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Alstom builds on its leading position in high-speed and very high-speed rail transport
30 November 2011 | By Alstom
Alstom has unveiled the latest high-speed Pendolino trains at its Savigliano plant in Italy...
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New Alstom Pendolino train to enter service with Virgin Trains next week
14 July 2011 | By Virgin Trains
A new 125mph Pendolino train, which will enter service next week, has been formally handed over to Virgin Trains...
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Deutsche Bahn and Alstom sign a contract for 56 regional trains for the Cologne network
21 June 2011 | By Alstom
DB placed a €325 million order with Alstom to supply 56 Coradia Lint regional trains...
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Alstom unveils the first Régiolis train for French regions
14 June 2011 | By Alstom
Alstom Chairman and CEO, Patrick Kron, today unveiled the first Régiolis train at a ceremony attended by the Vice-President of the Association des Régions de France, Martin Malvy, and SNCF President, Guillaume Pepy...
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Alstom delivers its first 3rd generation Duplex TGV train set to SNCF
30 May 2011 | By Alstom
Alstom’s CEO Patrick Kron symbolically delivered to SNCF’s President Guillaume Pepy the first 3rd generation Duplex TGV train set...
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Alstom & its Chinese JVs to supply advanced traction & signalling systems
24 February 2011 | By Alstom
Alstom & its two Chinese JVs have been awarded two contracts by Beijing MTR Construction Administration Corp., totaling €140 million...
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Alstom to provide 161 IGBT traction systems to NedTrain for €36 million
31 January 2011 | By Alstom
Alstom are to supply 161 Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor traction systems to equip 81 regional trains...
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Alstom installs its Atlas ERTMS solution on Luxembourg Railways’ entire fleet
10 January 2011 | By Alstom
Luxembourg Railways (CFL) has selected Alstom to install the third and final portion of its fleet with the Atlas ERTMS signalling solution*.
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Alstom to supply 7 Citadis trams to Valenciennes for a total of €17 million
5 October 2010 | By Alstom Transport
SITURV, the Valenciennes regional transport authority, has chosen Alstom to supply 7 Citadis tramsets for use on the region’s second tram line...
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Alstom and Transmashholding sign a contract for the design and production of the EP20 electric locomotive for the Russian market
29 June 2010 | By Alstom
Patrick Kron and Andreï Bokarev have signed...
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Alstom to supply 12 Coradia Nordic suburban trains to Sweden
19 May 2010 | By Alstom
The Stockholm public transports authorities SL have placed a €102 million order with Alstom for 12 new Coradia Nordic suburban trains.
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ABB wins $25 million traction transformer order in France
15 April 2010 | By ABB
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $25 million from train manufacturer Alstom Transport.
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Tilting trains – another idea for speed
27 September 2008 | By Roberto Rinaldi, Technical Director of the High Speed Group, ALSTOM
Between 2003 and 2005, the world high and very-high-speed market represented an average of €2.4 billion1, just over half of which was accounted for by high-speed...
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Improvement of Alstom’s high-speed bogies
26 November 2007 | By Jean-Daniel Nast, Technical Director of Bogies, Alstom Transport
Alstom’s high-speed bogies are the result of a joint collaboration with SNCF which started some 30 years ago in the frame of the TGV development...
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Rolling stock orders for DB
3 April 2007 | By James Abbott, Technical Editor, Global Railway Review
In the middle years of this decade, the German rolling stock market was quiet. The big post-reunification boom in orders in the 1990s was followed by a lull, as the German government sought to rein in public spending and prepare Deutsche Bahn AG for privatisation.