WAGON leasor, VTG, has initiated a pilot project to fit low-noise LL brake blocks to tank wagons used by chemical company Evonik Industries to collate data on the brake's kilometric performance and maintenance requirements.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) announced on February 11 that it plans to continue the modernisation of its motive power fleet this year with the acquisition of 629 new locomotives at a total cost of Roubles 76.1bn ($US 2.17bn).
INTERNATIONAL high-speed operator Thalys saw revenues and ridership climb on its services from Paris to Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in 2013 as the withdrawal of Fyra services brought an unexpected increase in traffic between Brussels and Amsterdam.
COLOGNE Transport Authority (KVB) and Düsseldorf's Rheinbahn have issued a joint invitation to tender for a contract to supply 66 high-floor LRVs with an option for 12 additional vehicles.
FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) managed to achieve a 0.5% increase in turnover to €32.2bn and a 2% rise in Ebitda to €2.8bn in 2013 despite a 1.8% drop in revenue from its Geodis freight business and a 1.4% decline in income from TGV services.
THE FIRST of three class DP3 three-car dmus being supplied by Pesa, Poland, to Belarus Railways (BC) arrived in Belarus on February 11.
UKRAINIAN Railways (UZ) suspended operation of all 10 HRCS2 emus supplied in 2012 by Hyundai Rotem for inter-city operations on February 13, with all of the emus undergoing technical checks.
SIEMENS presented the first set of Railjet long-distance coaches for Czech Railways (CD) to the press at its Simmering facility in Vienna on February 12.
THE European Union is set to allocate €34m from its TEN-T funding programme to enhance railway traffic on the Brussels - Luxembourg - Strasbourg corridor, or TEN-T Priority Project 28, by eliminating bottlenecks in and around Brussels.
EUROPE's Railway Operating Community (ROC) on February 11 published the Rail Technical Strategy Europe (RTSE), an outline of the requirements it believes are essential to achieve the technical goals of the Challenge 2050 strategy which is intended to shape Europe's future interoperable railway network.
