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Deutsche Bahn spending €600 mln on diesel trains

Deutsche Bahn said on Monday it had ordered 200 diesel locomotives for passenger and freight trains – an investment of up to €600 million ($859 million).

Published: 18 April 2011 16:08 CEST
Deutsche Bahn spending €600 mln on diesel trains
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The first engines from the Canadian conglomerate Bombardier should be delivered by 2013 and deliveries will continue to 2020, Deutsche Bahn said in a statement.

The locomotives, which feature four compact industrial diesel engines instead of just one, meet stringent new European Union emissions standards and are to be used for the company’s regional operations as well as Europe-wide freight transport.

Their top speed is 160 kilometers per hour (99 mph). The company and its subsidiaries already have 680 similar locomotives, and Deutsche Bahn called the technology “proven.”

Deutsche Bahn technology head Dr. Volker Kefer said in the statement that the order would “reduce maintenance costs and keep operational uses flexible.”

The order comes on the heels of a different agreement with Bomardier’s competitor Siemens to purchase 300 trains to replace Deutsche Bahn’s aging Inter-City and Euro-City fleet and part of its high-speed ICE fleet.

AFP/The Local/mdm

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Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.

Published: 26 February 2024 07:51 CET
Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.

The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.

“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.

“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.

Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.

“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.

The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.

READ ALSO: Copenhagen city government greenlights extension to Metro line

The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).

The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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