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Green Cargo’s Transmontana Takes Shape
  • 13th Feb 2018 22:07
Green Cargo’s Transmontana Takes Shape
Softronic’s Craiova works recently completed the assembly of the bodyshell of Green Cargo’s first Transmontana, 480 032. These photos, taken on 12...
Arriva Trains Northern’s First Civity UK EMU Presented
  • 3rd Feb 2018 09:29
Arriva Trains Northern’s First Civity UK EMU Presented
In January 2016 Arriva Trains Northern awarded CAF a 492 million GBP contract for 31 three-car and 12 four-car Class 331 EMUs and 25 two-car and 30...
More On Hydrogen Fuelled Trains

On account of the considerable response to our article in Railvolution 2/17, on the hydrogen fuelled iLint multiple unit and the use of hydrogen fuel cells as a source of power for rail vehicles, we have decided to publish further articles on this topic.

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Fuel Cell Coradia iLint On Test

On 14 March 2017, having completed its initial static tests, Alstom’s second fuel cell Coradia iLint multiple unit, 654 102, made its first test runs on the test track within Salzgitter works, progressively being worked up to a speed of 80 km/h.

New Route For LKW Walter’s Semitrailers
  • 11th Jan 2018 22:10
New Route For LKW Walter’s Semitrailers
On 8 January 2018 LKW Walter started up a new rail service for moving its semitrailers. This is its second service linking the Czech Republic and...
AWT Hires Two TRAXXes
  • 4th Jan 2018 22:29
First TRAXX DC3 and MS3 Born
  • 22nd Dec 2017 12:24
First TRAXX DC3 and MS3 Born
The family of new generation TRAXXes is expanding. There are now new MS and DC versions too. The first TRAXX DC3 was built at Bombardier’s Vado...
New Vectrons For ČD Cargo And For Others
  • 22nd Dec 2017 09:08
New Vectrons For ČD Cargo And For Others
On 21 December 2017 the last two Vectron MS locomotives so far ordered by ČD Cargo, 383.007 and 008, crossed Germany en route to the VUZ Velim test...
  • 14th Dec 2017 14:03
Siemens And Alstom Join Forces To Create A European Champion In Mobility

This was the title of the joint press release by the two companies published on 26 September 2017, announcing that they had signed a MoU to combine Siemens’s Mobility Division, including its rail traction drives business, with Alstom.

First RegioJet Train Visits Wien
  • 30th Nov 2017 21:34
First RegioJet Train Visits Wien
On 30 November 2017, a RegioJet train, hauled by Vectron 193 205, entered Wien Hbf. This was part of the preparations prior to the start of regular...
Energy For Transport: Seeking A Way Where There Is No Way

The discovery of ways of using fossil fuels has resulted in significant advances for humanity, while fossil fuels made available to mankind far more energy than the human body, through its muscles, is able to produce.

First ČD-Liveried Vectron On Passenger Service
  • 21st Nov 2017 11:57
First ČD-Liveried Vectron On Passenger Service
During the afternoon of 20 November 2017 193 295, one of the Vectrons hired by ČD from ELL, hauled its first regular passenger train, this being Ex...
First Vectron For ZSSK
  • 16th Nov 2017 22:32
First Vectron For ZSSK
On 4 October 2017 the results of ZSSK’s invitation to tender for the hire of ten multi-system electrics was made known, when Bratislava based S...
Dalian To Bratislava Freight
  • 30th Oct 2017 23:04
Dalian To Bratislava Freight
On 27 October 2017 the first pilot service bound for Bratislava left Dalian (where the photo was taken), loaded to 41 containers carrying mostly...
New Motive Power For Unipetrol Doprava
  • 26th Oct 2017 22:08
New Motive Power For Unipetrol Doprava
Czech operator Unipetrol Doprava recently placed an order with Siemens for three Vectron MSs and with CZ LOKO for two EffiLiner 1600 modernised...
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