All Railway Gazette International articles in December 2024 – Page 4

  • fr-TER 2N NG refurbishment-Anne (5)
    News

    Refurbished Grand Est double-deck EMU unveiled

    2024-12-12T11:00:00Z

    FRANCE: National operator SNCF Voyageurs has unveiled the first of the Grand Est région’s TER 2N NG double-deck electric multiple-units to undergo mid-life refurbishment as part of the national OPTER programme. SNCF Voyageurs is to refurbish 125 Bombardier Transportation AGC and 41 Alstom TER 2N NG ...

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    News

    Hyundai Rotem among bidders to supply 150 trainsets to ONCF

    2024-12-12T07:00:00Z

    MOROCCO: National railway ONCF is seeking bids for the supply of up to 150 trains, with Hyundai Rotem among the suppliers involved in the procurement.

  • Istanbul (Photo Ben Kerckx, Pixabay)
    Metro Report International

    Istanbul tramway approval hints at political détente over transport investment

    2024-12-12T06:00:00Z

    TURKEY: Istanbul municipality has been given the go-ahead by the city’s governor to develop the planned 21 km Üsküdar – Kadıköy – Maltepe tram line, following a ruling that no environmental impact assessment would be required for the project. Construction is expected to start before the ...

  • Stowmarket bridge impression
    Rail Business UK

    UK railway news round-up

    2024-12-12T05:00:00Z

    This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

  • Tren Maya (Photo Alstom)
    News

    Mexico to invest 157bn pesos in railway expansion in 2025

    2024-12-11T14:00:00Z

    MEXICO: The government has announced plans to invest 157bn pesos in 2025 for the construction of new passenger railways and the development of freight operations on some parts of the network.

  • Lumo train (Photo Lumo)
    Rail Business UK

    ‘We grow, they grow’: FirstGroup sets out open access rail aims

    2024-12-11T12:00:00Z

    Following FirstGroup’s announcement that it is to order more trains to support its growth drive in the open access market, First Rail Managing Director Steve Montgomery explains the next steps to Rail Business UK.

  • Bengaluru Namma Metro (Photo BMRC)
    Metro Report International

    Bengaluru Red Line approval progress

    2024-12-11T11:00:00Z

    INDIA: On December 6, the Karnataka Cabinet approved Phase 3A of the Bengaluru metro, allowing the project to go forward for central government sign-off.

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    News

    Second rolling stock assembly plant planned in Morocco

    2024-12-11T07:00:00Z

    MOROCCO: Minister for Transport & Logistics Abdessamad Kayouh has announced that a second train assembly facility is to be built to serve the needs of national operator ONCF. Appointed to the portfolio in October, Kayouh confirmed in response to a question from opposition party Ittihadi that ONCF ...

  • Škoda tram debuts in Bonn (1)
    Metro Report International

    Urban transport industry news round-up

    2024-12-11T06:00:00Z

    This week’s round-up of news from the urban transport sector.

  • VTG JPA tank wagon (Photo VTG)
    Rail Business UK

    Aluminium producer leases smart wagons

    2024-12-11T05:00:00Z

    UK: VTG Rail UK has secured a 10-year wagon leasing agreement with new customer Alvance British Aluminium, which will take on 20 JPA powder tank wagons retrofitted with VTG’s iWagon technology. The wagons are expected to be used by Alvance from June 2025, carrying alumina powder ...

  • Vue extérieure_Exterior Livery
    News

    VIA Rail seeks dome cars as part of pan-Canadian fleet renewal

    2024-12-10T16:30:00Z

    CANADA: VIA Rail Canada has issued a requests for qualification for a contract to supply more than 40 locomotives and 313 coaches of nine types to replace its Long-Distance, Regional & Remote train fleet. There would be a technical support and spares supply services agreement for an ...

