On January 31 Softronic delivered the first of two Transmontana electric locomotives which CER Cargo ordered at InnoTrans 2024. The purchase was financed through Deutsche Leasing. The loco has Hitachi ETCS as well as Mirel and PZB train protection systems, enabling operation in Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.
Ahead of the state election on March 8, the government of Western Australia has announced plans to negotiate to take the state’s rail freight network into the public sector after 25 years. The lease with Arc Infrastructure has 24 more years to run, and the government said a final decision on ending the agreement depends on whether it is deemed ’economically and financially responsible to do so’.
Kazakhstan’s KTZ has begun using a second track installed on t…
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