seven N-ViroMotive genset locomotives ordered from National Railway Equipment Co, and has begun testing five heavy haul locomotives supplied by CSR Qishuyan earlier this year. The NRE locomotives with Cummins QSK19 engines were custom designed for use at the ...
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NewsSoftronic launches open access service with Hyperion EMU
ROMANIA: As part of a promotional campaign for its 160 km/h Hyperion electric multiple-unit, the Softrans subsidiary of rolling stock manufacturer Softronic is running a daily Craiova – București – Constanța open access return service between August 1 and September 12. This follows trials undertaken by national operator CFR ...