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London North Eastern Railway has awarded CAF a contract to supply a fleet of 10 tri-mode inter-city trainsets for use on East Coast Main Line passenger services.
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The 51 two-car and 26 three-car trains were manufactured by CAF at its facility in Wales. The post Transport for Wales launches new £800m fleet appeared first on Railway Technology.
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Gordon Maclennan who quit as chief executive of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) after we exposed him for driving an illegal cloned car personally negotiated the payment to Spanish firm CAF.
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Germany: CAF has been named as preferred bidder for what it says is the largest order to date for battery trains. This covers the supply and maintenance of more than 60 electric multiple-units which will be able to operate on non-electrified sections of the Niederrhein-Mnsterland network.
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No trams will run on the West Midlands Metro network until further notice. Tram services in the West Midlands have been suspended indefinitely after a fault was discovered among the fleet.
(Permalink) CAF West Midlands Metro  Birmingham St Chads [Tram]: Midland Metro (since renamed West Midlands Metro) No.29 with a Birmingham to Wolverhampton service arriving at Snow Hill (since renamed St. Chad's), on 8th December 2016.  Bull Street [Tram]: Midland Metro (since renamed West Midlands Metro) tram no. 26 from Wolverhampton St. George's threading its way through Birmingham city centre on the approach to Bull Street, on 30th January 2016. At ... |
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Translink has taken delivery of the first three of 21 intermediate cars ordered from CAF to extend seven existing NI Railways Class 4000 diesel multiple-units from three to six cars for use on busier routes.
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Derby and Newport stop assembly, Hitachi reduces Newton Aycliffe output but maintenance carries on at various depots.
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Five organisations are bidding for a contract to design, manufacture and maintain the trains for the first phase of HS2. The original list was Alstom, Bombardier, Hitachi, Siemens and Talgo. When Bombardier and Hitachi decided to make a joint bid, CAF was added to the list to maintain five bidders.
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West Midlands transport authority Centro announced on February 12 that it is planning to upgrade Midland Metro's fleet of 21 CAF Urbos low-floor LRVs for catenary-free operation as part of plans to extend the light rail line through Birmingham city centre.
The vehicles entered service last year on the 20km line from Wolverhampton to Birmingham Snow Hill, which was extended to Bull Street on December 6. Trams will begin running to Stephenson Street outside the recently-rebuilt New Street station later this year. Retrofitting the Urbos fleet with roof-mounted batteries will enable catenary-free operation on the next phase of the line, a 1.3km extension from Stephenson Street to Centenary Square, which will open in 2019. This will obviate the need to erect catenary in front of the 182-year-old Town Hall in Victoria Square. [From Richard Buckby] (Permalink) CAF West Midlands Metro  Jewellery Quarter: The light rail side of the station at Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter see image [[42485]] with the 13.26 Midland Metro tram to Wolverhampton St. Georges arriving. (there was a 15-minute interval servi ...  Wolverhampton St. Georges: Midland Metro tram 04 arrives at the Wolverhampton St. Georges terminus on an early evening service from Birmingham Snow Hill in June 2011. Although the station was built for two track working, and a ...  Lodge Road, West Bromwich Town Hall [Tram]: A tram heading for Snow Hill stops on a quiet Sunday evening at Lodge Road. West Midlands Metro |
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Edinburgh's tram service has taken its first paying customers as the long-awaited route from the airport to the city centre opens to the public.
The first tram services set off at 05:00 BST from the Gyle Centre in the west of the city. It follows six years of disruption and problems, including a bitter dispute between the council and its contractor. The Edinburgh tram route cost £776m and covers 8.7 miles (14km) from the New Town to Edinburgh Airport. In the decade since the first money was allocated to the project, the price has doubled, the network has halved and it has taken twice as long to build as originally planned. (Permalink) CAF Edinburgh Trams  Princes Street [Tram]: Tram 266 takes the curve from Princes Street into South St Andrew Street on 6 April.  Edinburgh Airport [Tram]: Almost a view from an Edinburgh tram approaching the airport on the morning of 8 March 2013, following a press trip from Ingliston Park and Ride see image [[42290]].  Plates, signs, notices etc: List of Edinburgh's tram routes from the official transport map for
1937. Note the colour-coded lights carried in hours of darkness.
Filling in the gaps, three more routes, 22, 26 and 28 joined th ... |
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Bombardier has won a £1bn contract to provide trains for the Crossrail project, the government has announced.
The company will provide 65 trains for the Crossrail service, which is set to open in 2018. The trains will be manufactured and assembled at Bombardier's plant in Derby. The Department for Transport said Bombardier's contract would provide 760 manufacturing jobs and 80 apprenticeships. It also said that about 74% of the amount spent on the contract would stay in the UK economy. Bombardier beat Japan's Hitachi and Spain's CAF to secure the deal. [From Richard Buckby] (Permalink) Bombardier CAF Hitachi |
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The German engineering giant said it will not proceed with the procurement process for the new line linking east and west London because it is busy with other projects, such as building trains for Thameslink. This leaves Bombardier, Hitachi and Spanish group CAF in the bidding.
Siemens said on Friday it no longer had the capacity to deliver the 600 carriages required for the new line. [From Mark Bartlett and Richard Buckby] (Permalink) Bombardier CAF Hitachi Siemens |
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The first tram has arrived at the Gogar depot in Edinburgh from Spain. The vehicle, which was split into seven modules for its 1,500-km (932-mile) journey from Irun, northern Spain, arrived on three low-loader lorries.
(Permalink) CAF Edinburgh Trams Gogar Tram Depot  Gogar Tram Depot: Scene inside the maintenance shed at Gogar tram depot on 24 May 2011.  Gogar Tram Depot: The east end of the Edinburgh Tram depot at Gogar on 1 August, with tracklaying in progress.
 Princes Street [Tram]: Edinburgh tram on display at The Mound tram stop on Princes Street on 29 April 2010. |
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