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NewsBranch line to serve Samsun logistics hub
TURKEY: Infrastructure manager TCDD has awarded a TL190m contract for the construction of a railway between the existing Samsun - Sivas line and TCDD's Gelemen rail logistics centre. The lead contractor will be a consortium of Dekovil Entegre Sistemler and Feza Taahut. The contract involves construction of a 6·7 km ...
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NewsGibela assembly plant inaugurated
SOUTH AFRICA: The Dunnottar industrial park where the Alstom-led Gibela joint venture will manufacture new EMUs for Prasa was officially inaugurated by President Cyril Ramaphosa and Transport Minister Blade Nzimande on October 25. The ceremony was also attended by Deputy Minister of Transport Sindisiwe Chikunga and the Premier of ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
The 40th Traxx MS2 locomotive ordered by Hamburger Hafen & Logistik's rail subsidiary Metrans was handed over by Bombardier Transportation at the Praha Uhříněves container terminal on October 25. The locos are being used to haul trains between the North Sea ports of Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam and Antwerpen, and the ...
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NewsTAZARA awards dry port concession
ZAMBIA: Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority and Dar es Salaam Corridor Group have entered into an agreement for the development of a rail-served dry port at New Kapiri Mposhi. DCG was the winner of a competitive bidding process, and is to develop the facility under a 25-year build-lease-transfer public-private partnership. TAZARA ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market - October 2018
Australia: The government of Western Australia has prequalified Alstom, the Momentum West consortium of CAF and UGL and a consortium of EDI Rail and Bombardier Transportation for a contract to supply up to 41 six-car EMUs for the Transperth network serving Perth. It expects to select a supplier in early ...
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Metro Report InternationalLisboa metro modernisation moves ahead
PORTUGAL: Metropolitano de Lisboa has called tenders for the supply of 14 three-car trainsets and CBTC to replace the signalling, which dates from the 1970s. A total investment of €127m is planned. The new rolling stock is expected to arrive in 2022, with entry into service of ...
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NewsCatania offers students free travel
ITALY: Università degli Studi di Catania is offering all 45 000 students enrolled in the current academic year free public transport in the city. Free travel is currently valid on all urban bus routes managed by AMT and on the metro, but not on suburban and regional bus lines ...
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NewsDriving innovation in rail freight
EUROPE: ‘We need a quantum leap’, suggested DG Move’s Director of Land Transport Elisabeth Werner, speaking at a workshop in Brussels on October 25 to launch the European Rail Industry Freight Agenda. Emphasising that rail freight had a key role to play in the decarbonisation of European transport, Werner warned ...
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NewsState aid for modal shift approved
BELGIUM: The European Commission has approved a state aid scheme which is designed to encourage the modal shift from road to rail and inland waterway of freight traffic to and from Belgian seaports. The €70m scheme running to the end October 2023 provides a subsidy per train or per ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Presenting its Q3 results on October 25, Vossloh said it is expects group sales in 2018 to be ‘toward the lower end’ of the guidance of €875m to €950m. EBIT and the EBIT margin are predicted to be below 2017, mainly as a result of the very strong performance in ...
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NewsFlirt Akku battery multiple-unit unveiled
GERMANY: Stadler has officially unveiled the prototype Flirt Akku, a version of its Flirt family of electric multiple-units which is equipped with a battery to permit operation on non-electrified or partly-electrified routes. The unit was officially unveiled on October 25, when it carried guests between the Stadler Pankow factory in ...
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NewsTram-train service to Rotherham launched
UK: Passengers aboard the 10.35 departure from Rotherham Parkgate on October 25 made history as they rode the first tram-train in revenue service in the UK. Opening of the Sheffield – Rotherham tram-train route marks the culmination of a pilot programme more than a decade in the ...
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NewsFour prequalify for Danish EMU contract
DENMARK: Four manufacturers have prequalified to bid for the Future Trains contract to supply and maintain at least 100 electric multiple-units which would replace most of national passenger operator DSB’s diesel fleet. They are: Alstom Transport Danmark;Bombardier Transportation Denmark; Siemens Mobility; Stadler Bussnang. The government gave the go-ahead ...
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NewsRail terminal opened to serve Jaguar Land Rover car factory
SLOVAKIA: Infrastructure manager ŽSR has opened a public intermodal freight terminal at Lužianky in near Nitra to serve the Jaguar Land Rover car factory which was officially inaugurated on October 25. The Jaguar Land Rover plant has the capacity to produce 150 000 cars a year. Up to 80% of ...
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NewsHelsinki trams run in Schöneiche
GERMANY: Škoda Transtech and Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Strassenbahn finalised a deal to transfer two pre-series ForCity Smart Artic trams from Helsinki on October 25. The sale takes place after two months of testing on the metre-gauge line near Berlin with the support of Helsinki transport operator HKL and Voith Digital Solutions ...
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NewsHyundai Rotem to supply trains for Almaty metro extension
KAZAKHSTAN: Hyundai Rotem has signed an 80·8bn won contract to supply 32 metro cars for the Almaty metro, the manufacturer announced on October 25. Rotem is to deliver the vehicles from its Changwon plant in South Korea by 2020, in time for the opening of the line’s extension. The ...
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NewsSingapore orders 60 electric buses
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority has awarded three contracts for the supply of battery electric buses, it announced on October 24. BYD and ST Engineering Land Systems are each to supply 20 single-deck buses under contracts worth S$17m and S$15m, respectively. A consortium of Yutong and NARI is to supply ...
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NewsUganda rail revival funding agreed
UGANDA: An agreement to fund rehabilitation of the 375 km Northern Line between Tororo and Gulu has been signed by the European Union which will provide a €21·5m grant and the government of Uganda which is to contribute €13·1m. The metre gauge line from the Kenyan border to northern Uganda ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
Chiltern Railways is to operate an Oxford Parkway to London Marylebone via Bicester Village service on December 26, when services do not normally run. ‘Although it’s unusual for the railway to be open on Boxing Day, we’ve found this service to be very popular with our customers’, said Commercial Director ...
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NewsBattery trolleybus delivered to Opava
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Electric delivered its first 32 Tr battery trolleybus to Opava from its Plzeň factory on October 15. In January operator DPMO signed a contract worth KC135·5m excluding VAT for the supply of 10 trolleybuses. The model is based on SOR’s NS 12 bodyshell and is fitted ...