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Spain’s leading high-speed rail operator ILSA has given Hitachi Rail España a 30-year contract for the maintenance of its fleet.
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INFRASTRUCTURE Portugal has issued an international tender to complete the design and environmental studies to quadruple the Lisbon Roma/Areeiro – Braço de Prata section of the Cintura Line, as well as modernise the Braço de Prata – Sacavém section of the North Line, as part of the 2030 National Investment Programme (PNI). The contract is worth €9.4m.
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Problems at Keolis and Abellio suggest that Germany’s long-standing model for contracting out the operation of regional and local rail services may no longer be fit for purpose. Murray Hughes investigates.
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BULGARIA, North Macedonia and Albania have signed an agreement to complete Corridor 8 of the Pan-European corridors, including a range of rail projects to be completed by 2030. The corridor runs from Durrës to Varna via Elbasan, Skopje, Pernik, Sofia, Plovdiv, and Burgas.
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DB Regio has won a contract to operate initial regional services on the new 60km 250km/h Wendlingen – Ulm high speed line which opens in December 2022.
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SPANISH new entrant Ilsa has appointed Mr Simone Gorini as its new CEO, replacing Mr Fabrizio Favara who has been appointed chief strategy corporate officer at Italian State Railways (FS).
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Excavation of the first major tunnel for the Ankara – Izmir high speed line was completed on October 16, with a holing-through ceremony presided over by Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu.
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CZECH infrastructure manager SZ has signed an eight-year cooperation agreement with SNCF Network to develop the country’s first high-speed lines, continuing an agreement with French National Railways’ (SNCF) holding company signed in April 2019.
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HITACHI says its Dual Energy Charge Train (Dencha), the world’s first battery-powered train charged by ac overhead lines, has reduced CO₂ emissions by 2700 tonnes in the past five years.
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SPANISH new entrant Ilsa has awarded Hitachi Rail Spain a €737m, 30-year maintenance contract for its 20 new ETR 1000 trains which are due to enter service in the second half of 2022.
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‘Wagons that seemed new and innovative a few years ago already feel dated. They pale in comparison’, said Johan Roswall, Roundwood Sales Executive at Green Cargo, as the operator announced the first customer for Golden Bullet 2.0, ‘the market’s most efficient timber wagon’.
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THE German state of Baden-Württemberg has approved and presented its 2030 Public Transport Plan for stakeholder consultation.
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Ministers from Bulgaria, Albania and North Macedonia have signed a memorandum covering plans to complete the missing rail links between their countries by 2030, but cautioned that this will require signficant investment.
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The award of civil works contracts earlier this summer to build the 57 km base tunnel across the Franco-Italian border has given new impetus to plans to complete a high-capacity corridor between Lyon and Torino. Toma Bačić reports.
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The use of battery rather than hydrogen traction is recommended in a study into options for replacing diesel multiple-units on regional routes around Dresden where electrification is unlikely in the short to medium term.
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The VUZ railway research institute has announced plans for investment to facilitate the testing of autonomous urban and suburban trains at the Velim test centre, and measures to lower the site’s emissions and produce green hydrogen for fuelling trains.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
German Rail (DB) has announced plans to construct a €400m ICE maintenance facility in Dortmund, which is expected to create up to 500 additional jobs.
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INFRASTRUCTURE Portugal (IP) has awarded Thales three new contracts for the modernisation of the signalling systems on the Cascais Line, the West Line between Meleças and Caldas da Rainha stations and Santa Apolónia station in the Lisbon region.
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Infraestruturas de Portugal has awarded Thales three contracts to modernise the signalling systems at Lisboa’s Santa Apolónia station and on the Cascais and Oeste lines.
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The VUZ railway research institute has announced plans for investment to facilitate the testing of autonomous urban and suburban trains at the Velim test centre, and measures to lower the site’s emissions and produce green hydrogen for fuelling trains.
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Work has begun to double the last single-track section of the Neuchâtel – Biel/Bienne line, following approval for construction of the 2 130 m long Ligerz tunnel which will replace the existing alignment on the shore of Lake Biel.
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Work to modernise and double-track the Hungarian section of the Budapest – Beograd corridor was formally launched with a groundbreaking ceremony at Kiskunhalas on October 15.
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Baden-Württemberg’s rolling stock owning body SFBW has ordered three Mireo Plus B battery-electric multiple-units from Siemens Mobility for use on Hermann-Hesse-Bahn services from December 2023.
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CZECH-based Railway Research Institute (Výzkumný Ústav Železniční – VUZ) plans to install its own sources of clean energy and environmentally-friendly production of green hydrogen at its Velim test centre. VUZ will also upgrade tracks to allow it to test autonomous trains.
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Freight operator SilkWay Transit has ordered 22 twin-section 2ES7 Black Granite electric locomotives from Sinara Transport Machines’ Ural Locomotives plant.
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