Following the launch of HS2's first two giant tunnelling machines, engineers working on Britain’s new high speed railway have now begun excavating the first of five shafts that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the ten-mile long tunnels they are digging under the Chiltern hills.
Siemens Mobility subsidiary eos.uptrade has partnered with Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB) to integrate the ‘Best Price’ option into the SSB Move app, making it more convenient for passengers to buy public transport tickets. eos.uptrade utilized its XiXo ticketing software to create a new ticketing module that automatically calculates the best possible price at all times
During a formal event, TMH, the largest Russian developer and manufacturer of EMUs, handed over two 2-car Class EP2D DC electric trains to South-Caucasian Railway, which operates railway infrastructure in Armenia.
Three Class 3TE25K2M three-section mainline freight diesel locomotives, produced by TMH plant in Bryansk, joined the fleet of Elga-Trans, a provider of railway transportation services for the Elga coal site in Yakutia.
HS2 has [Monday 19th July 2021] revealed that its designers are on track to more than halve the amount of embedded carbon in one of the high speed rail project’s viaducts.