Traction & rolling stock news – Page 190
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NewsTEP33A passenger locos enter revenue service
KAZAKHSTAN: National railway KTZ has announced that its first two GE Transportation/LKZ TEP33A locomotives have entered trial passenger service on the Almaty – Aktogay route. KTZ and GE Transportation signed an order for 110 of the Evolution Series locomotives at InnoTrans 2012. They are a passenger version of the TE33A ...
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NewsGibela starts work on EMU factory
SOUTH AFRICA: The Gibela joint venture of Alstom and local partners marked the start of construction of its new EMU manufacturing plant at Dunnotar on March 4, with a ceremony attended by Alstom Chairman & CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge, PRASA Chairman Dr Popo Molefe, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters and the Mayor ...
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NewsTülomsaş looks east for export orders
TURKEY: State-owned rolling stock supplier Tülomsaş says it is optimistic about winning more export business in Asia and North Africa as the liberalisation of national railway TCDD requires it to adopt a more commercially-driven business model. Speaking to Railway Gazette International at the Eurasiarail trade fair in Istanbul on March ...
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NewsMetrolinx receives first Tier 4 locomotive
CANADA: Greater Toronto regional transport agency Metrolinx has taken delivery of a prototype Tier 4 compliant diesel locomotive from Wabtec’s MotivePower subsidiary, and has signed a US$97m contract for 16 more to be delivered from 2017. According to Wabtec, the MP54 prototype is the first commuter locomotive to be delivered ...
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NewsSyntus orders Flirts for Zwolle services
NETHERLANDS: Stadler Rail is to supply Syntus with 16 Flirt3 electric multiple-units for use on the services from Zwolle to Kampen and Enschede which the Keolis subsidiary is to operate from December 2017. The €125m contract announced by Stadler on March 2 covers the delivery of nine three-car and ...
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NewsHigh-capacity cement wagons unveiled
UK: The first of a fleet of 48 wagons built by Feldbinder for Hope Construction Materials was unveiled at the company’s cement works at Hope in Derbyshire on February 26 by Transport Minister Andrew Jones. Half of the wagons are now in service, and the rest are expected to arrive ...
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NewsVertex launches wagon leasing business
USA: Vertex Railcar Corp has launched Vertex Rail Leasing, a wholly-owned subsidiary offering wagons manufactured at its Wilmington plant for lease. ‘With the launch of Vertex Rail Leasing, Vertex is well positioned to address the railcar needs across the full spectrum of customers in the market - those who prefer ...
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NewsUnited Wagon Co output up 28%
RUSSIA: Increased production capacity and larger order volumes saw United Wagon Co manufacture a total of 12 400 wagons in 2015, a 28% increase on 2014’s total. Production in Q4 2015 reached 3 900 wagons, up 43% on the same period the previous year. The group obtained certification for six ...
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NewsKončar KEV DMU enters service
CROATIA: Passenger operator HŽ PP’s first Končar KEV Class 7023 diesel multiple-unit entered revenue service on February 15, operating on the route between Zagreb, Varaždin and Kotoriba. The three-car articulated DMU is 58·5 m long. It has 151 fixed and nine folding seats, two wheelchair spaces, space for two bicycles ...
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NewsRock Rail signs first rolling stock financing deal
UK: Rock Rail Ltd has entered the rolling stock market with the signing of a deal worth more than £200m to finance a fleet of Siemens electric multiple-units for use by Govia Thameslink Railway. Equity for the deal announced on February 17 is being provided by Standard Life Investments ...
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NewsVilnius – Klaipėda DMU delivered
LITHUANIA: The first of seven Pesa 730ML diesel multiple-units which national operator LG has ordered for the Vilnius – Klaipėda route was unveiled in Vilnius on February 15. The 140 km/h units are similar to DMUs which Pesa has supplied to Belarus Railways, but with an upgraded interior suitable for ...
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NewsBretagne funds EMU order
FRANCE: On February 16 Bombardier announced that SNCF had placed a €34m order for an additional four eight-car Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units. They are being financed by the Bretagne region and are scheduled to be delivered in 2019. The order is an option on a 2010 framework agreement ...
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News‘Last ever’ Class 66 locomotives delivered
UK: What manufacturer Electro-Motive Diesel and operator GB Railfreight expect to be the final batch of Class 66 locomotives to be built arrived at the port of Newport in Wales on February 12. The seven locomotives were unloaded the following morning, and take GBRf’s Class 66 fleet to 78 locomotives. ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market February 2016
Africa: CRRC Zhuzhou delivered 19 freight and three passenger locos to the port of Djibouti on December 13, the first of 33 electric locos ordered in 2014 for the new Djibouti - Ethiopia line. Austria: Traktionssysteme Austria is to supply Bombardier with 952 traction motors for Flexity trams ordered ...
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NewsKazakh locomotive factory to be hub for exports
KAZAKHSTAN: Alstom announced on February 11 that it had completed the acquisition of an additional 25% stake in the EKZ electric locomotive manufacturing business from national railway KTZ, taking its shareholding to 50%. KTZ retains 25%, with the other 25% being held by Transmashholding. The deal had been agreed December ...
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NewsUralvagonzavod wagons for Iran
IRAN: Russian rolling stock and defence group Uralvagonzavod has completed a Type 12-581-01 open wagon custom-designed for export to Iran by its Ural Design Bureau of Wagon Construction. The Type 12-581-wagon has a capacity of 66·7 tonnes. The 18-100 bogie is an existing 1 520 mm gauge design modified for ...
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NewsFreightliner Dragon on test
POLAND: The first of five E6DCF-DP Dragon locomotives that Newag is building for Freightliner PL has arrived at the Żmigród test circuit for homologation trials. Under a €17⋅5m contract signed with ING Lease in January 2015, the first three of the new fleet are due to be delivered by the ...
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NewsGovernment support for Russian rolling stock manufacturers
RUSSIA: Details of government support for the rolling stock manufacturing industry were set out by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on February 9. Speaking at Tver Carriage Works during a conference on the prospects for the rolling stock industry, Medvedev said the government’s objective was to ensure the ...
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NewsArticulated open wagon unveiled
RUSSIA: Two prototype high capacity wagons have been unveiled by United Wagon Co, which said its latest designs have ‘no analogues’ in Russia or the CIS. Certification of the two 1520 mm gauge designs is expected in the third quarter of 2016. The Type 12-6877 articulated twin-unit wagon increases ...
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NewsNishi-Nippon orders EMUs
JAPAN: Kawasaki Heavy Industries is to supply 18 Series 9000 electric multiple-units to Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co for use on the 78 km Tenjin Omuta Line between Fukuoka and Omuta. To be manufactured at KHI’s Hyogo factory near Kobe, the EMUs are due to be delivered by March 2017 and ...