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ABELLIO Germany is continuing to seek new contractual arrangements with the German states it serves while cutting the size of its business by selling subsidiaries and reducing the number of routes it operates after leaving a three-month period of court supervised financial protection on October 1 during which the federal government paid employee salaries.
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ALSTOM has been selected by Société du Grand Paris (SGP), in agreement with Île-de-France Mobility (IDFM), to supply up to 37 trains and the automation systems for the new Grand Paris Express Line 18.
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Rail Baltica project promoter RB Rail and the national project implementers Eiropas Dzelzceļa Līnijas, Rail Baltic Estonia and LTG Infra have awarded Certifer a €4·5m contract to act as the single safety assessment services provider
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GERMAN Rail (DB) and Siemens Mobility unveiled the first S-Bahn train that operates autonomously by using ATO over ETCS in Hamburg on October 11.
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As part of the work feeding into the country’s upcoming National Railway Plan, the Vale d’Ouro Association has put forward proposals for a new line through the Trás-os-Montes region to link Porto with Zamora in Spain.
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RAILCOOP, a cooperative which intends to launch a series of conventional, long-distance open-access passenger services in France, has announced that it has been forced to postpone the launch of its first service, a twice daily train between Bordeaux and Lyon, from June 26 2022 to December 11 2022.
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Deutsche Bahn and Siemens Mobility unveiled the first S-Bahn train in Hamburg equipped for automatic train operation at the city’s Dammtor station on October 11.
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POLAND’s Solidarity Transport Hub (STH) has released a tender for a design framework contract worth more than Zlotys 7bn ($US 1.7bn) which covers 29 projects divided into 82 sections, including nearly 1800km of rail lines.
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Deutsche Bahn and Siemens Mobility unveiled the first S-Bahn train in Hamburg equipped for automatic train operation at the city’s Dammtor station on October 11.
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AUSTRIAN Federal Railways (ÖBB) has confirmed to Stadler that it will restart the tender process for a framework contract to supply up to 186 double-deck trains after the Austrian Federal Administrative Court declared the contract was null and void last month due to an alleged formal error in the offer’s qualified electronic signature. Stadler has criticised the move and says it will appeal the decision.
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A position paper setting out a long-term ‘political vision’ for the seamless planning and booking of international rail journeys has been published by the Community of European Railway & Infrastructure Companies. However, independent passenger operators are disappointed at the lack of firm commitments.
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The largest tender in Swiss rail history has been awarded to Stadler for 510 new single-decker FLIRT multiple units
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THE Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) has published a ticketing roadmap, which outlines further improvements to the customer experience when planning, booking, and travelling internationally by rail.
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ADVANCED sales of the Klimaticket Ö, Austria’s first annual nationwide public transport ticket valid on services provided by all public transport operators, including ÖBB and Westbahn, began on October 1 ahead of the pass becoming active on October 26.
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Bayern railway agency BEG has appointed Intraplan Consult to undertake a cost-benefit study for the proposed electrification of the Maintalbahn between Aschaffenburg and Miltenberg.
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Île-de-France Mobilités (the authority that manages and coordinates public transportation companies operating in Paris and the Île-de-France region) and the RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens, Autonomous Parisian Transportation Administration) are “taking a major step” toward reducing PM at the source with “Green Friction” brakes from Wabtec.
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Stadler has been selected as the winner of the ‘largest tender in Swiss rail history’. The framework contract covers the supply of up to 510 Flirt electric multiple-units to Swiss Federal Railways, Thurbo and RegionAlps, with a firm order for an initial 286 units worth SFr2bn.
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Two wiring projects were completed on the national network in September, totalling 38 route-km.
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Associations representing infrastructures managers and train operators have endorsed a joint call for EU funding to help roll out Digital Capacity Management to optimise the utilisation of the continent’s rail network for both freight and passenger traffic.
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Bayern Land railway agency BEG has selected Agilis for a contract to operate regional passenger services in Oberfranken for 12 years from December 2023.
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National freight operator Operail and technology company Stargate Hydrogen have signed a letter of intent for the conversion of diesel-electric shunting locomotives to fuel cell power.
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Austrian company PJM has completed the technical development of an automated brake testing system which it envisaged could save up to 45 min when preparing a 500 m long freight train.
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Iarnród Éireann and XPO Logistics have formally launched a regular rail freight service between Ballina and Waterford, with a ceremony at the port of Waterford on September 29.
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GERMAN Rail (DB) is set to introduce new faster Sprinter services between key German cities in the 2022 timetable, which commences on December 12.
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The Connecting Europe Express organised by the European Commission’s transport directorate DG Move and trade association CER concluded its 36-day tour of the continent in Paris on October 7.
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