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Interim rail operator RailAdventure is buying two new locomotives. For the transport of railway vehicles to Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania the company has acquired locomotive 183 500 from mgw Service.
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On 05.01.2019 the first two Vectron locomotives, recently completed for German R.A.T.H. Gruppe, entered service. Starting in Regensburg the 193 791 and 792 worked their first freight train from Regensburg to Rotterdam together.
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Our weekly summary of all new locomotives, operator news, lease company fleet developments and of course the newest designs. Our overview of week 19/01 and 02. Enjoy.
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Alstom has successfully delivered the last of the 30 additional Coradia Nordic regional trains ordered by Skånetrafiken, regional public transportation authority and operator in southern Sweden.
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The RB Rail AS employee recruitment plan indicates hiring more than 30 new specialists in 2019. It is planned that the number of employees working in the joint venture will continue to increase also in 2020.
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Terrorist attacks carried out in recent years show an alarming increase of indiscriminate violent actions carried out against civilians gathering in public spaces.
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Adif Alta Velocidad, responsible for the maintenance of the Spanish high speed rail network, is searching for new locomotives.
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National passenger operator NS is to test the use of contactless bank card payment as an alternative to the OV-chipkaart national multimodal transport smart card.
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Wagon leasing company Ermewa is to draw up a deployment concept for innovative wagons to support the business case for investment in vehicles which are being developed under the Competitive Freight Wagon research initiative.
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The Danish Transport Authority has granted railway company Hector Rail permission to resume the use of semi-trailers loaded on pocketwagons. It received the necessary documentation ensuring that the locking mechanism is secured, the authority explained.
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The government on January 9 formally launched the process of opening the French domestic main line passenger railway to competition when it announced the publication of a Prior Information Notice covering two routes.
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In 2016 lease company Angel Trains ordered a total of 19 hybrid trains for TransPennine Express (TPE). Now, Nova 1 is getting its TPE livery.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has overturned the European Commission’s approval for the financing model for the Fehmarn Belt fixed link project, finding that procedural errors were made. The Commission must now provide a new approval.
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The restoration of the damaged railway track between the Port of Algeciras, the largest in Spain and Antequera in Andalusia is taking too long, according to the mayor of Algeciras, Jose Ignacio Landaluce.
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European legislators will begin their trialogue negotiations in the next days to come to a common agreement regarding the amendment of the 27-year-old Combined Transport Directive.
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Finnish state-owned railway company VR Group has established a wholly owned subsidiary to operate its railway maintenance unit.
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Adif Alta Velocidad, responsible for the maintenance of the Spanish high speed rail network, is searching for new locomotives.
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OUI.SNCF, also known as Voyages SNCF, is responsible for all high-speed rail services throughout France. It has 380 trains, 5,000 drivers and on-board staff, and 9,000 employees in the 187 stations served by the network. Each year, more than 110 million passengers travel by TGV.
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P&O Ferrymasters has launched a new intermodal connection from the Turkish ports of Pendik, Ambarli and Mersin to the Free Port of Trieste in Italy, with onward rail connections to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. The new service runs six times per week in both directions.
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The safety of the use of pocketwagons cannot be guaranteed, although they are permitted in the transport by rail. This was the conclusion of the Accident Investigation Board of the Danish Transport Authority (DTA), in response to the deadly train accident on the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark last week.
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In 2017 and 2018 five new Vossloh DE18 locomotives have joined the RheinCargo fleet.
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The European Shippers Council has called for a transitional period towards the Brexit of at least until December 2020.
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The government has formally awarded incumbent national operator HŽPP a public service obligation contract covering the operation of all passenger services for 10 years from January 1 2019.
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National railway VR Group transferred its rolling stock maintenance activities to a new VR Kunnossapito subsidiary with effect from January 1. The wholly-owned subsidiary has 990 staff headed by Kimmo Soini.
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It is one of the most important contracts for Vossloh in Kiel at this moment: the development and construction of the new generation of shunting and freight locomotives for the French railways, based on the Vossloh DE18 design.
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