All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 517
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NewsNS and Alstom sign inter-city train contract
NETHERLANDS: National passenger operator NS formally awarded preferred bidder Alstom the Inter-city New Generation contract for the supply of 79 electric multiple-units on July 15. The contract worth more than €800m has been finalised following the rejection of an objection from Siemens, one of the four bidders which had been ...
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NewsWill Whitehorn
Stagecoach Group Director Will Whitehorn has replaced Beverley Bell as President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport in the UK.
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NewsCAF confirms UK assembly plant
UK: Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF confirmed to Railway Gazette on July 14 that it is preparing to open a UK assembly plant to support the contracts it has won in recent months. The company says it intends to establish facilities ‘to carry out rolling stock assembly and testing, as ...
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NewsNew metro concession model agreed in Singapore
SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority announced on July 15 that it had reached an agreement with concessionaire SMRT for implementation of the government’s New Rail Financing Framework model on the North-South and East-West metro lines, the Circle Line and the Bukit Panjang LRT. Subject to final approval by SMRT shareholders, ...
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NewsSTIF finalises Paris suburban rail investment programme
FRANCE: Rail is at the heart of a programme of transport investment announced by Ile-de-France transport authority STIF on July 13.Among the commitments outlined by STIF is the renewal or replacement by 2021 of 708 trainsets used on the five high-capacity RER suburban lines. According to STIF, this marks a ...
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NewsSinara and CRRC sign Russian high speed train agreement
RUSSIA: An agreement to establish a Russian joint venture for the production of high speed rolling stock capable of speeds above 300 km/h has been signed by Sinara Group Chairman Dmitry Pumpyansky and CRRC President Xi Guohua. The companies envisage manufacturing at least 100 high speed trainsets in Russia, with ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
On July 7 GE Manufacturing Solutions celebrated the production of the 1 000th locomotive at its plant in Fort Worth, Texas, which opened in 2013. The Evolution Series Tier 4 loco will be delivered to CN. On July 11 Bombardier Transportation and Ukrainian Railways signed a memorandum of understanding to ...
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NewsTrack more with less
FRAUSCHER: InnoTrans 2016 will mark the world premiere of the Frauscher Tracking Solution, which integrates Frauscher’s optic fibre Distributed Acoustic Sensing with wheel detection and train tracking technologies. This ‘opens up a wide range of applications with the capability to track trains, monitor asset condition, secure infrastructure and protect personnel ...
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NewsMiami Beach selects Alstom for streetcar loop
USA: The Miami Beach City Commission has approved the start of negotiations for the development of a tram line with the Alstom-led Greater Miami Tramlink Partners consortium. The consortium had submitted an unsolicited proposal for a tram line, which led to the city starting a competition for technical proposals. This ...
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NewsBangalore electrification commissioned
INDIA: Electric operation has been inaugurated on South Western Railway’s 178 km Yelahanka – Dharmavaram line, the Ministry of Railways announced on July 14. SWR has the lowest proportion of electrified lines among India’s zonal railways, but work has been underway for some years to wire key routes in Karnataka ...
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NewsChuncheon – Sokcho line approved
SOUTH KOREA: The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport announced on July 11 government approval for the construction of a 94 km railway between Chuncheon and Sokcho in the northeastern province of Gangwon. Work is expected to begin in the second half of 2017 and take around eight years. ...
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NewsAmmonia tank wagon certified
RUSSIA: Uralvagonzavod has begun delivering its first Type 15-5183 liquefied anhydrous ammonia tank wagons to customers, following the completion of the certification process. The tank diameter of 3 200 mm gives a capacity of 73·1 m3, an 18% increase on older designs. The manufacturer estimates that there are ...
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NewsNomad Tech highlights energy saving and maintenance optimisation
NOMAD TECHCH: The Nomad Tech joint venture of Nomad Digital and EMEF will also be showcasing their portfolio of services at InnoTrans 2016, including the NT Eco energy saving and management techniques which Portuguese national operator CP has used to achieve energy savings of 9·3%. The NT Maintain system ...
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NewsChina and OTIF to co-operate to develop rail freight
INTERNATIONAL: A delegation from China’s National Railway Administration visited the Bern office of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail on July 12 to establish a working relationship between the two organisations. A memorandum of understanding was signed to set out initial areas for co-operation. These include the planned ...
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NewsTracklaying completed in Granada
SPAIN: The completion of tracklaying on the light rail route under construction in Granada was marked on July 8 when the last rail was ceremonially welded into place at the Andaluces stop which will serve the city’s railway station. According to Felipe López, Minister for Development & Housing in the ...
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NewsCubic licences London’s contactless ticketing technology
UK: A licensing agreement enabling Cubic Transportation Systems to adapt Transport for London's contactless ticketing technology for deployment in other cities was signed on July 13. TfL said the non-exclusive agreement is potentially worth £15m, and would enable CTS to ‘combine the best features from London and other Cubic systems ...
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NewsFirst T11 Express tram-trains arrive for testing
FRANCE: The arrival of the first Alstom Citadis Dualis tram-train cars at the Noisy-le-Sec maintenance depot on July 12 marked the start of commissioning of the T11 Express tram-train line in the northern suburbs of Paris.T11 Express is being delivered in two phases and involves the adaptation of part of ...
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NewsOlivier Baril
Olivier Baril, Chief Procurement Officer at Alstom, has succeeded Jeroen Wegkamp of NS as Chairman of sustainable procurement initiative Railsponsible.
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NewsWheel manufacturing localised
SOUTH AFRICA: Italian wheelset manufacturer Lucchini RS expects to deliver its first locally-machined wheels for the South African market in September, the company announced on July 1. Lucchini RS has been active in the region for 13 years, and committed in 2015 to localise the final machining process in support ...
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NewsRoofline module to be launched at InnoTrans 2016
TE CONNECTIVITY: A next-generation modular roofline assembly incorporating all of the equipment needed to transmit power from the pantograph to a vehicle's traction transformer will be launched by TE Connectivity at InnoTrans 2016. A prototype module will be displayed at Stand 210 in Hall 12. The lightweight and aerodynamic module ...