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IORE 2.2 Locomotives Born
  • 22nd Oct 2012 17:11
IORE 2.2 Locomotives Born
In 2011 LKAB ordered four more IOREs, and at present the assembly of the first locomotive is nearing completion. Here we see section 127 on 26...
LINK For RegioJet?
  • 17th Oct 2012 08:37
LINK For RegioJet?
On 16 October 2012 RegioJet announced that it had submitted its bid for the tender for operating the inter-regional Ostrava - Krnov - Olomouc...
A LEO FLIRT Enters Praha Under Its Own Power
  • 15th Oct 2012 21:40
A LEO FLIRT Enters Praha Under Its Own Power
At the end of the last week LEO Express’s Class 480 FLIRT EMUs started making test runs on the SŽDC network. This was a fine opportunity for some...
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Class 363.5s Of ČD Cargo Head For Hungary
  • 12th Oct 2012 14:53
Class 363.5s Of ČD Cargo Head For Hungary
ŠKODA is currently working on a contract for ČD Cargo to rebuild all the latter’s Class 163 electrics to dual-voltage (3 kV DC and 25 kV AC) Class...
ČD Hires DC Electrics To Przewozy Regionalne
  • 11th Oct 2012 17:50
ČD Hires DC Electrics To Przewozy Regionalne
ČD has considerably more 3 kV DC electric main line locomotives than it needs at present. Neighbouring Przewozy Regionalne recently reached an...
First Estonian FLIRTs
  • 3rd Oct 2012 19:59
First Estonian FLIRTs
At Stadler’s Siedlce works assembly of the first FLIRT DMUs and EMUs for Elektriraudtee is in progress. The first DMU within the FLIRT family, and...
First Modern Electric For AWT
  • 3rd Oct 2012 19:05
First Modern Electric For AWT
AWT, the largest Czech railfreight open access operator, has already for a few years Eurorunner diesels on hire from MRCE. The company recently...
First KZ8A Outshopped
  • 2nd Oct 2012 21:24
First KZ8A Outshopped
On 2 October 2012 at Alstom’s Belfort works the first two-section Class KZ8A electric freight locomotive in the batch of 200 ordered by Kazakhstan...
First LEO FLIRT In Bohumín
  • 1st Oct 2012 22:05
First LEO FLIRT In Bohumín
Following its presentation at InnoTrans 2012, 480.003 travelled directly to Bohumín from Berlin, and not to the test circuits at Velim, where its...
Griffin In Regular Service?
  • 1st Oct 2012 22:03
Griffin In Regular Service?
On 29 September 2012 this scene at Chałupki station, on the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, suggests that new Griffin locomotive was...
TRAXX Hauls RegioJet Train!
  • 26th Sep 2012 22:14
TRAXX Hauls RegioJet Train!
On 26 September 2012 IC 1003 service was hauled by 186 187 instead of by the customary Class 162 electric. The TRAXX is normally used by METRANS ...
First RegioShark With ČD
  • 24th Sep 2012 23:53
First RegioShark With ČD
At Plzeň hl. n. (main station) on 21 September 2012 ČD formally inaugurated 844.002. This is the first LINK DMU to be handed over by the operator,...
ARRIVA Vlaky DMU Makes Test Run
  • 23rd Sep 2012 22:59
ARRIVA Vlaky DMU Makes Test Run
The first of the Class 628 DB Regio DMUs which have been acquired for the future operations of Arriva’s Czech subsidiary, ARRIVA vlaky, now...
Velaro UK On Test
  • 18th Sep 2012 20:18
Velaro UK On Test
Siemens Krefeld works is building a batch of Velaro UK EMUs. The first three cars of the trainsets, which are also designated Eurostar 320, arrived...
Before InnoTrans Starts (III)
  • 15th Sep 2012 19:03
Before InnoTrans Starts (III)
Over the weekend heralding in InnoTrans week the outdoor exhibition area at Messe Berlin was steadily filling up with exhibits. The accompanying...
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