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9 Must-Read Rail News Stories for Week 46
The Railway-News Industry Insider for the week of 12–16 November: all the must-read week’s rolling stock, infrastructure and science and tec…
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Deutsche Bahn and China Railways Deepen Their Working Relationship
Deutsche Bahn and China Railways will intensify their working relationship in several areas, DB has announced. Deutsche Bahn and China Railw…
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Alstom Delivers First Metropolis Trainset to Dubai Metro
The Roads and Transport Authority of Dubai (RTA) has received the first of fifty Metropolis trainsets for the Red and Green metro lines in t…
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Alstom-Bombardier Consortium to Supply 153 AZUR Metro Cars to Montreal
A Bombardier and Alstom consortium has signed an amended version to a previous contract signed in October 2010. This contract is for the con…
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Railway-News Industry Insider: 10 Must-Read Rail Stories for Week 45
The Railway-News Industry Insider for the week 5–9 November 2018: all the top rail news for the week, covering freight news, certifications,…
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Transdev Orders 64 Stadler FLIRT 160 Trains to Operate on Hanover S-Bahn Network
Transdev Group, Germany's biggest private rail and bus operator, was awarded the contract to operate Hanover's suburban railway system follo…
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Milestone for Alstom: 28th Repainted Pendolino Leaves Facility in Widnes
Alstom, which has the task of repainting and overhauling the UK's Pendolino fleet, has announced it has just hit the halfway milestone. The …
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Škoda Push-Pull Trainset for Deutsche Bahn Receives TSI Certification
Eisenbahn-Cert (EBC) has issued Škoda Transportation its TSI certificate for its 109E3 locomotives (Emil Zápotek locomotives) and its bi-lev…
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Railway-News Industry Insider: 11 Must-Read Rail Stories for Week 44
The Railway-News Industry Insider for the week 29 October – 2 November 2018: all the key news from the major industry players such as Alstom…
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Alstom Joint Venture to Manufacture On-Board Transformers in Kazakhstan
Alstom has said that it is launching manufacturing of on-board transformers at Electrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty (EKZ), a joint venture between Tr…
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Italy Launches High-Speed Rail Service for Freight: Mercitalia Fast
The Italian Minister of Economic Development, Luigi Di Maio, attended the launch of FS Italiane's new high-speed rail service for freight, t…
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Stadler Presents New FLIRT Akku for the First Time
The media got to see the FLIRT Akku, the battery-powered version of Stadler's FLIRT series, for the first time last week. It is both energy-…
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Berlin Tram Company Receives Two Skoda Transtech Artic Pre-Series Vehicles
Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Strassenbahn GmbH (SRS) has purchased two Artic tram vehicles from Skoda Transtech. On 24 October the first of thes…
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Tram Train Enters Service Between Sheffield and Rotherham in a UK First
The first tram train entered service in England on 25 October 2018. It will operate between Sheffield and Rotherham. This project has come a…
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Rolling Stock Manufacturer Newag to Supply 3 Dragon 2 Locomotives to PKP Cargo
Polish rolling stock manufacturer Newag S.A. has announced it has signed a contract with PKP Cargo to supply three Dragon 2 locomotives to t…
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Railway-News Industry Insider: This Week's 14 Must-Read Rail Stories
The Railway-News Industry Insider for the week 22–26 October 2018: covering all the industry's news from around the world, from Europe to As…
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Slovakian Rail Company Orders Stadler GTW Multiple Units
Stadler Rail has announced it has secured a contract for five rack-and-pinion / adhesion traction GTW-type multiple units and one locomotive…
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FNM Signs Agreement With Hitachi for Double-Deck Regional Trains
Ferrovie Nord Milano S.p.A. and Hitachi Rail Italy have signed an 8-year framework agreement for the supply of high-capacity double-deck reg…
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Amtrak Announces Refurbishment of Acela Express Trains on NEC
Amtrak has announced that it will refurbish the carpets and seating on all of its Acela Express trains on the NEC by 2019; before the introd…
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Alstom Unveils its Zero-Emission Train Coradia iLint at InnoTrans
Alstom has presented its zero-emission train, the Coradia iLint, at InnoTrans - the railway industry’s largest trade fair
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Alstom to Deliver Four Additional Pendolino High-Speed Trains to NTV
Alstom and NTV have signed a contract for the purchase of four Pendolino trains and related maintenance services for NTV’s entire fleet of P…