All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 37

  • TED and UR Blog and SM Post (1)
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    Railway maintenance equipment partnership

    2024-03-22T04:00:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: British maintenance equipment supplier Thomson Engineering Design has selected Unipart Rail as its exclusive sales and distribution partner across Europe, Asia, New Zealand, Australia and North America. The companies are working in partnership to introduce a ‘revolutionary’ range of machines to provide the benefits of ...

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    Moon railway concepts commissioned

    2024-03-21T15:00:00Z

    MOON: The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has commissioned Northrop Grumman to develop a concept for a railway to transport humans, supplies and resources on the Moon. The study is to define the interfaces and resources required to build a lunar rail network; draw up ...

  • T4000 Pocket Wagons for Iberian Gauge (Photo VTG)
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    Iberian T4000 pocket wagons arrive

    2024-03-21T09:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Leasing company VTG is taking delivery of 200 T4000 pocket wagons for combined transport services on Spain and Portugal’s 1 668 mm gauge. The wagons are being built by Tatravagónka to a design derived from the T3000 pocket wagons in use on 1 435 mm ...

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    Basque region to take over RENFE suburban routes

    2024-03-20T11:00:00Z

    SPAIN: On March 11 the Spanish government announced that management of all suburban services in the Basque region would be transferred from national operator RENFE to the Euzkadi autonomous community. The national government will set up a €400m fund to launch the project, some of which ...

  • JR East Series E8
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    Series E8 enters service on Yamagata mini-Shinkansen

    2024-03-20T09:00:00Z

    JAPAN: East Japan Railway put its first Series E8 high speed trainsets into revenue service on the Yamagata Shinkansen on March 16.

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    SNCF Réseau awards major track renewal contracts

    2024-03-20T05:00:00Z

    FRANCE: Infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau has awarded four major track renewal contracts designed to provide suppliers with increased visibility of future work. Eiffage Rail and Captrain will renew 49 turnouts on the Atlantique, Nord-Europe and Sud-Est high speed lines in a contract which runs for four ...

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    RegioJet to launch night train to Ukraine

    2024-03-19T12:00:00Z

    EUROPE: RegioJet has opened ticket sales for a night train service between Praha and the rail hub at Chop in western Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast. The operator says this will be the first 100% commercially operated service between the European Union and Ukraine. The daily service is ...

  • DB Cargo Siemens Mobility Vectron Dual Mode light (Photo DB Oliver Lang)
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    Lightweight loco customised to DB Cargo’s carbon-reduction needs

    2024-03-19T11:01:00Z

    GERMANY: DB Cargo and Siemens Mobility have unveiled the Vectron Dual Mode Light, an electro-diesel locomotive optimised for flexible deployment on partly-electrified routes and to reduce the need for shunting. It is several tonnes lighter than a conventional Vectron Dual Mode loco. The changes are intended ...

  • BTK railway upgrade
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    Joint venture to manage upgraded Baku – Tbilisi – Kars railway

    2024-03-19T05:00:00Z

    ASIA: An equally-owned binational joint venture is to be set up to manage the Azeri and Georgian sections of the Baku – Tbilisi – Kars railway once current upgrading works are completed. Azerbaijan’s and Georgia’s state railways currently hold sole responsibility for the sections of line ...

  • First train arriving from Tokyo at Tsugaru station
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    Tsuruga joined to Shinkansen network

    2024-03-18T12:35:00Z

    JAPAN: ‘Today’s opening will touch the hearts of many domestic and international users and move the future forward’ said JR West President Kazuaki Hasegawa at the inauguration of the Kanazawa to Tsuruga extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen.

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    Turkish elections bring rail plan announcements

    2024-03-18T11:00:00Z

    TURKEY: Plans to develop inter-city and suburban rail lines have been announced by the government ahead of municipal elections on March 31. Speaking in the Black Sea port of Samsun on February 28, Minister of Transport & Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said the government would push ahead ...

  • Container train from the Kazakhstan’s terminal in Xi'an arrived in Azerbaijan (Photo KTZ)
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    World rail freight news round-up

    2024-03-18T05:00:00Z

    News from the world rail freight market.

  • Loja bypass map (image ADIF)
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    High speed rail bypass contract awarded

    2024-03-17T05:00:00Z

    SPAIN: High speed rail infrastructure manager ADIF Alta Velocidad has awarded Sacyr Construcción a €49m contract to build the first section of a 19 km bypass around the town of Loja on the Antequera – Granada high speed line. Trains currently use a single track, dual ...

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    Stadler to open Berlin train commissioning centre

    2024-03-16T05:00:00Z

    GERMANY: Stadler is to establish a facility at Hennigsdorf near Berlin where it will commission rolling stock produced at its Berlin Pankow plant. Opening is planned by 2027, with Stadler’s current commissioning centre in Velten to be converted into a servicing centre which will undertake modernisation, ...

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    Further concerns raised about Dutch train operating contract

    2024-03-15T12:00:00Z

    Source: NS NETHERLANDS: The European Commission has sent a further letter of formal notice to the Netherlands, expressing concerns about the direct award of a contract for state-owned incumbent Nederlandse Spoorwegen to operate services on the designated core passenger network between January 1 2025 and December ...

  • Rail Europe_iryo partnership
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    Railway supply industry news round-up

    2024-03-15T05:00:00Z

    This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.

  • Lineas COSCO train (Photo Lineas)
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    Rail freight service launched following Houthi attacks on shipping

    2024-03-14T13:00:00Z

    EUROPE: Rail freight operator Lineas has collaborated with container handler CSP Zeebrugge to launch a service between the Belgian port and Graz in Austria for COSCO Shipping Lines, which has had to divert vessels away from the Red Sea because of attacks by Houthi rebels. The ...

  • Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca CAF EMU (Photo SFM)
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    Mallorca EMU delivered

    2024-03-14T11:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca has taken delivery of the first of five electric multiple-units being supplied by CAF. Testing is now underway with entry into services on SFM’s metre-gauge routes from Palma de Mallorca planned for June, by which time the remaining four EMUs are ...

  • PKP Intercity coach impression
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    PKP Intercity awards major contract for 200 km/h coaches

    2024-03-12T15:20:00Z

    POLAND: PKP Intercity has awarded FPS H Cegielski a 4·23bn złoty contract to supply 300 coaches, with options for 150 more. ‘We have just concluded the largest tender in the company’s history in terms of the number of vehicles’, said PKP Intercity management board member Jarosław ...

  • Ukraine railway station (Photo EBRD)
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    Domestic content boost for Ukrainian rolling stock

    2024-03-12T11:00:00Z

    UKRAINE: National railway Ukrzaliznytsia has ordered 66 coaches from KVSZ which will include facilities for passengers with reduced mobility and will have an increased proportion of domestic content. The government has provided 260 million hryvnias to support the localisation of production by 160 Ukrainian suppliers. Announcing ...