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DB Makes International Train Travel Easier in Europe
Online ticket services: Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) has announced it is expanding its cross-border and foreign booking options further. The servic…
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Astronics Test Systems to Provide Major Test Program for Transportation Industry
Astronics Test Systems entered into a formal letter of intent to provide a test system program for a customer in the transportation industry…
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Railway-News Industry Insider: 20 Must-Read Rail Stories This Week
The Railway-News Industry Insider for the week 24–28 September 2018: all the latest railway news from Europe, China, India, the United Kingd…
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DB Netz to Invest 825 Million Euros in Upgrading Its High-Speed Lines
DB Netz, the infrastructure arm of Deutsche Bahn, has announced it will invest €825 million in upgrading its high-speed rail network by 2023…
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GE Transportation and TÜLOMSAŞ Secure Locomotive Order
GE Transportation and TÜLOMSAŞ have received a first order for locomotives by private operator Korfez Ulastirma (Turkey), which is the logis…
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DB Invests Additional Billion Euros in ICE 1 and ICE 4 Trains
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced it has ordered additional ICE 4 trains. In doing so the company is topping up its investment of 5.3 billion…
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Vegetation Management Idea Wins HackTrain InnoTrans
HackTrain hackathons are all about bringing innovation to the rail industry and InnoTrans embodies that idea in its very name. So it was onl…
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10,000th China Railway Express Train Milestone
China Railway has announced that its X8044 Express train, which travelled from Hamburg in Germany to Wuhan in China, arriving on 29 August 2…
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Zonegreen Signals Start of New Era in Depot Safety
A state-of-the-art rail maintenance facility in Banbury, Oxfordshire, is operating smoothly and safely, thanks to Sheffield-based Zonegreen’…
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CrossRail RORUNNER Systems Officially Handed Over to Transport for London
September marked the official handover of the TfL engineering trains from manufacturer ROBEL Bahnbaumaschinen to Transport for London’s (TfL…
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Transmashholding-Hungary to Supply 1,300 Passenger Cars to Egypt
Egyptian National Railways, which is managed by the Egyptian Railway Authority, has signed a contract with the Russian-Hungarian consortium …
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SENSIT s.r.o. Presents Comprehensive Line of Interior Sensors for Railway Vehicles
With growing requirements on quality of interior air in the area of home-building, this trend is shifting to the means of transport, as well…
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CRRC Announces Global Release of CETROVO Carbon-fibre Metro Vehicles
Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC has announced the global release of its new generation of carbon fibre metro vehicles, called CETROV…
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Polarteknik Oy De-merges Pneumatics Business
Polarteknik Oy will de-merge its pneumatics business in a partial de-merger making it a new entity. This new, independent pneumatics company…
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Services Start on Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Rail
Passenger services have started on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Rail Line in China. The first MTR Vibrant Express departed fr…
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Alstom Secures Contract for Grand Paris Express Trains
The Société du Grand Paris and Île-de-France Mobilités have contracted Alstom Transport to build and deliver high-capacity driverless metro-…
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India: New Section of Hyderabad Metro Line 1 Opens
The Hyderabad metro extension that was celebrated on 24 September 2018 brings the total length of the metro network to 46km, up from 30km wh…
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Canada: Early Prohibition of Unjacketed Tank-Cars for Transportation of Dangerous Goods
The Railway Association of Canada (RAC) has welcomed the federal government’s decision, Protective Direction No. 39, to accelerate the prohi…
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Germany: Go-Ahead Orders 22 Electric FLIRT Railcars from Stadler
Stadler has accepted a contract from Go-Ahead to build 22 electric FLIRT railcars for operation on the Allgäu E network in Baden-Württemberg…
