The railroad will take part in a year-long pilot following Secretary Buttigieg’s call for railroads to join the programme in early 2023. The US Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has welcomed Norfolk Southern to a pilot programme testing its Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS), allowing employees to confidentially report unsafe events. The programme is being enacted…
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A Moldova-Romania rail link was almost abandoned for lack of rolling stock after a railcar broke down. On Wednesday, the State Railway Enterprise of Moldova (Calea Ferată din Moldova) announced that as of 5 February (Monday), the Chișinău (capital of Moldova) – Iași (north-eastern Romania) train will be suspended and passengers who have already bought…
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A consortium of ten Spanish companies will fit a Talgo 250 train with hydrogen fuel cells. Spanish rail manufacturer Talgo is developing a high-speed train system powered by hydrogen fuel cells in collaboration with nine other companies, set to be the first of its kind in the world. The consortium of Spanish companies, operating under…
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France is ready to invest EUR 130 million in the detailed study on the Lyon-Turin rail link and has submitted a request for EUR 90 million in funding to the European Commission. Paris had a deadline of 30 January 2024 (Tuesday) to submit to Brussels an application for co-financing of the detailed feasibility study of…
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Romania is the second country after the Czech Republic to buy polish PESA EMU ‘s , as the central European country has a framework contract for 200 units due in 2021. On Tuesday at the Ministry of Transport ARF signed the purchase contract for 62 regional trains, which brings the value of the traction rolling…
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CHONGQING — China’s Chongqing and Chengdu together handled over 5,300 China-Europe freight train trips in 2023, according to Yuxinou (Chongqing) Logistics Co Ltd. More than 430,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of cargo were transported by China-Europe freight trains from these two cities last year, the company added. The China-Europe freight train services handled by the…
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Alstom delivers Coradia trains. Alstom, a leading company in the field of intelligent and sustainable mobility, is supplying 18 modern electric Coradia Max trains with multiple units to DB Regio AG. The order comprises nine three-car trains and nine five-car trains, which will initially start operating on the popular RE1 regional express line between Hamburg…
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This contract is valued at 50 million EUR and covers the tramway between Le Piagge station and Campi Bisenzio, which will serve 24 stops. Alstom will be responsible for the track, catenary, substations and lighting system across this section (Line 4.2). Alstom will provide the track, catenary, substations and lighting for over 11 kilometres of…
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A delegation of envoys visits the dispatch center at Nairobi railway station of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Nairobi, Kenya, in October. WANG GUANSEN/XINHUA NAIROBI — Dennis Ogeto’s humble upbringing in a rural hamlet in western Kenya could not stop him from dreaming big. Now, this dream of a better life is coming true thanks…
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Rail Baltic Estonia signed with AS TREV-2 Grupp and AllSpark OÜ a contract for the construction of Rail Baltica first section in Estonia. The construction section, starting from the east side of Ülemiste station, is 4.8 km long and extends to the intersection with Lagedi Road in Soodevahes, Rae Parish. The construction section also includes…
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