The first pre-production Coradia Polyvalent France-Germany cross-border train left the Alstom Reichshoffen site on 12 May for the DB Systemtechnik test centre in Minden (Germany), where it will undergo its first tests for certification and approval. Mechanical tests will be conducted to check how the train behaves in curves. It will then go to the Velim test centre (Czech Republic), where it will undergo traction, braking, electro-magnetic and acoustic stress tests.
The first heavy-grade box girder along the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia was finished on April 28. China Railway No.4 Engineering Group is part of the construction team.
The Catalan railway company Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) awarded a contract to the company Stadler Rail Valencia to build 15 UT 115 electrical trains for the Vallès underground line.
In search of performance and innovative technologies to support the expansion of its model in Europe, OUIGO Spain has chosen Moment as a partner to enrich the passenger experience on board its trains.
HS2 launches ‘Florence’ – the first of 10 HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that will dig 64 miles of tunnel on Phase One of the UK’s new high speed railway.
Kurskaya-Kalanchevskaya is the hardest site of the railway construction in Moscow. It takes place next to the residential buildings and touches the underground communications laid earlier.
Following the projects at Rostock-Seehafen station at the Baltic Sea, DB Engineering & Consulting was also able to win the tender for the “Line upgrade Lübeck-Schwerin with new construction of the Bad Kleinen connecting curve” in Northern Germany.