This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.
On April 10 Stadler opened a workshop built by Strabag in Obersiebenbrunn near Wien for the maintenance of Westbahn trains and to support the commissioning, certification and servicing for other rolling stock projects. Stadler said it is ‘hall for everyone’, and will in future be available to all operators for servicing work on Stadler vehicles. ‘With this facility, we are responding to the increasing demands of an ever-more-congested and technologically sophisticated rail network’, said Christian Diewald, CEO of Stadler Austria.
Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail has worked with TrueCom to deploy Adtran’s ALM optic fibre integrity monitoring technology across its 4 600 km backbone network.
Industrial shunting, material handling, transloading, track construction and maintenance and locomotive repair group Marmon Rail has launched a unified Railserve brand, bringing together Railserve, Ameritrack and Powerhouse under a single brand with a refreshed visual identity. ‘Customers work with us in different ways’, said Laurie Stiles, President, Railserve. ‘Bringing our capabilities together under Railserve makes it easier for customers to see the full range of services we provide.’
Watson Farley & Williams advised KfW IPEX-Bank on the provision of a €100m promotional loan to Railpool. ‘The transaction demonstrates that promotional loans can be successfully integrated into existing common terms frameworks to facilitate investment in sustainable rail mobility’, said WFW Assets & Structured Finance Partner Frederik Lorenzen.