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July 24, 2020 | Rolling stock

EIB approves €450m for Trenitalia hybrid trains

THE European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a €450m financing package with Trenitalia to support the purchase of 135 new diesel-electric-battery-powered hybrid trains.

July 22, 2020 | Infrastructure

Tunnelling restarts in Genoa on Terzo Valico rail project

A ceremony was held in Genoa on July 21 to mark the resumption of construction on the Genoa Node element of Italian Rail Network’s (RFI) €6.9bn Terzo Valico rail project following a two-year suspension of work.

July 15, 2020 | Infrastructure

Consortium awarded Lyon - Turin tunnel shaft boring contract

TUNNEL Euralpin Lyon Turin (Telt) has awarded a consortium led by Vinci Construction Grands Projects a €220m contract to undertake preparatory work on the Avrieux shafts for the 270km Lyon - Turin high-speed line, which includes a 57.5km twin-bore base tunnel between St Jean de Maurienne, France, and Chiomonte, Italy.

July 13, 2020 | Fleet

First train for Italy’s Lazio region delivered

TRENITALIA has received its first new Hitachi Rock EMU for the Lazio region in central Italy.

July 10, 2020 | Infrastructure

Contractors celebrate Brenner exploratory tunnel breakthrough

THE Brenner Base Tunnel project has reached a critical new stage after workers successfully bored through a 16.7km exploratory tunnel between the Tulfes-Pfons and Pfons-Brenner construction lots.

July 1, 2020 | Financial

IRJ IN-BRIEF – Financial: Baden-Württemberg funds non-DB infrastructure; Unipart Rail closes York site; Estonian Railways agrees €95m EIB loan

Germany: Baden-Württemberg’s Transport Ministry has announced a €13m fund for infrastructure maintenance and development during 2020 for 615km of lines not owned by German Rail (DB).

June 10, 2020 | Light Rail

€213m funding for Rome Termini - Tor Vergata light rail line approved

ITALY’s minister of infrastructure and transport, Mr Paola De Micheli, has signed a decree providing €213m for the Termini - Giardinetti - Tor Vergata light rail line in Rome.

June 8, 2020 | Financial

FS increases profitability in 2019

ITALIAN State Railways (FS) recorded a 5.4% rise in gross operating profit to €2.6bn in 2019, and a 16.1% jump in operating profit to €800m, while final profit rose by 4.5% to €584m.

June 5, 2020 | Fleet

Alstom and Snam partner to introduce hydrogen trains in Italy

ALSTOM has signed a five-year agreement with energy infrastructure company Snam to develop hydrogen trains in Italy.

May 21, 2020 | High-speed

Italy starts to reinstate high-speed services

BOTH Trenitalia and Italo-NTV have started to reinstate high-speed train services which were reduced to a skeleton service due to Covid-19 travel restrictions in Italy.

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