Siemens and Russian company Termotron have established a joint venture with the aim of combining the experience and solutions of German the company with the technologies of the Russian manufacturer in the field of rail automation. The document was signed by Dr. Jürgen Brandes, CEO Business Unit Mobility Management, Mobility Division, Siemens AG and Georgy
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The mass transit company, Rheinbahn AG, has commissioned Siemens to bring the signaling system of the Düsseldorf Light Railway up to the state of the art over the next few years. As the inner-city tunnel of the Rheinbahn is on one of the busiest light rail lines in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, conversion
An interdepartmental commission, formed of representatives of Russian Railways (RZD) and industry suppliers, has certified the results of the acceptance tests undertaken by Lastochka EMU, type ES2G, manufactured by Ural Locomotives. The Russian rolling stock manufacturer can now start the serial production of the EMUs and make deliveries to RZD. A total
Siemens awarded EUR 95m contract to upgrade railway line in Algeria
ESTEL RA, a joint venture of the Algerian national company for rail transport SNTF (Société Nationale des Transports Ferroviaires) and Siemens has been awarded an order to deliver rail signaling and operations control equipment for upgrading the line between Beni Mansour and Bejaia for double-track operation. For Siemens, the order
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Ural Locomotives, a joint venture between Sinara Group and Siemens AG, conducts a series of test on Yekaterinburg-Nizhny Tagil railway line in order to evaluate the performance of Lastochka EMUs (ES2G) №004 on the most difficult topography of the Sverdlovsk Railway network and its behavior at low temperatures. The Desiro RUS- based Lastochka covered the distance from
Siemens will invest EUR 60 million in expanding Metallostroy maintenance depot for high-speed Sapsan train (Velaro RUS), near Saint Petersburg, informed Dietrich Moeller, President & CEO of Siemens Russia & Central Asia during a press conference. In the new facility, maintenance works for Desiro RUS (Lastochka) regional trains will also
The Austrian Federal Minister for Transport, Alois Stöger, and the CEO of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), Christian Kern, were joined by Jochen Eickholt, CEO of the Siemens Mobility Division, in presenting the new Desiro type regional multiple-unit train for Austria at the Siemens plant in Krefeld (Germany). The first train
Ural Locomotives has manufactured the first kit of 10 bogies for the 5-car Lastochka ES2G EMU, assembled by the Russian company. A total of 33 high-speed Russian-built EMUs shall enter service in 2015. The train certification testing shall be conducted in November. After the test runs are over and the Certificate
Siemens has received an order from the Paris transit authority RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) to supply the train control equipment and operational control system for the extension of the driverless metro line 14 in Paris. Siemens equipped the original stretch of Line 14 for automatic operation back in
German Initiative for High Speed Railways in Russia and the Union of Railway Constructors signed MoU
The German Initiative for High Speed Railways in Russia and the Russian Union of Railway Constructors (SSDZ) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) setting forth collaboration in the area of modernization and construction of new railway lines, construction technology & materials transfer, harmonization of Russian and European standards and
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