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14 new trains for Genoa metro

Genoa, 8th February 2022 – Hitachi Rail will supply the Ligurian capital Municipality with 14 new generation trains equipped with the onboard systems necessary for the correct operation on the Genoa Network. The investment amounts to €70 million. The agreement was recently signed by AMT, acting on the basis of a mandate by the Genoa Municipality, beneficiary of the state financing.
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Hitachi Rail’s digital interlocking passes major milestone for Germany’s Fast-Track Programme

Hitachi Rail’s digital interlocking passes major milestone for Germany’s Fast-Track Programme

Test campaign witnessed by Deutsche Bahn and the German Federal Railway Authority passed successfully Hitachi Rail’s technology can now be used help Deutsche Bahn digitise and improve the German rail network Collaborative project was carried out at Hitachi’s laboratory in Munich
Deutsche Bahn and the German Federal Railway Authority has witnessed a series of functional and operational tests

Digitales Stellwerk von Hitachi Rail erreicht wichtigen Meilenstein für deutsches Schnellläuferprogramm

Digitales Stellwerk von Hitachi Rail erreicht wichtigen Meilenstein für deutsches Schnellläuferprogramm

Tests wurden im Beisein der Deutschen Bahn und des deutschen Eisenbahn-Bundesamts erfolgreich absolviert Technologie von Hitachi Rail kann der Deutschen Bahn nun helfen, das deutsche Schienennetz zu digitalisieren und zu verbessern Gemeinschaftsprojekt wurde im Hitachi-Labor in München durchgeführt
Die Deutsche Bahn und das Eisenbahn-Bundesamt haben einer Reihe von Funktions- und Betriebste

RATP renews Hitachi Rail’s contract for the maintenance of Paris’ Metro and tramway networks

RATP renews Hitachi Rail’s contract for the maintenance of Paris’ Metro and tramway networks

The contract worth €33m is a continuation of Hitachi Rail’s historic partnership of more than 100 years with the Paris metro Since 1913, Hitachi Rail has provided RATP with comprehensive, uninterrupted maintenance services which today ensures the 24/7 availability of daily transport for millions of passengers in Ile-de-France.
A major player in the global rail industry, Hitachi Rail helps its

La RATP renouvelle sa confiance à Hitachi Rail pour assurer la maintenance de ses réseaux de métro et tramway

La RATP renouvelle sa confiance à Hitachi Rail pour assurer la maintenance de ses réseaux de métro et tramway

Le contrat d’un montant d’environ 33M€, s’inscrit dans la continuité d’un partenariat historique de plus de 100 ans avec le métro parisien.
Hitachi Rail fournit à la RATP, des services de maintenance complets et ininterrompus depuis 1913, assurant ainsi la disponibilité 24h/24 et 7j/7 des transports quotidiens pour des millions de franciliens.
Acteur majeur de l’industrie ferroviaire mondia

Autonomous metro train that serves Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University

Hitachi Rail awarded contract to operate and maintain Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University autonomous metro in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Powering sustainable connectivity for 60,000 students Further recognition of Hitachi Rail as a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions
Hitachi Rail announced today that it has signed a €72.5 million contract with Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University to operate and maintain the autonomous metro system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the next three years.

The Princess Nou

Example of the sensors included in Hitachi Rail & IMT's fully digital freight monitoring services

Hitachi Rail partners exclusively with Intermodal Telematics to offer a digital solution to improve rail freight efficiency and safety

Exclusive Intermodal Telematics partnership establishes Hitachi’s full digital freight monitoring service The Netherlands based company is the market leader in the development of monitoring sensors and telematic solutions for freight railcars and containers Partnership will complement Hitachi’s acquisition of Perpetuum, enabling it to monitor freight wagons and cargo in a complete fashion in rea

TMe locomotive

Nordic Re-Finance Trains across Scandinavia to benefit from new on-board signalling technology ERTMS+STM delivered by Hitachi Rail

Hitachi Rail will roll out European standard ERTMS on-board technology to Nordic Re-Finance’s Scandinavian train fleet Introduction of Hitachi’s leading technology continues firm’s support for modernisation and digitisation of Scandanvia’s railways
Hitachi Rail has been awarded a new contract by Nordic Re-Finance to upgrade the signalling systems of the TMe fleet of locomotives operating in S

HS2 high speed train

Hitachi and Alstom win order to build and maintain High Speed Two trains in Britain

Major economic boost – thousands of green jobs created and secured to build new generation of 54 high speed trains in North and Midlands, adding £1.1billion GVA during manufacturing to grow and level up the economy The contract – worth around £2billion - will be delivered at Hitachi Rail’s new advanced welding facility in Newton Aycliffe, at a new production line at Alsto

Hitachi and Eversholt Rail develop battery for a GWR intercity battery hybrid train trial

Hitachi and Eversholt Rail develop battery for a GWR intercity battery hybrid train trial

Hitachi Rail and Eversholt Rail are in the advanced stages of designing and engineering an electric-diesel-battery (tri-mode) train, with plans to trial on a Great Western Railway (GWR) Class 802 train in 2022.
With proof of concept and layout in the final stages of approval, work has begun to build the battery for functional testing and integration onto the train. The battery, which will be

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