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During the Rail Days 2023 event, Calea Ferată din Moldova (CFM), the Moldovan state rail operator, announced planned investment in new rolling stock.
ÖBB will introduce 330 trains, Renfe started selling tickets for the Pajares Bypass, and Alstom presented battery trains for SNCF, hydrogen trains for Saudi Arabia and a semi-high speed train for India.
The contract was renewed ahead of schedule, and in the ten-year duration, DB Cargo will move 70 million tonnes of potash for the mining company.
Based on a contract signed in December 2022, Nexrail will start getting its 40 DE18 locomotives for the German market. Railmarket News brings you the news of who will lease them.
The Luxembourg-based ROSCO is buying twelve six-axle hybrid locomotives, the strongest newly produced locomotives currently on offer on the European market.
Nothing changes for clients using Operail wagons for domestic use in Estonia, however, there is a change for international transport.
Taiwanese railway operator received the first new E500 locomotive made by Japanese Toshiba and will present it soon.
The order of the two different versions includes an option for 142 more of these locomotives.
Recently introduced new MS Griffin locomotive from the Polish manufacturer Newag reached 240 km/h on tests.
The Serbian transport minister signed an agreement with the biggest rolling stock manufacturer in the world, CRRC, to deliver five high-speed trains.
The award highlights exceptional learning tools incorporating gamification for education or training purposes.
The passenger wagon fleet renewal program at Ukrzaliznytsia is underway, and the operator just announced an agreement worth over 50 million euros to purchase 44 new wagons.
Four months after the initial order of ten locomotives, BBL Logistik confirmed the option and increased the overall order to 15 DE18s.
A third-party logistics company, CEVA Logistics, devised a solution to transport the Scuderia Ferrari F1 racing team across North America by rail. ©
The France-based wagons rental company, Ermewa, has handed over forty new Sgmmnss wagons to its Polish customer – LTG Cargo Polska.
FlixTrain has unveiled its 2024 timetable, set to commence in December. The updated schedule promises an increased offer by 25% in seating capacity.
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and the Freight on Rail Group (FORG) have jointly submitted a proposal to the Federal Government, emphasising the critical need for investment in the rail freight network.
Deutsche Bahn has agreed with the global infrastructure investor to sell Arriva Group, including Arriva national companies in 10 European countries.
The Swiss rolling stock leasing company European Loc Pool has successfully handed over Euro 9000 locomotives to its customers. In addition, ELP’s existing German customers have ordered three more EuroDual locomotives too.
UK’s ROSCO Porterbrook has provided passenger rail operator c2c twelve 5-car Alstom Aventra electric multiple units.
Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, and Czech operator Leo Express will advance their strategic partnership to achieve rapid growth.
The newly formed partnership will enhance intermodal transport solutions across Italy and Europe. Codognotto and GTS aim to pool their resources to optimise freight movement.
Californian authorities have finalised a deal to buy 4 hydrogen FLIRT trains from Stadler with an option for 25 more trainsets.
ÖBB continues its growth on an international basis. Its next big step is German regional traffic.
On the occasion of 20 years of CAT operation, the company announced that it will buy three Stadler KISS units for its operation.
Angel Trains, one of the UK's foremost rolling stock companies, has joined hands with the University of St Andrews in a promising academic environment and industry convergence. Their collaborative effort is centred around a hydrogen train project.
French rail freight operator Regio Rail concluded a sale & leaseback deal with Beacon Rail on four of its Vossloh DE18 locomotives.
Canadian National Railway (CN) has released its Winter Plan 2023-2024, revealing its fleet update along with it.
The suburban commuter rail line connecting New York City with its northern suburbs and Connecticut adds more locomotives to its Siemens order, now totalling 33 dual modes.
The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner service has transitioned its passenger rail fleet to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO).
After reactivating the Colombian railway corridor in 2022, the cargo transported in the first eight months reached over 132,500 tonnes.
Pecovasa Renfe Mercancías, a company within the group focusing on new vehicle transportation, has entered into a contract with Teralco Solutions to install geolocation for its 289 car transporter wagons.
The Norwegian Railway Directorate and Bane NOR have outlined four primary objectives for the upcoming National Transport Plan (NTP) 2025-2036.
CHR Group, responsible for providing all rolling stock in the PorTren project, has received all its 140 freight wagons.
The Danish shipping giant will start offering a new route via Barcelona port as a shorter alternative to routes via French or north European ports to reach Toulouse, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Swedish rail freight carrier ProTrain has obtained ten 2x40 InnoWagons with the Smart GigaWood stanchion system.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the northern leg of HS2 to Manchester and Liverpool will be scrapped, and the entire funding of £36 billion will be redirected to a series of projects now called Network North.
The Polish company of Genessee & Wyoming increases its grain haulage east-west capacity with forty new Tagnpps wagons.
To tackle the typical autumn and winter problem on rail tracks – fallen leaves – Northern Trains has joined forces with Water-Trak to apply proven technology in a new way.
Over 200 new hopper wagons are built at Greenbrier’s manufacturing facility in Poland and will enter service in 2024.
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has confirmed that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a stake of approximately 50% in Italo - Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori S.p.A (Italo).
The new container size is the biggest in China, and the 50-foot containers have a volume capacity of 50% more than the standard 40-foot containers.
Intermodal traffic revived in late September and early October with new connections in the United Kingdom, Austria, France, and Australia. In addition, seasonal sugar beet traffic started in Hungary.
The double-voltage locomotives will be added to the fleet of ten Siemens EuroSprinter locomotives currently owned by the Hungarian passenger rail operator.
Two infrastructure divisions of DB, one taking care of the railway network (DB Netz) and the other responsible for stations and services (DB Station&Service) will merge from 1.1.2024 into a single DB company.
The Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants (ALLRAIL) points at DB for refusing to sell tickets of its competitors on its ticket sales portals in Germany while benefitting from such an approach in the UK.
The study recommends decarbonising operations on Nordlandsbanen, Rørosbanen, Solørbanen and Raumabanen.
The Swiss cross-Alpine operator will add ten more Siemens Vectron locomotives with improved traction for pulling heavier trains across the Alps.
On 18 September 2023, freight rail traffic resumed on New Zealand’s North Island, heading to Hawke Bay and an important connection of the island with the world – the Napier Port.
After a long selection process, Spanish state-owned rail freight carrier Renfe Mercancías selected its strategic partner to create a JV where all assets and employees will be moved.