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NewsDAXI under new ownership
BELGIUM: Bruno Hubert and Jerome Leclef have acquired majority ownership of reconditioned rolling stock and track component dealer DAXI Group. Founder Jean-Pierre De Zutter will support the transition to the new owners and continue to help with major projects before retiring. Bruno Hubert joins DAXI as majority shareholder and ...
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NewsInfrabel speaks out after axle-counter trouble
BELGIUM: Infrastructure manager Infrabel expressed concern about the reliability of AC100 axle-counters supplier by Siemens in a statement issued on May 8, saying 125 incidents had caused 9 000 min of delay in the first quarter of the year. This was double the figure for the same period last year, ...
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Metro Report InternationalMobile ticketing arrives in Portland
USA: Mobile ticketing was introduced to the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area on May 2 with the launch of an Android app. The Virtual Hop Card uses Google Pay. Passengers can tap their smartphones on fare validators when they use bus, light rail and commuter rail services operated by TriMet, C-TRAN ...
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NewsREMSA to sponsor two students to attend InnoTrans 2018
INNOTRANS: The US Railway Engineering-Maintenance Suppliers Association is to offer two students the chance to attend InnoTrans 2018 in Berlin on September 18-21. The selected students would participate in the InnoTrans Career Award, which is designed to ‘spark the interest’ of future generations to pursue opportunities in the rail and ...
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NewsPeoplemover opens at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport
RUSSIA: An automated peoplemover opened at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on May 3. The 2 km cable-driven peoplemover links the newly opened Terminal B with terminals D, E and F on an underground alignment. Doppelmayr built the US$243m peoplemover and is providing 15 years of operations and maintenance under ...
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News‘Root and branch’ reform of UK rail fares proposed
UK: The Rail Delivery Group is to undertake public consultation ahead of producing proposals for how it could work with government to implement a ‘root and branch reform’ of fare and ticket regulation. The current regulatory structure for ticketing in Great Britain was fixed at the time of privatisation ...
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NewsMRCE orders 25 more Vectrons
EUROPE: Leasing company Mitsui Rail Capital Europe announced an order for further 25 Siemens Vectron locomotives on May 8. The order includes 10 multisystem 6·4 MW locomotives suitable for operation ‘across Europe from the Netherlands to southeast Europe’ which will be delivered at the end of 2018, as well as ...
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NewsFrance – Germany tram-train to be studied
EUROPE: A Franco-German feasibility study is to look at the possibility of using around 40 route-km of freight-only and disused railway lines to introduce a regional rail or tram-train style service linking Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg with Haganeu in Alsace. This would make use of an existing road-rail bridge over ...
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NewsKaluga trolleybus extension inaugurated
RUSSIA: Kaluga trolleybus operator UKT inaugurated a 3·3 km extension of Line 18 on April 29. The extension runs northwest from Ulitsa Generala Popova to Mikrorayon Koshelev. Line 18 is now 28 km long with 26 stops, offering an end-to-end journey time of 80 min between Dubrava and Mikrorayon ...
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NewsFenix Signalling targets Southeast Asia market
THAILAND: UK company Fenix Signalling has acquired a majority shareholding in Bangkok-based signalling consultancy MGB Systems Ltd, which has been renamed Fenix Southeast Asia Ltd. Fenix Southeast Asia aims to offer a ‘one-stop shop’ covering the infrastructure asset lifecycle from concept design through construction to operations and maintenance. Announcing the ...
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NewsVirgin Trains sells tickets through Amazon Alexa
UK: Amazon Echo voice-activated devices with the Alexa virtual assistant and Amazon Pay can now be used to book advance single tickets for Virgin Trains East Coast and West Coast services. The launch on May 3 follows Virgin Trains' introduction last November of a journey planning ‘skill’ for Amazon Alexa. ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Genesee & Wyoming company Freightliner unveiled its new brand identity on May 1. It will now commence rebranding its intermodal and bulk rail freight terminals and Freightliner Road Services lorries, while 'taking a phased approach' with locomotives and wagons. The European Rail Freight Association’s annual meeting on April 18 called ...
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NewsKansas City Southern to deploy CloudMoyo software
USA: CloudMoyo is to deploy its Microsoft Azure cloud-based CloudMoyo Rail Transportation Management software to modernise Kansas City Southern’s Management Control System and provide analytics and artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency. KCS already uses CloudMoyo’s crew management, business intelligence and analytics packages, and is to deploy CRTM in ...
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NewsLondon Liverpool street lighting upgrade
UK: Network Rail has installed Goodlight LED lighting supplied by LED Eco Lights on the 18 platforms and concourse at London Liverpool Street station. ‘We decided to move to LED lighting to reduce our carbon output, reduce costs in terms of power consumption and to improve the lighting level and ...
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Metro Report InternationalOttawa light rail project receives more provincial funding
CANADA: Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure Bob Chiarelli announced on May 3 that the province is to contribute up to C$50m towards the construction of a 3·4 km extension of Ottawa’s Trillium Line to Limebank Road. The southern extension, which includes a branch to Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, is part of ...
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NewsSecond airport rail link opens in Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA: A rail link to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Kuala Lumpur was inaugurated on May 1. The Ministry of Transport funded the 521m ringgit project. The route branches off from the metre-gauge line that links Kuala Lumpur with Port Klang at Subang Jaya. It runs north along ...
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NewsSecond airport rail link opens in Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA: A rail link to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Kuala Lumpur was inaugurated on May 1. The Ministry of Transport funded the 521m ringgit project. The route branches off from the metre-gauge line that links Kuala Lumpur with Port Klang at Subang Jaya. It runs north along ...
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NewsEU budgets €30·6bn for transport in 2021-27
EUROPE: A total spending envelope of €30·6bn has been allocated for transport investment as part of the European Commission’s 2021-27 budget proposals presented to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on May 2. Describing its proposed Multiannual Financing Framework as ‘pragmatic and modern’, the Commission put forward plans for a total ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
On April 13 Channel Tunnel operator Getlink completed an internal reorganisation of its corporate structure. Groupe Eurotunnel SE transferred its holdings in the two concessionaires France Manche SA and The Channel Tunnel Group Ltd to Eurotunnel Holding SAS, in order to ring fence the fixed link activities from other group ...
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NewsAlpha Trains forms French subsidiary
FRANCE: Leasing company Alpha Trains Group is targeting the emerging French passenger rolling stock leasing market with the formation of a French subsidiary. ‘France is a new and important market for us, which we are relying on to replicate our success in Germany and become the ideal partner of the ...