Network Rail has awarded Siemens Rail Automation a contract to supply, install and support European Train Control System (ETCS) in-cab signalling on the fleet of 745 freight locomotives across Great Britain. This is the first of a series of contracts which will see ETCS – a key component of Network Rail’s Digital Railway programme – installed
KAZAKHSTAN: Contracts for the supply of 300 shunting locomotives and the provision of 18 years of support for 175 TEP33A passenger locomotives were signed by national railway KTZ and GE Transportation during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to the USA on January 17. The two contracts are worth more than US$900m in total. Final assembly
The European Investment Bank signed a €30m loan agreement with Talgo on December 21 to support the development of high speed and commuter trains, including a prototype EMU for short and medium-length journeys. Stone Canyon Industries company A Stucki has acquired Magnus, which supplies bronze locomotive traction support bearings for the US and international markets. ‘This acquisition and our recent
Constructions y Auxiliary de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has released the first images of its new train production plant in South Wales. The Spanish rolling stock manufacturer revealed in July, 2017, it would construct a £30 million factory to build trams, suburban, inter-city and high-speed trains in the UK as it targets contracts with Transport for London, HS2 as
TWO years since it began, construction on the new Rand 928m ($US 75.4m) rolling stock manufacturing plant at Dunnottar, South Africa, is entering its final stages, with Alstom and its partners in the Gibela joint venture relocating to new corporate offices at the facility last week as work gets underway on the first train. More
UIC’s Railway Talents Programme supports MoveTech, an international contest launched by SNCF and dedicated to the transformation of mobility “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Some years ago, this phrase pronounced by the American investor and entrepreneur, Peter Thiel, sounded like a death warrant for the future. It was the end of
