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NewsLineside flywheels
STORNETIC: Kinetic energy storage firm Stornetic is using InnoTrans 2016 to launch its EnWheel flywheel energy storage system for the transport sector, aimed primarily at urban rail, tram and metro operators. The lineside storage unit uses a bank of high-speed flywheels to capture surplus regenerated braking energy and store it ...
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NewsExplore Zürich HB with Google
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has worked with Google to provide more detailed coverage of Zürich Hauptbahnhof on Google Street View and Maps under a joint pilot project which aims to help passengers find their way around stations. The individual floors and all retail facilities are identifiable and can be explored ...
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NewsJR Kyushu listing confirmed
JAPAN: Tokyo Stock Exchange announced on September 15 that JR Kyushu will be listed on the Tokyo stock market on October 25, following the state-owned railway’s application for an IPO on June 30. JR Kyushu will be listed on the Fukuoka Stock Exchange on the following day, October 26. According ...
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NewsDageu metro reaches Myeonggok
SOUTH KOREA: A southwestern extension of Daegu metro Line 1 opened on September 8. The 2·6 km alignment takes the line from the former terminus of Daegok to Myeonggok with an intermediate station at Hwawon. Line 1 is now 28·4 km long with 32 stations. It runs from Myeonggok ...
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NewsPolarteknik brand to be launched at InnoTrans
POLARTEKNIK: A new branding associated with a restructuring which is scheduled to take effect on October 1 will be highlighted by Finland’s PMC Group at InnoTrans 2016. The group's Polarteknik Pneumatics and Door Systems businesses are to be merged into a Polarteknik Oy business unit. This follows the ...
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NewsSky Train revealed
CHINA: A ‘Sky Train’ suspension monorail vehicle designed for use in smaller cities and ‘scenic places’ has been unveiled at the Nanjing plant of CRRC subsidiary Nanjing Puzhen Co. The two-car set has a capacity of more than 200 passengers. It is powered by onboard batteries which would be recharged ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
The Greenbrier Companies has launched a Regulatory Services Group to provide regulatory, engineering, process consulting and advocacy support to tank car users, a customer base which Greenbrier believes ‘offers substantial growth in demand for discrete, unique and value-added asset management services.’ Following ‘relevant requests by interested investors’, the board ...
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NewsSan Diego light rail extension receives $1bn of federal funding
USA: The Federal Transit Administration and San Diego Association of Governments signed an agreement on September 14 for a $1·04bn federal grant towards the construction of a light rail extension. The Full Funding Grant Agreement would see the funds disbursed over 10 years, with an initial tranche of $100m. ...
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NewsFirst Detroit tram arrives
USA: The first tram for the QLine in Detroit arrived in the city in the early hours of September 14 from Brookville Equipment Corp’s factory in Pennsylvania. Brookville is supplying six Liberty Modern Streetcars to operate the route, in a $32m order announced in June 2015. The three-section vehicles ...
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NewsVideo glasses support train maintenance
USA: Keolis Commuter Services is testing the use of virtual reality glasses developed by AMA XpertEye which enable staff maintaining the MBTA Commuter Rail fleet to transmit live video and other information to senior technicians at the main maintenance facility. Screen captures and image annotation enable the experts to more ...
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NewsKlang Valley MRT2 groundbreaking
MALAYSIA: Prime Minister Najib Razak led the groundbreaking ceremony for Klang Valley Line 2 on September 15 near Putrajaya Sentral at the southern end of the future route. The 52·2 km line, also known as the SSP Line, will link Sungai Buloh, Serdang and Putrajaya with 26 above-ground and ...
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NewsLaos railway construction contracts awarded
LAOS: Laos-China Railway Co Ltd has awarded China Railway Group subsidiaries contracts for the civil works on sections I, II and III of the Boten – Vientiane railway. The three contracts awarded to China Railway No 5 Engineering Group, China Railway International Group and China Railway No 8 Engineering Group ...
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NewsRule Book app to be tested
UK: Safety and standards body RSSB has appointed technical content specialist Mekon to help develop a mobile app which could replace the rail industry’s paper Rule Book. A prototype is to be tested by a sample of railway staff ahead of the planned launch of an industry-wide product in 2017. ...
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NewsGranada operations out to tender
SPAIN: Within a budget of €33⋅6m, the Andalucía regional government is tendering a six-year contract to operate the 15⋅9 km light rail route nearing completion in Granada. The contract would involve the creation of 112 jobs, principally drivers and other operating personnel; other services including maintenance, security and cleaning are ...
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NewsDB unveils ICE4 inter-city train ‘for the gigabit society’
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn's latest generation of inter-city trainset was officially unveiled to the public by CEO Rüdiger Grube and Minister for Transportation & Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt at Berlin Hauptbahnhof on September 14. DB has placed firm orders with Siemens for 130 ICE4 (formerly known as ICx) trainsets under ...
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NewsKlang Valley MRT Line 1 to open in December
MALAYSIA: Project delivery company MRT Corp has confirmed that the first section of the MRT Line 1 between Sungai Buloh and Semantan will open in December, with the remainder of the 51 km automated metro line to Kajang opening in July next year.MRT Corp is a special purpose vehicle that ...
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NewsBrussels consults on automated metro Line M3
BELGIUM: Public consultation is expected to begin shortly on the proposal to develop a third metro route in Brussels, following approval of the scheme by the federal government. Detailed engineering design for the fully-automated Bordet – Albert line, now designated M3, has been underway since the project was adopted ...
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NewsSNCF unveils ‘haute couture’ TGV Océane trainset
FRANCE: On September 14 SNCF President Guillaume Pepy unveiled the ‘haute couture’ interiors of the TGV Océane, a build of 40 double-deck high speed trainsets ordered from Alstom at a cost of €1∙2bn to operate between Paris and southwestern France. From December 11 the first trainsets are due to be ...
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NewsKlang Valley fare collection contract awarded
MALAYSIA: MRT Corp announced on September 9 that it had awarded a consortium of Indra (80%) and Rasma Corp (20%) a 152·9m ringgit contract to supply an automatic fare collection system for use on the future Klang Valley Line 2. The Spanish-Malaysian consortium beat four other bidders. The 52·2 ...