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NewsHKX to resume with support from FlixBus
GERMANY: Hamburg-Köln-Express services are to temporarily resume in December and January, long-distance coach company FlixBus announced on November 2. In August HKX announced its intention to suspend its open access passenger service from October 4 until December. The arrangement with FlixBus will see services running between Hamburg and Köln ...
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NewsVTG launches Retrack freight subsidiary
GERMANY: Hamburg-based leasing and logistics company VTG has created Retrack GmbH & Co KG as a wholly-owned freight operating subsidiary of its VTG Rail Logistics division, by renaming its former Bräunert Verwaltung and Bräunert Eisenbahnverkehr businesses. Retrack emerged from the EU-backed four-year Reorganisation of Transport Networks By Advanced Rail Concepts ...
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NewsÖstgötatrafiken orders more Coradia Nordic EMUs
SWEDEN: Östergötland transport authority Östgötatrafiken has ordered three more Alstom Coradia Nordic electric multiple-units. They are scheduled to be delivered in spring 2019 to augment its current fleet of 15. The four-car 160 km/h units will be 74 m long with a capacity of 510 passengers. Announcing the order on ...
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NewsHS2 Ltd reveals rolling stock contract shortlist
UK: Five bidders have been shortlisted for the contract to supply ‘at least 54’ trainsets for High Speed 2, project promoter HS2 Ltd announced on November 2. They are Alstom Transport, Bombardier Transportation UK, Hitachi Rail Europe, Patentes Talgo and Siemens. HS2 Ltd expects to issue invitations to tender ...
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NewsUK railway news round-up
Incumbent Arriva has withdrawn from the competition for the next Wales & Borders franchise. ‘This has not been an easy decision and we wish Transport for Wales well in concluding this competition‘, said a spokesman on October 30. TfW said it was ‘not uncommon for bidders for major projects to ...
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NewsŠkoda wins Pardubice trolleybus contract
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Electric has won a KC150m contract to supply 15 trolleybuses to Pardubice, the manufacturer announced on October 31. The purchase is being co-financed by EU funds. The 12 m long low-floor air-conditioned 30 Tr vehicles are due to be delivered in the second quarter of 2018. ...
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NewsNew leasing business to supply locos to ZSSK
SLOVAKIA: State passenger operator ZSSK has selected S Rail Lease for a 10-year contract to supply 10 Siemens Vectron electric locomotives for use on its flagship inter-city services between Bratislava and Košice. Bratislava-based S Rail Lease was established in July, and is owned by finaince houses S Slovensko (97%) and ...
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NewsFree pre-peak travel in Singapore to end
SINGAPORE: A trial offering free pre-peak metro travel will end on December 28, Land Transport Authority announced on October 30. Launched in June 2013, the scheme offers free travel to passengers who end their journey at 18 designated stations in the city area before 07.45 on weekdays, while those ...
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NewsDB awards electrification contracts
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has awarded SPL Powerlines Germany contracts with a total value of €13m for electrification of the VE03 Mindelheim – Stetten and VE04 Memmingen – Leutkirch sections of the München – Zürich route. Powerlines is to install a total of 465 masts, 481 cantilevers, 38 km of high-strength ...
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NewsBangladesh Railway orders locomotive simulators
BANGLADESH: Lander is to supply a pair of driver training simulators to Bangladesh Railway under a contract financed by the Asian Development Bank. Lander is to design, supply and maintain custom-made diesel locomotive simulators with motion platforms with six degrees of freedom, as well a building to house them. ...
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NewsReducing vibration from vehicle-mounted equipment
VIBRATION: The passenger areas of rolling stock can be isolated from vibrations caused by underfloor or roof-mounted equipment such as air-conditioning units using the Isotop DZE Railway spring and damper developed by Getzner Werkstoffe. This has a height of 45 mm and can be optimised to reduce the propagation of ...
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NewsWires reach Ust-Luga
RUSSIA: RZD has formally marked the completion of 3 kV DC electrification on the October Railway’s Mga – Veymarn – Luzhskaya corridor in Leningrad Oblast, permitting electrically-hauled heavy haul trains to run through from coal mines in the Kuzbass region to the port of Ust-Luga, a haul of more than ...
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NewsRefurbished metro trainsets enter service in Tbilisi
GEORGIA: Two modernised four-car trainsets entered service on Tbilisi metro Line 1 on October 23. Originally built by Metrowagonmash, the sets were modernised by Electro-Rolling-Stock Repair Plant Tbilisi Branch (ZREPS), a 50:50 joint venture of Tbilisi Transport Co and the Moscow Electric Stock Repair Plant. They have received new ...
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NewsTramwaje Szczecińskie orders Modertrans tram kits
POLAND: Tramwaje Szczecińskie has selected sole bidder Modertrans to supply two Moderus Beta trams kits for assembly by TS at its workshops. The first kit is to be delivered within 90 days, with the second to come by the end of September 2018. The assembled vehicles have will have ...
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NewsColas sells Malaysian electrification business
MALAYSIA: The Pestech Technology subsidiary of power transmission equipment and rail electrification company Pestech announced on October 30 that it had acquired Colas Rail System Engineering from Colas Rail Asia, Colas Rail and Vital Bid for a total price of 10·4m ringgit. Founded in 2013, CRSE provides project management, engineering ...
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NewsStadler to supply more metro trains to Berlin
GERMANY: Berlin transport operator BVG has ordered a further 80 metro cars from Stadler Pankow, in response to an urgent need to increase capacity on its small-profile lines. The first must be delivered at the latest during the second half of 2019. BVG announced in 2011 its intention to ...
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NewsUniversities to develop railway monitoring technology
CHINA: An agreement to establish a joint innovation centre was signed by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Southwest Jiaotong University on October 27. The centre would develop real-time monitoring systems and diagnostic technology for high speed rail infrastructure, rolling stock and components. ‘The signing of the agreement means closer ...
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NewsRail fastening factory opens
RUSSIA: The Vossloh Fastening Systems RUS joint venture of Vossloh-Werke GmbH and concrete sleeper supplier OAO BetEITrans has officially opened a rail fastening factory in Engels. The partners have invested €7·7m in what Vossloh says is the most modern rail fastening factory in Russia, which covers 4 000 m2 and ...
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NewsPomorskie awards two operating contracts
POLAND: Pomorskie voivodship received bids from only the two incumbents when it tendered one-year contracts for the operation of regional passenger services. Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia suburban rail operator SKM Trójmiasto priced its services at 54m złoty, while national regional train operator PolRegio quoted 35·9m złoty. The current services ...
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NewsBaku – Tbilisi – Kars railway corridor inaugurated
INTERNATIONAL: The presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan and the prime ministers of Georgia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan attended a ceremony at the Port of Baku on October 30 to dispatch an inaugural freight train on the Baku – Tbilisi – Kars corridor. The heads of state and government then travelled to ...