A Traxx locomotive with battery traction for the catenary-free last mile will be operational in three years, said Frank Schleier, vice president locomotives at Alstom, to RailTech during Innotrans.
You have read all of your free premium articles for this month. Please become a subscriber to keep reading.
Take advantage of our exclusive offer to get full access to all premium content.
Twenty Romanian diesel shunting locomotives have been saved and given an opportunity for revival. The locomotives would typically be scrapped as they near the end of their operable…
Press release averted; it’s your daily rail roundup from RailTech! All eyes are on Yorkshire in the UK’s north, as Siemens officially opened its new rolling stock plant…
Better known as a fishing port and once a country resort made popular by the railways, Goole has a new reason to engage with the iron horse. Siemens…
It’s your daily update on Europe’s tracks from RailTech. Alstom has been turning heads today with the news that they will indeed shutter their Görlitz plant in a…
Log in through one of the following social media partners to comment.
For proving timely and high quality, thus a low risk device, thus safely providing for safe “eta”, electrification of railways (now. regrettably inferior) has to shift and to include hybrid technique.
(Compare success story the automobile… was and still, is based upon own energy converters, on board the “autos”…)