  • Transnordestina
    News

    Transnordestina funding deal agreed

    2024-12-10T15:00:00Z

    BRAZIL: The Brazilian Northeast Development Fund (Fundo de Desenvolvimento do Nordeste) has agreed to lend R$3∙6bn to help finance construction of the Ferrovia Transnordestina project. The deal follows agreement by Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste for Banco do Nordeste to sign an addendum with concessionaire Transnordestina ...

  • San Clemente Coast (Photo Metrolink)
    News

    Alstom awarded California Metrolink operation and maintenance contract

    2024-12-10T14:01:00Z

    USA: Southern California Regional Rail Authority has awarded Alstom a combined Train Operation & Maintenance Services contract for its Metrolink passenger rail services. Alstom is to take over on July 1 2025 when its current fleet maintenance contract and the separate operating contract with Amtrak expire. ...

  • Proxima Alstom Avelia Horizon high speed train impression (Image Proxima)
    News

    Proxima high speed train order financing in place

    2024-12-10T11:02:00Z

    FRANCE: Hamburg Commercial Bank has acted as mandated lead arranger for the financing of 12 Alstom Avelia Horizon high speed trains ordered by new market entrant Proxima. A consortium of banks is providing almost €500m compliant with the Loan Market Association’s Green loan criteria towards the ...

  • it Hitachi completes new Roma metro train
    Metro Report International

    Hitachi Rail completes Roma metro trainset

    2024-12-10T11:00:00Z

    ITALY: The first of 14 six-car metro trainsets that Hitachi Rail is supplying for Roma’s metro lines A and B has been completed. The trainset was inspected by Eugenio Patanè, Council Member for Transport at Roma municipality, when paid a visit to Hitachi Rail’s Reggio Calabria ...

  • Orlik bridge load testing (Photo SŽ)
    News

    New Schwarzenberský Bridge allows higher speeds and train weights

    2024-12-10T07:00:00Z

    CZECH REPUBLIC: Infrastructure manager SŽ has opened a 316 m long reinforced concrete bridge over the Orlík reservoir near Červená nad Vltavou on the Tábor – Písek line. The new Schwarzenberský Bridge replaces a steel structure dating from 1889 which had limited the maximum speed and ...

  • Furrey and Frey branded Nottingham tram (Photo F+F)
    Rail Business UK

    Swiss rail electrification firm opens Nottingham hub to help ‘ditch dirty diesel’

    2024-12-10T06:00:00Z

    UK: Swiss electrification firm Furrer+Frey has chosen Nottingham as the base for its expanding UK operations, saying it will bring highly skilled engineering jobs to the East Midlands. The office, warehousing and assembly hub in Beeston joins the family-owned company’s global sites including Bern, Berlin, Essen, ...

  • Saitama New Urban Transit trainsets delivered (Photo MHI)
    Metro Report International

    Saitama New Urban Transit trainsets delivered

    2024-12-10T06:00:00Z

    JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has completed deliveries of the 2020 Series Automated Guideway Transit light metro trainsets for Saitama New Urban Transit Co’s New Shuttle Ina Line in Greater Tokyo. MHI supplied five six-car sets in 2015-20 to replace older vehicles, and announced at the end ...

  • Stadler CBTC for Atlanta
    Metro Report International

    Stadler awarded ‘breakthrough’ Atlanta CBTC contract

    2024-12-09T13:00:00Z

    USA: Stadler has announced an ‘international breakthrough’ in the signalling sector with the award of a $500m eight-year contract to supply its NOVA Pro communication-based train control to replace Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s current metro signalling equipment. Stadler said the MARTA order announced on December ...

  • MAV Volan ex-DSB Henschel loco (Image MAV)
    News

    Danish diesel locos to be used in Hungary

    2024-12-09T11:00:00Z

    HUNGARY: State railway group MÁV-Volán has signed a long-term agreement to lease a further 13 diesel locomotives formerly owned by Denmark’s DSB from Swedish leasing company Nordic Re-Finance. They will be used by MÁV-Start and MÁV Rail Tours. In 2020-22 Nordic Re-Finance acquired the remaining 32 ...