All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 489
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NewsGranada light rail operator selected
SPAIN: The Andalucía regional government has selected the Avanza Metro de Granada joint venture as preferred bidder for the contract to operate the city’s 15⋅9 km light rail route. As well as Spanish public transport operator Avanza, the joint venture comprises Tuzsa, operator of the bus and light rail networks ...
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NewsBombardier joint venture starts work on Serbian signalling upgrading
SERBIA: Bombardier Transportation has begun work on its first signalling project in Serbia, covering the 77·6 km Resnik – Valjevo section of the route from Beograd to Bar in Montenegro, of which 287 km is in Serbia. The infrastructure work will support an increase in the maximum speed on the ...
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NewsRail Delivery Group name replaces ATOC
UK: The Association of Train Operating Companies and the Rail Delivery Group have adopted the single name Rail Delivery Group with effect from October 24, with the aim of providing greater clarity about the services offered. Set up as a statutory body after privatisation in 1993, ATOC brings together ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
PKP PLK has completed a 370m złoty modernisation and double-tracking of the rail connection from Pruszcz Gdański to the Port of Gdańsk, including the installation of a 120 m bridge to eliminate speed restrictions and enable vessels with triple-stacked containers to pass beneath the line. LogServ has taken delivery of ...
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NewsWorld rail market October 2016
Canada: KWG Resources has appointed Canarail to provide specialised professional services and data for the Ring of Fire railway feasibility study to be undertaken by China Railway First Survey & Design Institute Group. Europe: Interautomation has signed a framework agreement to supply Alpha Trains with passenger counting and dynamic ...
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NewsSt Petersburg metro trains delivered
RUSSIA: Škoda Transportation´s Vagonmash subsidiary delivered the first three of eight NeVa six-car trainsets to St Petersburg metro Line 3 on October 13. The remaining five sets are scheduled to follow in 2017. The 3·8bn rouble order was signed in April 2015 following successful operation with the first series of ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market October 2016
Brazil: A consortium of Tiisa and Comsa has been awarded a R$858·7m contract to build the second phase of São Paulo metro Line 4. Canada: Alstom has been awarded a C$180m contract to maintain Ottawa's O-Train Confederation Line light rail infrastructure over 30 years. Finland: Liikennevirasto has awarded ...
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NewsB Logistics launches Belgium – Sweden freight service
EUROPE: Belgian freight operator B Logistics has launched its eighth Green Xpress ‘high quality’ freight service, which is the first it has developed in response to demand from the intermodal market. The Sweden Xpress services depart from Antwerpen and Malmö on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with a yard–to-yard journey time ...
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NewsBombardier Transportation to cut 5000 jobs
BOMBARDIER: On October 21 Bombardier Inc announced plans to cut approximately 7 500 jobs worldwide as part of a workforce optimisation and site specialisation programme running through to 2018. Around two-thirds of the job losses would be at the Bombardier Transportation rail business, with the rest in the aerospace business. ...
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NewsEMUs to boost Kuala Lumpur airport rail link capacity
MALAYSIA: The first of six electric multiple-units which are being supplied by CRRC Changchun to increase capacity on the Kuala Lumpur International Airport rail link was unveiled by Minister of Transport, Liow Tiong Lai at Express Rail Link’s Salak Tinggi depot on October 20. ERL signed the order for the ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
DB Cargo UK has installed a Hegenscheidt wheel lathe at its Toton depot and its Axiom Rail workshop in Stoke-on-Trent has recieved Railway Industry Supplier Approval Scheme accreditation for the production of powered wheelsets. ‘These developments build on DB Cargo UK’s ability to service its own fleet and add to ...
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NewsKenyan President launches SGR Phase 2A construction
KENYA: Construction works for the second phase of the Standard Gauge Railway project were officially launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta with a ceremony at the Embulbul work site in Ngong Town on October 19. Phase 2A covers the 120 km Nairobi – Naivasha section of the 2 937 km MoKaKi ...
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NewsMinho line electrification contract signed
PORTUGAL: Infraestruturas de Portugal announced on October 19 that it had signed a contract worth €16m with Mota-Engil, covering electrification of the 44 km Nine – Viana do Castelo section of the route between Porto and Valença on the Spanish border. The contract also covers the construction of 750 m ...
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NewsGaudí interior for FGC train
SPAIN: Catalunya regional operator FGC has decorated the interior of one of its trainsets in the style of the crypt at the church in the Colònia Güell designed by Antoni Gaudí. The train’s ceiling, doors, walls and seat backs are decorated with 3M Envision vinyl incorporating details from ...
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NewsG&W and Macquarie to buy Glencore Rail coal haulage business
AUSTRALIA: Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced on October 20 that it had entered into agreements to acquire mining company Glencore’s Hunter Valley coal haulage business for A$1·14bn. G&W will concurrently issue a 49% equity stake in Genesee & Wyoming Australia to funds managed by Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets, saying ...
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NewsMumbai to Moscow intermodal freight arrives
INTERNATIONAL: The first containers to be transported on the newly-established north–south freight corridor from Mumbai to Moscow arrived at the Vorsino freight terminal southwest of the Russian capital on October 12, 23 days after leaving India. The containers were loaded onto a ship in Mumbai on September 20, and travelled ...
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NewsFlood-damaged DMU returns to service
UK: A diesel multiple-unit which had been seriously damaged by floodwater has returned to service with ScotRail after being bought and repaired by Brodie Engineering. The company has set up its own leasing business with funding from Clydesdale Bank. Two-car unit 156 478 suffered underframe and internal damage when the ...
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NewsUkraine to create stand-alone passenger business
UKRAINE: Next year Ukrainian Railways is to begin a five-step process to form a separate passenger business. This would more clearly separate the costs of its loss-making passenger activities from the profitable freight operations, providing greater clarity in the allocation of subsidy. UZ envisages that the assets and liabilities of ...
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NewsEQT submits offer to buy GB Railfreight
UK: Channel Tunnel concessionaire Groupe Eurotunnel announced on October 18 that it had received a binding and irrevocable offer for its UK rail freight operating subsidiary GB Railfreight from Swedish private equity investor EQT Infrastructure II. EQT said the offer through through an indirectly-owned company within its Hector Rail group ...
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NewsAutozug Sylt car-carrying service launched
GERMANY: RDC Deutschland launched its Autozug Sylt car-carrying shuttle train service over the Hindenburgdamm causeway between the North Frisian island of Sylt and the mainland on October 18. Passengers on the maiden journey which left Westerland at 09.40 included RDC founder and owner Henry Posner III, who said he was ...