Traction & rolling stock news – Page 9

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    Rail Business UK

    Zephir shunters to replace Class 08 locos at steel works

    2024-03-28T14:29:00Z

    UK: Leasing company Porterbrook has bought three Zephir LOK 16.300 depot shunters which will be leased to GB Railfreight for use at the Celsa Steel works in Cardiff. The LOK 16.300 is intended as a more sustainable option than the Class 08 diesel shunting locomotives currently ...

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    News

    Stadler to supply inter-city EMUs to GySEV

    2024-03-28T11:00:00Z

    HUNGARY: Hungarian-Austrian cross-border operator GySEV has signed a contract for Stadler to supply nine inter-city electric multiple-units with an option for four more. The EMUs are intended for use on the Sopron – Győr – Budapest and Szombathely – Győr routes and would also be certified ...

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    News

    SBB tests automated shunting without possessions

    2024-03-27T12:48:00Z

    SWITZERLAND: SBB and Alstom have carried out a series of trials using a remotely controlled shunting locomotive on tracks that remained open for normal operations. As part of the research trials, 24 locomotive drivers operated a shunter in the marshalling yard at Zürich-Mülligen from a control ...

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    Metro Report International

    Izmit plans first metro line as tram network grows

    2024-03-26T13:53:00Z

    TURKEY: Plans to build a 26·8 km metro line in Kocaeli were announced by Turkey’s Minister of Transport & Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu on March 20, ahead of local elections scheduled for March 31. Speaking at the inauguration of a 3·1 km tram line in Izmit, the ...

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    News

    Berner Oberland-Bahnen increases EMU order

    2024-03-22T12:00:00Z

    SWITZERLAND: Berner Oberland-Bahnen has awarded Stadler a SFr38.6m contract to supply a further four ABeh4/8 three-car electric multiple-units. The order confirmed in early March follows on from a May 2022 contract for six units. Each EMU will have 140 seats, with areas for ...

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    News

    Access to EU funding unlocks major investment in Polish rolling stock

    2024-03-22T10:43:00Z

    Koleje Dolnośląskie has received 333·7m złoty in co-financing from the European Union’s Recovery & Resilience Fund which it is using to refinance its Pesa Elf2 EMUs now being delivered. POLAND: The national government’s Centre for EU Transport Projects agency has allocated co-financing from the European Union’s ...

  • T4000 Pocket Wagons for Iberian Gauge (Photo VTG)
    News

    Iberian T4000 pocket wagons arrive

    2024-03-21T09:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Leasing company VTG is taking delivery of 200 T4000 pocket wagons for combined transport services on Spain and Portugal’s 1 668 mm gauge. The wagons are being built by Tatravagónka to a design derived from the T3000 pocket wagons in use on 1 435 mm ...

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    News

    Turkish E5000 electric locomotive order signed

    2024-03-19T13:00:00Z

    TURKEY: An agreement for state-owned locomotive and rolling stock manufacturer Türasaş to supply national operator TCDD Taşımacılık with 95 E5000 electric locomotives was signed on March 15. The prototype E5000 designed by Tübitak and manufactured by Türasaş was unveiled last year. The 5 MW four-axle TSI-compliant ...

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    Metro Report International

    Luxembourg: Luxtram eyes an expanding network

    2024-03-18T07:00:00Z

    As Luxembourg City’s first modern light rail line nears completion, work is getting underway on two branches to form a second route. Two more routes are being planned, along with an interurban link to the country’s second city.

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    Metro Report International

    St Louis orders light rail vehicles with onboard energy storage

    2024-03-15T11:00:00Z

    USA: Bi-State Development Agency has formally awarded Siemens Mobility a contract supply 55 high-floor light rail vehicles with battery onboard energy storage for the MetroLink network serving the greater St Louis region. Siemens was the sole bidder for the order, which the agency approved last year. ...

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    In depth

    Netherlands: TINA on course to reshape HTM tram fleet

    2024-03-15T07:00:00Z

    Dutch operator HTM has unveiled a mock-up of its next-generation trams from Stadler’s expanding modular TINA range. Dr Harry Hondius reports from Den Haag.

  • Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca CAF EMU (Photo SFM)
    News

    Mallorca EMU delivered

    2024-03-14T11:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca has taken delivery of the first of five electric multiple-units being supplied by CAF. Testing is now underway with entry into services on SFM’s metre-gauge routes from Palma de Mallorca planned for June, by which time the remaining four EMUs are ...

  • Le Mans tram (Photo Alstom)
    Metro Report International

    Le Mans trams to be lengthened to boost capacity

    2024-03-13T13:00:00Z

    FRANCE: Le Mans Métropole has awarded Alstom a €57m contract to extend the city’s 34 Citadis trams from 32 m to 44 m. This will increase capacity by 85 passengers to 296. The project also includes updates to the CCTV and tachometric control units and the ...

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    Metro Report International

    Moskva-2024 metro train enters service

    2024-03-13T11:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: Moskva Metro put the first Moskva-2024 series trainset into service on March 11 as part of a three-year renewal of the Line 2 fleet. The trains are being produced by Transmashholding subsidiary Metrowagonmash. Features include wider aisles and through gangways to ...

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    In depth

    Decarbonisation: Schleswig-Holstein pioneers a battery traction network

    2024-03-13T07:00:00Z

    An ambitious programme to operate a network of local rail services in north Germany using battery-powered trains is expected to save 10 million litres of diesel fuel a year, as Toma Bačić explains.

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    News

    PKP Intercity awards major contract for 200 km/h coaches

    2024-03-12T15:20:00Z

    POLAND: PKP Intercity has awarded FPS H Cegielski a 4·23bn złoty contract to supply 300 coaches, with options for 150 more. ‘We have just concluded the largest tender in the company’s history in terms of the number of vehicles’, said PKP Intercity management board member Jarosław ...

  • Bochum B80-Neo LRV refurbishment (Photo Bogestra) (3)
    Metro Report International

    Bochum light rail vehicle modernised as B80-Neo

    2024-03-12T11:00:00Z

    GERMANY: Stadler has completed work on the first of 25 Bochum light rail vehicles which it is to extensively modernise over the next four years. The B80D LRVs dating from the 1980s are being redesignated B80-Neo following the work which Stadler is undertaking in Berlin. ...

  • Ukraine railway station (Photo EBRD)
    News

    Domestic content boost for Ukrainian rolling stock

    2024-03-12T11:00:00Z

    UKRAINE: National railway Ukrzaliznytsia has ordered 66 coaches from KVSZ which will include facilities for passengers with reduced mobility and will have an increased proportion of domestic content. The government has provided 260 million hryvnias to support the localisation of production by 160 Ukrainian suppliers. Announcing ...

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    E500 electric locomotives delivered to Taiwan

    2024-03-12T09:00:00Z

    TAIWAN: The first three of 68 Toshiba E500 mixed-traffic electric locomotives were unloaded at the port of Hualien on March 5. In October 2019 the national railway’s procurement agent Bank of Taiwan awarded Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions a NT$11bn contract to supply the locos and ...

  • Stockholm metro Movia C30 train (Photo Alstom)
    Metro Report International

    Stockholm metro trains ordered

    2024-03-11T11:00:00Z

    SWEDEN: Transport authority SL has awarded Alstom a firm order to supply a further 20 Movia C30 metro trains for the Stockholm metro. The order announced on March 7 has been placed using an option on a SKr5bn 2013 contract with Bombardier Transportation which covered an ...