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ULTIM8: Low Profile, High Impact Protection Safety Goggle
Bollé Safety, a world leader in the design and manufacture of protective eyewear, has developed a low profile, high impact protection safety…
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The Current Impact of Digitisation on the Rail Industry
Digitisation is impacting every area of the rail industry, from train maintenance through to ticket sales. As the industry looks at ways to …
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1 in 7 Drivers Risk Their Lives at Level Crossings Every Day
Populus was commissioned by Network Rail, the UK's rail infrastructure manager, to conduct research into drivers' behaviour around level cro…
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GE Transportation to Supply 3 Locomotives to Iowa Interstate Railroad
Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd (IAIS), the only Class 2 railroad in the United States that connects directly to all Class 1 railroads, announc…
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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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Why Rail Operators Must Get On-board with Mobile Coverage Solutions
Supporting multiple mobile operators as well as public safety communications, these coverage solutions will improve both the on-board experi…
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Bombardier Joint Venture to Supply 120 High-Speed Train Cars to China
Bombardier's joint venture in China, Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd (BST), has signed a contract with China Railway Corporat…
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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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Flat Compact RJ45 Industrial Ethernet Switches for Raliable and Space-saving Networking in the Control Cabinet
The new extremely flat NITE-RF unmanaged industrial Ethernet switches from TERZ are available with 5 and 8 RJ45 ports Fast Ethernet. Thanks …
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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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How Do Train Loyalty Schemes Impact Station Profitability?
Loyalty schemes are beneficial in many industries. And the rail industry is no different. Passengers love to be rewarded for their loyalty a…
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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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ENSCO Rail to Sponsor beCamp 2018 at the University of Virginia
For the fourth consecutive year, ENSCO Rail is a sponsor of the beCamp unconference at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., S…
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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…
