All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 683
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NewsCumbernauld electrification completed
UK: Electric passenger services began operating between Glasgow and Cumbernauld on May 19, following commissioning of 50 km of 25 kV 50 Hz electrification between Springburn and Cumbernauld. Electrification was undertaken by Carillion as part of a £80m upgrade of the route. Completion sees the number of services on the ...
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NewsUnited Wagon Co to enter tank wagon market
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co announced plans to develop a 3bn rouble tank wagon manufacturing facility at its Tikhvin site on May 19. Production is scheduled to begin in 2015, with an annual capacity of 3 000 chemical, LPG and petroleum wagons. The wagons are to be designed by UWC’s ...
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NewsShareholders vote on ALL merger
BRAZIL: Shareholders in América Latina Logística SA and Rumo Logística Operadora Multimodal SA approved a merger between the two companies on May 8. A subsidiary of energy and logistics group Cosan, Rumo had announced its proposal to acquire ALL on February 24, valuing the company at R$6·96bn or R$10·18 per ...
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NewsWorld rail market May 2014
France: SNCF has awarded Armor-Lux a contract to supply new uniforms for 33000 customer-facing personnel. Netherlands: Thales is to install and maintain 153 ticket gates and 45 ticket vending machines on Amsterdam’s North-South metro line. The gates will feature a 3D camera instead of beam sensors, which Thales says ...
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NewsNetwork Rail awards track renewals contracts
UK: On May 12 infrastructure manager Network Rail announced preferred bidders for five regional contracts to undertake plain line and switch & crossing track renewals during Control Period 5 running until March 31 2019, when over 7 000 track-km is due to be replaced. To be phased in 'over late ...
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NewsCAF wins Boston Green Line order
USA: The Massachusetts Department of Transportation board approved a $118m contract on May 14 for CAF USA to supply 24 light rail vehicles for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Boston Green Line, including the Green Line Extension project. About half of the cost is to be met by a Federal Transit ...
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NewsFogtec and Knorr-Bremse agree strategic co-operation
GERMANY: Fire protection specialist Fogtec Rail Systems and international braking supplier Knorr-Bremse Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge announced on May 13 that they had signed an agreement for strategic co-operation in the field of safety-critical products and services for rail vehicles. ‘In future, Fogtec will be able to make use of Knorr-Bremse’s ...
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NewsLevel crossing safety partnership
INTERNATIONAL: UIC and the Genève-based International Roads Union announced a partnership to promote improved level crossing safety on May 13. Organsied under the aegis of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety, the partners plan to compile jointly a Level Crossing Safety Checklist to raise awareness of ...
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NewsWaterloo ION light rail PPP contract signed
CANADA: The Region of Waterloo and the GrandLinq consortium of Keolis, Plenary Group, Meridiam, Kiewit and Aecon have achieved financial close on the 33-year public-private partnership contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain Stage 1 of the ION light rail project. GrandLinq was selected as preferred bidder in ...
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NewsCNR Changchun unveils prototype suburban train
CHINA: CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles has rolled out a prototype electric multiple-unit branded 'Rapidtransit'. Described by the manufacturer as an 'inner-city rapid rail vehicle’, it is intended for use on services linking major cities with their expanding suburbs, satellite towns and airports. Announcing the roll-out of the trainset on April ...
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NewsWorking more closely together
MIDDLE EAST: A number of joint committees are to be established by Saudi Railway Company and Etihad Rail to implement best practice in railway projects under a partnership accord signed in Abu Dhabi on May 10. The two railway companies foresee the partnership forming the basis for a wider programme ...
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NewsCamrail launches Yaoundé – Douala InterCity express
CAMEROON: A non-stop passenger service linking Yaoundé to Douala was introduced on May 5, three days after an inauguration ceremony led by Prime Minister Philémon Yang and Bolloré Africa Logistics CEO Dominique Lafont. Bolloré’s railway concessionaire Camrail says the trains will offer ‘a level of comfort never previously available ...
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NewsQueensland backs Carmichael heavy haul coal railway
AUSTRALIA: Queensland’s government has approved Adani Mining’s proposed A$16·5bn Carmichael coal mine and rail project, subject to environmental and social conditions. ‘This project has the potential to be the largest coal mine in Australia and one of the largest in the world’, said Deputy Premier and Minister for State ...
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NewsSNCB and NS sign distribution agreement with Amadeus
EUROPE: BeNeRail International, the international sales and distribution joint venture set up in 2003 by the Belgian and Dutch national operators, announced on May 14 that it had agreed to become the launch customer for a community IT services platform being developed by software specialist Amadeus.BeNeRail International manages a raft ...
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NewsFree metro travel spreads the peak load
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority is to extend its free pre-peak metro travel scheme by one year to June 23 2015. Passengers who end their journey at 18 central metro stations before 07.45 on weekdays get free travel, while those exiting between 07.45 and 08.00 get a discount. About 7% of ...
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NewsMombasa - Nairobi standard gauge line funding agreed
KENYA: An agreement to finance the construction of a 609 km standard gauge railway between Mombasa and Nairobi was signed on May 11 by Cabinet Secretary for the Treasury Henry Rotich and the President of China Exim Bank, Li Ruogu. China Exim Bank is to meet 90% of the US$3·60bn ...
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NewsSétif starts to build tramway
ALGERIA: Construction of the Sétif tramway started on May 8. The line is being built by a consortium of Yapi Merkezi and Alstom under a 38bn dinar contract awarded in late 2013. Work is scheduled to take 40 months. The 22·4 km east-west line will link Sétif University with ...
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NewsWestbahn quits CER
EUROPE: Austrian open access inter-city operator Westbahn Management GmbH has decided to ‘distance itself’ from the Community of European Railway & Infrastructure Companies, accusing CER of attempting to block liberalisation and market opening in the European rail sector. ‘CER is more and more against the overall vision of the EU ...
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NewsSão Paulo selects monorail communications
BRAZIL: Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo has selected Thales and T’Trans to supply telecommunications for São Paulo metro Line 17. The work, to be completed in 22 months, includes a master clock, passenger information systems, CCTV, and transmission and telephony subsystems. Thales is also supply SelTrac CBTC ...