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RFF, which campaigns to increase rail’s overall share of European freight to 30% by the same year, says that the implementation of DAC would significantly improve rail’s competitiveness by improving digital interconnectivity for trains, as well as facilitating automatic brake testing and electro-pneumatic brakes, and enabling the train consistency checks required for the introduction of ETCS Level 3 train control.
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It has been three months since Railcolor News reported about the transfer of the SNCF 807 to Spain. The TGV Duplex unit is tested ahead of the introduction of these high-speed trains.
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A network of international long-distance high speed passenger services spanning much of western Europe could be launched by 2025 if proposals announced by Germany’s Federal Minister for Transport Andreas Scheuer at a virtual conference of Europe’s transport ministers on September 21 are taken forward.
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Known as the Berlin Declaration, the agreement was signed during the “Innovative Rail Transport – Connecting, Sustainable, Digital” ministerial conference held in Berlin on September 21.
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Alberto Mazzola was elected as the next Executive Director of the Community of European Railway & Infrastructure Companies at the CER General Assembly on September 21.
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A grant agreement worth slightly more than one billion kuna for the procurement of 21 new, electric low-floor trains for the HZ Putnicki Prijevoz railway transport company as part of the EU’s 2014-2020 Competitiveness and Cohesion programme, was signed in Zagreb on Monday.
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Mazzola will take office from the beginning of 2021, and will focus on the recovery of the rail sector following the coronavirus pandemic, as well as continuing CER’s campaign to promote rail as a sustainable alternative to private road transport.
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Sometimes you just have to be bold.
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In July 2019, Railcolor informed you about a new tender for DMUs by local passenger operator Koleje Wielkopolskie (KW).
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With the first SNCF’s next-generation TGV M power cars and trailers taking shape at Alstom’s factories in Belfort and La Rochelle respectively, the operator and its supplier have invited their staff to come up with a design for the livery of the two test trains.
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Skanska has secured an Skr847m ($96.08m) contract to build a new tram depot in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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What was once a common sight, is now rare: Siemens ES64F4 locomotives in the silver/yellow design is (Siemens) Dispolok.
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When buying new train, passenger transport operators, try to anticipate on current and future ridership numbers. Yet, sometimes the success exceeds all expectations.
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In december 2019, the first ‘Pop’ EMUs built by Alstom, entered regular services for Trenitalia. Emilia Romagna was the first area to see these new passenger trains arrive.
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In order to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal, rail freight transport plays an essential role in the European mobility system of the future.
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The connection between the two capitals, which will have an estimated journey time of eight hours, is expected to start in late 2021.
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The ruling is backdated to March 30 2020 and will run until December 31, and is extendable if necessary.
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Die Länderbahn (DLB) has presented the first out of 26 upgraded Siemens Desiro units for its Trilex network.
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A letter of intent for the launch of a Warszawa – Vilnius passenger service was signed by the Lithuanian national railway’s passenger business LTG Link and its Polish counterpart PKP Intercity on September 17.
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Ordered today, delivered tomorrow?
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Since BLS signed an operating agreement with SBB for sharing long-distance traffic.
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Metre-gauge operator Zentralbahn is to purchase the 5 km Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn from hydroelectric power company Kraftwerke Oberhasli, which has decided to pull out of rail operations because of growing regulatory requirements for what is not part of its core energy business.
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A group of European climate NGOs has proposed five policies to encourage modal shift to rail in support of EU greenhouse gas reduction targets. Lena Donat, Policy Advisor Low-Carbon Mobility at development and environment organisation Germanwatch, explains what is needed
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Romanian operator E-P Rail, belonging to the CER Group, had three out of four of its Siemens Smartron locomotives delivered already.
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Ordered today, delivered tomorrow?
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