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NewsSchafbergBahn rack locomotive delivered
AUSTRIA: Stadler Rail has delivered a second diesel locomotive for the metre-gauge SchafbergBahn, ready for the start of the April to October operating season on Austria’s steepest rack railway which climbs 1 190 m to the summit of the 1 783 m Schafberg. Locomotive Vz32 was ordered to handle increased ...
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NewsFeature articles in the April 2016 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the latest issue of Railway Gazette International, the leading business journal for railway operators and suppliers, read in 140 countries. Subscribe to Railway Gazette International today. Comment Digital convergence is coming News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers Analysis ...
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NewsLongest tram enters service in Budapest
HUNGARY: March 31 saw the entry into passenger service of what is claimed to be the longest tram in the world. The 55·9 m long nine-section CAF Urbos tram is in operation on the recently modernised Route 1 in Budapest, and will be joined by 11 more by mid-year. ...
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NewsHyundai Rotem opens Brazilian train factory
BRAZIL: A ceremony marking the completion of Hyundai Rotem’s rolling stock assembly plant at Araraquara in São Paulo state was held on March 30, almost exactly one year after the laying of the foundation stone. The 150 000 m2 site is Hyundai Rotem’s third factory outside Korea, augmenting plants ...
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NewsKlang Valley Line 2 underground contractor chosen
MALAYSIA: Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit announced on March 31 that it had selected MMC-Gamuda to build the underground section of Klang Valley MRT Line 2, also known as the SSP Line. MMC-Gamuda beat China Railway Group and China Communications Construction Co for the 15·47bn ringgit contract. This is ...
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NewsParis suburban fleet to be renewed
FRANCE: Ile-de-France transport authority STIF has asked SNCF and RATP to prepare technical and financial plans, including timescales, for a wholescale renewal of the Paris suburban and RER fleet which could see 700 trainsets replaced or refurbished by 2021 at a cost of €8∙5bn. At its meeting on March ...
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NewsAbellio orders DMUs with electric bike charging sockets
GERMANY: Alstom announced on April 1 that Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland had placed a €170m firm order for 52 Coradia Lint 41 regional diesel multiple-units, the largest contract for the type to be placed by a single customer. The DMUs are to be manufactured at Alstom’s Salzgitter plant. They will ...
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NewsTIFIA loan to fund Chicago L cars
USA: Federal Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on March 30 that the Federal Transit Administration had agreed a $255m low-interest loan to Chicago Transit Authority under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act. This will partially fund the operator’s next generation of metro trainsets. Earlier in the month CTA awarded ...
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NewsSiemens and Huawei successfully test CBTC over LTE
SIGNALLING: Huawei announced on March 29 that it had completed interoperability testing of communication-based train control over LTE with Siemens France, and an on-site dynamic test would take place in April. The laboratory tests saw CBTC, passenger information and CCTV streams carried over an LTE network. Huawei and Siemens ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
NS subsidiary NedTrain is to build a €30m wheelset maintenance and refurbishment hall at its Haarlem site. The current hall with life-expired machinery will become a wheelset storage site. The new facility will employ about 100 people, have the capacity to handle 3 000 bogies/year and be responsible for inspection ...
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NewsOperators and infrastructure managers at InnoTrans 2016
INNOTRANS: Train operators and infrastructure managers are the main customers for the vast array of suppliers who exhibit at InnoTrans, and these railway companies are increasingly taking the opportunity to exhibit in their own right, highlighting their capabilities and promoting their image. A total of 18 German and international transport ...
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NewsNewag signs Małopolska EMU contract
POLAND: Małopolskie voivodship signed a 300m złoty contract with Newag for the supply of 12 electric multiple-units on March 30. The Nowy Sącz based supplier beat Pesa to win the contract, which includes options for up to four more trainsets. The first six EMUs from Newag’s Impuls family are ...
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NewsHitachi awarded TransPennine Express multiple-unit contract
UK: First TransPennine Express Ltd has awarded Hitachi Rail Europe and leasing company Angel Trains a contract to supply 19 five-car AT300 electro-diesel multiple units for use on the TransPennine Express franchise in northern England from December 2019. The contract was announced on March 31, the day before the new ...
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NewsAlstom sets out strategy for 2020
ALSTOM: Chairman & CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge and CFO Marie-José Donsion presented Alstom’s strategic, operational and financial priorities for 2020 at a meeting with investors and financial analysts at its signalling site at Villeurbanne in France on March 30. Following the divestment of its energy activities to GE, Alstom is now ...
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NewsBotswana Railways coaches delivered
BOTSWANA: The first 22 of 37 coaches which Botswana Railways ordered from South Africa’s Transnet Engineering were delivered to Gaborone by rail in late March, and the rest are scheduled to arrive by May. The coaches are being produced at Transnet’s Koedoespoort and Salt River plants, with Transnet outsourcing ‘a ...
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NewsRDC strengthens German business ahead of Sylt launch
GERMANY: US-based international railway group Railroad Development Corp has announced a restructuring and management appointments at its German subsidiary RDC Deutschland GmbH with effect from April 1, ahead of the planned launch of the Autozug Sylt service car-carrying service. RDC’s German activities will comprise holding company RDC Deutschland GmbH ...
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NewsIdeagen to replace UK rail safety reporting system
UK: Railway safety and standards authority RSSB has awarded Ideagen a £4·9m contract to replace the industry-wide safety reporting system using its Gael Enlighten cloud-based application. The new SMIS+ safety management information system will replace RSSB’s current database, which dates from 2002 and acts as a central reporting facility for ...
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NewsSiemens shows first complete Charger locomotive
USA: Siemens displayed its first completed Charger diesel-electric locomotive when Federal Railroad Administrator Sarah E Feinberg visited its Sacramento manufacturing plant on March 26. The states of Illinois, California, Michigan, Missouri, Washington and Maryland have ordered a total of 66 Charger locomotives which will be powered by Cummins QSK95 diesel ...
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NewsToshkent tram network to close
UZBEKISTAN: Toshkent Mayor Rakhmonbek Usmonov announced on March 29 that the city’s 87·8 route-km tram network is to close by the end of the year. The former tracks will be used to provide additional road space, which the city authorities hope will reduce traffic congestion. Tram services are to be ...
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NewsKapsch CarrierCom wins Luxembourg GSM-R contract
LUXEMBOURG: National railway CFL has awarded Kapsch CarrierCom a contract to implement GSM-R across the 271 route-km network by early 2017, and provide service support for three years. Kapsch CarrierCom is to install an IP-based Release 4 core network and a future-proof access network with the latest RDN.base station. ...