All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 504
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NewsGySEV orders 10 Flirt3 EMUs
HUNGARY: Following an open tender, GySEV has awarded Stadler a €68·45m EU-funded contract to supply 10 four-car Flirt3 regional electric multiple-units between March 2018 and January 2019. The bodyshells and bogies are to be manufactured at Stadler’s factory at Szolnok in Hungary, with final assembly at the Siedlce plant in ...
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NewsEIB signs Helsinki metro extension loan
FINLAND: European Investment Bank President Werner Hoyer signed an initial €100m tranche of financing for the second phase of the extension of the Helsinki metro to Espoo on August 30. The 7 km extension from Matinkylä to Kivenlahti will add five stations. Opening is planned for 2020 at the earliest. ...
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NewsNot just the budget
The Indian government’s plan to abolish the annual railway budget is a welcome move which could facilitate more wide-ranging reforms, suggests Raghu Dayal.
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NewsDfT announces measures to improve Southern performance
UK: Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling announced a package of measures to improve the resilience of the Southern network of passenger services south of London on September 1, including £20m of funding and the appointment of a project board which will work with franchisee Govia Thameslink Railway, the ...
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CRRC’s overseas orders more than double
CHINA: Rolling stock manufacturing conglomerate CRRC has announced that its overseas orders in the first half of 2016 totalled 14·88bn yuan, a 126% increase on the same period last, despite ‘unprecedented challenges’ from a slow recovery in the world economy and downward pressure within China. Overseas sales contributed to a ...
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NewsBayern railway reopening contract
GERMANY: Bayern railway agency BEG has directly awarded Länderbahn a contract to reintroduce regular passenger services on the 24·8 km Gotteszell – Viechtach route for a two-year experimental period starting on September 12. This will be used to determine whether there is sufficient demand to reinstate a passenger service on ...
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NewsJezreel Valley railway inaugurated
ISRAEL: Transport Minister Israel Katz inaugurated the 60 km Valley Line from Haifa to ‘Afula and Beit-She’an on August 29, ahead of the planned start of public test running on October 16 and the expected launch of the full passenger service on November 4. Guests on the ...
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CRCC selected to build Kano light rail network
NIGERIA: Kano state’s Ministry of Works, Housing & Transport has provisionally awarded contracts for the construction of a light rail network in the city of Kano to a consortium of China Railway Construction Corp subsidiaries China Railway 18th Bureau Group and China Railway Construction Electrification Bureau Group. The 74·3 km ...
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NewsHuber+Suhner makes new connections at InnoTrans 2016
HUBER+SUHNER: Connected Mobility will be the theme of Huber+Suhner’s stand at InnoTrans 2016, where the Swiss firm will be highlighting its range of components for onboard, train-to-ground and trackside communications networks designed to support applications including internet access, e-ticketing, passenger information systems, train control, CCTV and fleet management. The Massive ...
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NewsKiel – Schönberger Strand revival gets underway
GERMANY: Schleswig-Holstein Transport Minister Reinhard Meyer attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the future Kiel-Ellerbek station on August 30, marking the start of work to reinstate regular passenger services on the 26 km Kiel – Schönberger Strand line which ceased in the early 1980s. The project is being managed by ...
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NewsGE buys supply chain software company ShipXpress
USA: GE Transportation announced the purchase of ShipXpress on August 30, saying the acquisition of the developer of cloud-based software for the transport, industrial and commodities sectors would expand GE’s portfolio into the logistics value chain and increase its ability to deliver information and transaction services for railway customers around ...
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NewsGB Railfreight signs Greenbrier sand wagon deal
UK: GB Railfreight has signed a deal to lease 41 Greenbrier 101·6 tonne hopper wagons from Nacco Leasing for a minimum of five years. This will support a five-year extension to GBRf’s 2014 contract to haul silica sand from Sibelco Europe’s King’s Lynn quarry to the Guardian Industries plant in ...
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NewsAurizon launches Sydney Port Shuttle
AUSTRALIA: On August 30 Aurizon announced it had begun operating a freight shuttle from the Port of Botany to the Enfield Intermodal facility in western Sydney, which it leases from NSW Ports under a 10-year deal. Aurizon expects the initial service, which operates six times a week, to increase ‘over ...
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NewsTaipei Circular Line driverless train unveiled
TAIWAN: Hitachi Rail Italy unveiled a prototype train for the Circular Line of the Taipei metro at its Reggio Calabria plant on August 30. All 17 four-car sets are due to be completed by late 2018. The driverless trainsets with aluminium alloy bodyshells are 68 m long and 2 ...
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NewsWest Midlands franchise ITT issued
UK: The Department for Transport issued invitations to tender for the new West Midlands passenger franchise to two shortlisted bidders on August 30: London & West Midlands Railway Ltd, a bid vehicle formed by the Govia joint venture of Keolis (35%) and Go-Ahead Group (65%) which has operated the ...
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NewsDallas Streetcar extension opens
USA: An extension of the Dallas Streetcar opened on August 29. The 1·3 km section links Beckley to Bishop Arts District in the Oak Cliff district in the southwest of the city, with an intermediate stop at Zang Boulevard/6th Street. The construction contract was approved in April 2015, and ...
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NewsFirst San Francisco Muni S200 vehicles nearing completion
USA: San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials visited Siemens’ plant in Sacramento on August 29 to look at the first of 215 light rail vehicles that Siemens is building for the city’s Muni network. The first vehicle is due to arrive in San Francisco ...
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NewsInauguration connects Tajik rail networks
TAJIKISTAN: The 40·7 km Vahdat – Yovon railway was inaugurated by President Emomali Rahmon on August 24, completing a 119 km link between the capital Dushanbe and the southern city of Qurghonteppa. The new route links Tajikistan’s central and southern rail lines, which were previously only connected via a circuitous ...
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NewsSamsun tram line extends for the first time
TURKEY: Samsun Mayor Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz and CEO of tram operator Samulaş Kadir Gürkan inaugurated an extension of the city’s tram line at 06.15 on August 27. The 5 km southeastern extension from Gar to Balıkçı with five stops forms the first phase of the 12 km extension that ...
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NewsWorld rail market August 2016
Australia: Public Transport Victoria has selected current operator NTT Data to manage the Myki smart card ticketing system for seven years from January 1 2017 under a new contract worth A$700m. Egypt: MidaRec is supplying Thales with control room communications voice recording equipment as part of the upgrade of ...