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Contractor Railcare is developing additional battery-powered maintenance vehicles as part of its ambitions to be ‘a front runner within the industry’ for sustainability and meet its target of reducing CO2 emissions from operations by 40% by 2025.
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GERMANY’s chancellor, Mr Olaf Scholz, and the CEO of German Rail (DB), Dr Richard Lutz, officiated at a ground-breaking ceremony in Cottbus on May 10 for a new €1bn maintenance workshop for ICE 4 trains.
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AUSTRIAN open-access passenger operator Westbahn has applied to Schienen-Control to extend its existing Vienna – Salzburg service to Innsbruck starting on December 12.
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Political support for companies operating in the Rhine-Alpine Corridor is on the way.
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Network Rail has teamed up with key industry partners for the project, which will tackle delays and safety risks for the country’s flourishing freight sector.
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There will be a need for between 1 700 and 2 500 trains with alternative traction systems by 2038, the Federal Ministry for Digital & Transport said at the unveiling of Siemens Mobility’s first Mireo Plus H hydrogen multiple-unit.
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Siemens Mobility and Deutsche Bahn (DB) have rolled out their first Mireo Plus H hydrogen-powered train and a hydrogen storage tank trailer for fast mobile refuelling.
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CROATIAN infrastructure manager HŽ Infrastruktura has awarded a Kuna 1.7bn ($US 238.5m) contract to a consortium of Strabag AG, Strabag doo and Strabag Rail for a project to upgrade the line from Hrvatski Leskovac, a southwestern suburb of Zagreb, to Karlovac, which forms part of the Zagreb - Rijeka main line.
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Almost a month is left until the first edition of the RailFreight On Tour concept kicks off. The Lithuanian Edition takes place in Vilnius on 14 and 15 June. What should you expect from it, and why should you join?
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TX Logistik ran two test services with an 838-metre train between Malmö and Frövi in Sweden.
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CZECH Railways (ČD) reported a loss of Koruna 1.6bn ($US 67.7m) in 2021 following difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic, although this is an improvement of Koruna 2.5bn compared with the result in 2020, with CD Cargo in particular making a positive contribution.
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A financing agreement for rail infrastructure enhancements in the region around Wien has been signed by the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation & Technology, the city of Wien and Austrian Federal Railways.
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SOLIDARITY Transport Hub Poland (CPK) has launched a preliminary market consultation with potential contractors to build 12 railway lines totalling nearly 2000km as part of the planned CPK transport hub between Warsaw and Łódź. The hub is designed to reduce travel times between Warsaw and the largest Polish cities to less than 2h 30min.
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BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG state-owned rolling stock leasing company SFBW has signed a €2.5bn contract with Alstom for the supply of 130 Coradia Stream High Capacity (HC) electric double-deck trains to operate in Baden-Württemberg.
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The Slovakian railway wagon repair workshop ŽOS Trnava sealed two new deals worth tens of millions with companies ÖBB and DB Cargo.
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Alstom has signed its largest-ever order in Germany, a €2·5bn contract to supply Baden-Württemberg rolling stock agency SFBW with 130 Coradia Stream High Capacity electric multiple-units equipped for automatic operation.
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Finland’s national train operator VR Group has begun the process of terminating its Russian cross-border freight contracts, with traffic expected to cease completely by the end of the year at the latest, and it is also looking to sell or liquidate its Russian freight joint ventures.
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Plans for a suburban rail network to relieve road congestion in Plovdiv are to drawn up shortly, Minister of Transport & Communications Nikolay Sabev said during a visit to the city in April.
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The first train containing exported grains from Ukraine travelled directly to Austria, arriving on 6 May. ÖBB Rail Cargo Group, responsible for the service, has already been transporting grain between Ukraine and the EU since the war started.
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Additional tracks have been rehabilitated and brought back into use at Vicșani on the border with Ukraine, providing a total of seven 1 520 mm gauge and six 1 435 mm gauge tracks to increase capacity and reduce transhipment times.
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The Ukrainian railway infrastructure has been subject to military attacks in the past few days. Despite parts of it getting destroyed, reconstruction works take place immediately, keeping cargo and passenger flows running, informed Ukrainian Railways CEO Alexander Kamyshin.
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Czech construction company Subterra has taken delivery of a CZ LOKO EffiShunter 1000 locomotive (designation 744.150) equipped with an ETCS train control system.
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RAIL leasing company Alpha Trains has signed an eight-year maintenance contract with Alstom to provide locomotive maintenance in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany.
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RegioJet has bought 14 DWA-built Type 751.1-4 DBpz(a) double-deck coaches from Deutsche Bahn. These are to be refurbished for use on service R23 between Ústí nad Labem and Kolín which RegioJet operates under contract.
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EURAIL, the company providing the Eurail and Interrail Global Passes, has announced it will provide half price monthly global Interrail passes for a limited time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the international pass.
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