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October 29, 2018 | Financial

Network Rail asks EC to intervene over Siemens-Alstom merger

CHIEF executive of infrastructure manager Network Rail, Mr Andrew Haines, has reportedly written to European Union (EU) competition commissioner, Ms Margrethe Vestager, asking the European Commission (EC) to intervene in the proposed merger between Siemens Mobility and Alstom, saying that the deal “stands to do great harm to the railways in Great Britain.”

October 22, 2018 | Africa

Alstom ships first Dakar TER train to Senegal

THE first of 15 Alstom Coradia Polyvalent bi-mode multiple units for the Dakar TER project left Alstom’s Reichshoffen plant in eastern France on October 22 on the first leg of its journey to Senegal.

October 18, 2018 | Middle East

Contract awarded for Riyadh metro airport extension

ARRIYADH Development Authority has awarded the FCC-led Fast consortium a contract to build a 1.5km extension of Riyadh metro Line 4 to serve King Khalid International Airport.

October 5, 2018 | High-speed

New horizons for Alstom high-speed trains

Alstom says its new generation of high-speed trains - the single-deck Avelia Liberty for Amtrak and the double-deck Avelia Horizon for SNCF - will raise the bar for high-speed train design in terms of acquisition cost, maintenance, energy consumption and capacity. While these trains retain the hallmarks of SNCF’s iconic TGV, they are completely new designs, as David Briginshaw discovers.

September 28, 2018 | Technology

Automatic for the people: unlocking the benefits of automated operation on the main line

Automatic train operation (ATO) has been employed on metro networks in various forms for decades, but increasingly main line railways are opening up to the efficiency and reliability improvements on offer. Kevin Smith examines where ATO applications are today, what the future automated main line might look like, and how the industry plans to get there.

September 24, 2018 | Middle East

First Alstom Dubai metro train set for November delivery

THE chairman of Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), HE Mattar Al Tayer, visited Alstom’s plant in Katowice in Poland last week for a test run on one of the first Alstom Metropolis trains for the Dubai metro.

September 20, 2018 | Rolling stock

DTI to supply passenger information systems for South African EMUs

IRJ at InnoTrans 2018: DTI, Australia, has finalised contract negotiations with Alstom Ubunye for the supply of Passenger Information Systems (PIS) for 576 X’Trapolis EMUs being manufactured for Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa).

September 20, 2018 | Rolling stock

MTU to develop hybrid powerpacks for Britain and Germany

IRJ at InnoTrans 2018: THE CEO of rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook, Ms Mary Grant, and Rolls Royce vice president for industrial business, Mr Lars Kraft, signed an MoU at InnoTrans on September 19 for the delivery of MTU Hybrid Powerpacks for tests on two class 170 Turbostar DMUs in use in Britain.

September 18, 2018 | Rolling stock

France to test hybrid regional train

FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) and Alstom, along with the French regions of Grand-EST, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and Occitanie have agreed to test a battery-powered regional train beginning in 2020.

September 18, 2018 | North America

First Amtrak Avelia bodyshell completed

ALSTOM and Merrill Technologies this week celebrated the completion of the first locomotive bodyshell for the future Avelia Liberty trainsets, which will serve as the new Acela Express fleet on the Northeast Corrido in the United States.

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