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    Stadler to open Berlin train commissioning centre

    2024-03-16T05:00:00Z

    GERMANY: Stadler is to establish a facility at Hennigsdorf near Berlin where it will commission rolling stock produced at its Berlin Pankow plant. Opening is planned by 2027, with Stadler’s current commissioning centre in Velten to be converted into a servicing centre which will undertake modernisation, ...

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    2024-03-15T05:00:00Z

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    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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    Hungarian consortium proposes Talgo takeover

    2024-03-11T14:23:00Z

    SPAIN: Hungarian consortium Ganz-Mavag Europe has put forward a €619m offer to buy 100% of Talgo, which said the offer was attractive. However, the Spanish government is not keen to see the company in foreign ownership, and options including a potential takeover by CAF are reportedly ...

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    MSC’s purchase of Italo stake approved

    2024-03-09T05:00:00Z

    ITALY: The European Commission has approved Mediterranean Shipping Co’s planned acquisition of a 50% stake in open access high speed train operator Italo-NTV from Global Infrastructure Partners. The transaction announced in October was examined under the normal merger control procedure, with the Commission concluding that there ...

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    Cheaper rolling stock financing predicted as Luxembourg protocol comes into force

    2024-03-08T17:03:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: A global treaty designed to make it easier and cheaper for the private sector to finance railway rolling stock came into force on March 8. The Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment is a treaty under the ...

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    ABB to set up traction centre after Queensland EMU contract win

    2024-03-08T14:03:00Z

    AUSTRALIA: ABB has been awarded a US$150m contract to provide complete traction packages for 65 electric multiple-units which Hyundai Rotem is to supply under the Queensland Train Manufacturing Programme. The company is also to invest US$6m to establish a traction centre of excellence in Maryborough with ...

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    2024-03-08T05:00:00Z

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    Porterbrook purchases Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre

    2024-03-07T11:00:00Z

    UK: Porterbrook has purchased the freehold of the Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre from St Modwen. ‘This deal provides absolute clarity for our business, our shareholders and the wider rail industry over the long-term future of Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre’ said Poterbrook CEO Mary Grant ...

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    Open Sales & Distribution Model API sandbox launched

    2024-03-07T05:00:00Z

    EUROPE: Train ticket retailing technology company Benerail has launched an Open Sales & Distribution Model API sandbox as an experimental ‘playground’ for companies to share ideas and collaborate. The OSDM was developed jointly by UIC, train operators and ticket vendors to provide a European industry standard ...

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    ‘A day for the history books’ as Siemens to relocate Chippenham signalling factory

    2024-03-04T15:47:00Z

    UK: Siemens Mobility has announced plans to relocate its existing rail control and signalling factory in Chippenham to a newly built site on the edge of the town by the end of 2026. The move was announced on March 4 at a ceremony in the factory ...

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    2024-03-01T05:00:00Z

    Viaggio Comfort coaches being supplied to Czech national operator ČD by a consortium of Siemens Mobility and Škoda Transportation are being tested in Austria using instrumented wheelsets designed and produced by PJM in Graz. The global market for control, command and signalling systems is currently €19·3bn ...

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    2024-02-23T05:00:00Z

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    Porterbrook takes stake in Brodie Engineering

    2024-02-21T13:38:00Z

    UK: Rolling stock leasing and asset management company Porterbrook has agreed to take a 49% stake in Brodie Engineering, which specialises in the heavy maintenance, refurbishment and overhaul of passenger and freight vehicles. Brodie Engineering was established in 1996 and now has two sites in Kilmarnock, ...

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    UK urged to join Eurofima to facilitate access to cheaper rolling stock finance

    2024-02-19T11:00:00Z

    UK: Eurofima is urging British policymakers to sign its convention, which would facilitate UK rail organisations’ access to cheaper funding for rolling stock and other equipment.

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    2024-02-16T05:00:00Z

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    Smart Train Lease aims ‘to make renting trains as easy and simple as renting a car’

    2024-02-15T09:00:00Z

    GERMANY: Siemens Mobility has established a leasing subsidiary that would enable train operators to use its Mireo Smart battery, hydrogen and electric multiple-units without needing to make long-term investment commitments. Smart Train Lease GmbH would make available at short notice multiple-units already approved for operation. These ...

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    Prototype Portuguese national train under development

    2024-02-14T13:00:00Z

    PORTUGAL: A prototype national train is being developed under the Producing Railway Rolling Stock in Portugal initiative. Three inter-city coaches are to be manufactured by 2025, formed as a push-pull set including a first class car with driving cab and two standard class cars, one with ...

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    Trainline targets airport users during Super Bowl

    2024-02-11T05:00:00Z

    USA: Ticket retailer Trainline is to show an advertisement for European rail travel on TV screens at US international airport terminals during Super Bowl LVIII commercial breaks, while on-screen adverts will appear during the game. ‘The Super Bowl has a near-mythical status in US culture and ...

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    2024-02-09T05:00:00Z

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