News Overview

30.03.10

Double-decker trains for the Berne commuter railway system

BLS media-release:

BLS invests CHF 493.7 million

Double-decker trains for the Berne commuter railway system: more space, more comfortable, more cost-effective

BLS is about to make the largest investment in rolling stock in its history: its Board of Directors has just approved funding of CHF 493.7 million to procure a total of 28 double-decker multiple-unit trains for the Berne commuter railway system from Stadler Rail by the end of 2014. The new trains will help BLS meet the growing demand and offer their passengers a more comfortable journey. At the same time it is implementing a long-term standardisation ...

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19.03.10

Stadler wins in Belarus

Stadler Rail has won the international tender to deliver Belarus Railways with ten FLIRTs (Fast Light Innovative Regional Train). The contract was signed this afternoon in Minsk, with a volume of around EUR 60 million (including reserve materials). Delivery of the four-carriage trains will already start in December this year and continue until the middle of 2012. The trains are more or less identical to the 32 FLIRTs manufactured for Helsinki. They will be manufactured in parallel to these in Bussnang. Once again, thanks to its high levels of innovation, Stadler Rail has been able to win another order, 80 ...

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05.03.10

10 years of Stadler in Berlin

The Pankow works was taken over by the Swiss rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler Rail AG in the year 2000 when it was threatened with closure. 2001 saw the first order for seven Regio-Shuttle trains and the acquisition of another site in Velten (Oberhavel district). Continuous developments in the available products and the entry into new market segments allowed the site to be consolidated over the following years. The first successes – 20 FLIRTs for cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft along with 30 Variobahn trains and 6 of the new Tango light rail vehicles for Bochum – came in 2004.

Michael Daum, Director of Stadler Pankow ...

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04.03.10

Stadler’s appeal gains positive opinion of the National Appeal Chamber

Stadler’s appeal against the cancellation of the tender for the delivery of 16 EMUs held by Koleje Mazowieckie has gained the positive opinion of the National Appeal Chamber (Krajowa Izba Odwoławcza). According to the National Appeal Chamber, Koleje Mazowieckie had no legal grounds to cancel the tender. Stadler, a leading system supplier of customer-specific solutions for rail vehicle construction, decided to appeal against the decision of Koleje Mazowieckie (Mazovian Railways), because despite the fact that the Stadler’s offer of the modern and popular FLIRT trains, assembled in Siedlce, received the best evaluation in the tender, Koleje Mazowieckie cancelled ...

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