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26.02.10

Stadler builds “mega-locomotive”

Stadler Rail is building the world’s biggest and most powerful ever rack-and-pinion locomotive for the Brazilian cargo company MRS Logística S.A.
MRS has ordered seven of these locomotives from Stadler, worth about CHF 60 million (including reserve materials), for the freight line from São Paulo to the docks in Santos. An option for three further locomotives has also been agreed. The vehicles will be built in Bussnang and delivered in 2012/2013. Once again, thanks to its high levels of innovation, Stadler Rail has been able to handle another order with 80% added value in Switzerland ...

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17.02.10

Roll-out of the LEB’s first new suburban train

Cantonal councillor François Marthaler, head of the Department of Infrastructure, Yvan Nicolier, chairman of the Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher-Bahn (LEB), and Peter Spuhler, owner and CEO of Stadler Rail, together with other guests, today celebrated the roll-out of the first of six new RBe 4/8 multiple-unit trains at Echallens station. The invited guests were able to take this opportunity to experience the benefits of the new trains for themselves on the inaugural journey from Echallens to Bercher and back. The new trains will start scheduled operations from May 2010. Before that can happen, however, the fleet must pass various approval tests ...

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16.02.10

FLIRT the first EMU in Poland to run 160 kph

FLIRTs as the first electric multiple units in Poland have been granted the permanent homologation to run at a speed of 160 kph

Fourteen FLIRT trains produced and delivered by Stadler for the Mazovia and Silesia provinces have been granted the permanent Rail Transport Authority’s (Urząd Transportu Kolejowego) homologation to run at a speed of 160 kph. The FLIRT train is the first Polish EMU, which got this authorisation. The corresponding temporary homologation for the FLIRT trains was already issued by the Rail Transport Authority in May 2008. Stadler’s vehicles are modern, safe and comfortable, and hence much ...

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15.02.10

Hungary: 60th MÁV FLIRT in operation – Stadler delivered the last vehicle two months before deadline

Hungarian passenger transport operator MÁV-START Zrt. set the last Stadler FLIRT out of the altogether 60 ordered trains into operation on 12 February. The Swiss railway producer Stadler Rail Group delivered the last vehicle more than two months before the original deadline agreed in the contract, therefore the delivery part of the MÁV-Stadler contract ended earlier than expected. The FLIRTs have run altogether more than 16,000,000 km on the Hungarian railways, with a very high 94% reliability index.

Hungarian State Railways Co. and Stadler signed the delivery agreement for 30 suburban electric multiple units in 2006 ...

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