All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 588
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NewsAshkelon – Be’er Sheva’ railway completed
ISRAEL: Israel Railways launched passenger services from Netivot to Be’er Sheva’ on September 19, two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transport Minister Israel Katz joined VIPs on an inaugural train marking the completion of the through route between Ashkelon and Be’er Sheva’. There are 25 ...
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NewsStandard gauge to serve Naivasha
KENYA: The 1 435 mm gauge railway now under construction between Mombasa and Nairobi is to be extended by 120 km to serve a new economic development zone at Naivasha in the Rift Valley. An agreement to develop Phase 2A of the standard-gauge project was signed between Kenya Railways Managing ...
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NewsRail Cargo Group buys German operator
EUROPE: Austrian Federal Railways’ Rail Cargo Group announced its acquisition of German freight haulage, shunting and locomotive hire services business EBM Cargo GmbH on September 23. Founded in February 2010 and based in Gummersbach east of Köln, privately-owned EBM Cargo has an annual turnover of €5m and ‘extensive knowledge ...
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NewsBombardier to expand Wrocław factory
POLAND: Bombardier Transportation has awarded industrial property developer Panattoni Europe a contract to build a new manufacturing hall alongside the existing facilities at its Wrocław plant. Completion is scheduled for June 2016, with the new hall to be used to manufacture passenger rolling stock bodyshells for projects including Deutsche Bahn's ...
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NewsHigh Speed 2 civil works tendering begins
UK: The government launched the bidding process for the construction of High Speed 2 on September 24, with the issuing of a pre-qualification questionnaire for the Tranche 1 main civils works contracts. The seven contracts with a total value of £11·8bn cover construction of the surface route and tunnels ...
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NewsJamie Miller
GE Transportation has named Jamie Miller as President & CEO. She succeeds Russell Stokes, who will lead GE’s Energy Management business.
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NewsNorth–South passenger trainset arrives in Riyadh
SAUDI ARABIA: The first of six trainsets being supplied by CAF for passenger services on Saudi Railway Co’s North–South line is undergoing trials on the 1 130 km route between Na’ariyah and Riyadh, with entry into service planned for early 2016. The passenger fleet is being supplied under a 533m ...
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NewsAmtrak selects Alstom for Northeast Corridor train order
USA: Senator Charles E Schumer said on September 21 that the Amtrak board would approve the next day the start of exclusive negotiations with Alstom for a contract to supply the next generation of trains for the Northeast Corridor between Washington DC, New York and Boston. The contract ...
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NewsPKP Cargo orders 15 Siemens locomotives
POLAND: PKP Cargo announced an order for 15 Siemens Vectron multisystem electric locomotives at the Trako trade fair in Gdańsk on September 23. The €75m contract includes the provision of spare parts and maintenance for eight years, and there is a fixed-price €26m option for a further five locomotives to ...
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NewsDART Underground to be redesigned to reduce costs
IRELAND: The €3bn DART Underground project in Dublin ‘will not proceed as currently designed’ but will instead be ‘redesigned to provide a lower cost technical solution’, Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Paschal Donohoe announced on September 22. DART Underground is a proposed tunnel which would link the existing line ...
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NewsTriple Crown Services to focus on automotive sector
USA: Norfolk Southern Corp has announced a restructuring of its Triple Crown Services subsidiary to focus on the transport of automotive parts, with other business to be transferred to its intermodal network. TCS said on September 18 it would continue to operate its RoadRailer trains between Detroit and ...
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NewsADIF awards €164m ETCS contract
SPAIN: Infrastructure manager ADIF has awarded a consortium of Bombardier (€77m), Alstom (€62m) and Indra (€25m) a contract to supply and maintain signalling on the 164 km Plasencia – Cáceres – Badajoz high speed line being built as part of the corridor from Madrid to the Portuguese border. ...
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NewsSingapore orders more North-South and East-West rolling stock
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority has awarded a consortium of Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Qingdao Sifang a S$136·8m contract to supply a further 12 six–car Type C151B metro trainsets to increase capacity on the North–South and East–West lines. The latest contract announced on September 22 takes the total order to ...
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NewsKilybai Nurdaulet Igilikuly
Kilybai Nurdaulet Igilikuly has been named Chairman of state railway Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, having served as Managing Director & Chief of Staff since August 2013.
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NewsNS takes over Delaware & Hudson South Line
USA: Norfolk Southern Corp completed its acquisition of Canadian Pacific’s Delaware & Hudson Railway South Line between Sunbury, Pennsylvania and Schenectady, New York, on September 18. Operations under the new ownership started at 00.01 the following day The transaction was announced on November 14 2014 and approved by the Surface ...
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NewsCubic to modernise BART fare collection equipment
USA: San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit District has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems a $12·6m contract to update its revenue management systems. The state-of-good-repair project covers ticket vending and top-up machines, ticket gates and parking validator devices. As well as extending the life of the equipment, the project will ...
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NewsMohammed Al-Hinai
Mohammed Al-Hinai has been named Chief Corporate Support Services Officer at Oman Rail.
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NewsBernadette Kelly
Bernadette Kelly has succeeded Clare Moriarty as Director General for the Rail Executive at the UK’s Department for Transport.
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NewsTanger high speed train depot inaugurated
MOROCCO: The rolling stock depot in Tanger which will maintain and service the country’s fleet of high speed trains was officially inaugurated by King Mohammed VI and French President François Hollande on September 20, at a ceremony attended by ONCF Director-General Mohamed Rabie Khlie and SNCF President Guillaume Pepy. Two ...
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NewsAddis Ababa light rail opens
ETHIOPIA: The first light rail line in Addis Ababa was opened for revenue service on September 20, following several months of test running. Hundreds of residents queued for hours ahead of the opening to sample the new service. Designed to relieve growing road congestion as the city’s population passes 5 ...