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ÖBB: The transition to the new digital railway
‘Digitalisation’ is a term used a lot within the railway sector, but what does it actually mean and what are its real-world possibilities?
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ÖBB Railjet – technology that moves
31 January 2017 | By Kurt Bauer, ÖBB’s Head of High-Speed and Long-Distance Services
Railjet is the most modern high-speed train in ÖBB’s fleet and connects the whole of Austria with Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and the Czech Republic (and from 2018 with Italy as well) at up to 230km/h on a regular schedule. Here ÖBB’s Head of High-Speed and Long-Distance Services, Kurt Bauer, explains…
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ÖBB cityjet Desiro presented
11 November 2014 | By Siemens
The Austrian Federal Minister for Transport, Alois Stöger, and the CEO of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), Christian Kern, were joined by Jochen Eickholt, CEO of the Siemens Mobility Division, in presenting the new Desiro type regional multiple-unit train for Austria at the Siemens plant in Krefeld (Germany)...
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ÖBB order further nine Railjet units
4 August 2014 | By Siemens
Austrian Federal Railways is ordering a further nine Railjet trains from Siemens, with delivery of the seven-car units planned for December 2016...
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Steady construction continues on the new Koralmbahn
12 February 2014 | By OBB-Holding AG
The Koralm Railway (or Koralmbahn) is a new double-track line approximately 133km-long that will run between the Austrian cities of Graz and Klagenfurt and is part of the Baltic-Adriatic Axis which connects the Baltic Sea with the ports of the upper Adriatic. At the heart of the new railway line…
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ÖBB presents designs for its new Desiro ML EMUs
3 September 2013 | By Siemens
Doris Bures & Christian Kern presented the exterior & interior designs of the new additions to its fleet of EMUs...
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Rail steel grades in track
1 August 2013 | By Peter Veit, Head of the Institute for Railway Engineering and Transport Economy, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Since 2002, track strategies at the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) have been based on life-cycle cost calculations1. These basic strategies have been adopted due to new technologies – for example the use of under sleeper pads, changing price levels, and the phenomena of rail contact fatigue2 (RCF). The basic data…
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ÖBB Austrian State Railways set to order the first 100 regional trains for 550 million euros
30 January 2013 | By Siemens
"We have once again won out in a tendering procedure with our Desiro platform..."
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Siemens to equip ÖBB Nordbahn route with ETCS
17 October 2011 | By Siemens
Siemens Mobility and Logistics to equip the Nordbahn route between Vienna & Břeclav with ETCS...
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Kapsch celebrates rapid ÖBB GSM-R expansion with locomotive christening
7 October 2011 | By Ketchum Publico
GSM-R, the digital train radio system is the basis for a new pan-European signaling and train control system...
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The festival city of Salzburg gets a unique entrée
4 August 2010 | By Johannes Gfrerer, Spokesman for the Salzburg Region, ÖBB-Holding AG and Thomas Wörndl, Project Manager for the reconstruction of the Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
€270 million will be invested in the creation of a unique transport station in the festival city of Salzburg that is to be completed by 2014. The new through station will do full justice to the requirements of a modern railway age as a regional and international transport hub. High…
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Siemens eco-friendly trains for Austria
20 April 2010 | By Siemens
Siemens has reached an agreement with Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) on the supply of up to 200 regional passenger trains over the next five years.
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High-tech solution for ÖBB operation control
21 July 2009 | By Herwig Wiltberger, Member of the Board, ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb and August Zierl, Head of ÖBB’s Business Unit ‘Engineering Services’, ÖBB-Infrastruktur Bau AG
ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb AG is a modern and customer-oriented infrastructure operator allowing the 22 railway undertakings authorised to operate in Austria access to ÖBB's approximately 5,700km-long railway network. To this end, ÖBB's operation control strategy plays a decisive role. ÖBB heralded a new high-tech era with the launch of the operation…
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The Arlberg Railway – connecting Tyrol and Vorarlberg for 125 years
15 May 2009 | By Rene Zumtobel, Press Relations Officer for the Tyrol and Vorarlberg regions, ÖBB-Holding AG
Rene Zumtobel celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Arlberg Railway in Austria, and how after all this time it is still playing a vital part of the Austrian western railway line between Bregenz, Zürich and Vienna.
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Implementation of the ÖBB Maintenance Plan according to international standards
26 March 2009 | By Werner Hanreich, Head of Permanent Way Diagnostics; Manfred Datler, Technical Manager for Permanent Way Diagnostic Vehicles and Michael Wogowitsch, Technical Manager of Permanent Way Maintenance, ÖBB
Overview of the Technical Specification for Interoperability (TSI) relating to the infrastructure subsystem of the trans-European high-speed rail system.