Archive for 'Rolling Stock' Category
Italian Frecciarossa restyling
4 kinds of seats offer (Executive, Business, Premium, Standard), new comfort, new interiors and new services on the last restyling of Trenitalia Frecciarossa trains (ETR 500 trains). More in the press release, in Italian.
Engineering gold for Siemens [video from CNN]
How a NYC subway car is built [video]
Russian gas turbine locomotive sets 16,000- ton record
From RIA NOVOSTI: A new world record was set at Shcherbinka outside Moscow on September 7 as the world’s latest experimental gas turbine locomotives, the GT-1, hauled 170 freight cars weighing a total of 16,000 metric tons. This milestone took place at the All Russia Railway Research Institute’s experimental ring. Spectators included visitors from the [...]
Km of high speed railway lines in the world
Based on the data published by UIC: High Speed Lines in the World. Updated 1st July 2011: Lines or sections of lines in which operation V > 250 km/h.
Spanish consortium wins Saudi Arabia High Speed deal
According to yesterday’s news from Spanish newspaper El País, detailed in the website of Vía Libre, Spanish consortium has won the competition for the construction and operation of the 450 km high speed link Mecca-Medina. The news was already anticipated by some rumors one month ago. Adif, Cobra, Consultrans, Copasa, Dimetronic, Imathia, Inabesa, Inecao, Indra [...]
DMZ starts to deliver renewed EMUs to railroads of Russia [Transmashholding - Press Release]
From Transmashholding: Demikhovsky Engineering Plant (Moscow region) is a part of CJSC Transmshholding. The enterprise starts to produce new models of ED4M DC electric trains with such engineering changes which substantially increase passenger comfort and safety. The trains are ordered by OJSC Russian railways. All new engineering solutions are implemented taking into account requirements of [...]
On board of the Bejing-Shanghai fast train
Due to begin the commercial operations by the end of this month (one day before the 90th Communist Party anniversary), the Beijing to Shanghai high speed train has been the object of several reports (and videos) from the international press, during one of its test run. I would like to recap the most complete ones. [...]
Mecca-Medina high speed link to Spanish consortium?
…according to the Spanish economic newspaper El Economista. In fact it seems that the Haramain High Speed Rail Project has good chance to be assigned to the group formed by most of the Spanish railway firms (Al-Shoula Group, including Talgo, Adif, OHl, Renfe, Ineco, etc…) cosnidering that their offer is supposed to be 20% cheaper [...]
Siemens selected as preferred bidder for Thameslink Rolling Stock Procurement Programme (TRSP) [Siemens - Press Release]
Siemens press release: Siemens and Cross London Trains (XLT) (a consortium consisting of finance partners Siemens Project Ventures GmbH, lnnisfree Limited and 3i Infrastructure plc), have been selected as preferred bidder for the UK Government’s Thameslink Rolling Stock Procurement Programme (TRSP), led by the Department for Transport. Steve Scrimshaw, managing director for Siemens’ rolling stock [...]