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NewsTokaido Shinkansen turns 50
JAPAN: Celebrations were held in Tokyo on October 1 to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the world’s first high speed line, between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka. The current operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen, JR Central, re-enacted the launch with a ribbon-cutting at 06.00 before dispatching the first ...
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NewsAlstom awarded ETCS Level 2 contracts
EUROPE: Alstom has announced contracts to supply ETCS onboard equipment to Belgium’s SNCB and Deutsche Bahn in Germany. The SNCB contract is worth €70m and covers the design, supply and maintenance for 10 years of Atlas 200 ETCS Level 2 onboard equipment for 449 trains of five types. Installation ...
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NewsBombardier's River Line contract renewed
USA: New Jersey Transit has awarded incumbent Bombardier Transportation a new $296m contract to operate and maintain the River Line diesel light rail service. The contract runs for 15 years from March 14 2015, with an option for a further five years. Bombardier has operated the 55 km River ...
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NewsClass 66 locos to get engine stop-start technology
UK: DB Schenker Rail UK is to fit Auto Engine Stop-Start technology supplied by ZTR to 90 of its Electro-Motive Diesel Class 66 locomotives by the end of 2015. Announcing the decision on October 1, the freight operator said trials undertaken since February had found that the amount of ...
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NewsLos Angeles breaks ground on Regional Connector
USA: A groundbreaking ceremony for the Regional Connector light rail line took place in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles on September 30. The 3 km underground line will link the Blue, Expo and Gold lines and add three stations, at 1st Street/Central Avenue, 2nd Street/Broadway and 2nd ...
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NewsPort Authority requests PATH airport extension proposals
USA: New York-New Jersey Port Authority issued a request for proposals on September 26 for an extension of the PATH metro line from Newark Penn Station to Newark Liberty International Airport. A Port Authority study recommended the $1·5bn project in 2012, and it is included in the $27·6bn 10-year ...
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NewsFeature articles in the October 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the October 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International, the leading business journal for railway operators and suppliers, read in 140 countries. Subscribe to Railway Gazette International today. Comment Money, money, money News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers Analysis ...
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NewsNational College for High Speed Rail locations announced
UK: The National College for High Speed Rail is to have its headquarters in Birmingham and a second site in Doncaster, the government announced on September 30. The NCHSR is planned to open in 2017, to provide specialist vocational training for engineers to work on High Speed 2 and future ...
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NewsZafar Alikhan
Zafar Alikhan has been appointed Senior Transit & Rail Manager in the Los Angeles office of consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff.
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NewsAbdeljabbar Ben Salem
Atkins has named Abdeljabbar Ben Salem as Head of Rail Systems at its Middle East Rail division.
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NewsTitus Naikuni
Currently CEO of Kenya Airways, Titus Naikuni takes over as Chairman of Rift Valley Railways from November as part of a wider shareholder restructuring at the Kenya – Uganda railway concessionaire.
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NewsPierre Mongin
Pierre Mongin is to serve a third term as President & CEO of urban transport operator RATP following ratification by its management board and two French governmental committees on July 23. His latest mandate runs to July 2019.
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NewsMaurizio Gentile
Maurizio Gentile was appointed as Amministratore Delegato of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana on July 24. Formerly Director of Production at the Italian infrastructure manager, he takes over as CEO from Michele Elia, who was recently appointed Chief Executive of Gruppo FS Italiane.
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NewsLoubinoux and Flausch join UN panel
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named UIC Director-General Jean-Pierre Loubinoux and UITP Secretary General Alain Flausch among 12 members of a high-level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport. The advisory group is to meet twice a year for three years to promote ‘accelerated implementation of sustainable transport’. Its members are drawn ...
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NewsBakerloo Line extension consultation launched
UK: Transport for London launched a consultation exercise on September 30 to ‘understand the level of public support for a proposed extension’ of London Underground’s Bakerloo Line from Elephant & Castle southeast towards New Cross, Lewisham, Bromley and Hayes. The extension is intended to improve connections to areas which are ...
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NewsDubai metro expansion plans
UAE: Dubai Roads & Transport Authority is studying proposed alignments for extensions of the city’s two metro lines that would open in time for Expo 2020. An 18·5 km extension to the Red Line is planned from Jebel Ali to the Expo 2020 site with 12 stations. At the ...
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NewsDimmable tram windows
GLAZING: Vision Systems Automotive exhibited a prototype of its Nuance smart shading window on a Bombardier Flexity 2 metre-gauge tram for De Lijn, which was displayed at InnoTrans. The electronically dimmable window uses a suspended particle film applied to the glazing. When electronically activated, this allows light through, but ...
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NewsBuenos Aires metro Line C upgrade
ARGENTINA: Metro authority SBASE has awarded Siemens a €30m contract to upgrade Buenos Aires metro Line C. Siemens will supply its Trainguard MT train control, Controlguide Vicos operations control system for the depot operations control centre in Constitución, Airlink radio transmission and Sicas electronic interlockings, as well as a ...
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NewsBasel tests cross-border tram
SWITZERLAND: Testing on the cross-border tram Route 8 of the Basel network began on September 29. An initial two weeks of technical tests for all tram types in the BVB fleet will lead up to German BOStrab certification in mid-October, overseen by Stuttgart-based TAB. This will clear the way ...
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NewsInnoTrans Daily 2014
Railway Gazette has once again produced the InnoTrans Daily on behalf of Messe Berlin, in association with Eurailpress and DVV Media Group. A pdf of each issue of this free newspaper, featuring coverage of the show highlights in both English and German, can be viewed by clicking the links below: ...