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ELL recently acquired its 200th Vectron locomotive…
… from Siemens Mobility. A resounding success and the signs are very promising it will continue just as brilliantly. When Siemens Mobility invited the two business partners to a Danube tour on 7 September 2022, they took the opportunity to reflect on this achievement. The fact is the ELL fleet will have grown to […]
May 2022: ELL Team Meeting and LOCMASTA Opening Ceremony
On 18 and 19 May 2022, after two long years of the Covid-19 pandemic, ELL held a long-overdue team meeting in Vienna combined with the opening of the joint venture service station LOCMASTA (ELL, LTE and ÖBB) in Gramatneusiedl. “It was a very busy two days, but the focus was on feeling good,” remembers […]
Grand opening of LOCMASTA
LOCMASTA, the Locomotive Maintenance Station, was opened in Gramatneusiedl on 20th May 2022 in glorious weather and in the presence of well-known names from the local railway industry. The location may sound a little exotic at first, but Gramatneusiedl is actually right at the heart of Europe, where the continent’s most important transport corridors […]
A daily train to safety
All of Europe is trying to help as best it can to prevent the spiral of horrors from spinning even faster these days. The ELL team also wants to help: since 31st March 2022, it has been working with long-standing partner RegioJet to bring people displaced from the war zones of Ukraine to safety. The […]
Nederlandse Spoorwegen operates ELL Vectron non-stop on Amsterdam-Berlin route
It’s no secret that Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) is looking to shorten the journey time from Amsterdam to Berlin. It achieved this for the first time when it operated the reliable multi-system ELL locomotive 193 263 on 15th February 2022 and cut out a 20-minute stop in Bad Bentheim on the Dutch-German border, as this allowed […]
ÖBB, LTE and ELL build new service centre in the greater Vienna area
ÖBB, LTE and ELL create joint venture for new service centre in the greater Vienna area (Vienna – 04/05/2020) – ÖBB-Technische Services GmbH (ÖBB TS), LTE Logistics & Transport Europe (LTE) and ELL European Locomotive Leasing (ELL) are forming a joint venture called ETL Lokservice GmbH to set up and operate a service base for […]
ELL wins tender in the Netherlands – ELL Vectron “Flying Dutchman” will pull the NightJet
Attention all night owls! From the end of 2020, you can travel from Amsterdam to Vienna (and back) on the NightJet. This will connect the Netherlands to the European “overnight train” network for the first time since 2016. Two locomotives from ELL’s fleet will pull these trains, taking passengers quickly and safely to their destinations. […]
