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NS has started the tendering process, based on EU legislation, for a new generation of double deck trains. The process is starting with a market consulting to the industries which is part of pre-selecting potential suppliers.
At SBB there remain the last three green-painted Class Re 4/4 electric locomotives, which are used in regular service all over Switzerland, two of them by SBB Cargo.
In early April 2020 OVK (UWC) announced that it has signed contract with EvroKhim for the supply of a batch 14 Model 15-6901 tank wagons mounted on the 25 t axle-load Model 18-9855 bogies.
On 20 April 2020 in Cairo an agreement entered into force on multilateral financing of the largest project in the history of the ENR for the supply of 1,300 carriages manufactured by TMH and its partners.
Siemens continues with tests of the Desiro HC units destined for Israeli State Railways.
On 17 April the Austrian Ministry of Transport temporarily awarded WESTbahn and ÖBB a temporary PSO contract for the Wien - Salzburg route.
On 29 January 2020 we visited Stadler Siedlce. This works is now, in addition to Class 777 EMUs and various types of FLIRTs, also building trams for Poland and Germany. In early 2020 at Stadler Siedlce works the contrat for BSVG (Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH) was nearing completion.
Over the Easter weekend the industrial branch line that Ports of Stockholm has built to Stockholm Norvik Port was connected to the railway network and electrified.
In 2019 the Czech freight wagon manufacturer Legios Loco ended up in bankruptcy, following the quite dramatic and not very transparent circumstances. One of the consequences is that the branch Nymburk workshop is resuming its activity independently, under the new identity Nymwag CS, managed by Petr Vlček, former general director of Legios Loco.
On 8 April 2020 at 15.35 h an accident occurred between Allach and Olching (north-west of München) during a test run with the Pendolino ED250-001 and the Class 152 locomotives.
Bombardier Transportation announced today that on 31 March 2020 it has signed a ten-year contract with Fraport AG to continue operating and maintaining the INNOVIA APM 100 people mover system and to modernise its signalling technology with the CITYFLO 650 solution at Frankfurt Airport.
On the night of 14/15 April 2020 two locomotives of the new Class 388 for ČD Cargo were transported from the operator's depot in Ústí nad Labem to Velim.
It is an interesting fact that, in spite of several hundred 1,520 mm gauge Evolutions on order, not a single LKZ-built locomotive was sold to Russia so far.
A Slovakian freight operator PSŽ was involved in hauling of a convoy consisting of two Class 480 Transmontana locomotives and a WINK.
Without much publicity, Stadler delivered in 2018 and 2019 a batch of ten double deck cars to Rocky Mountaineer (RM), which runs luxury train services in western Canada.