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January 24, 2019 | Fleet

EBA authorises three-country Flirt EMUs for use in Germany

GERMANY’s Federal Railway Authority (EBA) has granted a Supplementary Authorisation to Place in Service (SAPS) for Arriva Netherlands’ fleet of multi-system Stadler Flirt EMUs, which will be used on regional services linking Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.

January 23, 2019 | Technology

DB begins test of Holoplot station audio system

GERMAN Rail (DB) launched a trial of the Holoplot audio system, which can improve the audibility of station announcements, in Frankfurt main station on January 23.

January 23, 2019 | Europe

Rail Baltica joint venture outlines plans for 2019

THE members of RB Rail, the multi-national joint venture between Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania established to implement the Rail Baltica (RB) project, have launched the procurement of detailed technical designs for seven of the 11 sections making up the project, covering 57% of the network, it was announced on January 23.

January 23, 2019 | Africa

General Electric delivers five locomotives to Cameroon

GENERAL Electric (GE) delivered five locomotives to Cameroon Railways (Camrail), a subsidiary of the Bolloré Group, in Douala on January 17.

January 23, 2019 | Metros

Siemens delivers first Nuremberg U-Bahn G1 train

THE first class G1 train for the Nuremberg U-Bahn left Siemens’ Simmering plant in Vienna, Austria, on January 22.

January 22, 2019 | Commuter Rail

Japan and Philippines sign loan agreement for north-south commuter railway

MANILA’s north-south commuter railway (NSCR) extension project is set to proceed after the governments of the Philippines and Japan, through the Department of Finance (DOF) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), signed the first tranche of a loan agreement during a ceremony held on January 21.

January 22, 2019 | Central/South America

Chilean president inaugurates Santiago metro Line 3

THE Chilean capital Santiago celebrated the opening of its sixth metro line on January 22 when the country’s president Mr Sebastian Piñera attended the inauguration ceremony for the 21.7km Line 3.

January 22, 2019 | Telecoms

Heathrow Express trains to be fitted with ETCS

BRITISH rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook has awarded a contract to Bombardier to install ETCS Level 2 on 12 class 387 Bombardier Electrostar EMUs being converted for operation on Heathrow Express services between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport.

January 22, 2019 | Telecoms

Luxembourg GSM-R rollout completed

KAPSCH CarrierCom has completed the roll-out of GSM-R on the 271km Luxembourg Railways (CFL) network as part of CFL’s network-wide implementation of ERTMS.

January 22, 2019 | Signalling

Baden-Württemberg backs Stuttgart S-Bahn ATO pilot

BADEN-Württemberg Ministry of Transport announced on January 22 that it will participate in a pilot project to install ETCS, digital interlockings (DSTW) and automatic train operation (ATO) Grade of Automation 2 (GoA2) on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.

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