All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 132
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NewsWar and cost increases delay Dutch electrification scheme
NETHERLANDS: ProRail has cancelled a tender for electrification of the Maaslijn between Nijmegen and Roermond, saying the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the increasing cost of materials and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the supply chain had forced it to reconsider its approach to upgrading ...
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NewsJakarta – Bandung high speed railway tracklaying underway
INDONESIA: Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi attended a ceremony at Tegaluar depot on April 20 to mark the installation of the first rails for the KCJB high speed line which will link Jakarta with Bandung. Sumadi said the line being built by Indonesian-Chinese design-build-operate concessionaire ...
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NewsTekTracking awarded Tri-Rail inspection and testing software contract
USA: Infrastructure maintenance contractor Transdev has awarded TekTracking a contract to supply its TIMPS and SITE track and signalling inspection and maintenance planning software for use on South Florida Regional Authority’s 115 km Tri-Rail commuter rail route from West Palm Beach to Miami. TIMPS provides digitised ...
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NewsDB warned over market abuse in digital mobility platforms
GERMANY: The Federal Monopolies Commission has reached a preliminary conclusion that Deutsche Bahn has committed ‘an abuse of market power’ in relation to digital mobility platforms designed to offer passengers integrated route planning and ticket purchasing. Announcing this on April 20, the Commission said that it ...
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NewsTrainose signs 10-year PSO contract
GREECE: The ministries of Infrastructure & Transport and Finance have awarded Trainose a 10-year public service obligation contract to continue to provide passenger services. The PSO contract signed on April 14 is worth €50m/year and has an option for a further five year extension. Trainose has ...
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NewsWork begins on third stage of Tanzania’s standard gauge line
TANZANIA: Minister of Works & Transport Makame Mbarawa laid a foundation stone in Tabora on April 12 to officially launch construction of the third stage of the 1 211 km Dar es Salaam – Mwanza standard gauge railway project.
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NewsElectric locos and ERTMS confirmed in Toronto’s GO Expansion programme
CANADA: Infrastructure Ontario and the ONxpress Transportation Partners consortium have signed the On-Corridor Works agreement, covering the largest and most complex elements of the GO Expansion programme to replace infrequent diesel-powered commuter services in the Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area with an all-day two-way network of ...
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NewsMetrolink switches to renewable fuel
USA: Southern California commuter rail agency Metrolink says it is the first US operator to switch its entire diesel locomotive fleet to renewable fuel made from recycled natural fats and vegetable oils. The move follows a pilot project launched in early 2021; it aims to reduce ...
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NewsStockholm narrow gauge suburban services transfer to Transdev
SWEDEN: Transdev took over from Arriva as operator of Stockholm’s 891 mm gauge Roslagsbanan suburban network on April 15. The operating contract awarded by regional transport authority Storstockholms Lokaltrafik runs for 12 years and has a total value of around SKr4bn. ‘We have been preparing for ...
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NewsSmartRail Europe brings industry leaders to Roma
ITALY: Industry leaders will gather at SmartRail Europe in Roma in June to learn about the latest innovations and challenges facing the rail sector across the continent.
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NewsSTB approves CSX takeover of Pan Am Railways
USA: CSX Transportation expects to take control of Pan Am Systems Inc on June 1, having received Surface Transportation Board approval for its application to acquire the New England regional railway group.
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NewsBase tunnel station contract
FRANCE: A consortium of Systra, WSP and Richez_Associés has won a project management contract for the construction of the international station at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne at the French entrance to the future 57·5 km base tunnel beneath Mont Cenis on the planned new line linking Lyon and Torino. ...
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NewsTwo options to develop wagonload freight
SWITZERLAND: Two options to determine the future of the wagonload freight business are to be analysed further with a view to the government setting the direction of future policy later this year. Rail currently handles about 25% of all freight traffic in Switzerland, but it has ...
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NewsFrigid Fuxing cuts end-to-end timings
CHINA: A low-temperature variant of the China Standard EMU developed by CRRC Tangshan has been put into service on CR’s 350 km/h Beijing – Harbin Passenger-Dedicated Line. An initial batch of nine winterised CR400BF-G trainsets was supplied by CRRC Changchun ahead of completion of the final ...
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NewsThree Ds in focus at Robel’s IAF display
GERMANY: Maintenance vehicle and small plant specialist Robel Bahnbaumaschinen will be highlighting technology to address three key megatrends at this year’s IAF infrastructure and maintenance show in Münster: decarbonisation; digitisation and demographics.
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NewsMobility+ highlights mobility-as-a-service at InnoTrans 2022
INNOTRANS: The Public Transport section of this year’s InnoTrans exhibition will for the first time host a ‘Mobility+’ area focusing on mobility-as-a-service. ‘This is where companies exhibiting supplementary mobility services can meet domestic and international transport companies, transport networks and administrations, and display their intermodal concepts ...
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NewsInvasion of Ukraine ‘has increased the geopolitical relevance of Rail Baltica’
EUROPE: ‘The Russian invasion of Ukraine reaffirms the need to connect the Baltic states to the rest of Europe’, said Catherine Trautmann, the European Commission’s co-ordinator for the North Sea – Baltic TEN-T corridor, on April 13, when Rail Baltica project promoter RB Rail set out ...
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NewsSiemens Mobility to relocate Berlin signalling factory
GERMANY: Siemens Mobility is to relocate the development and production activities currently undertaken at its Berlin Treptow signalling and train control factory to a new facility in the Adlershof science and technology park from 2025. The 150 staff at the company’s existing development department in Adlershof ...