SNCF subsidiary Captrain France has announced a partnership agreement with Hydrogène de France (HDF Energy) to develop hydrogen-powered locomotives, a decarbonisation solution for French and European rail freight.Read more
A US District Court sentenced a former Pacific Harbor Line train driver to three years in prison earlier this week, local media report. In 2020, the man intentionally derailed a shunting locomotive to target a...Read more
Nexrail will focus on providing innovative, sustainable locomotives for non-electrified operations, and is currently dedicated to the freight and shunting markets. It has purchased 53 shunting locomotives, and ordered another 50 hybrid locomotives from Vossloh.Read more
The first zero-emission, fully electric shunting locomotives for the port of Rotterdam are in the production line. By 2024, the Dutch harbour wants to replace diesel shunting locomotives and make its rail operations fully carbon...Read more
The infrastructure of the ERTMS track section between the Dutch yards Kijfhoek and Roosendaal will be set up in such a way that shunting locomotives on the railway yards in Lage Zwaluwe and Roosendaal can...Read more
DB Cargo will test automated shunting locomotives and automated brakes on the Munich-North marshalling yard. The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) provides 7 million euros for the project from 2020 to...Read more
