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NewsSaudi Railways Organization reviews safety
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Railways Organization has awarded DB International a contract to undertake a comprehensive review of its safety regime and operating standards. The review will be completed by the end of the year, with DB contracted to provide a further year of ‘supervision and follow-up’. Under the agreement, DB ...
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NewsMoscow university co-operation agreements
RUSSIA: Two Moscow universities signed co-operation agreements in December, with Bombardier Transportation and Russian Railways respectively. Bombardier and Moscow State University of Railway Engineering have embarked on a three-year partnership to support ‘future exchange in areas including science, innovation and development of railway transportation systems’. Specific objectives cover collaboration in ...
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NewsRail Academy to be created in the United Arab Emirates
UAE: A memorandum of understanding to establish a Rail Academy has been signed by the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research & Training and Thales. The planned Rail Academy would provide Emiratis with high-level professional and academic training programmes to support the country's railway and urban transport projects. The partnership ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2014
ADB is to provide $225 000 to support the creation of the Greater Mekong Railway Association, which will aim to develop railway institutional capacity and support connectivity and inter-operability in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. EIM has voted to revise its statutes to allow all European rail ...
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NewsWorld rail market January 2014
Finland: VR is to use Quintiq software supplied through distributor Ab Ovo for locomotive planning and dispatching. Poland: PKP Cargo has signed a 1·3bn złoty contract for PKP Energetyka to supply traction energy until December 2016. PKP IC has selected Kraft to develop apps for tablet computers it ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2014
Zhengzhou Railway Bureau has signed agreements with SF Express, China Post and UPS to carry express parcels on high speed trains, starting with the Beijing – Guangzhou line. Rail transport is expected to be 50% cheaper than by air. UK pension investor the Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd has increased ...
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NewsMetro-North access to Penn Station endorsed
USA: Speaking in Albany on January 8, the governor of New York State Andrew Cuomo offered his support for a commuter rail investment project which would see MTA Metro-North’s New Haven Line trains routed over Amtrak’s Hell Gate bridge into New York Penn Station. Provisionally costed at around $1bn, ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2014
Poland’s Małopolskie voivodship created its own regional passenger operator Koleje Małopolskie with effect from January 1, with a view to a phased takeover of services from PR around a year later. The voivodship owns four DMUs and 11 EMUs and has 17 EMUs on order, but estimates that it ...
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NewsTesting underway on Ankara – Istanbul fast line
TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined newly-appointed transport minister Lütfi Elvan in the cab of a CAF trainset to travel over the Arifiye – Köseköy section of the Ankara – Istanbul high speed corridor on December 27. Elvan has replaced Binali Yıldırım, who has stood down after 11 years ...
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NewsFeature articles in the January 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Comment Going green is not enough News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Analysis California’s high speed dream hits a hurdle No TGVs to Madrid ISO standards in Japan Europe 'The Fourth Railway Package is our top priority' Accelerating the Technical Pillar of ...
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NewsWorld rail market December 2013
Hungary: Audi has awarded DB Schenker Rail Hungária a contract to provide shunting services at its Györ automotive plant for a further three years. Poland: Gdynia port authority has appointed Elkol to plan electrification and modernisation works to support a 40% increase in capacity on the 6 km rail ...
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NewsNews in Brief - December 2013
EBRD is considering lending €133m to support Far Eastern Rail Co’s planned €378m acquisition of up to 10 000 wagons which would be leased to Russian coal miners. The wagons would have 25 tonne axleloads and be suitable for operation in block trains at higher speeds than existing vehicles. ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Transport for London and Crossrail Ltd have welcomed 140 recruits onto their graduate trainee scheme in a range of engineering and commercial disciplines. TfL expects to hire a similar number next year, and applications opened in late October for the 2014 entry. Running until October 2014, the EU-funded Actuate ...
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NewsNews in Brief - December 2013
On December 15 SNCB is due to introduce M6 double-deck rolling stock between Eupen and Oostende, following the start of a €2m project by Infrabel to improve clearances in a 60 m tunnel at Verviers-Central. A new deck over the railway is to be completed by mid-2015, part of ...
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NewsYou'll do better with us
GERMANY: Industry association VDB and its 180 members have launched a high-profile marketing, press and social media campaign to encourage more school-leavers and graduates to join the rail sector. Entitled 'You'll do better with us', the initial campaign features a series of adverts showing young people dressed in outlandish costumes ...
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NewsFleet renewal funded
FRANCE: Transport Minister Frédéric Cuvillier confirmed on December 4 that the government had agreed a funding package allowing SNCF to proceed with an order of 34 inter-city multiple-units. Funding worth €510m, with an option for further investment worth €100m, has been provided for the procurement of 34 Coradia Liner electro-diesel ...
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NewsFeature articles in the December 2013 issue of Railway Gazette International
Comment UK: still tinkering after 20 years News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Analysis Operators eye French regional services All Aboard FloridaEuropean rail is still getting saferUS tank cars in the spotlightSwiss safety reviews report backArgentina: a happy new year?Network Rail funding determinedTrans-Asian integration debated ...
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NewsTrans-Tasman safety partnership launched
AUSTRALASIA: A ceremony at the parliament building in Wellington last month marked the amalgamation of rail safety charities on both sides of the Tasman Sea. New Zealand’s Chris Cairns Foundation has merged with Australia’s TrackSafe to form TrackSafe NZ, aimed at promoting rail safety and education. Both organisations will share ...
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NewsNews in Brief
National Railways of Zimbabwe has withdrawn commuter trains serving Bulawayo and Harare. These were introduced when fuel shortages severely limited road public transport, but NRZ is short of motive power and locos were tied up working near-empty trains. Pakistan acceded to COTIF on September 1, as the 49th OTIF ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Passenger and freight services have resumed on the metre-gauge line between Dire Dawa in Ethiopia and the port of Djibouti following refurbishment of 100 km of route by Italian contractors. China’s Civil Engineering Construction Corp is also building a replacement line from Addis Abeba to standard gauge ...