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26 July 2017 12:00

Hitachi Ansaldo Baltimore Rail Partners, LLC: Awarded 400.5 million USD contract for Baltimore Metro Subway Link by the Maryland Transit Administration

Hitachi Ansaldo Baltimore Rail Partners, LLC, a company established between Hitachi Rail Italy SpA and Ansaldo STS USA, Inc. (the US subsidiary of Ansaldo STS SpA), has been awarded a $400.5 million contract from Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) to provide a new metro fleet of railcars and a Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) system for the Baltimore Metro Subway Link.

26 July 2017 08:55

New Hitachi trains pass Department for Transport digital tests

Hitachi’s new intercity trains, due to enter passenger service this autumn, have passed tests to run their digital technology required by the Department for Transport.

27 June 2017 08:00

ANSALDO STS has been awarded of 100 million Euros framework agreement with RFI

27 June 2017, 08:15 am
Ansaldo STS has been awarded of a procurement procedure, within a framework agreement, worth of 100 million Euros
The agreement scope of work includes the supply of technical assistance services, maintenance and repair; furthermore reconfiguration and upgrading of Ansaldo STS systems in revenue service on RFI network. The contract will last two years and is based

A five car train being offloaded at Southampton port

17 June 2017 13:44

First new intercity train for Devon and Cornwall arrives in the UK

The first Intercity Express Train bound for GWR’s Devon and Cornwall route has now arrived in the UK

13 June 2017 15:04

HM The Queen names new Hitachi Intercity Express Train “Queen Elizabeth II”

Her Majesty The Queen has marked the 175th anniversary of the first rail journey made by a monarch, recreating the original journey made by Queen Victoria, before naming a new Intercity Express Train “Queen Elizabeth II” at Paddington Station today.

8 June 2017 08:00

Ansaldo STS signs MoU with Metroselskabet for Proof of Concept of new Dynamic Headway Solution leveraging Hitachi technologies for Copenhagen Metro

08 June 2017, 11:45 am
New technology to automatically adjust train frequency to best cater for change in passenger numbers
Ansaldo STS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Metroselskabet to develop a Proof of Concept for a new Dynamic Headway solution leveraging Hitachi technologies for the Copenhagen Metro M1/M2.
The new Dynamic Headway solution will be designed usi

30 May 2017 08:00

Naples: the reopening ceremony of Scampìa Metrocampania

30 May 2017, 16:30 pm
“The reopening of Scampìa Metrocampania Nord East construction site is a remarkable event for the city, for Neapolitans and for our company.”
These are Roberto Passalacqua’s main remarks (the Vice President Region railways & Mass Transit of Ansaldo STS), pronounced during the event which took place on the 30th of May 2017 in Naples (Italy). The ceremony has bee

15 May 2017 08:00

Hitachi Rail Italy and Ansaldo STS in Montreal for UITP 2017

15 May 2017, 10:30 am
Montreal (Canada), 15 May 2017 – Technology, innovation and sustainable development. These are the main topics at the core of the 62th edition of the UITP Global Public Transport Summit, the most important world exhibition on urban and regional transportation. The fair will take place at the Palais de Congres de Montreal – Canada – between the 15th and the 17th of May

Work at Kasado, Japan, on new Azuma (Class 800)

5 May 2017 00:05

Hitachi begins work on Virgin Trains’ Azuma fleet

Virgin Trains’ customers are a step closer to new trains as work begins on the Azuma (Class 800) fleet, due to enter service on the east coast in 2018.

10 April 2017 07:01

Hitachi on track to recruit for 250 jobs at newly built Doncaster rail depot

Hitachi Rail Europe is on schedule to employ 250 people at their newly built Doncaster depot. The depot is hiring a brand new team to maintain new fleets of intercity trains inspired by Japanese bullet trains, which are due to start running next year. Hitachi has invested £80m in the Doncaster site to create a facility that is clean, light and packed with the most advanced industry technology.

24 February 2017 08:00

Ansaldo STS presented ERSAT and ERSAT EAV projects: the satellite technology applied to the railway traffic management for the first time in Europe

Cagliari, February 24th 2017
ERSAT is the latest generation signaling project that interfaces and integrates – for the first time in Europe – the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) with the navigation and satellite positioning technology Galileo.
ERSAT EAV project, which is presented together with Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Trenitalia in Sardinia today to show how this te

15 February 2017 07:01

New Hitachi trains for GWR’s Devon and Cornwall route a step closer to entering service

Passengers travelling towards Devon and Cornwall are one step closer to experiencing new trains as Hitachi Rail’s Italian factory receives bodyshells to start work. Hitachi’s UK manufacturing facility has already built its first train for Great Western Railway. The delivery of trains will transform passenger experience for routes connecting London to Wales and the South West of England.