NEXT year will mark the debut of the first trains to incorporate elements of Bombardier's latest high-speed HS and very high-speed VHS technology, as 20 emu sleeper trains, capable of speeds of up to 250km/h and utilising technology from Bombardier's Zefiro family, will enter service in China.
BERLIN, GERMANY, Dec 6, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Bombardier Transportation announced today that Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos CPTM, operator of suburban trains for the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has awarded rail services contrac BERLIN, GERMANY, Dec 6, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Bombardier...
BERLIN, GERMANY, May 2, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Bombardier Transportation and its joint venture partners in China announced an order for 192 MOVIA metro cars (32 six-car trains) from Shanghai Mass Transit Line 7 Development Co., a subsidiary BERLIN, GERMANY, May 2, 2007 (CCNMatthews via...
The Swedish state railway, SJ AB, will increase its fleet of BOMBARDIER REGINA high-speed trains, it was announced today. The contract for 20 new four-car trains is valued at approximately 221 million euros ($349 million US). Delivery will start in April 2010 and be completed in August 2010. The contract...
AMTRAK and a consortium of Bombardier Transportation and Alstom have reached an out-of-court settlement of their legal dispute dating from November 2001 involving the $US 1.2 billion procurement of 20 Acela Express high-speed trains and 15 electric locomotives for operation on the Northeast Corridor linking Boston, New York, mid Washington...
WASHINGTON AFP ? The Franco-Canadian consortium supplying high-speed trains to the US passenger system Amtrak said it reached an out-of-court settlement in a suit over the delayed launch of the system. The consortium of Canada's Bombardier and France's Alstom said the deal ends all legal disputes over the 1.2...
By Pat R. Gilbert, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 12--NJ Transit will consider awarding a $250 million contract this week for at least 100 bi-level rail cars to ease chronic crowding on its New York-bound trains. ...
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Mar 22, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- The Hungarian National Railways MAV have ordered ten Talent commuter trains from Bombardier Transportation. The four-car Bombardier Talent trains will be manufactured in consortium with Eli MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Mar 22, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- The ...
Caption: Mayor of London Mr Ken Livingston has unveiled the first of 55 new driverless trains for the Docklands Light Railway DLR being supplied by Bombardier. The trains have been part- funded by the Olympic Delivery Authority, and will help increase capacity on the network ahead of the Olympic Games,...
AMTRAK has been forced to remove all 18 Acela Express high-speed trains from service on the Washington DC-New York-Boston Northeast Corridor, after finding defects in the power car yaw damper brackets. Some trains were later returned to service, but all trains in service are subject to extensive examinations between trips....
MADRID, SPAIN, Dec 29, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- A consortium comprising Bombardier and Patentes Talgo has received an order from the Spanish National Railways RENFE for the supply of 30 AVE S-102 very high-speed trains. The total contract i MADRID, SPAIN, Dec 29, 2005 (CCNMatthews...
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Aug 5, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Bombardier Transportation and its consortium partner Elin EBG Traction have received an order from the Austrian Federal Railways OBB for 60 additional four-car Bombardier Talent electric mu MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Aug 5, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX --...
Jan 6, 2002 The Sunday Age ABIX via COMTEX -- Bombardier Transportation is the Australian division of Bombardier Corporation. The company has been awarded a contract to build 29 fast trains for Victoria's rail network. However, it has been revealed that Bombardier's parent has...
Business Editors/High Tech & Transportation Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 15, 2000 When the new high speed Amtrak Acela train completed its maiden voyage from Boston to Washington D.C. Monday Dec. 11, Crossbow Technology -- a leader in advanced digital sensor technology -- was along for the ride....
Aug. 10--The Canadian train-maker that built Portland's first light-rail cars wants to derail a competitor's trains that carried more than a half-million people between Portland and Seattle last year. Saying the unusual Spanish-designed Talgo unit trains are unsafe, Bombardier Inc. has petitioned the Federal...
TECHNICAL problems continue to delay the introduction of 240km/h services on Amtrak's Boston--New York--Washington DC Northeast Corridor using the new Acela Express tilting trains being supplied by a consortium of Alstom and Bombardier Transportation. Revenue service was originally planned to start in November last year, but is now unlikely to...
Bombardier Transportation has received an additional order from Metrorex SA in Romania to supply a further six MOVIA metro trains, in all 36 cars, for operation on the Bucharest Metro. The contract is valued at approximately $43 millions US (33 million euros). The funding for this new order is shared...
French National Railways SNCF, exercising options, has placed an order with Bombardier Transportation for an additional 112 AGC Autorail Grande Capacity regional trains at a cost of about $605 million. This brings the total number of orders for AGC trains to 612. The trains will be built at Bombardier's Crespin...
Bombardier Transportation announced today that it received an additional order for 112 high-capacity trains AGC type Autorail Grande Capacite from the French National Railways SNCF, valued at about $605 million US (467 million euros). The SNCF represents the French Regions in this transaction. Deliveries of the trains are scheduled to...
BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan 25, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Bombardier Transportation has received an additional order from Metrorex SA in Romania to supply a further six MOVIA metro trains, in all 36 cars, for operation on the Bucharest Metro. The con BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan 25, 2007...