All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 527
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NewsEntertainment on demand provided on Virgin Trains services
UK: Virgin Trains passengers can now use their own mobile devices to access free on-demand entertainment including 200 h of film and television content as well as the latest issues of various magazines. Infotainment system supplier GoMedia’s BEAM platform stores the content on onboard servers. ‘Our platform makes use of ...
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NewsDellner forms Chinese joint venture
CHINA: The Dellner Victall Gangway System (Qingdao）Co Ltd joint venture has been established to combine Dellner's gangway expertise with the sales and production activities of train interior, plug door, toilet and kitchen manufacturer Victall. ‘The Chinese railway market is one of the most exciting and challenging markets in the world ...
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NewsToronto subway extension tracklaying complete
CANADA: Toronto Transit Commission announced on June 6 that tracklaying had been completed on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, with the installation of 17·4 km of track and four sections of ‘special track’. Due for completion by the end of 2017, the 8·6 km extension of metro Line 1 ...
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NewsHelsinki – Espoo light rail approved
FINLAND: Helsinki and Espoo city councils have voted to approve the Raide-Jokeri orbital light rail route, with final approval expected at the end of June. Work is due to start next year on the 25 km route linking Itäkeskus in eastern Helsinki to Keilaniemi in eastern Espoo, which would ...
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NewsGWR finalises Thames Valley EMU order
UK: Great Western Railway has finalised a deal to lease 37 four-car Bombardier Transportation Class 387 Electrostar electric multiple-units from Porterbrook Leasing, which will take GWR’s Electrostar fleet to 45 units. The Class 387s are to replace the ex-British Rail Class 165 and 166 diesel multiple-units deployed on services in ...
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NewsWarszawa tram extension contract signed
POLAND: Tramwaje Warszawskie signed a 31·6m złoty contract on June 7 for the construction of a tram route from Tarchomina to Nowodwory. The consortium of ZUE and Strabag beat six other bidders, and has eight months to complete the work. The 1·5 km extension from the Tarchomin Kościelny turning ...
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NewsPatrick Jeantet
SNCF has nominated Patrick Jeantet to succeed Jacques Rapoport as President of French infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau. The nomination has been approved by rail regulator Arafer, which had objected to the previous candidate Jean-Pierre Farandou.
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NewsBrightline unveils Siemens locomotives and coaches
USA: The first locomotives and coaches for the privately-funded Brightline inter-city passenger service between Miami and West Palm Beach in Florida were unveiled at Siemens’ Sacramento plant on June 7. The initial Brightline service is expected to launch in 2017, using five trainsets each comprising four coaches with a total ...
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NewsFirst ČD Cargo Vectron arrives
CZECH REPUBLIC: The first of five Siemens Vectron MS electric locomotives for ČD Cargo was delivered on May 28, ahead of a planned formal unveiling at the Czech Raildays trade fair which is to be held in Ostrava on June 14. The loco underwent running trials under 3 kV ...
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NewsComsa wins AFE track renewals
URUGUAY: The Ministry of Transport & Public Works has signed a contract with Comsa which is to undertake track renewals on a 327 km section of the AFE network between Piedra Sola and Salto. Work is due to take 24 months to complete. The Mercosur trading block of South American ...
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NewsIndra awarded Chilean communications contract
CHILE: State railway EFE has awarded Indra a 10-year contract worth €6·9m to supply, install and maintain a multiservice Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching data communications network covering more than 550 km of railway between and around Santiago and Concepción. The IP/MPLS network will carry data for voice communications, traffic control, ...
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NewsAbellio orders Talent 2 EMUs
GERMANY: Abellio Rail Südwest has formally signed a €215m contract for Bombardier Transportation to supply 43 Talent 2 electric multiple-units for use on the Neckartal services which it is to operate from June 2019 under the Land of Baden-Württemberg’s Stuttgart Netz 1a contract. The order announced on June 7 is ...
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NewsSiemens hands over final Amtrak Cities Sprinter
USA: The 70th and final Amtrak Cities Sprinter ACS-64 locomotive was handed over to the national passenger operator at Siemens’ manufacturing plant in Sacramento on June 2. Locomotive 670 is to be used on the Northeast and Keystone corridors. ‘Marking this important manufacturing milestone today, and our ability to produce ...
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NewsEast Japan Railway seeks European technologies
INTERNATIONAL: Executive Director Yuji Morimoto said East Japan Railway was seeking opportunities to engage with European suppliers in its search for ‘best-in-class products and technologies’ when he gave the closing speech at the Fifth EU-Japan Industrial Dialogue on Railways which was held in Brussels on May 31. Morimoto said JR ...
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NewsStagecoach deploys SilverRail planning tool
UK: Stagecoach Group has deployed SilverRail’s SilverSearch SaaS technology platform to provide ‘a co-ordinated and consistent multi-channel approach to journey planning’ across its South West Trains subsidiary’s websites and mobile app from June 1. Passengers can plan journeys based on route, price and availability. According to Cameron Jones, Chief ...
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NewsTCDD Tașımacılık launched as Turkish market opens
TURKEY: Liberalisation of the Turkish market is due to take effect on June 21, following the announcement of the formal launch of operating company TCDD Tașımacılık in the government’s official journal on June 4.The establishment of TCDD Tașımacılık marks the vertical separation of the former national railway TCDD, which ...
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NewsRichard White
APTA Vice-President, Member Services, Richard White has been named Acting President & CEO, replacing Michael Melaniphy who stepped down on April 29. The change in leadership follows New York City MTA’s decision to leave the association.
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NewsRio de Janeiro tramway inaugurated
BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes inaugurated passenger services on the VLT Carioca tramway on June 5. Services on Phase 1a currently operate every 30 min between 12.00 and 15.00, serving eight stops between Santos Dumont and Parada dos Museus. Passenger-carrying tests started on the central section in ...
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NewsFreightliner wagons use recycled coal hopper components
UK: Freightliner has taken delivery of the first of 64 open wagons which are being built by Greenbrier Europe using bogies and brake components recovered from coal hoppers made redundant as a result of the decline in coal traffic. Freightliner Heavy Haul needed a fleet of high capacity box wagons ...
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NewsVossloh Locomotives factory topped out
GERMANY: Vossloh Locomotives held a topping-out ceremony for its future factory at the Kiel Business Campus on June 3. The company expects that moving from its Kiel-Friedrichsort plant from the fourth quarter of this year will enable the delivery time for a new locomotive to be reduced from 18 to ...