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Wabtec Info

Wabtec’s Innovative Adaptive Wheel Slide Protection Solution Gains Certification

Wabtec Corporation’s DistanceMaster solution took a major step toward improving braking performance for transit rail operators with the certification of the company’s adaptive wheel slide protection (WSP) technology.

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Siemens News

Siemens: The new ICE - Delivered at record speed and ready to go

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is putting its latest ICE generation into service around a week earlier than originally planned. The new ICE 3neo is making its inaugural trip with passengers today between Frankfurt/Main and Cologne.

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Rail Cargo Group News

FROM JANUARY 2023, ÖBB RAIL CARGO GROUP (RCG) WILL BE OPERATING A SUBSIDIARY IN SHANGHAI

RCG goes China: A win for our customers. Through this investment in the Middle Kingdom, RCG is matching its customers’ needs even more closely – and there are plenty of convincing reasons as to why this collaboration should be a successful one.

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ALSTOM News

Alstom to supply 18 additional X’trapolis battery-electric trains for Irish Rail

The further order, valued at around €160 million, is part of a ten-year framework agreement signed last year.

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CAF News

CAF TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF UNITS SUPPLIED TO THE CITIES OF BONN AND BUDAPEST

The extension of both agreements, with a combined volume that exceeds €75 million is evidence of the trust the clients place in CAF as well as its leadership in the European tram market.

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GATX Rail Europe News

HANDOVER OF NEW SPECIALIZED RAILCARS TO VESTOLIT, CHEMICAL INDUSTRY LEADER

GATX Rail Europe’s specialized 7182 tank railcar for transporting vinyl chlorides is in demand. In September, we completed the handover of the newly built cars at the Inveho FWN workshop in Germany to our valued customer Vestolit.

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Transdev News

Transdev in Germany secures first new contract for RheinRuhrBahn

Transdev Germany’s subsidiary Transdev Rhein-Ruhr GmbH (TDRR) recently won the contract to operate S-Bahn Line 7 Wuppertal – Remscheid – Solingen in the Rhine-Ruhr Transportation Network (VRR) under the RheinRuhrBahn brand from December 2023 for an initial period of five years.

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Pandrol News

Success for Fastenings in India

There is some excellent work happening in the fastenings product line in the development of Pandrol track systems.

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HS2 News

Transport Secretary makes historic first journey through a completed HS2 tunnel

Today [Thursday 1 December] Mark Harper, Secretary of State for Transport, and HS2 Ltd Chief Executive Mark Thurston went 33 metres below ground for an exclusive end-to-end tour of the first completed tunnel on the HS2 project.

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RJ Corman News

R. J. CORMAN SWITCHING COMPANY, LLC ANNOUNCES NEW SERVICE OPERATION TO SASOL IN WESTLAKE, LA

R. J. Corman Railroad Switching Company, LLC, a subsidiary of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, is happy to announce that it was awarded a contract to provide Sasol with switching service operations to their Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Westlake, Louisiana, starting on December 1, 2022.

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Market Overview

How railway braking systems operate without air

Wabtec’s Innovative Adaptive Wheel Slide Protection Solution Gains Certification

Wabtec Corporation’s DistanceMaster solution took a major step toward improving braking performance for transit rail operators with the certification of the company’s adaptive wheel slide protection (WSP) technology.

Siemens: The new ICE - Delivered at record speed and ready to go

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is putting its latest ICE generation into service around a week earlier than originally planned. The new ICE 3neo is making its inaugural trip with passengers today between Frankfurt/Main and Cologne.

FROM JANUARY 2023, ÖBB RAIL CARGO GROUP (RCG) WILL BE OPERATING A SUBSIDIARY IN SHANGHAI

RCG goes China: A win for our customers. Through this investment in the Middle Kingdom, RCG is matching its customers’ needs even more closely – and there are plenty of convincing reasons as to why this collaboration should be a successful one.

Alstom to supply 18 additional X’trapolis battery-electric trains for Irish Rail

The further order, valued at around €160 million, is part of a ten-year framework agreement signed last year.

CAF TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF UNITS SUPPLIED TO THE CITIES OF BONN AND BUDAPEST

The extension of both agreements, with a combined volume that exceeds €75 million is evidence of the trust the clients place in CAF as well as its leadership in the European tram market.

HANDOVER OF NEW SPECIALIZED RAILCARS TO VESTOLIT, CHEMICAL INDUSTRY LEADER

GATX Rail Europe’s specialized 7182 tank railcar for transporting vinyl chlorides is in demand. In September, we completed the handover of the newly built cars at the Inveho FWN workshop in Germany to our valued customer Vestolit.

Transdev in Germany secures first new contract for RheinRuhrBahn

Transdev Germany’s subsidiary Transdev Rhein-Ruhr GmbH (TDRR) recently won the contract to operate S-Bahn Line 7 Wuppertal – Remscheid – Solingen in the Rhine-Ruhr Transportation Network (VRR) under the RheinRuhrBahn brand from December 2023 for an initial period of five years.

Success for Fastenings in India

There is some excellent work happening in the fastenings product line in the development of Pandrol track systems.

Transport Secretary makes historic first journey through a completed HS2 tunnel

Today [Thursday 1 December] Mark Harper, Secretary of State for Transport, and HS2 Ltd Chief Executive Mark Thurston went 33 metres below ground for an exclusive end-to-end tour of the first completed tunnel on the HS2 project.

R. J. CORMAN SWITCHING COMPANY, LLC ANNOUNCES NEW SERVICE OPERATION TO SASOL IN WESTLAKE, LA

R. J. Corman Railroad Switching Company, LLC, a subsidiary of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, is happy to announce that it was awarded a contract to provide Sasol with switching service operations to their Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Westlake, Louisiana, starting on December 1, 2022.

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