All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 554
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NewsBretagne funds EMU order
FRANCE: On February 16 Bombardier announced that SNCF had placed a €34m order for an additional four eight-car Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units. They are being financed by the Bretagne region and are scheduled to be delivered in 2019. The order is an option on a 2010 framework agreement ...
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NewsBombardier opens Indian information services hub
INDIA: Bombardier Transportation has opened an information services hub at Gurgaon in the Delhi National Capital region. The new facility will work with the existing hubs in Canada and Germany to form an integrated team serving Bombardier Transportation locations across the world. Bombardier Transportation aims to ‘leverage the ...
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NewsMoscow metro opens 200th station
RUSSIA: A southern extension of Moscow metro Line 1 on February 15 brought the number of stations on the network to 200. The 1·9 km section from Rumyantsevo to Salaryevo follows on from the opening of the previous extension, a 2·5 km section from Troparyevo to Rumyantsevo, on January 18. ...
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News‘Last ever’ Class 66 locomotives delivered
UK: What manufacturer Electro-Motive Diesel and operator GB Railfreight expect to be the final batch of Class 66 locomotives to be built arrived at the port of Newport in Wales on February 12. The seven locomotives were unloaded the following morning, and take GBRf’s Class 66 fleet to 78 locomotives. ...
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NewsRussian metre-gauge tram under construction
RUSSIA: PK Transportnye Systemy presented a prototype tram that it is building for Yevpatoria at its new facility in the Tver Carriage Works factory. The 20·5 m long, 2 300 mm wide multi-articulated Type 71-922 Varyah tram is designed for metre-gauge networks. Yevpatoria envisages that it will order up ...
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NewsTrams ordered for Sétif
ALGERIA: Alstom announced the details of the 26 Citadis trams that it is to supply for Sétif on February 15. The order forms part of a framework contract signed in 2012 by Cital and Entreprise du Métro d’Alger for the supply of Citadis trams to operate on lines planned for ...
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NewsBombardier completes sale of 30% stake in Transportation business
BOMBARDIER: Pension and insurance investor Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec’s US$1·5bn purchase of a 30% stake in Bombardier’s Transportation business was completed on February 11. This follows regulatory approval for the deal which had been announced last November. CPDQ has acquired a 30% stake in Bombardier Transportation ...
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NewsCleaning up at InnoTrans 2016
INNOTRANS: Exhibitors in the cleaning technology hall at InnoTrans 2016 will be showing the latest products and services, including specialist train washing systems, cleaning agents, care products and disinfectants. Dr Schnell Chemie GmbH focuses on rolling stock interior and exterior cleaning. ‘We find that as a forum for innovation ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market February 2016
Africa: CRRC Zhuzhou delivered 19 freight and three passenger locos to the port of Djibouti on December 13, the first of 33 electric locos ordered in 2014 for the new Djibouti - Ethiopia line. Austria: Traktionssysteme Austria is to supply Bombardier with 952 traction motors for Flexity trams ordered ...
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NewsVladikavkaz orders trams
RUSSIA: Uralvagonzavod subsidiary Uraltransmash has agreed a leasing deal with the Vladikavkaz city authorities for the supply of 10 Type 71-407 trams. Uraltransmash presented the updated design of its four-axle single-section tram last year. The 39% low-floor vehicles feature asynchronous traction motors. Vladikavkaz has a 59 route-km network, ...
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NewsKazakh locomotive factory to be hub for exports
KAZAKHSTAN: Alstom announced on February 11 that it had completed the acquisition of an additional 25% stake in the EKZ electric locomotive manufacturing business from national railway KTZ, taking its shareholding to 50%. KTZ retains 25%, with the other 25% being held by Transmashholding. The deal had been agreed December ...
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NewsSignalling TSI revised
EUROPE: Meeting on February 10, the European Union’s Railway Interoperability & Safety Committee – bringing together representatives of the member states – voted unanimously in favour of the proposed recast of the Control Command & Signalling TSI. Being enacted as a Commission Regulation, the Change Control Management Regulation enacts a ...
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NewsMidland Metro trams to be converted for catenary-free operation
UK: The 21 CAF Urbos trams used on the Midland Metro light rail line are to be retrofitted with batteries to enable catenary-free operation, West Midlands transport agency Centro announced on February 12, and four more trams have been ordered which will be supplied with batteries already fitted. This will ...
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NewsDriverless metro reaches Barcelona airport
SPAIN: A further section of the orbital driverless metro line in Barcelona was inaugurated on February 12. The 19·6 km north-south Line 9 Sud in the west of the city connects Zona Universitària with stations at both terminals of the airport. There are 15 stations, including six interchanges. Services ...
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NewsQueensland NGR maintenance depot completed
AUSTRALIA: On February 13 Bombardier and Queensland government ministers will officially open the depot to maintain the electric multiple-units that it is supplying under the Queensland New Generation Rollingstock programme. The facility at Wulkuraka near Ipswich cost A$190m to build. Work was undertaken by Laing O’Rourke between February 2014 ...
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NewsManila Line 1 extension contract awarded
PHILIPPINES: Concessionaire Light Rail Manila Corp has awarded a consortium of Bouygues Travaux Publics and Alstom a €450m contract to extend metro Line 1. Alstom’s share is worth €160m and covers signalling and communications, power supplies and trackwork for the 11·7 km extension with eight stations. One new depot ...
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NewsUralvagonzavod wagons for Iran
IRAN: Russian rolling stock and defence group Uralvagonzavod has completed a Type 12-581-01 open wagon custom-designed for export to Iran by its Ural Design Bureau of Wagon Construction. The Type 12-581-wagon has a capacity of 66·7 tonnes. The 18-100 bogie is an existing 1 520 mm gauge design modified for ...
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NewsFreightliner Dragon on test
POLAND: The first of five E6DCF-DP Dragon locomotives that Newag is building for Freightliner PL has arrived at the Żmigród test circuit for homologation trials. Under a €17⋅5m contract signed with ING Lease in January 2015, the first three of the new fleet are due to be delivered by the ...
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NewsPraha tests locally-made tram
CZECH REPUBLIC: Passenger-carrying tests of a locally-built prototype tram started on routes 5, 6 and 7 of the network in Praha on February 1, and will run until the end of August. The EVO1 tram, also known as Evička, was built at the central workshops in Hostivař by the ...
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NewsGovernment support for Russian rolling stock manufacturers
RUSSIA: Details of government support for the rolling stock manufacturing industry were set out by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on February 9. Speaking at Tver Carriage Works during a conference on the prospects for the rolling stock industry, Medvedev said the government’s objective was to ensure the ...