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NewsRail industry news in brief - August 2014
The Hamburg and Niedersachsen transport authorities have exercised an option to extend Metronom’s contract to operate Hamburg – Cuxhaven trains for a further two years until December 2017. PKP SA is to sell a further 17% stake in PKP Cargo, reducing the Polish national railway holding company’s stake to ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - August 2014
VIA Rail, Island Corridor Foundation and Southern Railway of Vancouver Island have signed an agreement to revive Victoria – Courtenay passenger services which ceased in 2011. Funding of C$21m for infrastructure rehabilitation has been identified. The Blue Ridge Southern Railroad subsidiary of Watco Transportation Services is to purchase ...
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NewsUIC launches global railway MBA
INTERNATIONAL: Under the umbrella of its Railway Academy programme, UIC has announced the launch of a Railway Global Executive MBA course, to be hosted by the EM Lyon Business School in France. Subject to sufficient applications through member railways, UIC hopes that the first intake could start the Master’s course ...
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NewsFeature articles in the August 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the August 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 The number one priority News Main Line Urban Rail Market: Contracts & Tenders Industry ...
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NewsWork starts to bridge Thailand – Cambodia missing link
SOUTHEAST ASIA: A ground-breaking ceremony at Poipet in Cambodia on July 25 marked the start of work to reinstate the cross-border railway to Thailand. The ceremony was attended by Cambodia’s Deputy Minister for Public Works & Transport Guang Sun and Thailand’s Permanent Secretary for Transport Soithip Traisuth. The attendees viewed ...
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NewsHitachi unveils modular EMU designs
UK: Hitachi Rail Europe unveiled full-size mock-ups of its AT100 and AT200 EMU designs in London on July 21. Aimed primarily at the UK market, the two designs are intended to augment the existing AT300 (Class 395/Class 800) design to create a family of trains. These can be configured using ...
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NewsWorld rail market July 2014
Netherlands: On behalf of all operators, NS has awarded Eneco a contract to supply traction electricity in 2015-25. From 2018 the annual requirement of 1·4TWh/year will be entirely supplied from wind power, 50% generated in the Netherlands. North America: DataTraks is to manage Transportation Technology Center Inc’s Trackside Acoustic ...
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NewsNews in Brief - July 2014
The Dutch cabinet has allocated an extra €1·1bn for rail projects. Platforms and a subway at Amsterdam Centraal are to be widened a cost of €431m, tracks lowered in Vucht to remove level crossings and a curve for freight trains built at Meteren. Norway’s Ministry of Transport has exercised ...
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NewsFeature articles in the July 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the July 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 Balancing public and private Richard Hope reflects on 50 years of change in the rail sector ...
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NewsIran shares railway expertise with Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN: Iranian Islamic Republic Railways has signed a memorandum of understanding to provide the Afghanistan Railway Authority with training to support its plans for railway development and expansion. RAI said Iran would send technical experts to advise on railway organisation, maintenance and construction, to help accelerate the development of the ...
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NewsNews in Brief - June 2014
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport has given its approval to a SFr50m project to convert TPF’s 5·5 km Bulle - Broc-Fabrique branch from 1000 mm to 1435 mm gauge, to enable Fribourg RER services to be extended to Broc. Due to be executed in 2016-21, the project would be ...
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NewsWorld rail market June 2014
China: CSR Sifang has awarded Paul Wurth Group a contract to automate a bogie assembly line in Qingdao to increase productivity to 10 bogies per shift Poland: Ernst & Young has been retained to advise on options for restructuring Polish regional train operator Przewozy Regionalne. Preliminary conclusions are expected ...
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NewsNews in Brief - June 2014
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport has approved plans to build a new Albula Tunnel on the RhB network. Work is expected to start in 2015 for completion in 2020 at a cost of SFr345m. The existing 5864 m bore dating from 1903 would be retained for safety purposes. Russia’s Freight ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
SNCF and DB have pledged to relaunch their apprentice exchange programme, 50 years after it was first introduced. The programme forms part of the formal training of apprentices at both groups, and also offers a ‘range of socio-cultural opportunities’ aimed at ‘broadening the horizons’ of young railway staff. Built ...
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NewsFeature articles in the June 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Comment Fitting the track to the trains Intelligence Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers Analysis 10th anniversary of the European Railway Agency Mixed fortunes in rail budgetsTank wagon safety changesA race to KošiceWestbahn quits CER Rail investment in the Philippines Traction ...
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NewsNews in Brief - May 2014
To increase freight capacity to and from the port of Sines, Portuguese infrastructure manager Refer is to build a passing loop able to accommodate trains up to 750 m long between Canal-Caveira and Azinheira dos Barros on the route between Lisboa and Sines. The Canadian government has extended the ...
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NewsNews in Brief - May 2014
MÁV has introduced free wi-fi at Budapest’s Déli, Keleti and Nyugati stations, plus Debrecen and Keszthely, as well as on 700 coaches. Poland’s Podlaskie voivodship has awarded PR a 37m złoty contract to operate passenger services totalling 948000 train-km/year in 2015-16. TCDD’s Eskisehir Hasanbey Logistics Centre opened ...
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NewsWorld rail market May 2014
France: SNCF has awarded Armor-Lux a contract to supply new uniforms for 33000 customer-facing personnel. Netherlands: Thales is to install and maintain 153 ticket gates and 45 ticket vending machines on Amsterdam’s North-South metro line. The gates will feature a 3D camera instead of beam sensors, which Thales says ...
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NewsLevel crossing safety partnership
INTERNATIONAL: UIC and the Genève-based International Roads Union announced a partnership to promote improved level crossing safety on May 13. Organsied under the aegis of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety, the partners plan to compile jointly a Level Crossing Safety Checklist to raise awareness of ...