All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 367
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NewsHull Trains reveals ‘luxurious and aesthetically appealing’ AT300 design
UK: Open access operator Hull Trains has revealed the appearance of its future fleet of five Hitachi AT300 trainsets, following the completion of the engineering and design phase and the sign-off for production to begin. The £60m order for five five-car inter-city electro-diesel multiple-units was placed by ...
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NewsHerzog to provide short line PTC
USA: Herzog Technologies is to make its Positive Train Control support and hosting services available to smaller freight railroads under an agreement with the American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association announced on May 10. ‘The implementation of PTC is one of the most complex and challenging projects to be ...
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NewsTiranë airport rail link tendering
ALBANIA: Companies have been invited to prequalify for a contract to rehabilitate the Durrës – Tiranë railway and construct a branch to serve Tiranë International Airport. National railway HSH is to fund the project using a €36·9m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and up to ...
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NewsMoscow orders 200 battery buses
RUSSIA: Moscow bus operator Mosgortrans has selected two manufacturers to supply a total of 200 electric buses and charging infrastructure. KAMAZ and GAZ are each to supply 100 low-floor battery buses. Each of the 6·35bn rouble orders include 15 years of maintenance, as well as the installation and maintenance ...
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NewsUK railway news round-up
Prince William attended a ceremony on May 9 to officially mark the completion of the five-year London Bridge station remodelling project. The Department for Transport has launched a market sounding exercise for the proposed Southern Rail Link to Heathrow, which would enable the airport to be served by trains ...
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NewsSétif tramway inaugurated
ALGERIA: The first phase of the Sétif tram network was inaugurated on May 8. The 15·2 km east-west route runs from 11 Décembre 1960 to Berchi Abid and Oucissa Laid, which both serve Université El Bez. In March 2014 Entreprise Métro d’Alger awarded a consortium of Yapı Merkezi and ...
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NewsBologna – Firenze route modernisation to start this year
ITALY: Work will begin in October to modernise the 80 km direttissima between Bologna and Prato, north of Firenze. The fast line between the two cities was inaugurated in 1934 and forms part of pan-European Corridor V. Since December 2009, express passenger services between Bologna and Firenze have mostly been ...
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NewsVDL wins Oslo electric bus order
NORWAY: Greater Oslo bus operator Unibuss placed an order for 40 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach on May 8. Unibuss has ordered 30 Citeas SLFA-180 Electric buses, which have a 169 kWh battery pack, to operate on routes 20, 21, 28, 34, 37 and 54. A further ...
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NewsVirtual Bodensee line testing for MTU Hybrid PowerPack
GERMANY: Rolls-Royce has used a computer-controlled simulation of operating conditions on the Radolfzell – Friedrichshafen route for bench testing of a real MTU Hybrid PowerPack to demonstrate its potential for use on services around the Bodensee. This included a demonstration of the feasibility of using battery power to provide locally ...
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NewsStrategic partnership targets Belt & Road projects
ASIA: A strategic partnership which aims to ‘identify and pursue cross-border corporate finance and investment opportunities’ linked to China’s Belt & Road Initiative has been announced by the Singapore-listed Sapphire Corp parent of Chinese urban rail construction company Ranken and the Singapore subsidiary of Hong Kong-based financial services group Haitong ...
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NewsDAXI under new ownership
BELGIUM: Bruno Hubert and Jerome Leclef have acquired majority ownership of reconditioned rolling stock and track component dealer DAXI Group. Founder Jean-Pierre De Zutter will support the transition to the new owners and continue to help with major projects before retiring. Bruno Hubert joins DAXI as majority shareholder and ...
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NewsInfrabel speaks out after axle-counter trouble
BELGIUM: Infrastructure manager Infrabel expressed concern about the reliability of AC100 axle-counters supplier by Siemens in a statement issued on May 8, saying 125 incidents had caused 9 000 min of delay in the first quarter of the year. This was double the figure for the same period last year, ...
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NewsREMSA to sponsor two students to attend InnoTrans 2018
INNOTRANS: The US Railway Engineering-Maintenance Suppliers Association is to offer two students the chance to attend InnoTrans 2018 in Berlin on September 18-21. The selected students would participate in the InnoTrans Career Award, which is designed to ‘spark the interest’ of future generations to pursue opportunities in the rail and ...
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NewsPeoplemover opens at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport
RUSSIA: An automated peoplemover opened at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on May 3. The 2 km cable-driven peoplemover links the newly opened Terminal B with terminals D, E and F on an underground alignment. Doppelmayr built the US$243m peoplemover and is providing 15 years of operations and maintenance under ...
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News‘Root and branch’ reform of UK rail fares proposed
UK: The Rail Delivery Group is to undertake public consultation ahead of producing proposals for how it could work with government to implement a ‘root and branch reform’ of fare and ticket regulation. The current regulatory structure for ticketing in Great Britain was fixed at the time of privatisation ...
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NewsMRCE orders 25 more Vectrons
EUROPE: Leasing company Mitsui Rail Capital Europe announced an order for further 25 Siemens Vectron locomotives on May 8. The order includes 10 multisystem 6·4 MW locomotives suitable for operation ‘across Europe from the Netherlands to southeast Europe’ which will be delivered at the end of 2018, as well as ...
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NewsFrance – Germany tram-train to be studied
EUROPE: A Franco-German feasibility study is to look at the possibility of using around 40 route-km of freight-only and disused railway lines to introduce a regional rail or tram-train style service linking Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg with Haganeu in Alsace. This would make use of an existing road-rail bridge over ...
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NewsKaluga trolleybus extension inaugurated
RUSSIA: Kaluga trolleybus operator UKT inaugurated a 3·3 km extension of Line 18 on April 29. The extension runs northwest from Ulitsa Generala Popova to Mikrorayon Koshelev. Line 18 is now 28 km long with 26 stops, offering an end-to-end journey time of 80 min between Dubrava and Mikrorayon ...
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NewsFenix Signalling targets Southeast Asia market
THAILAND: UK company Fenix Signalling has acquired a majority shareholding in Bangkok-based signalling consultancy MGB Systems Ltd, which has been renamed Fenix Southeast Asia Ltd. Fenix Southeast Asia aims to offer a ‘one-stop shop’ covering the infrastructure asset lifecycle from concept design through construction to operations and maintenance. Announcing the ...
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NewsVirgin Trains sells tickets through Amazon Alexa
UK: Amazon Echo voice-activated devices with the Alexa virtual assistant and Amazon Pay can now be used to book advance single tickets for Virgin Trains East Coast and West Coast services. The launch on May 3 follows Virgin Trains' introduction last November of a journey planning ‘skill’ for Amazon Alexa. ...