Traction & rolling stock news – Page 74
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NewsAurizon bulk freight locos enter service
AUSTRALIA: Aurizon has taken delivery of the first four of 10 diesel locomotives which UGL’s Newcastle factory is supplying for hauling copper, lead, zinc and grain trains in New South Wales and Western Australia. The first four locos are being used to haul minerals at Cobar ...
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NewsWinner of 510-train framework contract confirmed
SWITZERLAND: The Federal Administrative Court has rejected Alstom’s challenge to the decision by Swiss Federal Railways, Thurbo and RegionAlps to award Stadler a framework contract for the supply of up to 510 electric multiple-units. The tendering process began in May 2020, with SBB and its two ...
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Metro Report InternationalSão Paulo train door order
BRAZIL: Wabtec has announced its largest South American train door order, covering the supply of 2 304 doors for 36 eight-car Series 8900 Metropolis trains which Alstom is building for São Paulo suburban lines 8 (Diamante) and 9 (Esmeralda). The EMUs were ordered in July 2021 ...
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Metro Report InternationalBonn light rail vehicle contract awarded
GERMANY: CAF has been awarded a contract to supply 22 high-floor light rail vehicles for operation in the Bonn area.
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NewsComposite floors ordered for Danish EMUs
DENMARK: In its largest project to date, Portuguese company MCG Transportation is to manufacture the floors for the 100 five-car Coradia Stream electric multiple-units which Danish national operator DSB has ordered from Alstom. The composite floor units are being designed and produced to meet Alstom’s specific ...
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Metro Report InternationalSan Diego LRVs find new home in Argentina
ARGENTINA: Mendoza’s Metrotranvía has taken delivery of the first three of up to 39 Siemens SD100 light rail vehicles which have been donated to the city by the US city of San Diego’s operator MTS. The LRVs forming MTS’s second generation fleet have been in service since ...
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NewsBattery trains ordered for tourist services in Argentina
ARGENTINA: Governor of Jujuy province Gerardo Morales has signed a contract for CRRC Tangshan to supply battery-powered ‘new-energy light rail’ trainsets for use on a tourist service between Volcán and Tilcara. The two-car articulated trains will have lithium batteries charged using solar power, a maximum speed ...
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NewsBOB park-and-ride EMUs to relieve valley roads
SWITZERLAND: Berner Oberland-Bahnen has announced a SFr66m order for six Stadler ABeh 4/8 three-car electric multiple units to enter service in winter 2025-26. The order will enable a 15-min headway service to be provided at the proposed Matten station between Interlaken Ost and Wilderswil, where a ...
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Metro Report InternationalGrudziądz tram on test
POLAND: One of four trams which is Modertrans is to supply to Grudziądz has arrived in Łódź for dynamic testing and certification. The trams are being supplied under a 23·3m złoty contract awarded in March 2021. They are part of the Moderus Beta low-floor family, adapted ...
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NewsCisalpino trainsets enter service in Greece
GREECE: ETR470 tilting trainsets which were formerly used on Cisalpino services from Italy to Switzerland entered passenger service in Greece on May 15, operating two trains a day in each direction between Thessaloniki and Athens. The journey time on the 502 km ...
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NewsCRRC trainset for Westbahn arrives at test track
AUSTRIA: One of four double-deck electric multiple-units which CRRC Zhuzhou is to lease to Austrian open access passenger operator Westbahn has arrived at the Velim test centre in Czech Republic. Testing and certification of the Chinese-built EMUs is scheduled to be completed by mid-2023. ...
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Metro Report InternationalGöteborg tram modernisation contract awarded
SWEDEN: Göteborg transport operator Västtrafik has awarded Škoda Group an €80m contract to overhaul 80 Type M31 trams. The work to be undertaken at Škoda Ekova’s Ostrava site in 2022-27 includes replacing the doors, installing a wheelchair ramp, renewing braking systems, fitting cab air-conditioning, an internal ...
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NewsTest running starts on Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen
JAPAN: Test running has started on the isolated Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen between Nagasaki and Takeo Onsen, which is scheduled to open for revenue service on September 23.
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NewsVaranasi diesel works to build high-power electric locos
INDIA: Indian Railways has issued a request for qualification for the construction of high-power electric locomotives at the former Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, now rebranded as Banaras Locomotive Works following the run-down of diesel loco manufacturing. The tender released on May 4 ...
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Metro Report InternationalKyiv Metro seeks European help as it rejoins UITP
UKRAINE: Kyiv Metropoliten needs help from the western European transport industry to modernise its technology and operating practices, despite the conflict with Russia, the municipal transport operator’s Head of Metro Viktor Braginskyi told the IT-Trans conference in Karlsruhe on May 10. Reflecting on his experience of ...
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NewsMireo Plus H hydrogen multiple-unit is ‘another step towards phasing out diesel’, says DB
GERMANY: There will be a need for between 1 700 and 2 500 trains with alternative traction systems by 2038, the Federal Ministry for Digital & Transport said at the unveiling of Siemens Mobility’s first Mireo Plus H hydrogen multiple-unit, with DB seeing the optimal technology choice as depending on route length.
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NewsFirst Delhi RRTS trainset handed over
INDIA: The first trainset for the Delhi Regional Rapid Transit System has been rolled out at Alstom’s former Bombardier Transportation Savli plant in Gujurat. The first of 40 trainsets being built for the 82 km Delhi – Meerut corridor was handed over ...
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Rail Business UKDual-fuel Class 66 tested
UK: A Freightliner EMD Class 66 locomotive has been modified to test the diesel engine’s ability to use biomethane or hydrogen dual-fuelling as a potential path to lowering carbon emissions from rail freight. The tests used precision injection technology from Clear Air Power. This had previously ...
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NewsAlstom signs its biggest rolling stock contract in Germany
GERMANY: Alstom has signed its largest-ever order in Germany, a €2·5bn contract to supply Baden-Württemberg rolling stock agency SFBW with 130 Coradia Stream High Capacity electric multiple-units equipped for automatic operation. The partly double-deck EMUs are to be used on regional services from Stuttgart to Karlsruhe, ...
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Metro Report InternationalBerlin U-Bahn cars under construction
GERMANY: The construction of eight pre-series Type J and JK trainsets for the Berlin U-Bahn has started at Stadler’s Pankow factory in the north of the city.