All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 491
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NewsTesmec preferred bidder to supply maintenance vehicles to RFI
ITALY: Bergamo-based Tesmec expects the formal award before the end of the year of a contract to supply up to 88 multi-functional maintenance vehicles to infrastructure manager RFI.With a nominal value of €92m, the contract for which Tesmec has been named preferred bidder is divided into three lots; two cover ...
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NewsCRRC to supply Nagpur metro trains
INDIA: CRRC has been selected to supply rolling stock for the Nagpur metro. The Chinese supplier is to supply 23 three-car trainsets for Rs8·51bn, with formal contract signature expected shortly. Two lines are being built in Nagpur under a public-private partnership; work is being led by project ...
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NewsJannet Walker Ford
Jannet Walker Ford, Vice-President & North America Director of Policy & Strategic Programs at Parsons, has been elected to the APTA Board of Directors. Andrew Brady has become APTA’s Senior Director of Government Affairs.
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NewsFlexity Wien design presented as series production begins
AUSTRIA: Transport Leader for Wien city council Ulli Sima, Wiener Linien CEO Günter Steinbauer and Bombardier Austria CEO Christian Diewald presented the design for the Flexity Wien tram on October 12 to mark the start of series production at Bombardier’s Wien plant. Wiener Linien awarded Bombardier a €431m contract ...
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NewsEurostar to cut services and jobs
EUROPE: Cross-Channel high speed train operator Eurostar is to reduce the number of services it operates by 8% and intends to cut 80 jobs. ‘This is a challenging environment for all travel companies and we need to manage our costs very carefully’, Eurostar told Railway Gazette. ‘That’s why we are ...
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NewsTerminator on Wheels
INDIA: With the Indian capital battling an outbreak of dengue and chikungunya, South Delhi Municipal Corp teamed up with Northern Railway’s Delhi Division to tackle the perennial problem of mosquitoes breeding in bodies of water alongside the rail network. NR put together a special train to inspect key railway corridors ...
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NewsJakarta commuter operator receives Tokyo EMUs
INDONESIA: Two 10-car Series 6000 electric multiple-units previously used on Tokyo Metro’s Chiyoda Line arrived at the Port of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta from Japan on October 9, and a further batch is scheduled to be delivered later this month. Earlier this year the KA Commuter Jabodetabek subsidiary of national ...
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NewsHector Rail to operate Blå Tåget
SWEDEN: Skandinaviska Jernbanor has appointed Hector Rail to provide traction for and manage the operation of its Stockholm – Göteborg Blå Tåget passenger service, leaving the promoter to focus on customer service aspects. Skandinaviska Jernbanor launched its open access Blå Tåget service between Göteborg, Stockholm and Uppsala in December 2011, ...
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NewsGöteborg orders Flexity trams
SWEDEN: A consortium of Bombardier Transportation and electrical equipment supplier Vossloh Kiepe has been formally awarded a contract to supply 40 Flexity trams to Göteborg by mid-2021. The new trams are designated Type M33. The €140m firm order announced on October 11 includes 30 Type A unidirectional ...
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NewsModular metro locomotive under development
LOCOMOTIVE: Specialist engineering company Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik is developing a modular locomotive family with highly-customisable options to meet the shunting and maintenance train requirements of underground metro operators. The design is being developed from the five MT-S-600-BE third-rail/battery electric locomotives which Schalke and Vossloh Kiepe are supplying to Wiener Linien ...
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NewsRail Baltica procurement agreement signed
EUROPE: Nine government and railway organisations from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have signed an agreement setting out the procurement model for Rail Baltica II, the planned 1 435 mm gauge line which would run 728 km to Riga and Tallinn from the current standard gauge railhead at Kaunas. Baiba Rubesa, ...
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NewsKeolis’ Lyon operations contract to be renewed
FRANCE: Incumbent operator Keolis announced on October 7 that it had been selected by transport authority Sytral to operate public transport in Lyon for a further six years. The contract, due to be signed in the coming weeks, followed almost two years of negotiations and will come into effect ...
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NewsEuropean rail safety continues to improve
EUROPE: The International Union of Railways has issued its 2016 report on railway accidents in Europe, based on a database established in 2001 which now contains information from 22 infrastructure managers. UIC said rail remains the safest land transport mode. The last decade has seen an ‘almost continuous decrease’ in ...
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NewsChinese metro diagnostic train in service
CHINA: A diagnostic train developed by Russian company Tvema with Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CSR Qishuyan Locomotive Co has entered service on the Beijing metro. Work on the Railway LAB Ultrasonic Test TVEMA 70 started two years ago. The commissioning process in Beijing included training not only for Beijing ...
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NewsChemnitzer Modell inaugurated
GERMANY: Stage 1 of the Chemnitzer Modell was inaugurated on October 10 when tram-train services began running between Chemnitz and the regional centres of Burgstädt, Mittweida and Hainichen to the northeast. A connection between the tram and rail networks at Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof was completed in mid-2014, enabling the through ...
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NewsKrasnoyarsk tram refurbishment
RUSSIA: As a gift to Krasnoyarsk ahead of the 2019 Winter Universiade, which the city is hosting, Krasnoyarsky Elektrovagonoremontny Zavod is refurbishing an old KTM-5 tram. To be designated KTM-5MZ after reconstruction, the tram will undergo extensive work. In addition to an overhaul of the bodyshell and bogies, new ...
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NewsHohenzollerische Landesbahn awarded new contract
GERMANY: Following a tender, the Ministry of Transport of the Land of Baden-Württemberg has awarded incumbent Hohenzollerische Landesbahn the Zollern-Alb-Bahn 2 contract to operate local passenger services on the 50 km Sigmaringen – Gammertingen – Hechingen route. The new contract runs from the December 2016 timetable change until December 2023, ...
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NewsÖBB prepares for Nightjet launch
AUSTRIA: National operator ÖBB has agreed arrangements with Deutsche Bahn to take over part of the German operator's network of overnight trains from the timetable change on December 11. DB had stated earlier this year that it would cease to run City Night Line services. On October 7 ÖBB said ...
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NewsCompetition Commission considers future of NSW coal haulage
AUSTRALIA: The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has released a ‘statement of issues’ inviting comments on Aurizon and Pacific National’s rival proposals to buy Glencore Coal’s rail haulage business. ACCC says it will assess the proposals against the alternative scenario of a new operator entering the market. Coal producer Glencore ...
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NewsSecond phase of Samsun tram extension opens
TURKEY: Samsun Mayor Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz attended the opening ceremony for an extension of the Samsun tram line on October 10. The 7 km southeastern extension from Balıkçı to Tekkeköy extension will enter regular revenue service within a week. It forms the second phase of a 12 km extension ...