1/2016

In the past we have published frequent reports on the products of Legios Loco. The company’s wagons have been exhibited at various trade fairs. However it is now high time we visited the company’s two wagon works, the original one in Louny and the more recent establishment in Horní Slavkov.

On 12 December 2015, for the first time ever, DB Regio services started calling at Berlin-Ostkreuz, which is situated in Friedrichs-hain in the eastern suburbs of the German capital.

In 2012 Aeroexpress invited tenders for a batch of double deck trains. This decision was based on research indicating that the company would soon encounter problems with lack of capacity on board its existing EMU fleet.

In December 2014 TEP33A-0002, one of the first two locomotives of the passenger version of KTZ’s freight Class TE33A, was presented at the LKZ works in Astana. In 2015 both prototypes were tested by the manufacturer, and in January 2016 they were handed over to KTZ.

The Republic of South Africa is famous for its network of 1,067 mm gauge railways. Since 2015 the operators have been receiving deliveries of various types of new locomotives and multiple units. The orders for these vehicles are numerically huge, but what is also interesting is that many of the designs have European, American and Chinese origins.

Since 1978 the village of Kölliken south of Aarau has been the site of a hazardous waste landfill dump. The waste is now being removed, mainly by rail, and since January 2015 Swiss Rail Traffic’s TRAXX Last Mile Rem 487 001 has been a regular performer on the trains.