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Rolling stock owners call for action on rail’s ‘patchwork of increasingly expensive technologies’ 2025-01-23T13:00:00+00:00. EUROPE: The Association of European Rail Rolling stock Lessors has called for the more co-ordinated deployment of ERTMS, changes to subsidy policies and measures to ensure life-time support of vehicles.
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Tyne & Wear Metro’s first Stadler train enters passenger service
Dec 19, 2024 · Metro Report International Rebuilt depot ready to revolutionise Tyne & Wear Metro maintenance. 2024-01-26T05:00:00Z By Metro Report International. UK: VolkerFitzpatrick has completed a £70m project to rebuild Gosforth depot where Stadler will maintain the 46 light metro trainsets it is supplying to renew the Tyne & Wear Metro fleet.
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More walk-through Subway cars in latest New York MTA …
Dec 19, 2024 · Metro Report International New York’s first walk-through Subway trainset enters service. 2024-02-05T11:00:00Z By Metro Report International. USA: The first R211T open gangway trainsets being supplied by Kawasaki Rail Car for the New York Subway entered service on February 1 on the C/Eighth Avenue Local Line linking Washington Heights and East New York.
‘Turning point’ reached for potential new Channel Tunnel train ...
Nov 21, 2024 · EUROPE: The rail industry has finally reached a ‘turning point’ which will facilitate the launch of new international passenger train operators competing with Eurostar on routes to the UK.. This is the view of Channel Tunnel concessionaire Getlink, and Virgin and Evolyn are both taking advantage by developing serious proposals for new services.
Diesel trains to temporarily replace hydrogen on Germany’s …
Nov 28, 2024 · GERMANY: Ongoing technical problems with a fleet of hydrogen-powered iLint Alstom multiple-units on part of the Taunus network has prompted the operator to replace them with Lint41 diesel multiple-units on route RB15 between Bad Homburg and Brandoberndorf. The change in traction will take effect progressively from January 2025.
EBRD loan for Ukrainian electric loco order
Dec 23, 2024 · UKRAINE: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is lending €300m to finance the acquisition of electric locomotives by national railway Ukrzaliznytsia. The latest EBRD loan announced on December 18 will be co-financed by a parallel grant of up to US$190m from the USA, administered by ...
Washington metro reinstates automatic train operation after 15 …
Dec 19, 2024 · Metro Report International Driverless London Underground trains are not viable, study finds. 2024-12-04T11:00:00Z By Metro Report International. UK: The previous government’s proposal for the possible conversion of London Underground lines to driverless operation will not be taken any further, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has confirmed.