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VR FleetCare to install networking equipment into HSL busses for improved passenger comfort

The contract signed in April covers the renewal of the ticket reading equipment and vehicle routers. The aim is to improve passenger comfort and to ensure working data connections.

21. April 2023 News and press releases Contracts Customer Topical

VR FleetCare’s collaboration with the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency continues with track circuit measurements

Photo of railway tracks

The collaboration aims to build and improve the overall condition monitoring of track equipment. Track circuits are one of the important factors in the bigger picture of track equipment.

17. April 2023 News and press releases Contracts Customer Topical

FleetCare will overhaul 12 M200 metro trains during 2023

M100 metro car

During the overhaul, a total of 12 M200 metro trains manufactured by Bombardier in 2000–2001 will be modernized at the Helsinki depot. The overhaul will be carried out in two stages; the first prototype phase includes the overhaul of two metro trains, and the subsequent serial production phase ...

11. April 2023 News and press releases Services Topical

Large rolling stock modernisation project for VR FleetCare from SJ

The cooperation of the Finnish rail fleet maintenance company VR FleetCare with the Swedish railway operator SJ AB is evolving. The two companies have signed an agreement to modernise X40 train fleet, with the aim of extending fleet’s life cycle and improving the travel comfort of customers. Th...

5. April 2023 News and press releases Topical Contracts

VR FleetCare will be attending Train & Rail fair in Stockholm

Railway tracks leading to a railway station with VR FleetCare's Train & Rail exhibition ad

We are thrilled to be taking part in he Nordic region's largest fair for sustainable rail transport, Train & Rail. 2023 The exhibition will be organised at Stockholmsmässan, 25–27 April.

27. February 2023 News and press releases Topical

Pieksämäki machine shop sends 200 stoves to Ukraine

In the picture, from left to right, the core team that manufactured the stoves: mechanics Niko Partti and Markus Kosunen, production manager Petri Nykänen and supervisor Jukka Markkanen.

In addition to its normal operations, the Pieksämäki machine shop is currently manufacturing stoves for Ukraine. The most important thing for everyone involved is the opportunity to help Ukrainians in the midst of a crisis.

1. February 2023 Articles News and press releases Topical Responsibility

VR FleetCare’s Pieksämäki machine shop ready to start manufacturing domestic timber wagons

Employee painting a timber wagon

Domestic railway transport has increased, and the demand for the rail transport of roundwood in particular has been at a high level. VR FleetCare’s Pieksämäki machine shop is able to start manufacturing new timber wagons on a fast schedule, with the production line ready for commissioning.

16. January 2023 News and press releases Topical Services

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