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European Parliament Approves Funding for Connecting Europe Facility
The European Parliament has approved a report on funding the Connecting Europe Facility during the next EU budget period. This facility is a…
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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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Israel Railways Trains to Get Alstom ETCS Level 2 Atlas Solution
French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom has won a contract with Israel Railways (ISR). The company is to design and fit its ETCS Level 2 on…
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DB Arriva in Sweden: Company Commences Transport Contract in Schonen
DB Arriva in Sweden: Deutsche Bahn's subsidiary, DB Arriva, will continue to operate regional rail services in Schonen, southern Sweden. DB …
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Mumbai Metro to Get Alstom CBTC Signalling System
The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd has signed a contract with Alstom for its CBTC signalling system. The system is for the city's metro l…
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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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Global Railway Sector to Meet at Eurasia Rail
Eurasia Rail, which hosted 200 companies and 11,949 visitors from 25 countries last year, will again host the leading names of the global ra…
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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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European Union Makes 100 Million Euros of Funding Available for Transport Projects
The European Commission wants mobility in the EU to be safe, clean and connected. It has therefore making 100 million euros of funding avail…
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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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Inland Rail: The Future of Freight in Australia
The Inland Rail link between Melbourne and Brisbane is currently under construction. In this article Richard Wankmuller, Chief Executive Off…
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UK: Rail Alliance and BCRRE to Join Forces
Rail business-to-business membership organisation, Rail Alliance, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Birmingham Centre …
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SYSTRA Canada Chosen to Design Quebec Tramway
Quebec City and the provincial capital's transport network (RTC) have selected SYSTRA to assist and advise them in designing the Quebec tram…
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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…
