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    DANOBATGROUP to supply railways equipment to Greenbrier

DANOBATGROUP to supply railways equipment to Greenbrier

DANOBATGROUP will supply Greenbrier Rail Services with two cutting-edge pieces of equipment for its railway axle maintenance depots. The order for a portal lathe for re-profiling wheel sets and a high performance grinding machine for axle machining reinforces the group commitment to the North American market. Both developments will give

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    Metro train design for Stockholm’s Red Line presented

Metro train design for Stockholm’s Red Line presented

Bombardier Transportation and the Stockholm Traffic Administration presented the design of the new C30 MOVIA metro for the Swedish capital’s Red Line today at EurasiaRail 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Red Line upgrade is a key project and from the outset, the C30 MOVIA has been designed to sharply increase Stockholm’s transport capacity and

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    SKF presents efficient wireless railway bogie condition monitoring

SKF presents efficient wireless railway bogie condition monitoring

The new SKF Multilog On-line System IMx-B, the first wireless full bogie monitoring system for all types of locomotives and passenger railway vehicles, enhances service, reliable operation and train maintenance efficiency. The system offers added value by bringing a bogie wireless condition monitoring solution for easier installation to both large

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    Israel Railways adopts HaCon’s train planning system TPS

Israel Railways adopts HaCon’s train planning system TPS

Israel Railways has chosen HaCon’s Train Planning System TPS for its train planning and capacity management, including all schedules and route inquiries for passenger and freight traffic.  In addition, HAFAS components for timetable publishing are part of the delivery. Israel Railways needed a tailored and integrated planning tool for both yearly

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    Alstom-Bombardier consortium to supply 10 additional trains for the RER A line in Paris

Alstom-Bombardier consortium to supply 10 additional trains for the RER A line in Paris

STIF has ordered a further ten MI09 double-deck trains from the Alstom-Bombardier consortium. The total amount of the contract is €150 million, including €95 million for Alstom. This order relates to a purchase option on a contract awarded to the Alstom-Bombardier consortium in 2009. The new trains – which will

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Russia: Beteltrans-Vossloh joint venture to launch production of rail fastenings in 2016

Vossloh Fastening Systems Rus JSC, a joint venture of Russian company Beteltrans JSC (BET)  and German company Vossloh, plans to launch production of rail fastenings, including those intended for W-300 high-speed railway lines, in 2016. BET, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, has also developed special-purpose reinforced concrete sleepers for high-speed railways suitable

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    HUBER+SUHNER gets first major order from the Russian railway market based on new approval

HUBER+SUHNER gets first major order from the Russian railway market based on new approval

HUBER+SUHNER will supply RADOX® cables for the series production of 54 carriages for new metro trains in a major Russian city. This is the first major order for HUBER+SUHNER from the Russian railway market based on the new approval. The new trains were manufactured in a joint venture between Russian

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    Škoda Transportation to supply 38 single-deck electric units for suburban transport services in Germany

Škoda Transportation to supply 38 single-deck electric units for suburban transport services in Germany

Škoda Transportation won a tender for the supply of 38 single-deck electric units for the British operator National Express, which was awarded the contract for providing suburban transport (S-Bahn) in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, in the period from 2018 to 2030. The total value of the contract will exceed ten billion

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Alstom awarded EUR 2bn contract to supply metro trains for Paris metro

Alstom has been designated by RATP, mandated by STIF and SGP, as the contractor to supply metros trains for lines 1, 4, 6, 11 and 14 of the Paris metro and the Grand Paris. The contract is for a maximum of 217 MP14 trains over a period of 15 years and

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    Vossloh España sells twelve EURO 4000 locomotives to operate in France

Vossloh España sells twelve EURO 4000 locomotives to operate in France

Several railway operators have ordered twelve units of the EURO 4000 locomotives from Vossloh España to cover new freight services in Europe. These new contracts have a value of more than EUR 40 million . In particular, the French freight rail company VFLI, a subsidiary of SNCF Group in the

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