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  • 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.

ČD Cargo 2025
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...
Akiem Hires TRAXX MS to PSŽ
  • 26th Oct 2017 22:06
Akiem Hires TRAXX MS to PSŽ
Electric TRAXXes from Akiem’s June 2016 order include five MS machines equipped for use in central and eastern European countries. The first to be...
A TRAKO Snapshot
  • 29th Sep 2017 08:54
A TRAKO Snapshot
Between 26 and 29 September 2017 the 12th TRAKO trade fair was held in Gdańsk. One of the biggest surprises was Rail Polska’s exhibit, a Class 207E...
First Refurbished Czech Pendolino Back In Service
  • 26th Sep 2017 16:20
First Refurbished Czech Pendolino Back In Service
The whole Class 680 Czech Pendolino EMU fleet is being subjected to complete interior refurbishment. The first to be returned to service following...
And Now Yiwu To Praha Container Services
  • 26th Sep 2017 16:15
And Now Yiwu To Praha Container Services
At the time when the Praha to Yiwu service departed, in late July (see Hors d’Oeuvres reports on 20 July and 4 August 2017), it was announced that...
First New-Generation GYSEV FLIRT Heads For TRAKO
  • 22nd Sep 2017 15:49
First New-Generation GYSEV FLIRT Heads For TRAKO
Just a year after the signing of the contract, the first of GYSEV’s new generation FLIRT EMUs left Stadler Polska’s Siedlce works, bound for Gdańsk...
RegioJet Runs Special Train To Romania
  • 16th Aug 2017 13:19
RegioJet Runs Special Train To Romania
On the evening of 15 August 2017 a special train departed from Praha-Smíchov bound for Orșova in Romania, a run of 1,085 km. Not only was this a...
Container Consignment From Praha Arrives In Yiwu
  • 4th Aug 2017 23:53
Container Consignment From Praha Arrives In Yiwu
The consignment of containers which departed from Praha-Uhříněves by rail on the afternoon of 19 July arrived in Yiwu at 11.18, local time, on 4...
More BCh’s Class BKG2s
  • 30th Jul 2017 19:22
More BCh’s Class BKG2s
Following a lengthy testing period on 21 June 2017 BCh’s first two Class BKG2 electrics were put into test commercial service. Meanwhile, BKG2-003...
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