2023-01-26 – RailFreight.com (EN)
Brittany Ferries has confirmed an order of wagons from French manufacturer Lohr ahead of the launch of its ‘rail freight motorway’ service between Cherbourg and Bayonne in France. The service is scheduled to be launched next year and will cover a distance of almost 1,000 kilometres from the French-Spanish border to the French North.
2023-01-25 – Les Echos (FR)
The Alsatian company has signed a 14 million euro contract with the Breton shipping company. Production has been brought forward to meet the deadlines for the supply of key parts.
2023-01-23 – Bretagne Economie (FR)
The project has been in the pipeline for several years: the Breton shipping company Brittany Ferries is going to set up a rail motorway between the port of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin and the European freight centre of Mouguerre, near Bayonne, in order to link Spain, Great Britain and Ireland via the French rail network. This multimodal line is scheduled to open in spring 2024.
2023-01-20 – La presse de la Manche (FR)
An agreement has been signed between Lohr and Brittany-Ferries on a contract to supply the wagons that will run on the Cherbourg-Mouguerre rail link.
2023-01-20 – Ouest France (FR)
Brittany Ferries and the Alsatian industrialist Lohr are now linked in the rail motorway project linking Cherbourg to Bayonne. Jean-Marc Roué, president of the shipping company, went to Alsace on Friday 20 January 2023 to sign a contract for the supply of wagons and terminals, in the presence of the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune.
2023-01-21 – DNA (FR)
The maritime carrier Brittany Ferries has chosen the piggyback wagons of the Bas-Rhin industrial group Lohr to equip the future Cherbourg-Mouguerre rail motorway that it will operate from next year. The contract, worth 22 million euros, was signed on Friday in the presence of the Minister for Transport.
2022-12-22 - Détours [Canal +] (FR)
Thanks to Draisy, the SNCF's innovation department promises to cut the operating costs of a TER rail line in half. On the other hand, there will be fewer seats. CQFD.
2022-12- Stadtverkehr(DE)
By Mr. Reinhard Christeller
With Decree 2022-664, the French government has created the legal basis for derogating from the European interoperability rules on railway lines used exclusively for local passenger transport or for the transport of passengers and goods.
2022-12-06 – actustrasbourg (FR)
A new kind of vehicle is being built in the Grand Est region. It is called Draisy and aims to revitalize the small railroad lines. Here are 10 things to know.
2022-11-24 – DNA (FR)
The Alsatian group Lohr is working in a consortium with the SNCF and three other partners on a "hybrid" light train capable of reducing the operating costs of passenger transport on small regional lines, which are little or not operated at all. Selected by the government in a call for expressions of interest, this project, called Draisy, could result in a first prototype by the end of 2024.
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