The new #Renfe 452s are high capacity commuter trains being built by #Alstom that combine both low-floor single deck cars and double-decker high density cars. These trains are scheduled to enter commercial service next year.
The first of these trains is already being tested on the R1 line in Barcelona, with the #Rodalies colors and livery.
Long shot but—
Any leads on data archives of the content being shown on the Montréal Métro Télécité displays from 1991 to 2015?
It was such a unique medium [see links below] but now it's gone.
Would be so nice to dig up those files and run them on an emulator, a modern recreation or even better: on real hardware.
Those tri-colour (orange, red and green) LED matrix displays were pretty advanced for their time, featuring fluid animations. Even the ads were so unique as they had to be custom. But it was more than ads! There was news, weather, tidbits, fun facts, trivia and even poetry to pass the time. For close to 25 years, it was such an integral part of riding the Métro.
Installed in 1991 and acquired by Alstom in 1999, the system was then sold to other transit systems around the world. It was apparently one of the first of its kind.
The custom content was phased out as the newer (MPM-10) trains were put in service. Télécité displays are still in use on the old MR-73 trains, where they're kept at their minimum: showing the date and time, announcing stations and their connections as well as any service announcements.
In the 1990s, it introduced itself with this cool animation:
"Vous regardez: [logo swoosh swoosh swoosh] Télécité, les afficheurs électroniques du Métro"
In the 2000s, it became:
"Alstom Télécité, média électronique du Métro"
I only found a few newspaper articles mentioning it despite it being so ubiquitous for over two decades. There's only a handful of videos of it on the internet (mostly > 2009, when people started having video cameras in their pocket).
Footage from 2010:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPAaiT0lnBY
Artist William Gamache recreated the font in 2017 (but never released it, AFAIK):
https://www.behance.net/gallery/52783015/Prochaine-Station
Gamache also made an animation that can only be found on the MR-73 English Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MR-73#Automated_announcements_and_visual_information
Left: Picture by me, last Thursday on the Blue line; right: screenshot from footage above.
Schönes Regionalzügle von #Alstom mit ausreichend Platz fürs Gepäck. Warum man das wohl bei der Höllentalbahn nicht geschafft hat?
France: High speed rail start-up #Proxima has signed a €850m firm order for #Alstom to supply 12 Avelia Horizon double-deck high-speed trains for its planned open access services between #Bordeaux, #Nantes, #Rennes, #Angers and #Paris. Full story: https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/proxima-orders-high-speed-trains-for-french-open-access-services/67536.article
April 1985: Belgian class 25.5 electrics were operating #Brussels 
to #Amsterdam 
push-pull trainsets with #NMBS and #NS cars. These trains are long gone.
New #Alstom 200 kph #ICNG-B EMUs will soon perform 32 Brussels to Amsterdam round trips daily. Travel time: two hours.
@smveerman @maartje @jorD1
Après plus de 400 jours d’attente, les membres d’Anticor respirent enfin : leur agrément, indispensable à la continuité de leur action, a été renouvelé par Gabriel Attal juste avant son départ définitif de Matignon.
L’aboutissement d’un feuilleton inique qui commence en 2021. Jean Castex, alors Premier ministre, fait mariner l’association de lutte contre la corruption et introduit un cheval de Troie, une erreur dans l’acte juridique d’agrémentation.
Sur la base de cette mauvais rédaction, le tribunal administratif suspend en 2023, de manière rétroactive, les compétences octroyées par l’agrément.
Une volonté à peine camouflée de fragilisation de l’association, voire de censure politique, orchestrée au sommet de l’État.
Comme nous l’explique nos invités, l’avocate et administratrice d’Anticor Elise Van Beneden et le nouveau président de l’association Paul Cassia, l’urgence est dorénavant de sauver les procédures remises en cause par cet imbroglio. Avec un énorme dossier en ligne de mire : l’affaire #Alstom.
Germany: Transport authorities go.Rheinland and Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr have selected #Alstom to supply and maintain 90 custom-designed Adessia Stream electric multiple-units for S-Bahn services through #Köln https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/alstom-wins-4bn-contract-to-supply-tailor-made-k%C3%B6ln-s-bahn-trains/66982.article
High speed rail start-up #Proxima has announced a €1bn plan backed by investor Antin Infrastructure Partners to acquire 12 #Alstom trainsets and launch open access services from #Bordeaux, #Nantes, #Rennes and #Angers to #Paris https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/high-speed-train-start-up-proxima-announces-1bn-launch-plan/66692.article
#Alstom and #SLCRail speak exclusively to Rail Business UK about their plans to launch an open access #train service between #London #Euston and #Wrexham which would make use of the latest technology, seek to exploit new business opportunities and benefit from changes in the passenger market https://bit.ly/48OaQQ4
The Royal Commission for #AlUla has awarded #Alstom a €500m contract to supply a 'truly unique' tramway inspired by heritage including the historic #Hedjaz Railway https://bit.ly/3RM4MB7
Automating a 'hated task' at trainmaker Alstom
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/4152593/automating-hated-task-trainmaker-alstom
The flagship Acela fleet may have to cut service because Amtrak is running out of spare parts and using unsupported software on critical components while the new fleet is nowhere close to entering service.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zpgv/a-computer-model-is-causing-years-of-delays-for-amtraks-new-high-speed-trains-scathing-audit-finds
#amtrak #trains #acela #Northeastcorridor #highspeedrail #alstom #Moveable
As our 'brand new' #OttawaLRT goes into extended shutdown yet again, the same crazy question always remains:
Did long-time manufacturer of trains #Alstom design a train from scratch without using experienced staff who knew of their previous models?
You'd swear they'd never before known trainy things, like wheels, bearings, doors, pantographs.
They seem to have worked without the benefit of thousands of existing in-service examples that have worked fine for decades. Weird.
#Thailand: Opening of the 30 km #Bangkok MRT #YellowLine #Alstom Innovia #monorail marked by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha https://www.railwaygazette.com/peoplemovers-and-monorails/bangkok-yellow-line-monorail-opens/64346.article
#USA: #SEPTA has formally awarded #Alstom a $718·2m contract to supply 130 fully-customised low-floor trams to replace the #Philadelphia trolley fleet with modern and more accessible vehicles https://bit.ly/3WPmfuu
#Alstom #metro trains for #Singapore's East-West and North-South lines begin entering passenger service https://bit.ly/43KREkf
