All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 627
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NewsGreen Mountain Line tram design revealed
TAIWAN: Voith Engineering Services has revealed the design the trams it has developed with Taiwan Rolling Stock Co for the Green Mountain Line tramway project in the New Taipei City region which surrounds the city of Taipei. The 8 km line will link Hongshulin station on the Taipei metro’s Tamsui ...
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NewsThales awarded Lusail light rail contract
QATAR: Lusail Light Rail Transit project civil works contractor QDVC has awarded Thales a contract to supply and maintain the supervision, telecoms, security and automatic fare collection systems for the future 32 km network, including contactless ticketing. The four-line tram network is being built under a contract which was ...
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NewsQatar's first Education City tram rolls out
QATAR: Siemens' Simmering plant in Austria has completed the first of the Avenio light rail vehicles for the Education City People Mover System, an 11·5 km catenary-free tramway which is being built to serve the the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science & Community Development's education and research campus west of ...
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NewsGreenbrier orders Danobat wheelset machining equipment
USA: Danobat Group has won an order to supply wagon manufacturer The Greenbrier Companies with wheel and axle profiling machines, including a portal lathe for wheel reprofiling. The contract includes supply of the ‘cutting edge’ equipment by September, along with assembly, maintenance and staff training. Danobat Sales & Marketing Director ...
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NewsCAF selected for Bucureşti metro train order
ROMANIA: Bucureşti metro operator Metrorex has selected CAF as preferred bidder for a contract to supply 43 six-car trainsets to operate on the future 6·1 km Line M5 from Drumul Taberei to Eroilor, with an option for eight more. Metrorex had hoped to name the winner of the contract on ...
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NewsKharkiv metro expansion study
UKRAINE: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and the European Investment Bank are to fund a feasibility study for the extension of Kharkiv metro Line 3, with a view to funding its construction. The current cost estimate is put at €350m. City-owned operator Kharkiv Metro Co expects ridership on ...
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NewsFirstGroup targets airlines with London – Edinburgh open access proposal
UK: FirstGroup has applied to the Office of Rail Regulation for track access rights which would enable it to launch an open access passenger service between London King’s Cross, Stevenage, Newcastle, Morpeth and Edinburgh from 2018. The service of five return trains/day with journey times of 4 h to ...
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NewsEU backs wagon development project
EUROPE: Kiruna Wagon is working with industrial and academic partners to develop a wagon for high axleload freight trains which the Swedish manufacturer believes is ‘likely to become a new standard for future European bulk transport’. The project is being supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme, as ...
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NewsUS Navy takes delivery of custom-designed locomotive
USA: The US Navy has taken delivery of a diesel-hydraulic locomotive which has been custom designed and built by Brookville Equipment Corp for shunting at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. Brookville's Director of Sales Chris Rhoades said the locomotive's 'unique drive system is ...
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NewsSlovak wagon fleet privatised
SLOVAKIA: Ownership of 12 450 wagons is to be transferred from national freight operator ZSSK Cargo to a new joint venture company, Cargo Wagon AS, under the terms of a sale-and-leaseback agreement signed on March 9. ZSSK Cargo will have a 34% stake in Cargo Wagon, while European wagon leasing ...
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NewsCustom filters developed for Dutch GSM-R contract
NETHERLANDS: NS Reizigers has awarded telecoms technology company KPN and subcontractor Funkwerk a contract to supply 1 400 GSM-R cab radios within 15 months. The transceiver modules will have filters custom-designed by Funkwerk to block radio signals that might interfere with the train communications. According to Funkwerk CEO Kerstin ...
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NewsValencia metro Line 9 opens
SPAIN: An opening ceremony for Valencia metro Line 9 took place on March 6 after a month of test running. The inaugural passenger service from Riba-roja del Túria departed at 13.05. Line 9 includes a 9·5 km, four-station branch off the western end of lines 3 and 5 at ...
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NewsWarszawa opens second metro line
POLAND: The second line of the Warszawa metro opened on March 8 with the departure of the inaugural train from Świętokrzyska at 9.40. Although no official opening ceremony took place, the first train carried Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, and travel was free on the first day of service, and 233 000 ...
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NewsTrack component research funding
USA: The Federal Transit Administration has provided a grant worth $2·4bn to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to support research into the development of advanced track components. The studies will be led by staff from UI’s Rail Transportation & Engineering Center, who will work with 11 main line and ...
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NewsDown and up again on the ChooChoo Park Railway
SOUTH KOREA: Visitors to the High 1 Resort in Gangwon province have a new attraction to enjoy. The ChooChoo Park Railway is the latest addition to a wide range of leisure facilities, which include skiing, nature trails and golf, with hotels and a revolving restaurant set amid scenic mountain views. ...
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NewsEmerging technologies for railway innovations
FRANCE: A day of knowledge-sharing was held in Villeneuve d’Ascq on January 21 bringing together specialists from research agencies Ifsttar and Railenium and electronics supplier CEA-Leti. Hosted by Ifsttar - the national Institute of Science & Technology for Transport, Development & Networks - the seminar was designed to assess how ...
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NewsFirst CSR Roca EMU unveiled
ARGENTINA: On March 5 President Cristina Fernández joined Minister of the Interior & Transport Florencio Randazzo and Minister of Economy & Public Finance Axel Kicillof to present the first four-car EMU to be delivered by CSR Qingdao Sifang of China for the Roca commuter network in Buenos Aires. Following 90 ...
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NewsDB signs first station development framework
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn’s station management business unit DB Station&Service has signed the first of a planned series of framework agreements with the Länder for the development of new stations. Intended to boost ridership on the rail network, these stations would be located in residential and commercial areas and near traffic ...
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NewsStation navigation app for visually impaired people
UK: A six-week trial due to end on March 13 aims to assist blind and partially sighted people to navigate London Underground stations independently through a smartphone app. The prototype Wayfindr app has been developed by ustwo in response to the Royal London Society for Blind People’s Youth Forum. ...
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NewsVTG posts improved results
EUROPE: Wagon leasing and rail logistics group VTG has announced increased revenue and results for 2014. Turnover was up 4·4% on the previous year to €818m, operating profit up 4·0% to €191m and the board intends to propose a dividend of €0·45, an increase of 7%. The group’s wagon leasing ...