Alstom to equip Sweden with a new traffic management system
Alstom has been awarded by Trafikverket, the Swedish transport administration, a contract worth EUR66 million to implement the Iconis control […]
Innovation
India: Google to install Wi-Fi in 100 rail station before the end of 2016
Google and RailTel, which provides Internet services along many of these railway lines, in colaboration with Indian Railways will provide […]
Azerbaijan to receive Alstom locomotives in 2016
Azerbaijan will start receiving AZ8A freight locomotives developed by the Alstom French company at the EKZ (“Electrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty”) JV […]
SBB modernises first generation ETR 610 Pendolinos
SBB has announced the overhaul of seven of its first generation ETR 610 tilting trains to bring them in line […]
Siemens ICx high speed rail train begins test trials
The ICx – the new high-speed train from Siemens built for German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) – is underway […]
Norway to increase capacity on Narvik – Kiruna rail line
John Ragnar Aarseth, the Norwegian Undersecretary within the Ministry of Transport, has inaugurated two new passing loops with a length […]
Moscow-Minsk-Berlin by train will be available starting 2016
Plans have been made to offer rapid travels by train along the route Moscow-Minsk-Berlin in 2016, Vadim Morozov, First Vice […]
Reloc – Electroputere VFU Craiova developed the first Romanian locomotive operating exclusively on biodiesel or vegetable oil
An eco-friendly locomotive engine, which operates exclusively on biodiesel or vegetable oil with no diesel added and has the same […]
