Narrow gauge infrastructure maintenance vehicle delivered
AUSTRIA: Plasser & Theurer has delivered a maintenance vehicle for use on NÖVOG’s 760 mm gauge Mariazellerbahn.
Battery-hydrogen modular locomotive unveiled
INNOTRANS: Centrepiece of the Vossloh Rolling Stock presentation at InnoTrans 2024 was a modular battery-fuel cell freight locomotive for Duisport Rail.
Arenaways prepares to launch regional services in January
ITALY: After a 13 year pause Arenaways is returning to the market in less than 100 days with the operation of two lines in the Piemonte region under PSO contracts.
Nvidia partnership spurs Hitachi Rail’s condition monitoring drive
InnoTrans: Shifting away from using dedicated test vehicles to monitor railway infrastructure in favour of attaching sensors to revenue-earning trains could increase the amount of data collected and processed ‘one-thousand fold’.
German government approves sale of DB’s Schenker business
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn’s planned sale of the Schenker land, air and maritime logistics business to Danish transport group DSV was approved by both the DB supervisory board and the federal government on October 2.
Cairo operator trials sign language services
EGYPT: Operator RATP Dev is trialling sign language services on the Capital Train line which connects Cairo with the New Administrative Capital.
Railway supply industry news round-up
This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.
