All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 366
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NewsRoma metro Line C extended
ITALY: Roma metro Line C was connected to the rest of the city’s metro network on May 12 with the opening of a one-station extension from Lodi to San Giovanni, where interchange is provided with Line A. The first phase of Line C between Monte Compatri-Pantano and Parco di ...
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NewsFunding package to boost TasRail infrastructure
AUSTRALIA: The federal government has allocated A$59·8m for the Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation ProgrammeAs part of its latest budget, matching a similar commitment from the state. The A$119·6m Tranche Two of TasRail’s Infrastructure Investment Fund is intended to support infrastructure rehabilitation and enhancement works over a four-year period from June ...
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NewsSheffield tram-train runs onto Network Rail infrastructure
UK: One of Stagecoach Supertram’s Vossloh Class 399 Tramlink tram-train vehicles operated on the national railway network for the first time during the early hours of May 10. Running under a possession, the tram left the Sheffield light network and ran over Network Rail infrastructure as far as the Magna ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Steiermarkbahn has expanded its fleet and reduced its reliance on leasing companies with the purchase of a batch of Tatravagónka four-axle Sggnss container wagons. On May 11 an inaugural freight service left Bayan Nur in China's Inner Mongolia for Tehran in Iran. The 8 352 km journey via Kazakhstan and ...
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NewsBuses as well as trains at InnoTrans 2018
INNOTRANS: The outdoor bus display at InnoTrans 2018 will focus on the switch to electric vehicles, with a 500 m long demonstration track as well as the static display of vehicles. Alstom will be displaying its Aptis electric bus. Finnish company Linkker will present the lightweight Linkker 12+, which has ...
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NewsChișinău expands battery trolleybus fleet
MOLDOVA: Chișinău trolleybus operator RTEC introduced a second route to the airport on May 7 when it launched Route 31 between the city centre and Sîngera in the southeast. Battery trolleybuses operate the 17·5 km route, as 11 km does not have overhead wires. The city has introduced five ...
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NewsDigital guide to the Bernina Express
SWITZERLAND: Following a successful launch in first class, from May 10 Rhätische Bahn is making its Infot(r)ainment digital route guide available to all Bernina Express passengers. Accessible on smartphones, tablets or laptops, Infot(r)ainment provides information and interactive maps covering the route from Chur and Davos to St Moritz and Tirano. ...
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NewsTenders called for Olsztyn tram network expansion
POLAND: MPK Olsztyn has called tenders for the construction of a 6 km extension of the city’s 11 km tram network which opened in 2015. Bids are due by June 12 and the project has an estimated budget of 208m złoty. Construction is due to start in 2019 and ...
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NewsSecure cable anchoring on Crossrail
UK: In an effort to prevent cable theft, Balfour Beatty has installed Anderton Concrete's Anderlite troughing and Ander-fin cable anchors at Maidenhead as part of the Crossrail project. Ander-fin is manufactured from glass-filled nylon and has a failure load in excess of 2 kN. It is designed to be easy ...
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NewsRevolution VLR railcar to be demonstrated in 2020
UK: Leasing company Eversholt Rail has joined the Revolution VLR consortium of Transport Design International, Cummins, Prose, Transcal Engineering, RDM Group and the University of Warwick, which has secured government funding to design and build a lightweight diesel-battery railcar demonstrator by early 2020. The concept is intended for low-traffic and ...
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NewsMetro do Porto changes operator
PORTUGAL: Barraqueiro Group began operating and maintaining the Metro do Porto light rail network last month under a €204·3m seven-year sub-concession contract. The network is now operated by a single company rather than a consortium for the first time. Barraqueiro previously led the ViaPORTO consortium with Arriva, Keolis and ...
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NewsSiemens awarded ETCS contract
HUNGARY: National Infrastructure Development Co has appointed Siemens to install ETCS Level 2 equipment on the 26 km double-track Százhalombatta – Pusztaszabolcs route south of Budapest. Under the contract announced on May 9, Siemens is to supply its Trainguard 200 technology, a radio block centre, two Trackguard Simis IS electronic ...
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NewsNovosibirsk suburban rail services planned
RUSSIA: Russian Railways, Novosibirsk oblast and the Novosibirsk city authorities are developing plans for suburban railway services. This would mostly use existing infrastructure, with station modernisation taking place as part of the project. The initial section is expected to cost 584m roubles. Services would use the Trans-Siberian main line ...
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NewsSingapore’s Jurong Region Line alignment finalised
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority published the alignment of the Jurong Region Line on May 9. Planned to open in phases between 2026 and 2028, the 24 km elevated line with 24 stations will become the seventh metro line in Singapore. Originally included in the Land Transport Master Plan 2013, ...
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NewsSouth Xinjiang loop line approved
CHINA: On May 8 the National Development & Reform Commission approved the construction of an 825 km line between Hotan and Ruoqiang, serving the southern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Designed for 120 km/h operation, the single-track Hotan – Ruoqiang line is scheduled to open in early 2022. ...
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NewsMTR to bring rail and property development model to Europe
EUROPE: Hong Kong’s MTR Corp has appointed chartered surveyor John Robinson as Head of Property for its European Business, with the aim of bringing to Europe the Rail+Property development model which it has successfully used in China. Property developments at 39 stations in Hong Kong provide 100 000 residential ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
With support from inQdo, European railway data exchange company Hit Rail is to migrate its Hermes Open Services platform to an Amazon Web Services cloud environment over the next three months. On April 28 Russia’s government commission on foreign investments approved Siemens’ acquisition of Alstom’s stake in Transmashholding as ...
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NewsMashhad metro lines connected
IRAN: The two hitherto isolated metro lines in Mashhad were connected on May 7 when President Hassan Rouhani opened an extension of Line 2. The 2 km extension runs southwest from Shohada to Shariati, where interchange is provided with Line 1. The first phase of Line 2 ...
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NewsAndrex Logistics opens transhipment facility
POLAND: Andrex Logistics has opened its Chryzanów transhipment facility in Poland, close to the Siemianówka – Svisloch border crossing with Belarus. Branded as the East West Intermodal Hub, the 60 000 m2 site has 14 km of 1 435 mm and 1 520 mm gauge track and a 41 ...
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NewsÖskemen tram services to restart using ex-Almaty vehicles
KAZAKHSTAN: The first five of 13 used KT4Dt trams bought from Almaty for 118·5m tenge have arrived in Öskemen. The trams were built in 1983-85 and originally operated in Berlin, before being acquired by Almaty in 2013. They have been out of use since that city’s tram network closed at ...