All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 500
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NewsKlang Valley MRT2 groundbreaking
MALAYSIA: Prime Minister Najib Razak led the groundbreaking ceremony for Klang Valley Line 2 on September 15 near Putrajaya Sentral at the southern end of the future route. The 52·2 km line, also known as the SSP Line, will link Sungai Buloh, Serdang and Putrajaya with 26 above-ground and ...
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NewsLaos railway construction contracts awarded
LAOS: Laos-China Railway Co Ltd has awarded China Railway Group subsidiaries contracts for the civil works on sections I, II and III of the Boten – Vientiane railway. The three contracts awarded to China Railway No 5 Engineering Group, China Railway International Group and China Railway No 8 Engineering Group ...
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NewsRule Book app to be tested
UK: Safety and standards body RSSB has appointed technical content specialist Mekon to help develop a mobile app which could replace the rail industry’s paper Rule Book. A prototype is to be tested by a sample of railway staff ahead of the planned launch of an industry-wide product in 2017. ...
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NewsGranada operations out to tender
SPAIN: Within a budget of €33⋅6m, the Andalucía regional government is tendering a six-year contract to operate the 15⋅9 km light rail route nearing completion in Granada. The contract would involve the creation of 112 jobs, principally drivers and other operating personnel; other services including maintenance, security and cleaning are ...
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NewsDB unveils ICE4 inter-city train ‘for the gigabit society’
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn's latest generation of inter-city trainset was officially unveiled to the public by CEO Rüdiger Grube and Minister for Transportation & Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt at Berlin Hauptbahnhof on September 14. DB has placed firm orders with Siemens for 130 ICE4 (formerly known as ICx) trainsets under ...
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NewsKlang Valley MRT Line 1 to open in December
MALAYSIA: Project delivery company MRT Corp has confirmed that the first section of the MRT Line 1 between Sungai Buloh and Semantan will open in December, with the remainder of the 51 km automated metro line to Kajang opening in July next year.MRT Corp is a special purpose vehicle that ...
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NewsBrussels consults on automated metro Line M3
BELGIUM: Public consultation is expected to begin shortly on the proposal to develop a third metro route in Brussels, following approval of the scheme by the federal government. Detailed engineering design for the fully-automated Bordet – Albert line, now designated M3, has been underway since the project was adopted ...
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NewsSNCF unveils ‘haute couture’ TGV Océane trainset
FRANCE: On September 14 SNCF President Guillaume Pepy unveiled the ‘haute couture’ interiors of the TGV Océane, a build of 40 double-deck high speed trainsets ordered from Alstom at a cost of €1∙2bn to operate between Paris and southwestern France. From December 11 the first trainsets are due to be ...
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NewsKlang Valley fare collection contract awarded
MALAYSIA: MRT Corp announced on September 9 that it had awarded a consortium of Indra (80%) and Rasma Corp (20%) a 152·9m ringgit contract to supply an automatic fare collection system for use on the future Klang Valley Line 2. The Spanish-Malaysian consortium beat four other bidders. The 52·2 ...
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NewsIndustry welcomes rail freight strategy
UK: Representatives of the rail sector have welcomed the publication on September 13 of the government’s rail freight strategy, which has been developed in collaboration with operators and customers as well as infrastructure manager Network Rail. The strategy sets out a vision for how rail freight can continue to grow ...
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NewsIneco to supervise Line 12 extension
MEXICO: Spanish state-owned engineering consultancy Ineco announced on September 12 that it is to undertake the supervision of work to build the 4 km extension of Line 12 of the Mexico City metro, running from Mixcoac to Observatorio with three stations. Project supervision is to be undertaken by Ineco’s subsidiary ...
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NewsQuito metro TBMs completed
ECUADOR: Quito Mayor Mauricio Rodas has visited Herrenknecht’s Schwanau plant in southern Germany to inspect the two tunnel boring machines that the company is supplying to work on the Quito metro. He was joined by officials from the Quito Metro and the Acciona-Odebrecht joint venture that is building the line. ...
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NewsMipro wins yard resignalling contract
FINLAND: National transport agency Liikennevirasto has awarded Mipro a €22·3m contract to undertake signalling renewals at the marshalling yards at Niirala, Vainikkala and at Kotolahti-Mussalo in Kotka. The work is to be undertaken in 2016-18, with each yard commissioned as a separate entity. Announcing the contract on September 13, ...
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NewsCAF to open UK rolling stock plant in 2018
UK: Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF has announced more details of its plans to open a UK production plant, following a meeting between company Chairman Andrés Arizkorreta and Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling. ‘We have looked at more than 100 locations in Wales, England and Scotland and are ...
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NewsBarcelona suburban extension opens
SPAIN: President of the Generalitat of Catalunya Carles Puigdemont attended a ceremony on September 12 to mark the opening of a 0·7 km extension of route S2 of the 1 435 mm gauge Vallès network of regional operator FGC. Passenger services began the following day. The northern extension from ...
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NewsTMH to supply more metro trains to St Petersburg
RUSSIA: Transmashholding announced on September 8 that its Oktyabrsky Electric Railway Car Repair Plant in St Petersburg is to supply 27 six-car trainsets to the city’s metro for 13·4bn roubles. The order comprises 54 driving cars, 54 intermediate motor cars and 54 trailer cars. The first trainset must be ...
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NewsTarmac wagons delivered
UK: Tarmac has taken delivery of 53 hopper wagons and 48 open wagons built by Astra Rail which it is leasing from Ermewa for use on trains from its Mountsorrel quarry in Leicestershire to terminals across the midlands and southeast of England. The wagons have a capacity of more than ...
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NewsZhengzhou – Xuzhou high speed line opens
CHINA: Revenue services on the 362·4 km Passenger-Dedicated Line between Zhengzhou in Henan province and Xuzhou in Jiangsu province began on September 10, trial operation having started on April 17. The east-west route connects the Beijing – Guangzhou PDL at Zhengzhou Dong with the Beijing – Shanghai route at Xuzhou ...
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NewsEVO1 tram enters service in Most-Litvínov
CZECH REPUBLIC: Pragoimex’s EVO1 tram prototype entered passenger service on Route 4 of DPML’s 19 km inter-urban network, which links the cities of Most and Litvínov, on September 12. The tram, also known as Evička, was presented to the public at Most’s Open Doors Day two days earlier. Following ...
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NewsCincinnati Bell Connector opens
USA: A weekend of free travel marked the opening to passengers of the Cincinnati Bell Connector at midday on September 9. The 5·8 km tram route uses a pair of single tracks along parallel streets, running from Second Street at The Banks to Henry Street in Over-the-Rhine. There are ...