All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 496
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NewsUKVZ to supply trams to St Petersburg
RUSSIA: UKVZ has submitted the best bid for a contract to supply 19 trams to St Petersburg. The price of 900m roubles was lower than that submitted by PK Transportnye Systemy and Belkommunmash. The tender specified that the vehicles must be at least 70% low-floor. The first three trams ...
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NewsState takes over Perpignan – Figueres
EUROPE: Infrastructure managers SNCF Réseau and ADIF are to take over the operation of the high speed line between Perpignan in France and Figueres in Spain, after creditors were unable to agree terms for restructuring the €557m debt of its builder and operator TP Ferro. A 50:50 joint venture of ...
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News‘Unique’ breadth of InnoTrans attracts record attendance
INNOTRANS: Organiser Messe Berlin reports that the 11th InnoTrans trade show held in the German capital on September 20-23 had enjoyed ‘the best set of results in its history’, with record attendances by exhibitors and trade visitors, 149 products making their international debuts and 127 vehicles on display. A ...
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NewsGyeonggang Line opens in Seoul
SOUTH KOREA: The first 55 km section of the east-west Gyeonggang Line opened on September 24, serving the southeastern suburbs of Seoul. Partly following the alignment of a former narrow-gauge route, the line runs southeast from Pangyo station on the Sin Bundang line to Icheon and then turns east ...
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NewsChennai metro reaches airport
INDIA: The second phase of the Chennai metro opened on September 21 when Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu flagged off the inaugural train at Chennai International Airport. The 8·6 km section of the Blue Line runs between Little Mount and the airport with four intermediate stations. Interchange ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
The Cádiz port authority has appointed Consultrans to develop plans for a railway link to a new container terminal.Acron Group‘s North-Western Phosphorous Co has awarded PSK-Remput and Trest-2 contracts totalling 4·5bn roubles to build a total of 50 km of track as part of a 37·7 route-km line to ...
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NewsBombardier and CRRC sign strategic co-operation agreement
INDUSTRY: Bombardier Transportation and China Railway Rolling Stock Corp announced the signing of a 'strategic agreement to expand and deepen their relationship' on September 23. Bombardier said this would establish a framework for the companies to 'leverage their complementary strengths' on selected projects in the Chinese and international rail markets. ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market September 2016
Canada: Metrolinx has exercised options worth C$428m for Bombardier to supply GO Transit with 125 more BiLevel double-deck coaches in 2018-20. China: Hong Kong MTR Corp has awarded CRRC Nanjing Puzhen a HK$745m contract to supply 40 LRVs. Denmark: DSB is to procure 26 electric locomotives to work ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market September 2016
Argentina: Marubeni has signed a US$63m contract to supply Automatic Train Stop technology for the US$250m Buenos Aires ATS project which covers 280 trainsets and 1500 track-km. Australia: A 50: 50 joint venture of SMEC and GHD has been appointed as independent verifier for the 7·3 km Gold Coast ...
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NewsMTR expects first high speed train
CHINA: MTR Corp announced on September 23 that it was shortly expecting to take delivery by sea of the first of nine high speed trainsets being supplied by CRRC Qingdao Sifang to operate from Kowloon to Shenzhen and Guangzhou on the Express Rail Link. Prior to shipment from Qingdao, the ...
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NewsFirst test for ETCS Baseline 3
DENMARK: Alstom announced on September 23 that, in conjunction with infrastructure authority Banedanmark, it had carried out the first successful tests of ETCS Level 2 Baseline 3, validated by the European Union Agency for Railways in July. The tests were conducted on the Roskilde – Gadstrup route, which is acting ...
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NewsCRRC shows its full range at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: A highlight of the CRRC stand at InnoTrans 2016 is a concept model for a possible intercontinental high speed train, which the company is promoting for future landbridge rail services between China and Europe. Bringing together expertise from the company's various passenger and freight rolling stock businesses, the double-deck ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
LB Foster's German track infrastructure business LB Foster Bahntechnik has granted Knorr-Bremse exclusive sales and distribution rights for its wheel flange lubrication systems and related consumable products in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and southern Africa for an initial period of five years.On September 15 Deutsche Bahn issued a Luxembourg-listed euro ...
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NewsUsing mobile devices as surveillance cameras
INNOTRANS: Finnish technology company Teleste is showing a range of wireless technologies for the rail and transport industries at InnoTrans 2016. Among the new developments in this field is a technology that allows transport staff to use mobile devices as surveillance cameras. Footage recorded by mobile devices is transmitted via ...
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NewsScotRail Class 385 on test
UK: ScotRail reports that testing of the Class 385 electric multiple-unit is now underway at the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic, with the first trainset ‘successfully meeting its design speed within weeks’. Hitachi Rail Europe is supplying a total of 70 Class 385s for ScotRail, comprising 46 ...
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NewsMTU Power Packs go Hybrid
INNOTRANS: MTU unveiled its next generation hybrid PowerPack on September 21 at InnoTrans 2016. Conventional diesel power packs are complemented by one or several 30·6 kWh Li-ion MTU EnergyPack batteries each weighing 350 kg. According to MTU, they offer fuel savings of up to 25%, a useful battery life of ...
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NewsCarbures makes rail debut
INNOTRANS: Spanish composites supplier Carbures is exhibiting its first products for the rail sector, including emergency detrainment doors for the driverless trainsets that CAF is building for lines 3 and 6 of the Santiago metro in Chile. Carbures is supplying a total of 74 doors for this fleet. For the ...
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NewsTracklaying completed for Chiltern to Oxford
UK: Network Rail announced on September 21 that tracklaying had been completed to enable Chiltern Railways services to run to Oxford. Chiltern had begun operating between London Marylebone and a parkway station on the northern outskirts of the city last year; its trains are due to serve Oxford station, closer ...
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NewsTrains with brains
INNOTRANS: GE Transportation and Intel Corp have announced a partnership to offer GoLINC, a modular onboard computer package which acts as a 'superbrain' by integrating, storing and communicating the data produced by the hundreds of GE and third-party sensors now found on a locomotive. The system is about ‘leveraging data ...
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NewsRailcare orders last-mile Vectrons
SWITZERLAND: Siemens announced on September 22 that it had received an order for seven Vectron freight locomotives from Railcare, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swiss retail group Coop. The locomotives will be used to haul intermodal consignments in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, drawing traction current at 15 kV 16⋅7 Hz AC. ...