Bombardier and Alstom to supply 204 double-deck M7 cars to SNCB
The double-deck M7 multifunctional cars have been designed to be fully autonomously accessible for passengers with reduced mobility.
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The double-deck M7 multifunctional cars have been designed to be fully autonomously accessible for passengers with reduced mobility.
The trains were originally ordered from Siemens Mobility in 2015 with a total contract volume of €1.7 billion.
Bombardier Transportation and Railpool have signed a contract for a European Train Control System (ETCS) Baseline 3 upgrade for 73 of Railpool’s BOMBARDIER TRAXX MS2 locomotives.
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Bombardier has completed the construction of the first ZEFIRO Express train and Västtrafik has approved the build and awarded the Delivery Certificate enabling the testing and commissioning phase to begin.
For the first time in France, a locomotive has run in partial autonomy, under real operating conditions, with fully automated acceleration and braking functions.
Marking its first order in Uruguay, Stadler has signed a contract with PORTREN SA to supply seven EURO4001 locomotives with deliveries expected to start by the end of 2022.
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One of the largest TRAXX customers, leasing company Railpool, has ordered nearly 10 per cent of the global TRAXX locomotive fleet.
The electric locomotives have each made around 1,600 round trips of 2,200km and moved over 10 million tonnes of freight since starting service in December 2017.
Alstom's Coradia iLint, the world's first hydrogen fuel cell train, has completed three months of test operations on Austrian regional lines.
Amounting to approximately €160 million, the order is for six hydrogen fuel cell trains, with the first train delivery expected within 36 months.
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Both companies will test a climate-friendly complete system consisting of the hydrogen train and its specially developed infrastructure.