All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 516
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NewsGliwice intermodal freight facilities upgraded
POLAND: Silesian Logistics Centre has completed three projects intended to create a modern logistics hub at the inland port of Gliwice, which is connected by a 41 km canal to the River Odra and thus the Baltic Sea. A new warehouse was inaugurated in June, increasing storage at the site ...
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NewsGabon rail upgrade funding agreed
GABON: The World Bank Group’s International Finance Corp has agreed to provide railway concessionaire Société d’Exploitation du Transgabonais with €52·5m of debt financing to boost the capacity, efficiency and reliability of the rail network, while the Proparco private sector financing arm of the French Development Agency is ...
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NewsDrive an Australian train at InnoTrans
CORYS: Visitors to InnoTrans 2016 will be able to try out a passenger train driving simulator which Corys has recently commissioned in Australia. They will also be able to discover the company’s new cloud-based Simulation On DemAnd driver training technology. SODA uses real-time streaming to complement simulator training, enabling training ...
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NewsNew York MTA to procure 1025 Subway cars
USA: A major renewal of New York City Transit’s rolling stock fleet and a station refurbishment campaign were announced by Governor of New York State Andrew Cuomo on July 18.Speaking at the Brooklyn Transit Museum, Cuomo said that by July 22, New York MTA would issue a Request for Proposals ...
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NewsUrumqi metro Line 2 concessionaire chosen
CHINA: A PPP concession has been agreed for the construction and operation of Phase I of Urumqi metro Line 2. The concessionaire is a consortium comprising leader Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co (51%), general engineering contractor China Railway Construction Corp (35%) and Beijing MTR Construction Administration Corp (14%), which will ...
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NewsZedas seeks smart data from big data
ZEDAS: Brandenburg-based data and software specialist Zedas will be focusing its display at InnoTrans 2016 on ‘smarter data’ rather than ‘big data’ through its Zedas Asset portfolio of software tools. The company believes that railway operators and infrastructure managers find juggling investment and maintenance priorities to be ‘a complex matter’ ...
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NewsKuala Lumpur – Singapore high speed line to open in 2026
ASIA: The governments of Malaysia and Singapore signed a memorandum of understanding on July 19 setting out how the Kuala Lumpur – Singapore High Speed Rail Project is to be developed for opening by around 2026. The MoU covers technical parameters, the commercial model, border procedures, the regulatory framework and ...
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NewsExpedia to use SilverRail platform to sell UK rail tickets
UK: Expedia Group has announced that it will use SilverRail’s SilverCore technology platform to sell National Rail tickets through its Expedia.co.uk website from autumn 2016. Expedia said this would be the first time a ‘global, full-service online travel agency’ offered rail bookings alongside air, hotel, car rental, activities and packages. ...
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NewsUnited Grain Co to establish 8 500 wagon fleet
RUSSIA: United Grain Co has ordered an initial 1 500 Type 19-9549 grain hopper wagons from United Wagon Co’s Tikhvin plant, as the first stage of a development programme which envisages the formation of a fleet of 8 500 wagons by 2020. These would carry 10 million tonnes of grain ...
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NewsF125 debuts in California
USA: Southern California Regional Rail Authority formally unveiled its first F125 diesel locomotive at Los Angeles Union Station on July 18. Among those taking part in the celebrations were Metrolink CEO Art Leahy, Electro-Motive Diesel President & CEO Billy Ainsworth, Commissioner Fran Inman from the California Transportation Commission and US ...
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NewsOV-chipkaart to be converted from smart card to ID-based system
NETHERLANDS: Trans Link Systems which manages the OV-chipkaart national multi-modal fare collection system has awarded Scheidt & Bachmann, Octopus Applications and independent ID-based ticketing specialist BlueBridge Transactions a contract to convert the technology from a smart card-based system where data is stored on a user’s card to an account-based system ...
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NewsHeidelberg breaks ground on tram diversion
GERMANY: A groundbreaking ceremony for Heidelberg’s Bahnstadt tram project took place on July 15. Lord Mayor Eckart Würzner, Baden-Württemberg Transport Minister Winfried Hermann, Technical Manager of transport authority RNV Martin in der Beek and CEO of operator HSB Michael Jäger attended the official start of work. Serving a new ...
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NewsPrivatisation agency accepts FS bid for Trainose
GREECE: The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund confirmed on July 14 that it had accepted an €45m offer from Italian state railway group Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane for 100% ownership of Greece’s national passenger and freight train operator Trainose. This followed positive recommendations from HRADF’s advisers, two independent valuations and ...
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NewsCAF to supply Quito metro trainsets
ECUADOR: CAF is to supply 18 six-car trainsets to operate on the first line of the Quito metro. The announcement of the US$183m order on July 15 follows the signing of a credit agreement between Spain’s Instituto de Crédito Oficial and Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance which covers funding of the ...
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NewsElectric test trains run on Great Western Main Line
UK: The first testing of an electric trainset between Reading and Didcot as part of the Great Western electrification programme was undertaken on the mornings of July 16 and 17, in what infrastructure manager Network Rail said was ‘a major milestone for the electrification project’. Having arrived from its ...
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NewsAntalya tram extension enters regular service
TURKEY: Regular services on an extension of the Antray light rail network in Antalya started on July 14. The 15·4 km eastern extension from Meydan to Expo 2016 has a 2·4 km branch to the airport. Services to the airport run every 20 min between 05.50 and 23.23. Expo ...
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NewsRail freight news in brief
A $100m rail facility at a former army base at the Port of Oakland in California saw its first train on July 7, carrying Archer Daniels Midland Co agricultural products for shipping to Asia. The 123 new tracks in the Outer Harbor Intermodal Terminal area form part of a strategy ...
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NewsCustom-designed monorail auxiliary power supply
TURBO POWER SYSTEMS: An auxiliary power supply which was custom-designed for a monorail project will be the highlight of Turbo Power Systems’ presence at InnoTrans 2016. Unique features of the monorail APS include a liquid cooling system which incorporates modular line replaceable units with quick release no-leak couplings integrated into ...
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NewsMagnitogorsk tram modernised
RUSSIA: A Magnitogorsk KTM-5 tram which was damaged by fire last year has been extensively rebuilt by Yekaterinburg-based NPO Avtomatika, which sees a large potential market for modernising similar trams in use across Russia. The city of Magnitogorsk is planning to renew its entire fleet within 10 years, and modernisation ...
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NewsTransdek installs bespoke access platforms for Wabtec Rail
UK: Specialist loading bay and lifting equipment manufacturer Transdek has designed and installed more than 200 m of access platforms and two bespoke goods lifts at Wabtec Rail’s rolling stock repair and refurbishment facility in Doncaster. Wabtec sought to optimise its safe working practices and increase operational efficiency at the ...