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HS2 News

HS2 COMPLETES FOUNDATION WORK FOR UK’S LONGEST RAILWAY BRIDGE

The 2.1 mile (3.4km) Colne Valley Viaduct will be 100m longer than Dundee’s Tay Bridge, which currently holds the title. Once complete, the bridge will carry the new high-speed rail line across a series of lakes and waterways near Hillingdon on the north-west outskirts of London.

Transfesa News

TRANSFESA LOGISTICS STARTS OPERATING UIC GAUGE TRAINS BETWEEN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND EUROPE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY

The trains are being pulled by two of the five Euro6000 locomotives that the Group has taken delivery of. Transfesa Logistics has obtained an extension of the safety certificate that allows it to operate on the border section from Perpignan to Figueras on UIC gauge.

Westermo News

Westermo technology used to operate world’s steepest cogwheel railway

The Pilatus-Bahnen railway was built over 130 years ago and is still the world’s steepest cogwheel railway. The train climbs the path from Alpnachstad to Pilatus Kulm, with passengers able to view flowering alpine meadows, striking rock formations and snowfields.

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