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GATX Rail Europe News

RAILCAR AVAILABILITY: 119M³ MULTI-PURPOSE CHAMPION GAS RAILCAR

Our state-of-the-art, efficient and versatile 119m³ gas railcar has already proven to be a favorite among customers. Since its launch just a few years ago, GATX has leased over 500 cars of this type with more than 20 customers. Given the high demand, we will continue to assemble new 119m³ railcars at our in-house workshop in Ostróda, Poland.

GATX Rail Europe News

KEEPING RAILCARS MOVING: DIGITALIZATION OF MAINTENANCE WORKSHOPS MOVING AHEAD AT FULL SPEED

More than 75% of all workshop revisions on GATX railcars are already handled digitally. This marks an important milestone in the two-year roll-out plan by GATX Rail Europe, which started in March 2020. The plan targets all 46 maintenance shops in the GATX Rail Europe partner network to be operating with the digital workshop portal by the end of 2022.

Actia News

ACTIA TRANSFORMS SECURITY ON TRAINS

Working with SNCF and TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The first real-time video protection system for use on board trains has produced conclusive results. Honouring its commitments, ACTIA Telecom, the telecommunications division of the ACTIA Group, has successfully tested its system on around a hundred TER regional trains in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in partnership with SNCF.

CER News

Accelerated ERTMS rollout & European high-speed rail network vital for modal shift envisaged in Green Deal

The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) offers the necessary conditions for uninterrupted, safe, efficient and fast railway services. Fast railway services, in particular the creation of a high-speed rail network as part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), offer an attractive alternative to more polluting transport modes

ALSTOM News

Alstom and Warsaw University of Technology signed a cooperation agreement to develop competences of future railway engineers

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering and Alstom - global leader in smart and sustainable mobility and biggest Polish manufacturer, exporter and employer in the railway industry - signed a cooperation agreement on educating and developing the competences of future engineers in the railway sector in Poland.

Thales News

Thales to modernize the Portugal Railways with new and state-of-the-art Electronic Signalling Systems

Infraestruturas de Portugal is taking another important step in the continuous modernization of the Portuguese railways by awarding to Thales with three new contracts for the modernization of the Signalling systems in Cascais Line, West Line (between Meleças and Caldas da Rainha stations) and Santa Apolónia Station in Lisbon region

GATX Rail Europe News

GATX Railcar Availability: New freight railcar investments

GATX Rail Europe has been a top choice for decades in the tank railcar leasing market, however, more recently, GATX has also accelerated investments in freight railcars to be-come a leader in this segment.

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