Latest Rolling Stock News
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Starting Strong: The United Kingdom's New Rolling Stock for 2019
Changes are afoot for trains in the UK. Some of the country's oldest carriages are making way for new rolling stock in 2019. Furthermore, th…
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Alstom Wins Another Contract for Rocky Mountaineer SilverLeaf Modernisation
Canadian rail company Rocky Mountaineer has selected Alstom to rebuild two further SilverLeaf cars. The SilverLeaf modernisation contract in…
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Bombardier to Supply and Maintain 18 TW500 FLEXITY Trams for Vienna
Bombardier has signed a contract with Wiener Lokalbahnen for the provision of 18 TW500 FLEXITY trams, which are to operate in Vienna. The co…
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Switzerland: SBB and Stadler Sign Contract for New 'Mouette' FLIRT Trains
Starting in December 2020 SBB will take over the Bern-La Chaux-de-Fonds route from BLS. As a result, SBB has ordered new 'Mouette' FLIRT tra…
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Alstom Delivers First of 40 Prima T8 Freight Locomotives to Azerbaijan
Alstom has delivered the first of 40 Prima T8 freight locomotives to Azerbaijan. Specifically, they are of the type 'AZ8A' and will operate …
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Bayerische Oberlandbahn Signs Contract with Alstom for 25 Coradia Lint Regional Trains
Private, French-owned (Transdev) rail operator Bayerische Oberlandbahn GmbH (BOB) and Alstom have signed a contract for 25 Coradia Lint trai…
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Luxembourg National Rail Operator Orders Alstom Coradia Regional Trains
Luxembourg's national rail operator CFL has ordered 34 Coradia regional trains from Alstom. The trains in question will be high-capacity dou…
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Stadler to Supply 8 Additional Double-Decker KISS Electric Multiple Units to Hungary
Stadler has signed a contract with Hungarian train operator MÁV-START Zrt. for eight additional six-car double-decker KISS EMUs. These new t…
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11 Must-Read Rail News Stories for Week 50
The Railway-News Industry Insider for week 50 (10–14 December 2018): all the week's important rolling stock, infrastructure, business, polic…
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First GE Transportation Evolution Series Locomotive Enters Service in Ukraine
GE Transportation and its customer, Ukrainian Railways, have announced that the first Evolution Series locomotive has started operating in U…
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Grand Avignon Gets Its First Alstom Citadis X05 Tram
Grand Avignon, France, received its first Alstom Citadis X05 tram on 13 December. It took the tram three days to travel from its assembly si…
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Stadler Lands Contract for 12 Additional FLIRT Traverso Trains for Switzerland
Stadler has signed a contract with Schweizerische Südostbahn AG (SOB) to supply an additional 12 FLIRT trains. Starting on 12 December 2021 …
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Hitachi Launches Joint Bid for Tyne and Wear Metro Trains
Hitachi has joined forces with Spencer Group to bid for a 500 million pound contract to build new Tyne and Wear metro trains along with a ma…
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10 Must-Read Rail News Stories for Week 49
The Railway-News Industry Insider week 49: all the important railway news from the week 3–7 December 2018, covering rolling stock, infrastru…
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GE Transportation Celebrates 20 Years of Locomotive Monitoring
GE Transportation set up its locomotive monitoring facility, the Global Performance Optimization Center, 20 years ago. There are now four ce…
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Alstom Delivers Last of the 22 Sydney Metro Trains
Alstom has delivered the last of its 22 Metropolis trains for the Sydney Metro. Alstom employees in India started manufacturing the Sydney m…
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Keolis Preferred Operator for Danish Light Rail Contract
Keolis named the preferred operator for the Danish light rail contract in Odense: Odense Letbane has selected French-Canadian public transpo…
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United Wagon Company Receives Flat Car Order from Kastamonu
Kastamonu, a major European wood-processing company, has placed a flat car order with United Wagon Company. This order is for 75 high-capaci…