Railway networks and services in European countries experienced disruptions due to a signalling system malfunction. Trains in Italy and Poland saw some long delays on Friday 18 March, after a glitch disabled the digital control...Read more
A joint venture of companies Alstom and Avax will undertake the modernisation of the Thessaloniki-Idomeni railway line in northern Greece. The project worth 41 million euros includes signalling, electrification and track renewal along 70 kilometres...Read more
France and Ukraine have agreed on the provision of 130 electric locomotives to the Ukrainian Railways. French President Emmanuel Macron visited Ukraine last week and met the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. During the presidential meeting,...Read more
Alstom in Kazakhstan has delivered the last of 40 Prima T8 AZ8A heavy freight locomotives to Azerbaijan Railways (ADY). This is a milestone, as it means the order from the Kazakh joint venture signed in...Read more
PCC Intermodal and Alstom have signed a contract for the delivery of four brand new Traxx MS3 multisystem locomotives, together with the provision of full maintenance service. They signed an agreement towards this end on...Read more
Alstom has signed an agreement to equip one of DB Cargo’s freight locomotives with ETCS signaling technology. As part of this project, subsidised by the CEF and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, a...Read more
Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) will receive 130 heavy electric locomotives by Alstom as part of a fleet renewal project. The French and Ukrainian governments signed an intergovernmental agreement to finance the hundreds of million purchase. Both...Read more
Alstom has signed a purchase agreement to acquire Shunter, a leading service provider in the field of maintenance of rolling stock for freight and passenger transport in the Netherlands. With this step, Alstom creates a...Read more
DB Cargo agreed with Alstom to equip thirteen freight locomotives with the ETCS signalling standard technology. They will use Alstom’s Atlas ETCS Baseline 3 Release 2 solution, which complies with the latest European standards for...Read more
Alstom, Lineas and ProRail will start test drives with fully automatic shunting in 2021. The parties announced this on Wednesday 15 July. It concerns Automatic Train Operation Grade of Automation 4 (GoA4). The tests are...Read more
Knorr-Bremse Russia and Alstom Kazakhstan have signed an agreement to facilitate the braking system of 295 locomotives in Kazakhstan for the next 25 years. The units all belong to national railway company KTZ. The service...Read more
Due to the huge infrastructure developments in Kazakhstan and the growing volumes of freight transported over the rail network of the country, the demand for rolling stock is also on the surge. The French train...Read more
By blocking the merger of two railway giants Siemens and Alstom, the European Commission has safeguarded the increasingly competitive pricing of rail transport. This was stated by the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA). Attractive prices...Read more
The European Commission has decided to prohibit the proposed merger of two technology giants – Siemens Mobility and Alstom. The decision means that two companies will continue to work separately and the proposed new EU...Read more
The discussions over the merger of Alstom and Siemens are escalated by the new concessions proposed by both companies. While EU competition authorities are reviewing the new offer, some officials see political support for the...Read more
Alstom delivered the first of the forty Prima T8 “AZ8A” freight locomotives that will run on Baku-Tbilisi-Kars regional railway link to Azerbaijan Railways (ADY). The locomotive, produced at EKZ JV in Kazakhstan, arrived to Bilajary,...Read more
On Wednesday, rail freight operator Rotterdam Rail Feeding, infrastructure manager ProRail and Alstom conducted a successful test drive with a self-driving locomotive on the Betuweroute, the freight dedicated railway line in the Netherlands. According to...Read more
In testing automated freight trains on the Dutch Betuweroute this autumn, sensors will be placed to recognise objects on the railway. This technique will eventually enable complete autonomous train traffic. Director of Alstom Utrecht Alwin...Read more
Alstom is launching an online marketplace dedicated to the railway sector. Revealed on the second day of trade fair Innotrans in Berlin, it has been designed as an efficient platform to both promote and get...Read more
The European Commission is concerned that the merger of Alstom and Siemens may reduce competition in the supply of several types of trains and signaling systems. It has opened an in-depth investigation to assess the...Read more
Alstom has been awarded a contract by Bane NOR, the Norwegian railway authority, to equip the entire Norwegian railway fleet with ERTMS on-board train control solution. In practice, this means the manufacturer wil install the...Read more
