Piccadilly Line on holiday in Europe as new trains take a test trip to Germany
While rumours have been swirling that the Piccadilly Line on the London Underground is getting an extension all the way to Berlin, RailTech is here to set the record straight. Sightings of the distinctive new...Read more
DB to expand digital maintenance efforts in bid to speed up checks
Deutsche Bahn is shifting its attention to AI-supported camera’s, robots and digital measuring systems to speed up maintenance on the S-Bahn commuter trains. The effort, which is now being scaled up, is also intended to...Read more
Avanti West Coast makes first test run with new Hitachi trains
Avanti West Coast has kicked off a test programme for its new Hitachi-built rolling stock with a first successful test run to Llandudno Junction, the operator said on Thursday. The Class 805 bi-mode trains are...Read more
DB Cargo UK grounds electric fleet following rocketing electricity prices
A negative reaction to Britain’s energy cost crisis has short-circuited the environmental ambitions of another rail freight carrier. This time, it’s DB Cargo UK that has has been forced to sideline an electric traction fleet...Read more
German state taps Alstom for almost 1 billion euros worth of trains
The transport association responsible for passenger rail in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, NAH.SH, has reached a deal with Alstom for 40 new Coradia Stream high-capacity electric multiple units. The agreement announced on Tuesday...Read more
CAF cracks compound Transpennine Express woes
Transpennine Express (TPE), the troubled passenger operator recently taken back into public management by the UK government, has encountered another setback with the temporary withdrawal of its fleet of Spanish built rolling stock. The company...Read more
Terminal innovation: trains will glide into RTG in the Netherland
The Dutch province of Gelderland and Infrastructure Manager ProRail are working on technology to allow the entry of freight trains onto the proposed Railterminal Gelderland (RTG) without overhead lines and the help of diesel locomotives....Read more
ICE-L rolling stock leaves factory for tests in Poland, Austria and Romania
The first ICE-L train was on its way to Germany this week, ‘smuggled’ in between a freight train. The Talgo-built rolling stock will undergo performance testing in the coming months in multiple countries and is...Read more
Transport ‘largest sector by far’ using PFAS: ‘crucial for the rail industry’
AnalysisA restriction on the usage of PFAS, a group of widely used chemicals that are increasingly controversial due to health risks, is set to be one of the largest ever on chemical substances in the...Read more
Hejaz: the grand old railway that time forgot
An aging diesel locomotive transporting wagons of phosphate across a dusty old narrow-gauge track does not really evoke the image of a grand old railway. Certainly not one that was designed – back in the...Read more
Stadler makes debut on Lithuanian rail market with battery-electric trains
Stadler announced its market-entry into Lithuania on Wednesday with a deal to deliver FLIRT train sets to national operator LTG Link. The Swiss rolling stock manufacturer will supply both electric and battery-electric trains.Read more
Stadler deploys new rolling stock in Swiss Alps
Local Swiss operator Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn earlier on Monday began using its first new Stadler Orion multiple units. The trains run run on the Alpine network operated by Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, a division of the...Read more
Conclusive tests for the first French hybrid Régiolis trainset in Toulouse
The last testing phase in the project to turn a diesel-electric Régiolis train into a battery-electric diesel hybrid in France, initiated in 2018 by SNCF and Alstom, was recently concluded. Earlier this week, the train...Read more