Traction & rolling stock news – Page 225
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NewsMoscow metro maintenance contract
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has awarded Metrowagonmash a 30-year contract to maintain 248 Type 81-760/761 metro cars which were supplied in 2012. The Transmashholding subsidiary will take over the metro’s Novogireyevo depot under the contract, which requires 232 cars to be available for service. In a separate development, ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market August 2013
Australia: National Railway Equipment Co is to supply seven N-ViroMotive genset locomotives to Pacific National for use at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks from mid-2014. Austria: Wiener Linien has ordered four more battery locos from Vossloh Kiepe and Schalker Eisenhütte for delivery in 2015. Brazil: São Paulo suburban ...
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NewsHigh axleload bogie partnership for the 1520 region
RUSSIA: Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant operator United Wagon Co has signed a deal to gain full intellectual property rights to the Motion Control 18-9836 bogie which Amsted Rail developed for 1 520 mm gauge wagons. Under the agreement announced on August 22 Amsted Rail will continue its direct licensing ...
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NewsCSR Zhuzhou rolls out first Transnet electric locomotive
SOUTH AFRICA: The first of 95 electric freight locomotives ordered by Transnet was rolled out at CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive's factory in China on August 20. The initial two locomotives are scheduled to be shipped by the end of September, with eight months of testing planned. The US$400m contract for ...
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NewsIndependently Powered EMU to be tested
UK: A Bombardier Electrostar electric multiple-unit leased by Greater Anglia is to be fitted with two types of battery to study the feasibility of operating electric trains on non-electrified lines. Infrastructure manager Network Rail envisages that Independently Powered Electric Multiple-Units could be used to bridge gaps on otherwise electrified routes, ...
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NewsMancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop modernised
INDIA: East Coast Railway has completed the overhaul of an LHB type coach at its Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop for the first time. This follows an Rs250m modernisation of the CRW site, which has increased overhaul capacity from 100 to 150 coaches/month. The work on the LHB coach included bogie, ...
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NewsGreenbrier to maintain CIT Rail wagons
USA: The Greenbrier Companies is to provide leasing company CIT Rail with dedicated access to wagon repair capacity at its Atchison, Kansas, workshop under an agreement announced on August 12. The deal could be extended to include additional Greenbrier facilities across the USA. The companies will collaborate to match CIT ...
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NewsStates seek standard fleet of diesel locomotives
USA: Illinois Department of Transportation issued a request for proposals for the supply of 32 diesel-electric passenger locomotives on August 8. A winning bidder is expected to be selected in early 2014, with deliveries in 2016-17. The RFP was issued by IDOT as the leader of a group of states ...
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NewsEMU designed for rapid acceleration
CHINA: CSR Sifang has rolled out the latest addition to the Cinova family of EMUs. Derived from the 200 km/h CRH6A unveiled in November 2012, the 160 km/h CRH6F is intended for use on routes of up to 100 km or 1 h from city centres where stops every ...
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NewsSouth West Trains plans suburban train order
UK: Franchised passenger operator South West Trains has invited expressions of interest in separate negotiated contracts to finance and supply between 135 and 250 electric multiple-unit cars to increase capacity on suburban services into London Waterloo. The operator is seeking EMUs of three to five 20 m cars, suitable for ...
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NewsFerronor takes delivery of EMD locomotives
CHILE: Electro-Motive Diesel has delivered six GT46AC freight locomotives to metre-gauge operator Ferronor. The 4 500 bhp locomotives built in the USA at EMD's plant in Muncie, Indiana, have 16-cylinder 710G3C engines with electronic unit injection, a split radiator system and variable-speed cooling fans and traction motor blowers that optimise ...
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NewsDB signs contract for Škoda Transportation push-pull trains
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn signed a €110m contract for Škoda Transportation to supply six double-deck push-pull trainsets on August 5. The trainsets are to be used on regional services linking Nürnberg, Ingolstadt and München which DB Regio is to operate on behalf of the Land of Bayern for 12 years from ...
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NewsOregon unveils Talgo trainset
USA: The first of two 13-car Talgo America trainsets bought by the state of Oregon was unveiled at a ceremony in Eugene on July 26. Oregon's two Series 8 trainsets will join five existing Talgo trainsets operated by Amtrak on the Cascades corridor between Eugene, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver in ...
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NewsPRASA fleet renewal black economic empowerment partners announced
SOUTH AFRICA: Transport Minister Dipuo Peters named the broad-based black economic empowerment partners selected to participate in Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's 20-year commuter rolling stock renewal programme on August 1. The B-BBEE organisations will hold a stake of 30% in the Gibela Rail Transportation consortium of Alstom and ...
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NewsLease deal funds hybrid shunting locomotive trial
GERMANY: A project to demonstrate the performance and long-term operating costs of diesel-battery hybrid shunting locomotives in daily service was launched by Deutsche Bahn, Alstom, DAL Deutsche Anlagen-Leasing and the Land of Bayern on August 1. Alstom's Stendal plant is to build five H3 three-axle shunting locomotives for DAL, which ...
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NewsPrototype commuter EMU car on test in Tokyo
JAPAN: Japan Transport Engineering Co and Tokyo commuter operator Tokyu Corp have begun testing a prototype Sustina lightweight stainless steel electric multiple-unit car. Developed for both domestic and export markets, the vehicle is undergoing trials in revenue service as part of a Series 5050 EMU on the Toyoko Line. Sustina ...
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NewsDrax unveils high-volume biomass wagon
UK: Power station operator Drax unveiled what it says is the UK's first purpose-built biomass wagon on July 25. Designed by Lloyd's Register Rail and manufactured by WH Davis, the vehicle has a capacity of 116 m3, which Drax says is almost 30% more than other UK wagons. Drax has ...
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NewsCoradia Meridian EMU roll-out
ITALY: The first of 70 Coradia Meridian EMUs being built for Trenitalia under a €450m contract signed in November 2012 was inspected by Mauro Moretti, Chief Executive of national railway FS, at Alstom's Savigliano plant in June. The 160 km/h articulated EMUs are an update of Alstom's Minuetto design. They ...
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NewsSNCF orders double-deck TGVs
FRANCE: SNCF confirmed a €300m order for a further 10 Alstom Euroduplex double-deck high speed trainsets on July 25. This is the final order to be placed under June 2007 framework contract which covered an initial 55 trainsets with options for 40 more to be delivered in 2015-19; a ...
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NewsRhein-Ruhr-Express funding agreement
GERMANY: The federal government has committed to including the first phase of the Rhein-Ruhr-Express project in its 2014 budget. This would include funding for modernisation of the Köln-Mülheim -Langenfeld-Berghausen line as well as upgrading works in Dortmund. 'The marathon negotiations are finally crowned with success' said Nordrhein-Westfalen Transport Minister Michael ...