A STEAM engine on a popular heritage railway collided with carriages when the driver became distracted by visitors and forgot to change the points. The force of the impact at Pickering Station, North ...

Switch from freight transport by truck to transport by railModal shiftAlthough it is recently advocated, as it is now, before truck transport became mainstream railway transport is the mainstream, a ...

The H3 Hybrid Shunting Locomotive Project involves the development and testing of five new-generation locomotives based on hybrid technology (electric batteries and/or generators). The H3 Hybrid ...

The project is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. To the study There are currently around 2,700 diesel ...

In order to solve the problems of high pollution and high fuel consumption of the traditional diesel locomotive, China released its first high power electric shunting locomotive on Thursday. "With ...

This photo taken on Nov. 16, 2023 shows China's first newly-built high-power electric shunting locomotive at CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. in Zhuzhou, central China's Hunan Province. China's first ...

Alstom will carry out the ATO tests on a Lineas-owned diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotive. Credit: Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) Alstom will test the performance of ...

In the feasibility study, technological and operational requirements for the vehicle and refuelling and maintenance infrastructure were derived for various areas of use for shunting locomotives. The ...

Indian Railways goes green with eco-friendly loco! The Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways has added ‘Pasumai’, an environment-friendly battery-operated dual-mode shunting locomotive to its fleet ...

THE clocks were turned back 60 years to the 1950s when a steam shunting engine paid a nostalgic visit to the town’s docks for what is almost certainly the last time. Hornpipe is an 84-year-old Peckett ...