All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 652
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NewsCanaveral Port Authority seeks to revive NASA railway
USA: Canaveral Port Authority has announced its intention to apply to the Surface Transportation Board for powers to build and operate a rail link between its port on Atlantic and the Florida East Coast Railway near Titusville, Florida. This would eliminate the need for road haulage between the port and ...
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NewsTicket app offers dynamic pricing and tickets for children
UK: Mobile ticketing specialist Corethree has announced its first rail deployment, developing an updated multimodal rail and bus app for Northern Ireland transport body Translink. The app offers bespoke dynamic pricing, enabling Translink to offer short-time promotional fares as well as standard tickets through mobile devices. A purchase delegation or ...
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NewsSuzhou tramway opens
CHINA: Suzhou’s first tram line opened on October 26, just over two years since construction began, with 12 500 passengers carried on the first day. Non-passenger carrying test running started on June 28. Between October 12 and 21, 50 000 tickets were provided for local residents to ensure realistic ...
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NewsMongolian parliament backs rail expansion
MONGOLIA: Parliament approved the government’s national rail policy on October 24. This sets out plans for the expansion of the network, and grants the government powers to call tenders and negotiate a build-operate-transfer concession for the planned Northern Rail Line. The 1 520 mm gauge multi-user mixed traffic Northern ...
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NewsNorth Korea launches Victory railway upgrade
NORTH KOREA: A ground-breaking ceremony for the ‘Victory’ project to modernise the railway linking the west coast port of Namp’o with Pyongyang, Kangdong and the Jaedong coalfields was held on October 21. The project is being supported by Russia, and guests at the groundbreaking included Minister of External Economic ...
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NewsReal-time train positions from multiple data sources
FRANCE: HaCon has implemented a version of its HAFAS Live Maps real-time train location mapping software for French national passenger operator SNCF which for the first time integrates positioning information from both trackside equipment and GPS. ‘The combination of the two data sources results in the highest possible precision that ...
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NewsChengdu Line 2 extended
CHINA: Trial operation began on October 26 on a southeastern extension of Chengdu metro Line 2 from Chengdu Institute of Public Administration to Longquanyi. After coming out of the tunnel, the line runs along an elevated alignment with three stations. After Jiepai, the line enters another tunnel, with three ...
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NewsFour Parramatta light rail routes shortlisted
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian and Parramatta MP Geoff Lee announced the shortlist for the Parramatta light rail route in western Sydney on October 27. The NSW government announced 10 corridors in June, and has now shortlisted four of these for detailed engineering, ...
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NewsKochi places metro car order
INDIA: Kochi metro project manager Delhi Metro Rail Corp has awarded Alstom an €85m contract to supply 25 three-car Metropolis trainsets to Kochi Metro Rail Limited, with an option to supply an additional 25 trainsets. The first trainsets are due to be delivered in early 2016 from ...
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NewsWashington announces streetcar shortlist
USA: The District of Columbia Department of Transportation has shortlisted three consortia for an estimated $800m contract to construct further tram lines and operate an ‘Integrated Premium Transit’ network of trams and buses in Washington. The shortlisted bidders are: DC Transit Partners (Clark Construction, Shirley Contracting, Herzog Transit ...
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NewsShunting locos designed for Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: Grindrod Locomotives has launched the GS7 shunting locomotive, which is being offered to African operators by the GPR leasing joint venture of Grindrod Freight Services and Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund through dry leasing packages. Two models have been developed. The 1067 mm gauge two-axle GS7S2C weighs 40 tonnes ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market October 2014
Argentina: The first an initial batch of 30 six-car 830 V DC third rail EMU cars being supplied by CSR for the Mitre commuter route arrived in Buenos Aires on September 6. Coal mining company YCRT has acquired 12 diesel locomotives from the Czech Republic for its 750 mm ...
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NewsKuala Lumpur orders CSR Zhuzhou metro trainsets
MALAYSIA: Greater Kuala Lumpur transport agency Prasarana signed a firm contract for CSR Zhuzhou to supply 30 more six-car metro trainsets for the Ampang Line on October 21. Scheduled to be delivered between May and July 2015, these 30 trainsets worth 1·13bn yuan are in addition to 20 which ...
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News10 expressions of interest in California high speed fleet
USA: By the ‘soft deadline’ of October 22, California High Speed Rail Authority had received 10 responses to its request for expressions of interest in a contract to supply trainsets and a maintenance facility. Responses were submitted by: Alstom Transportation;AnsaldoBreda;Bombardier Transit Corp;CSR Corp;Hyundai Rotem;Marnell Transportation;Kawasaki Rail Car;Siemens Industry;SunGroup USA & ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market October 2014
Australia: GHD and RPS Manidis Roberts are to prepare environmental impact assessments for the Newcastle light rail project (RG 6.14 p17). Golder Associates has been awarded a A$5·7m contract to undertake geotechnical studies for Perth’s Forrestfield – Airport Link. Construction is planned to run from 2016 to ...
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NewsSydney CBD & South East light rail preferred bidder named
AUSTRALIA: The New South Wales government named the Connecting Sydney consortium as preferred bidder for a PPP contract to build and operate Sydney’s CBD & South East Light Rail line on October 23. The consortium comprises Transdev Sydney, Alstom Transport Australia, Acciona Infrastructure Australia and Capella Capital. The SydneyConnect consortium ...
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NewsChina Northern wins Boston metro car order
USA: Massachusetts Department of Transportation board voted to award the CNR MA joint venture of China CNR Corp and CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles a $430·2m contract to supply 284 metro cars for Boston’s Red and Orange lines on October 22. An option for 58 cars would take the value to ...
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NewsInfrabel commissions longest ETCS Level 1 project
BELGIUM: Recently-appointed Transport Minister Jacqueline Galant joined Infrabel CEO Luc Lallemand and his SNCB counterpart Jo Cornu at Dinant on October 20 to inaugurate ETCS 1 on 160 km of TEN Corridor 2 between Namur and Athus, near the border with Luxembourg. The work included installing 1 900 balises and ...
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NewsJoint venture to audit Borneo coal railway project
INDONESIA: Russian Railways and Austrian-Swiss contractor Rhomberg-Sersa have agreed to undertake a technical audit for the eastern Kalimantan coal railway project, for which RZD is providing technical support. Construction of the coal railway on the island of Borneo could begin in 2016, RZD says. According to a memorandum signed by ...
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NewsTramRus tram coming to St Petersburg
RUSSIA: The TramRus joint venture of Alstom and Transmashholding is to supply a tram to St Petersburg by December 1. This would be the first 100% low-floor tram to run in the city, according to the manufacturer. The tram is currently undergoing testing at TramRus’s Oktyabrsky Electric Railway Car ...