All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 682
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NewsRide a Panda
ACCESS: DIGI Project has developed its Panda Station lift to help wheelchair-using passengers board trains. With a capacity of 350 kg, the Panda Station has an automatic brake on the drive wheel, sensors to stop ascent and descent, 20 sec fall time and a manual mode for emergency use. ...
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NewsUpdated axle-counter to be launched at InnoTrans 2014
FRAUSCHER: Austrian inductive sensor, wheel detection and axle-counting technology supplier Frauscher Sensortechnik is to unveil the second version of its FAdC axle-counter at InnoTrans 2014. The FAdC R2 incorporates new ideas based on customer feedback about the initial version, which was launched 2½ years ago and now accounts for more ...
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NewsFeature articles in the June 2014 issue of Metro Report International
Articles in the June 2014 issue of Metro Report International. Comment Phil Young explains Transport for London's open data approach to app development News Review Round-up of world metro, light rail and tram news City digest Turkish urban rail expansion, Chinese progress, Mexico City interurban line, Makkah shorlists bidders, Addis ...
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NewsYekaterinburg plans second metro line
RUSSIA: Yekaterinburg city authorities announced plans for a second metro line on May 21. The east-west line would link Verkh-Isetskaya with Kamenye Palatkiy, running through Ploshchad 1905 goda where interchange with the north-south Line 1 would be provided. The city is to spend 150m roubles for planning and design ...
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NewsDammam metro plans announced
SAUDI ARABIA: Eastern Province Mayor Fahad Al Jubair announced details of the 60bn riyal Dammam public transport project on May 21, following its approval by the Council of Ministers on May 19. The metro and bus network is to cover Dammam and the neighbouring city of Qatif. Two metro ...
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NewsHistoric day for North-South Railway
BRAZIL: On May 22 President Dilma Rousseff officially opened the 855 km section of the North-South Railway between Porto Nacional in Tocantins state and Anápolis in Goiás. Speaking at a ceremony in Anápolis on what she described as an ‘historic day’, Rousseff said that her government was taking forward the ...
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NewsGovia wins Thameslink, Southern & Great Northern rail franchise
UK: The Department of Transport announced on May 23 that it had selected Govia to operate the future Thameslink, Southern & Great Northern passenger franchise. Covering regional and commuter services into London in an area bounded by King's Lynn, Cambridge, Peterborough, Bedford, Southampton, Brighton and Ashford, TSGN will be the ...
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NewsGreenbrier announces alliance with Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance
USA: The Greenbrier Companies announced an ‘alliance’ with Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance on May 22, saying this would combine Greenbrier Leasing Co's expertise in wagon leasing and management with MUL's experience of asset finance. MUL plans to acquire a $1bn portfolio of new and used wagons in the coming ...
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NewsRio Tinto ready to test automated operation
AUSTRALIA: Rio Tinto Iron Ore has confirmed its intention to ‘soft launch’ its AutoHaul project before the end of May, to test the automatic operation of heavy haul freight trains. The initial run on the Hamersley line between Tom Price and the port at Dampier is described by an ...
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NewsLos Angeles metro extension secures federal funding
USA: Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced $2·1bn in federal grant and loan agreements for the Los Angeles metro Purple Line extension Section 1 on May 21. $1·25bn is coming from the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grant programme and $856m through the Transportation Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act. Other ...
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NewsMoscow signs metro construction agreement
RUSSIA: On May 19 the Moscow city council owned Mosinzhproyekt signed an agreement with China Railway Construction Corp and China International Fund for the construction of 150 km of metro lines with more than 70 stations in Moscow. The plans include a metro line serving the New Moscow urban ...
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NewsNews in Brief - May 2014
MÁV has introduced free wi-fi at Budapest’s Déli, Keleti and Nyugati stations, plus Debrecen and Keszthely, as well as on 700 coaches. Poland’s Podlaskie voivodship has awarded PR a 37m złoty contract to operate passenger services totalling 948000 train-km/year in 2015-16. TCDD’s Eskisehir Hasanbey Logistics Centre opened ...
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NewsRailway seeks help following catastrophic floods
BOSNIA: The Chief Executive of Željeznice Republike Srpske, Dragan Savanović, has appealed to the international rail industry for help with repairing the ‘enormous damage’ caused by ‘catastrophic and devastating’ flooding which hit the Balkans on May 15. The floodwaters have swept away track and electrification, damaged maintenance machinery and flooded ...
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NewsDirect service from Chicago to Mexico
NORTH AMERICA: BNSF Railway and Ferromex have announced that on May 27 they are due to launch a direct intermodal service between Chicago and Silao in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Container trains will be interchanged between the two railways at the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border crossing, with Ferromex operating ...
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NewsCaspian corridor agreement
ASIA: A tripartite agreement to complete the 167 km missing section of the planned north–south corridor along the west of the Caspian Sea was reached by the heads of the national railways of Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia during the 60th meeting of the Council for Rail Transport of CIS States ...
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NewsSiemens wins more Hungarian ETCS work
HUNGARY: National infrastructure agency NIF has awarded three contracts for installation of ETCS Level 2 to Siemens. They cover two sections of the route between Ferencváros near Budapest and Gyoma in the east of the country, and the route between Ferencváros and Szekesfehervar to the southwest.Siemens expects to control around ...
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NewsKøbenhavn metro extensions approved
DENMARK: The government and København city council have reached agreement to build two branches of the Cityringen metro line, to Sydhavn and Nordhavn. The circular Cityringen automated metro line is now under construction for opening in 2018. The southern branch to Sydhavn would leave the Cityringen at København H ...
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NewsIncheon Airport maglev unveiled
SOUTH KOREA: The Incheon Airport maglev demonstration line was unveiled with a ceremonial run on May 14. Passenger service is due to begin in mid-July on the first domestically-developed urban maglev line. The 6·1 km route with six stations links Incheon International Airport with Yongyu. The Ministry of Land, ...
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NewsTver unveils proposed EMU
RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Tver Carriage Works unveiled a mock-up of a planned modular electric multiple-unit family on May 15, and expects to test two prototypes later this year. The EG2Tv is intended to combine modern technology similar to that used by foreign rolling stock manufacturers with the Tver plant’s lower costs ...
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NewsStadler Minsk unveils new 1 524 mm gauge tram
BELARUS: The Stadler Minsk joint venture of Stadler and Belkommunmash has unveiled a 100% low-floor 1 524 mm gauge tram in Minsk. The vehicle is designated Type 853 for the unidirectional and 85300M for the bidirectional variant, and is based on the Belkommunmash 843/84300M which is in operation in Minsk, ...