All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 249
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NewsLaude Smart Intermodal orders heavy-duty container wagons
EUROPE: Polish company Laude Smart Intermodal has awarded United Wagon Co a contract to supply a further 200 Type 13-6851-01 flat wagons for carrying heavy duty containers on the 1 520 mm gauge Russia – Poland corridor. The latest batch of wagons is scheduled to be delivered ...
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News‘Modern and higher-quality’ EMUs ordered for Lausitz services
GERMANY: DB Regio has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract to supply 18 three-car Mireo electric multiple-units for use on Netz Lausitz regional passenger services from late 2022. The EMUs to be supplied from Siemens’ Krefeld plant will have 180 seats including ‘premium-quality’ first class areas and a ...
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NewsArticulated hopper wagons certified
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co has obtained certification for two designs of six-axle articulated hopper car with 25 tonne axleload bogies. The Type 19-6978 is intended for grain traffic, and the Type 19-6978-01 for mineral fertilisers. Both types have a capacity of 160 m3 or 113·5 tonnes, and ...
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NewsICE1 trainsets to be equipped with latest ETCS
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has awarded Alstom a contract to retrofit 19 ICE1 high speed trainsets with Baseline 3 compliant ETCS onboard equipment by September 2021. The 19 ICE1 sets which operate into Switzerland were the first to be fitted with ETCS, being equipped in 2007 at a ...
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NewsAlbanian railway modernisation technical support contract awarded
ALBANIA: National railway HSH has awarded a consortium of Spanish companies Ardanuy Ingeniería and Metrotenerife and their local partner SIM a four-year contract to support the tendering and management of a contract covering the upgrading of the 34·5 km line between the Tiranë Public Transport Terminal and ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Andrey Vlsenko was appointed CEO of Transmashholding’s Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant on February 7. He was previously CEO of the Bryansk plant, where he is succeeded by Vadim Yakovlev who was Director of Logistics at Tver Carriage Works. Stadler has signed a long-term ...
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NewsDB Regio awarded next Euregiobahn contract
GERMANY: Regional transport authority NVR has awarded incumbent and sole bidder DB Regio a contract to continue to operate Euregiobahn passenger service RB20 for four years from December 12 2021. There are options for the contract to be extended or shortened by one year to align the ...
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NewsCSX ‘has never run better’
USA: ‘The railroad has never run better and we are delivering great service to our customers’, said CSX President & CEO James M Foote when presenting the railway’s results for 2019. ‘What is really amazing is how our employees stepped up to produce efficiencies during tough economic ...
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NewsTransport security professionals to gather in Miami this June
EVENTS: Security specialists from across the sector will meet at the Transport Security Congress on June 8-10 2020, to be hosted at the Miami Marriott Marquis hotel. The event is a partnership between DVV Media International Ltd and the Port of Miami, with a comprehensive agenda focused ...
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NewsPhilippine National Railways to deploy GMV operations management system
PHILIPPINES: Technology company GMV has won a contract to supply Philippine National Railways with its SAE-r fleet operation, management and planning platform. This will provide real-time information on the position and status of trains, supervising onboard equipment, radios and ticketing systems, monitoring driver behaviour, regulating running to ...
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NewsŽSSK unveils RegioPanter EMU
SLOVAKIA: The first of 25 Class 660 RegioPanter electric multiple-units which national passenger operator ŽSSK ordered from a consortium of Škoda Transportation and local partner ŽOS Trnava in March 2018 was unveiled on February 6. The order comprises 13 three-car EMUs with a capacity of 247 seated ...
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NewsIndian Railways to develop refrigerated services
INDIA: Rail freight forms a key part of the government’s plan to raise incomes in the food sector by developing a national supply chain for the refrigerated delivery of perishables including milk, meat and fish. Kisan Rail is to be established, a public-private partnership to provide chilled ...
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NewsEtihad Rail freight facilities contract awarded
UAE: Etihad Rail has awarded a joint venture of L&T Construction and Power China International a 1·876bn dirham contract to design, build and commission seven freight handling facilities on Stage 2 of the national rail network. The freight facilities will be built in Industrial City of Abu ...
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NewsThree Swedish passenger operating contracts awarded
Source: Värmlandstrafik SWEDEN: State operator SJ has been selected for a passenger train operating contract, while the Vy Tåg subsidiary of Norwegian state operator Vy has won two others. Värmland regional transport authority Värmlandstrafik has selected Vy as preferred bidder to operate regional passenger services ...
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NewsEuromaint awarded Bergensbanen fleet maintenance contract
NORWAY: National passenger operator Vy has awarded Euromaint a nine-year contract to maintain rolling stock used on the Bergensbanen route between Oslo and Bergen. Most of the work will be undertaken at a workshop which is under construction in Bergen. The contract award follows railway agency Jernbanedirektoratet’s ...
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NewsFrecciarossa 1000 derails at high speed
Source: Polizia di Stato ITALY: There are clearly many questions to be answered about the co-ordination of signalling and infrastructure maintenance processes, following the high speed derailment of a Trenitalia Frecciarossa 1000 trainset at Livraga, south of Lodi, on February 6. This was only the second fatal ...
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NewsUK companies sought to join InnoTrans 2020 start-ups festival
UK: Not-for-profit networking and development organisation the Rail Innovation Group is seeking recently-founded companies to join a Start-Up Festival to take place at the InnoTrans 2020 trade show in Berlin in September. The start-up recruitment campaign was launched in London on January 27. RIG launched the ...
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NewsTwo bids to operate Helsinki commuter services
FINLAND: Greater Helsinki transport authority HSL has received two bids for a contract to operator commuter train services for 10 years from June 27 2021. It did not name the bidders, although national operator VR – which currently provides the services under a directly-awarded contract – ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Arkhbum has awarded United Wagon Co a contract to supply 25 Type 13-6852-02 flat wagons for timber traffic by the end of Q1 2020, taking its fleet of UWC vehicles to 305. They will have Type 18-9855 bogies with a 25 tonne axleload, and a design life ...
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NewsFehmarn Belt railway consultancy contract awarded
DENMARK: Fehmarn Belt rail and road tunnel project promoter Femern A/S has appointed SNC-Lavalin Group company Atkins to provide multidisciplinary railway consultancy services for the construction of the 18 km fixed link between Denmark and Germany. The agreement runs for eight years with potential for extension. Atkins ...