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5th Aug 2020 08:37
Infrastructure , Passenger

HS2’s Birmingham Curzon Street Station Design Achieves 55% Carbon Reduction

The new HS2 Curzon Street station is set to reduce carbon emissions by an unprecedented 55 %, will achieve net zero carbon emissions from regulated energy consumption and use a range of technologies to generate energy from renewable sources.

4th Aug 2020 19:03
Passenger

TILO FLIRT At Velim

In late June 2020, a six-car RABe 524 303 EMU for TILO arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre.

4th Aug 2020 09:38
Freight

New RhB Shunters

On 3 August 2020 the first electro-battery locomotive, 20601, was handed over to Rhätische Bahn in Chur.

3rd Aug 2020 18:25
Infrastructure

HS2’s Old Oak Common Construction Site Handed Over To Contractors

Construction of HS2’s West London interchange station has reached a new milestone as the Station Construction Partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA joint venture, took possession of the whole station site on 27 July 2020.

3rd Aug 2020 09:23
Urban transport

X-Wagen In The RTA Climatic Tunnel

Between 15 and 30 June 2020 the cars 3701 and 3501 of the first X-Wagen metro train have been subjected to numerous tests at the RTA Rail Tec Arsenal climatic wind tunnel.

2nd Aug 2020 15:25
Passenger

TMH Hungary To Modernise MÁV-Start Carriages

On 31 July 2020 TMH announced that the Dunakeszi works has been selected by MÁV-START for the heavy overhaul and modernisation of 403 coaches.

1st Aug 2020 01:47
Passenger

Desiro ML EMUs For ODEG

ODEG leases from Alpha Trains seven Class 4746.3 four-car Desiro ML EMUs for its Ostseeküste-Ost network which it operates under a public service obligation for the PTA Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

31st Jul 2020 06:51
Passenger

First RJ Service To Budapest

Today at 5.20 h the first direct RegioJet train service on the Praha - Brno - Wien - Budapest line departed from Praha main station.

30th Jul 2020 07:33
Freight

CER Cargo Holding Took Over First EffiShunter 1000M

On 28 July 2020 locomotive 742.761 was handed over to CER Cargo Holding at the CZ LOKO works in Jihlava.

29th Jul 2020 11:38
Components

MTU Hybrid-Ready PowerPacks For IR Class 22000 DMUs

Iarnród Éireann has ordered a batch of 41 MTU Hybrid-ready PowerPacks. They are to power Class 22000 DMUs from late 2022.

29th Jul 2020 09:17
Urban transport

Jerusalem‘s Green Line Tram Powered By TSA Motors

Jerusalem Transportation Masterplan Team (JTMT) has selected CAF to deliver 114 low-floor Urbos trams which will be equipped with traction motors produced by Traktionssysteme Austria.

28th Jul 2020 11:34
Freight , Passenger

TMH International Celebrates Two Years Of Existence

TMH International, the international subsidiary of the privately-owned Russian rail manufacturing group TMH, celebrates two years of activity on the global railway market.

28th Jul 2020 00:42
Freight , Passenger

Vehicle Virtual Handover

Siemens Mobility and SBB Cargo International realised the digital handover of locomotives for the first time: for four Vectrons this has been achieved at the Regensburg works in April 2020.

27th Jul 2020 16:15
Passenger

First Viaggio Comfort Carriages For ČD On Test

On 26 July 2020, the first four of the 50 new Viaggio Comfort cars ordered by České dráhy from the Siemens-Škoda consortium were transported from ŠKODA VAGONKA of Ostrava to the VUZ Velim test center for authorisation tests.

updated 27th Jul 2020 10:46
Passenger

FlixTrain In Service Again

Following an interruption due to the coronavirus pandemic on 19 March 2020, FlixTrain will resume its operations on 23 July. We added a couple of new photos taken at Talbot Services.