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May 26, 2020 | Fleet

Tampere receives first of 19 Škoda LRVs

ŠKODA Transtech, Finland, handed over the first of 19 ForCity Smart Artic LRVs to Tampere on May 25.

May 5, 2020 | Commuter Rail

VR wins tender to operate Helsinki commuter trains

HELSINKI Regional Transport (HSL) has awarded VR Group a 10-year contract to operate commuter services around the Finnish capital, the first time the contract has been put out to competitive tender.

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 2, 2020 | Freight

Finland trials 830m freight train

FINNISH freight operator VR Transpoint piloted operation of an 830m 6000-tonne freight train consisting of 66 wagons and two Siemens Vectron locomotives at the end of March, a development which VR hopes will improve the flow of rail freight from Russia.

March 12, 2020 | Infrastructure

Tampere Tramway takes delivery of Vossloh grinder

TAMPERE Tramway, which is preparing to commission a 15km light rail line due to open in 2021, has taken delivery of an HSG-city rail grinder from Vossloh.

February 21, 2020 | Commuter Rail

Finland and VR renegotiate PSO contract

FINLAND’s Ministry of Transport and Communications and national operator VR have started negotiations to determine the method of procuring public service obligation (PSO) passenger services in the country, after the current agreement comes to an end in December.

February 18, 2020 | Locomotives

Hitachi to equip new VR Group locomotives with ERTMS

HITACHI has been awarded a contract to install ERTMS on 60 diesel locomotives Stadler Rail Valencia is supplying to Finland’s VR Group.

February 7, 2020 | Main line

Two bids received to operate Helsinki regional services

HELSINKI Regional Transport (HSL) has received two bids to operate regional rail services around the Finnish capital from June 2021, with the winner of the tender due to be announced in May.

February 6, 2020 | Fleet

CAF awarded €100m Nordic fleet and maintenance contracts

NORWEGIAN operator VY has awarded CAF subsidiary Euromaint a contract to maintain the Bergen Railway fleet over nine years, one of two contracts worth a total of €100m awarded to the manufacturer in the Nordic region.

February 4, 2020 | Track

Finland pilots condition-based maintenance for points

VR FleetCare and the Fairway Agency have launched a pilot project to collect data on switch malfunctions with the goal of reducing the more than 5000 point failures reported across Finland’s rail network every year.

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