All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 368
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Genesee & Wyoming company Freightliner unveiled its new brand identity on May 1. It will now commence rebranding its intermodal and bulk rail freight terminals and Freightliner Road Services lorries, while 'taking a phased approach' with locomotives and wagons. The European Rail Freight Association’s annual meeting on April 18 called ...
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NewsKansas City Southern to deploy CloudMoyo software
USA: CloudMoyo is to deploy its Microsoft Azure cloud-based CloudMoyo Rail Transportation Management software to modernise Kansas City Southern’s Management Control System and provide analytics and artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency. KCS already uses CloudMoyo’s crew management, business intelligence and analytics packages, and is to deploy CRTM in ...
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NewsLondon Liverpool street lighting upgrade
UK: Network Rail has installed Goodlight LED lighting supplied by LED Eco Lights on the 18 platforms and concourse at London Liverpool Street station. ‘We decided to move to LED lighting to reduce our carbon output, reduce costs in terms of power consumption and to improve the lighting level and ...
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NewsSecond airport rail link opens in Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA: A rail link to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Kuala Lumpur was inaugurated on May 1. The Ministry of Transport funded the 521m ringgit project. The route branches off from the metre-gauge line that links Kuala Lumpur with Port Klang at Subang Jaya. It runs north along ...
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NewsSecond airport rail link opens in Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA: A rail link to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Kuala Lumpur was inaugurated on May 1. The Ministry of Transport funded the 521m ringgit project. The route branches off from the metre-gauge line that links Kuala Lumpur with Port Klang at Subang Jaya. It runs north along ...
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NewsEU budgets €30·6bn for transport in 2021-27
EUROPE: A total spending envelope of €30·6bn has been allocated for transport investment as part of the European Commission’s 2021-27 budget proposals presented to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on May 2. Describing its proposed Multiannual Financing Framework as ‘pragmatic and modern’, the Commission put forward plans for a total ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
On April 13 Channel Tunnel operator Getlink completed an internal reorganisation of its corporate structure. Groupe Eurotunnel SE transferred its holdings in the two concessionaires France Manche SA and The Channel Tunnel Group Ltd to Eurotunnel Holding SAS, in order to ring fence the fixed link activities from other group ...
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NewsAlpha Trains forms French subsidiary
FRANCE: Leasing company Alpha Trains Group is targeting the emerging French passenger rolling stock leasing market with the formation of a French subsidiary. ‘France is a new and important market for us, which we are relying on to replicate our success in Germany and become the ideal partner of the ...
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NewsUnion Pacific orders low-emission shunters
USA: Union Pacific has ordered 10 EMD24B low-emission locomotives from Progress Rail for yard shunting work in California. Announced on May 1, the order is the first for the EMD24B design, following the testing of a demonstrator by Pacific Harbor Line at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. ...
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NewsGrand Paris selects supplier for up to 1 000 driverless train cars
FRANCE: Alstom has been selected as preferred bidder to supply up to 1 000 large-profile metro cars to operate three lines of the automated Grand Paris Express network, project promoter Société du Grand Paris announced on May 2. As part of its 2010 mandate to deliver the infrastructure for ...
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NewsGreat Northern Class 717 EMUs unveiled
UK: Siemens has unveiled the Class 717 Desiro City electric multiple-units which it is building for Govia Thameslink Railway. Being built at the Siemens plant at Krefeld in Germany, the 25 six-car units are scheduled to enter service from September on GTR’s Great Northern commuter services from Welwyn Garden City, ...
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NewsPKP PLK reinstates line for freight services
POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK has rehabilitated the 11 km Jełowa – Murów section of the Opole – Namysłów route to support an expansion of Stora Enso Wood Products’ plant at Murów. Passenger services were withdrawn form the route in 1992, and the line was taken out of use following ...
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NewsUK railway news round-up
Kenilworth station opened on April 30, served by West Midlands Railway. Rebuilt on the site of the former station closed in 1965, it was funded by Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Warwickshire County Council and a £4·9m grant from the Department for Transport’s New Stations Fund, as part of ...
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NewsAlstom trainset for Senegal on test
SENEGAL: The first of 15 four-car Coradia Polyvalent electro-diesel multiple-units ordered for the Train Express Régional project in Dakar is now on test at Alstom’s plant at Reichshoffen in France. The Train Express Régional will link the centre of Dakar with the new Blaise Diagne international airport in Diass, serving ...
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NewsNo ‘ironing board’ seats, Greater Anglia promises
UK: With advice from consultancy Schoenemann Design, operator Greater Anglia has selected Italian company FISA's Lean seat design for used on its future Stadler trainsets, and has made adjustments to the shape of the base cushions, lumbar support and headrests. The Bombardier Transportation Aventra EMUs ordered for Greater Anglia's commuter ...
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NewsDortmund orders 24 light rail vehicles
GERMANY: Dortmund public transport authority DSW21 has awarded a €195m contract to a consortium of HeiterBlick and Kiepe Electric to supply 24 light rail vehicles and modernise 64 from the existing fleet. The first of the new high-floor bidirectional two-section LRVs is due to be delivered in 2020 and ...
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NewsHupac expands port hinterland network with ERS acquisition
EUROPE: Intermodal freight operator Hupac announced an agreement on May 2 to purchase ERS Railways from Genesee & Wyoming Inc. This includes ERS’s 47% stake in Hamburg-based operator boxXpress. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year, subject to regulatory approval. ERS would remain a ...
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NewsHaramain High Speed Rail may open in August
SAUDI ARABIA: August 31 has been suggested as the new target date for the start of commercial services on the Haramain high speed line between Makkah and Madinah. Opening had previously been expected in mid-March, but it became clear in February that delays to the completion of five of the ...
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NewsTE Connectivity launches ruggedised data cable
GERMANY: TE Connectivity has introduced a Category 5e quad high speed data cable for railway rolling stock and infrastructure applications. Its halogen-free flame retardant polymer insulation complies with the EN45545-2 rolling stock fire standard, with the crosslinked outer jacketing providing high resistance to chemicals, mechanical stresses and extreme temperatures. ‘We ...
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NewsDB Regio selected for operating contract
GERMANY: A group of four transport and local authorities in Germany and the Czech Republic have selected DB Regio subsidiary Start Ostsachsen as the winner of the Ostsachsen II passenger operating contract. The decision was announced on April 26, with formal award subject to the regulatory standstill period. Services ...