All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 356
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NewsDrammen diversion tunnelling tendered
NORWAY: Infrastructure manager Bane NOR has started prequalification for the next phase of its long-running Vestfold Line upgrading to double-track the inter-city route between Oslo and Larvik. Due to be completed around 2025, the Drammen – Kobbervikdalen upgrading project envisages the construction of a deviation suitable for 200 km/h operation ...
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NewsWarszawa tests increased metro frequencies
POLAND: Metro Warszawskie tested running Line 1 trains at 2 min headways during the morning peak on June 27. The operator expects that extending the east-west Line 2 at both ends would generate more ridership not only on that line, but on the north-south Line 1 as well. It ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Reporting its annual results for the 2017 financial year, Stadler said it had seen ‘a successful year’, and now employed more staff than before the Swiss currency market ‘dislocations’ in 2015. Incoming orders amounted to SFr3·5bn, with a ‘considerable proportion’ coming from BLS, SBB and SOB in Switzerland. The Service ...
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NewsEVR Cargo becomes Operail
ESTONIA: State-owned freight operator EVR Cargo has been renamed Operail, in a change which the company said was ‘driven by the need to better reflect the nature of an international market-oriented logistics and transport company’. ‘Freight transport was an essential part of EVR Cargo’s identity, but has not been our ...
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NewsMING fleet to replace RER B Interconnexion stock
FRANCE: Île-de-France Mobilités, RATP and SNCF have called tenders for supply of replacement rolling stock for Paris RER Line B which links Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport and Mitry-Claye northeast of Paris with Robinson in the south and St Rémy-les-Chevreuse in the southwest. The contract covers a firm order for 146 ...
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NewsRCG venture runs Greek freight trains
GREECE: Open access freight venture Rail Cargo Logistics Goldair began operating its own trains on the national rail network on June 27, when it dispatched an initial trip from the RCG terminal at Sindos near Thessaloniki to Idomeni on the border with Macedonia. The joint venture between Austria’s Rail Cargo ...
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NewsProgress Rail to rebuild 30 CP locos
CANADA: Canadian Pacific has awarded Progress Rail a contract to modernise 30 SD90MAC locomotives to the SD70ACU specification. Major components will be remanufactured to improve performance and reliability, including the existing EMD 710 engines, and the locos will be fitted with new traction control systems and cabs meeting the latest ...
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NewsQueensland invests in Maryborough upgrade
AUSTRALIA: Visiting the Downer Rail rolling stock plant at Maryborough on June 26, Queensland’s Minister for Transport & Main Roads Mark Bailey announced that the state government is providing a A$10m grant for infrastructure improvements to support work on a range of refurbishment projects for Queensland Rail. The grant is ...
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NewsWagons delivered from Poland to Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARABIA: Abnormal load logistics specialist ALS has completed a 20-month project to deliver a total of 1 185 wagons of three types from The Greenbrier Companies’ Wagon Świdnica factory in Poland to Saudi Railway Co. The wagons are 14·35 m long, 3 200 mm wide and 4 500 mm ...
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NewsPardubice introduces new trolleybuses
CZECH REPUBLIC: City transport operator DP Pardubice put into service 15 Škoda 30Tr SOR trolleybuses on June 22. The KC118·5m order signed in November is partly financed by EU funds. The trolleybuses are intended to replace some of the city’s diesel buses following the opening of two extensions of ...
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NewsMälartåg double-deck train on show
SWEDEN: The first of 33 four-car Stadler double-deck EMUs for use on Mälartåg services in the Stockholm region was displayed at Stockholm C station on June 27. Leasing company Transitio ordered the 200 km/h units in June 2015 on behalf of the Mälab joint venture of local transport authorities in ...
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NewsStadler-Siemens consortium rolls out first Berlin S-Bahn train
GERMANY: The first of the electric multiple-units that a Stadler-Siemens consortium is supplying for the Berlin S-Bahn was rolled out on July 27 at Stadler’s Pankow factory in the capital. The four-car Class 484 EMU is due to arrive at Stadler’s site in Velten north of Berlin in the ...
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NewsPrima AZ8A freight locomotive for Azerbaijan unveiled
AZERBAIJAN: The first of 40 Prima T8 AZ8A electric freight locomotives ordered by national railway ADY was unveiled at the EKZ factory at Astana in Kazakhstan on June 27. The EKZ joint venture of Alstom (75%) and Transmashholding (25%) is supplying 40 freight locomotives and 10 Prima M4 AZ4A passenger ...
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NewsEU audit condemns ‘ineffective patchwork’ of high speed lines
EUROPE: A lack of cross-border co-ordination between member states has reduced the effectiveness of European Union investment in high speed rail, according to a report published by the European Court of Auditors on June 26. Suggesting that ‘there is no European high speed rail network’, the report concludes that there ...
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NewsFranconian interurban tram contract awarded
GERMANY: Project promoter Zweckverband Stadt-Umland-Bahn signed the engineering design contract for the Nürnberg Stadt-Umland-Bahn project on June 21. The contract was awarded to a consortium of Gauff Rail Engineering, Rambøll and Obermeyer. The 25 km tram route linking Nürnberg with the neighbouring towns of Erlangen and Herzogenaurach is estimated ...
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NewsSolaris delivers battery buses to Cluj-Napoca
ROMANIA: Solaris Bus & Coach has delivered a first batch of 11 Urbino battery-electric buses to the city of Cluj-Napoca. The order was supported by the Swiss-Romanian Co-operation Programme. The city has already excercised an option for a further 12 buses to be delivered by the end of the year, ...
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News3M expands anti-graffiti range
PROTECTION: 3M has launched two anti-graffiti wrap overlaminates which, as well as being easy to clean, can be used on curved surfaces such as vehicle noses, textured coach walls and window frames. The Anti-Graffiti Wrap Gloss Overlaminate 8588G and Matte Overlaminate 8590M can also be used on textured and brick ...
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NewsLubrication expertise at InnoTrans 2018
CONDAT: French company Condat will be using InnoTrans 2018 to highlight its expertise in the supply of lubricants which are biodegradable to reduce their environmental impact. Bio Natur WFG 495 is a biodegradable and sprayable grease for applications including wheel flange lubrication, while Condat Bio Sp Evo is a sprayable ...
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NewsSouth African road-rail bus launched
SOUTH AFRICA: Gauteng-based manufacturer RailPro is testing a road-rail vehicle intended for passenger transport on a railway line east of Pretoria. State-owned transport group Transnet is working with RailPro on the trials, which are being carried out on a 21 km route between Cullinan and Mamelodi via Rayton. Five ...
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NewsElectric freight locomotive unveiled
RUSSIA: A Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Works Type 2ES5S twin-section 25 kV 50 Hz electric locomotive with asynchronous traction motors was unveiled on June 26, in a ceremony at Transmashholding’s Bryansk plant attended by Russian Railways' CEO Oleg Belozerov. The 2ES5S has been developed as part of an import substitution programme, ...