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Eiffage News

Eiffage and VINCI Energies consortium (50/50) wins the contract to implement electrical infrastructure on the first sections of Grand Paris Express Lines 16 and 17

The Aline consortium, led by Eiffage through the economic interest group Eiffage Énergie Systèmes Ferroviaires in a partnership with VINCI Energies subsidiary SDEL Transport Grands Projets, has won the contract, with a value of over €68 million, to implement the electrical architecture for Lines 16 and 17 of the Grand Paris Express.

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MEDIAWORLD

DB Agrees Strategic Collaboration with Ukrainian Railways

Deutsche Bahn AG, DB Engineering & Consulting, and JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on strategic collaboration.

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ALSTOM News

Alstom signs first contract for battery-electric regional trains in Germany

A complete range of emission-free traction drives

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HITACHI RAIL News

HITACHI RAIL SUCCESFULLY COMMISSIONS TAIPEI CIRCULAR LINE PHASE 1 DRIVERLESS METRO

Hitachi Rail successfully commissions Taipei Circular line Phase 1 Driverless Metro The first section of Taipei's fully automatic mass rapid transit Circular line has been successfully commissioned by Hitachi Rail, and had entered into commercial service on 31 January 2020.

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Siemens News

Austria’s ÖBB orders 11 Siemens Desiro ML trains

Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has ordered eleven Desiro ML trains from Siemens Mobility from the master agreement signed for 200 trains.

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Eiffage News

Eiffage Rail: an unprecedented operation on the Eurotunnel site

This weekend, more than a hundred people were mobilised on an extraordinary maintenance work site at the entrance to the North Tunnel on the French side.

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MEDIAWORLD

Thales to maintain Spanish high-speed traffic control facilities

Thales has secured a 48-month long contract to maintain traffic control facilities on the Madrid-Seville and Córdoba-Málaga high-speed lines in Spain.

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MEDIAWORLD

Talgo Gifts 250km/h Coach to Chesterfield

Talgo UK and Chesterfield Borough Council have been working together to build up Talgo’s presence in the city. The Spanish rolling stock manufacturer recently established the Head Office of Talgo UK in Chesterfield and it also has ambitions to build an ‘innovation centre’.

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MEDIAWORLD

China National Railway outlines measures to stop spread of coronavirus

China National Railway has outlined ten measures that need to be adopted to prevent the spread of epidemic diseases such as the coronavirus.

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ALSTOM News

Alstom attains score of “A-” in CDP 2019 climate change ranking

Alstom has maintained its score of “A-” in the 2019 CDP climate change questionnaire. This consistency demonstrates Alstom's commitment to sustainable mobility and underlines the company’s policy and strategic structure aiming to reduce negative impacts in terms of climate change.

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Technical Articles

CLAYTON EQUIPMENT: UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS OF IOT TELEMATICS FOR RAIL HAULAGE

Eiffage and VINCI Energies consortium (50/50) wins the contract to implement electrical infrastructure on the first sections of Grand Paris Express Lines 16 and 17

DB Agrees Strategic Collaboration with Ukrainian Railways

Deutsche Bahn AG, DB Engineering & Consulting, and JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on strategic collaboration.

Alstom signs first contract for battery-electric regional trains in Germany

A complete range of emission-free traction drives

HITACHI RAIL SUCCESFULLY COMMISSIONS TAIPEI CIRCULAR LINE PHASE 1 DRIVERLESS METRO

Hitachi Rail successfully commissions Taipei Circular line Phase 1 Driverless Metro The first section of Taipei's fully automatic mass rapid transit Circular line has been successfully commissioned by Hitachi Rail, and had entered into commercial service on 31 January 2020.

Austria’s ÖBB orders 11 Siemens Desiro ML trains

Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has ordered eleven Desiro ML trains from Siemens Mobility from the master agreement signed for 200 trains.

Eiffage Rail: an unprecedented operation on the Eurotunnel site

This weekend, more than a hundred people were mobilised on an extraordinary maintenance work site at the entrance to the North Tunnel on the French side.

Thales to maintain Spanish high-speed traffic control facilities

Thales has secured a 48-month long contract to maintain traffic control facilities on the Madrid-Seville and Córdoba-Málaga high-speed lines in Spain.

Talgo Gifts 250km/h Coach to Chesterfield

Talgo UK and Chesterfield Borough Council have been working together to build up Talgo’s presence in the city. The Spanish rolling stock manufacturer recently established the Head Office of Talgo UK in Chesterfield and it also has ambitions to build an ‘innovation centre’.

China National Railway outlines measures to stop spread of coronavirus

China National Railway has outlined ten measures that need to be adopted to prevent the spread of epidemic diseases such as the coronavirus.

Alstom attains score of “A-” in CDP 2019 climate change ranking

Alstom has maintained its score of “A-” in the 2019 CDP climate change questionnaire. This consistency demonstrates Alstom's commitment to sustainable mobility and underlines the company’s policy and strategic structure aiming to reduce negative impacts in terms of climate change.

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