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• Denny Miller to retire after 47-year railroad career
  24-Sep-2020  \  PDF 511k
  
  

• Our first ride: The new Alpen-Sylt Night Express of RDC Deutschland
  5-Jul-2020  \  Railcolor News  \  PDF 3.5 MB
  
  

• Premiere launch of the new ALPEN-SYLT Night Express
  5-Jul-2020  \  PDF 528k
    Video:  Inaugural train footage with Dr Markus Hunkel interview
   
  

• Iowa Interstate Railroad opens the William J. Duggan Bridge for rail traffic
  30-Jun-2020  \  PDF 134k
  
  

• New ALPEN-SYLT Night Express connects the Alps and coast
  10-Jun-2020  \  PDF 377k
  
  

• Dr. Niels Hartung joins RDC-D as CFO
  4-Nov-2019  \  PDF 175k
  
  

• Class 484 - trains for the Isle of Wight
  16-Sep-2019
  
  

• A first for Vivarail - and a first for the UK!
  9-Sep-2019
  
  

• Winners at the Rail Industry Innovation Awards
  1-Jul-2019
  
  

• Vivarail and Arcola announce partnership to bring emission-free trains to the UK
  8-May-2019
  
  

• Vivarail -- creating value for light density urban freight lines
  24-Apr-2019  \  Railway Age Light Rail 2019 Conference \ PDF 30MB
  
  

• 230004 is in service! And...Ken Skates, Minister for Economy and Transport, reviews the Class 230s for Transport for Wales
  23-Apr-2019
  
  

• Vivarail launches fast charge system for the Class 230 battery trains - the UK's only battery train with a 60-mile range
  18-Mar-2019
  
  

• Units 230004 and 005 delivered to London Northwestern Railway for service on the Marston Vale line
  20-Feb-2019
  
  

• Vivarail spearheads development of green fuel technologies
  31-Jan-2019
  
  

• Vivarail and Hoppecke announce long-term supply of batteries for Class 230s
  13-Dec-2018
  
  

• Wow - an edible 230
  6-Dec-2018
  
  

• A new era of the railway has begun
  16-Oct-2018
  
  

• GE Transportation and IAIS announce locomotive order
  3-Oct-2018
  
  

• Joe Parsons promoted to IAIS President and CEO
  21-Sep-2018  \  PDF 208k
  
  

• 23003 arriving at the Bletchley depot this evening
  18-Sep-2018
  
  

• Vivarail: new Marston Vale livery revealed as contract for new trains is signed
  22-Aug-2018
  
  

• RDC's German rail ferry inaugurates new locomotive
  27-Jun-2018  \  TRAINS  \  PDF 225k
  
  

• Vivarail battery train footage at Rail Live 2018
  24-Jun-2018
  
  

• Vivarail announces new order for Wales and Borders
  7-Jun-2018
  
  

• How a railroad helped make a movie
  31-May-2018   \   TRAINS   \   PDF 107k
  
  Trailer:  "The Train of Salt and Sugar"
  

• Busy times for Vivarail . . .
  22-May-2018
  
  

• "The Train of Salt and Sugar" opening at Facets Cinematheque in Chicago
  16-May-2018  (PDF 120k)
   
  
  

• Vivarail D-Train projects make progress
  15-May-2018  \  International Railway Journal \ PDF 154k
  
  

•  FlixTrain launches on Hamburg-Köln route
   23-Mar-2018  \  Railway Gazette International  \  PDF 110k
  

• D-Train to target US transit market
  20-Mar-2018  \  Railway Gazette International  \  PDF 153k
  
  

• New life for London subway cars in the US?
  12-Mar-2018  \  Railway Age  \  PDF 161k
  
  

• Vivarail D-Train to be tested in US cities
  9-Mar-2018  \  International Railway Journal  \  PDF 105k
  
  

• RDC looks to test 'pop-up' transit options in the UK and US
  7-Mar-2018  \  TRAINS News Wire  \  PDF 126k
  
  

• Vivarail to supply new trains for the Marston Vale Line
  1-Mar-2018
  
  

• Vivarail's battery train update
  21-Feb-2018
  
  

• Film Review: "The Train of Salt and Sugar"
  16-Jan-2018  \   The Hollywood Reporter  \  PDF 164k
  
  

• Watco partners with IAIS to develop the Council Bluffs terminal
  6-Jan-2018