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GB Railfreight announces new 10-year locomotive leasing deal with Akiem

GB Railfreight (GBRf) is proud to announce a new 10-year locomotive leasing deal with Akiem, a leading European rolling stock leasing company. The agreement will see £25 million invested to increase the number of locomotives across GBRf’s operations. This investment has been made possible by GBRf’s recent wins in the intermodal sector and continuing growth across a number of key markets.

ALSTOM News

Alstom awarded £12 million overhaul contract for ScotRail trains

Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has been awarded a £12 million contract to carry out mileage-based modernisation on ScotRail’s Class 334 fleet of 40 trains that serve the Edinburgh to Glasgow line.

ALSTOM News

Joint press release EAV - Alstom

Alstom, acting as the Head of a Temporary Association of Enterprises (ATI), consisting of Consorzio Integra, Icop, Euroferroviaria, with engineering assigned to companies including Systra Sotecni, SWS Engineering and Alstom, who will provide a new signalling system to the EAV Vesuvian lines.

MEDIAWORLD

Signal facial recognition, the Alstom’s ARTE project

Alstom is currently tasked with its research project ARTE (Automatisiert fahrende Regionalzüge in Niedersachsen), which is taking place in Lower Saxony and focuses on automated driving based on optical signal and obstacle detection.

MEDIAWORLD

Czech Railway Administration will use digital maps from Ness built on Hexagon technology

Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division announced Ness Czech, a leading Czech system integrator and supplier of IT solutions and part of Ness Digital Engineering group, will supply the Czech Railway Administration with the Digital Technical Railway Map (DTRM), a railway-specific geographic information system (GIS) that will provide the state organization access to information about its transport and technical infrastructure to better and more efficiently prepare investments and repair work.

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