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Siemens-Built Locomotives For Indian Railways
  • updated 14th Feb 2023 09:32
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Siemens-Built Locomotives For Indian Railways

In early January 2023, Siemens Mobility has received an order for 1,200 freight locomotives of 9,000 horsepower (6,660 kW) from Indian Railways.

VTG To Discontinue Its Tank Container Logistics Activities
VTG To Discontinue Its Tank Container Logistics Activities

VTG is terminating its tank container transport and logistics business and will discontinue the relevant activities by the end of the second quarter of 2023.

RWE And VTG Develop Rail-Based Logistics Concept For Ammonia
RWE And VTG Develop Rail-Based Logistics Concept For Ammonia

Customers in Germany and the Netherlands can be reached without pipelines or inland ports.

Vectron AC DPM Locomotives For ČD Cargo
Vectron AC DPM Locomotives For ČD Cargo

First of the Vectron AC DPM locomotives ordered by ČD Cargo has started test runs.

WLB's Class TW500 In Passenger Service
WLB's Class TW500 In Passenger Service

On 20 December 2018, WLB (Wiener Lokalbahnen) awarded Bombardier Transportation an order for 18 Type TW500 FLEXITY LRVs for Badner Bahn, the first of which entered service in late December 2022.

HS2’s Plans For Balsall Common Viaduct Capture Local Feedback
HS2’s Plans For Balsall Common Viaduct Capture Local Feedback

HS2’s plans for the Balsall Common Viaduct in Warwickshire, recently submitted to Solihull Council, incorporate local feedback focussing on environmental sustainability, landscape integration, visual connectivity and public access.

More Type DE18 Locomotives For Nexrail
More Type DE18 Locomotives For Nexrail

Nexrail is expanding its leasing business in Western Europe with the addition of 50 low-emission DE 18 Stage V locomotives from Vossloh Rolling Stock.

More Coradia Nordics For Norske Tog
More Coradia Nordics For Norske Tog

On 7 February 2023 Alstom has been awarded a new contract worth more than 230 million EUR to supply 25 additional Coradia Nordic regional EMUs to Norske tog.

Mireo Plus B For Westerwald
Mireo Plus B For Westerwald

On 7 February 2023, Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) has opted for three two-car Mireo Plus B battery trains from Siemens Mobility for their Upper and Lower Westerwald railway pilot project in Rheinland-Pfalz.

TMH Will Maintain The ENR Carriages
TMH Will Maintain The ENR Carriages

On 29 January 2023 Mohamed Amer, head of Egyptian National Railways, and Sergo Kurbanov, vice president of Transmashholding, signed a package of agreements providing for the maintenance organisation of coaches supplied by Russian-Hungarian consortium under the contract concluded in 2018.

Norway’s ERTMS Inauguration Delayed
Norway’s ERTMS Inauguration Delayed

In 2018, Bane NOR has launched a project to switch the entire railway network to ERTMS, with inauguration of first two lines scheduled at the end of 2022. However, this did not happen.

InnoTrans 2022 (37)
InnoTrans 2022 (37)

The m2 project was officially presented in September 2020 and has been moving forward since then, so wouldn’t there be a covid break, it would probably have already had more public presentations.

PJM Carried Out Dynamic Tests For RhB
PJM Carried Out Dynamic Tests For RhB

The test runs took place in November 2022. The data analysis and report were recently completed.

3TE28-0001 Sent For Acceptance Tests
3TE28-0001 Sent For Acceptance Tests

On 1 February 2022, the Class 3TE28 prototype built by BMZ was sent to the VNIKTI testing facility at Kolomna.

Třinecké železárny switches to Innofreight
Třinecké železárny switches to Innofreight

Třinecké železárny, one of main Czech steelmaking companies, has started test transport of iron ore using Innofreight technology, at the same time putting into trial operation a stationary unloading facility, newly built at its plant for this purpose.