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April 14, 2020 | Fleet

Ural Locomotives unveils details of double-deck Swallow EMU

URAL Locomotives, a joint venture of Sinara Group and Siemens, has released details of its new double-deck Swallow regional EMU for Russian Railways (RZD).

April 14, 2020 | Freight

PKP Cargo and LG Cargo plan Poland-Lithuania intermodal JV

POLISH rail freight operator PKP Cargo and Lithuanian Railways’ subsidiary LG Cargo have signed a letter of intent to set up a joint venture to develop intermodal rail services between Poland and Lithuania.

April 14, 2020 | Fleet

NS launches tender process for new high-capacity EMUs

NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has begun the process of ordering a new fleet of high-capacity EMUs to replace its existing DDZ fleet, issuing a request for information to select potential suppliers with a view to ordering the new trains in 2022.

April 14, 2020 | Europe

Record German long-distance passenger numbers in 2019

A record 151 million passengers used long-distance rail services in Germany during 2019 according to German Federal Statistical Office’s (Destatis) annual report.

April 11, 2020 | News

Construction progresses on Berlin U5 extension

CONSTRUCTION is nearing completion on the 2.2km extension of U-Bahn Line U5 from Alexanderplatz to Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

April 10, 2020 | Europe

IRJ in brief - Coronavirus: SNCF donates blankets; New Zealand speeds up payments; VR suspends overnight services

France: French National Railways (SNCF) has donated 3150 blankets from its night train services to the Samu social charity.

April 10, 2020 | Financial

IRJ in brief - Financial: IVU posts best ever results; profit down for Bane Nor subsidiary; Knorr-Bremse posts strong results

Germany: IVU Traffic Technologies has announced the best results in the company’s 40-year history, with revenue (€88.8m), gross profit (€62.1m), and Ebit (€10.5m) significantly higher in 2019 than in 2018.

April 9, 2020 | Financial

AllRail calls for action to prevent private operators from going out of business

THE Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants (AllRail) says that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented crisis for independent passenger rail operators and predicts that some could disappear as early as this month.

April 9, 2020 | Infrastructure

Milin tunnel holed through on Sichuan-Tibet railway

THE 11.56km Milin tunnel has been holed through on the 435km Sichuan-Tibet railway which will connect Lhasa with Nyingchi in southeast Tibet.

April 9, 2020 | Freight

Rhine Valley Line reopens following fatal crash

GERMANY's Rhine Valley Line reopened at 20.00 on April 8, after it was blocked on April 2 following a fatal crash at Auggen, 20km north of Basle.

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