All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 69

  • Map of proposed European high speed rail network
    News

    Train operators propose 32 000 km high speed rail ‘Metropolitan Network’

    2023-07-12T14:34:00Z

    EUROPE: Proposals for a huge expansion of the high rail speed network have been drawn up by Deutsche Bahn working in partnership with nine other major European operators.

  • Proposals have been invited for reviving the Kuala Lumpur – Singapore High Speed Rail project using a public-private partnership model
    News

    Kuala Lumpur – Singapore High Speed Rail proposal revived

    2023-07-12T09:48:00Z

    MALAYSIA: Industry proposals for reviving the Kuala Lumpur – Singapore High Speed Rail project using a public-private partnership model have been invited by the Ministry of Finance’s project promoter MyHSR Corp. The ‘fully fledged’ request for information opened to domestic and international firms on July 12. ...

  • Indonesia locomotive (Photo Wabtec)
    News

    Indonesian locomotive parts agreement

    2023-07-12T05:00:00Z

    INDONESIA: Wabtec has announced a multi-year agreement to supply its local partner PT IMECO with spare parts, overhaul kits and training to support national operator PT KAI’s CC206 locomotive fleet. The 150 CM20EMP diesel locomotives were supplied by Wabtec’s predecessor GE Transportation in 2012-16. ‘This is ...

  • FrontRunner (Photo UTA)
    News

    Double tracking to increase Utah commuter rail capacity

    2023-07-11T14:00:00Z

    USA: Utah Department of Transportation has appointed HDR to provide programme management services for its $1bn FrontRunner Strategic Double Track project. This will add nine more sections of double track and update the signalling along the 135 km FrontRunner commuter rail route from Ogden to Salt ...

  • Tren Maya first trainset delivered
    News

    First Tren Maya coach delivered

    2023-07-11T10:48:00Z

    MEXICO: The first four passenger vehicles for the Tren Maya project have arrived by road in Cancún, Quintana Roo state, from Alstom’s assembly plant in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo. Announcing the development on July 10, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the event held at ...

  • Circumvesuviana Stadler EMU impression (Image Stadler)
    News

    Circumvesuviana narrow gauge EMU order

    2023-07-11T10:27:00Z

    ITALY: Regional transport operator EAV has awarded Stadler a framework contract for the supply of up to 60 electric multiple-units for the 950 mm gauge Circumvesuviana lines south and east of Napoli. A firm order for an initial 16 sets and five years of maintenance has ...

  • LTG Cargo intermodal train
    News

    LTG Cargo to buy its first electric locomotives

    2023-07-10T14:07:00Z

    LITHUANIA: National freight operator LTG Cargo has announced a €100m plan to purchase its first electric locomotives. They will be used to haul freight trains of up to 5 700 tonnes on the 376 km main line between Vilnius and the port of Klaipėda which is ...

  • Abellio DMU in Sachsen-Anhalt
    News

    DB’s Start to replace Abellio on Sachsen-Anhalt passenger services

    2023-07-10T10:59:00Z

    GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland has been named preferred bidder for a contract to operate diesel-worked local passenger services in Sachsen-Anhalt. The Dieselnetz Sachsen-Anhalt II contract covering 9·3 million train-km/year will run for eight years from the December 2024 timetable change. It was tendered ...

  • PR_Faccns49_HHPI_ERM
    News

    World rail freight news round-up

    2023-07-10T05:00:00Z

    News from the world rail freight market.

  • Banovići in Bosnia (Photo Toma Bacic)
    News

    Construction of missing Bosnian rail link to be studied

    2023-07-09T05:00:00Z

    BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Railways of the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina has called tenders for design studies for the construction of a long-proposed 50 km rail link between Banovići and Vareš. The north-south line would significantly shorten the distance by rail between the Banovići coal mines ...

  • Talgo factory
    News

    Talgo Inspire seeks alliances with transport technology start-ups

    2023-07-08T05:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Rolling stock manufacturer Talgo has launched a programme to work with innovative start-ups in the worldwide transport sector. The Inspire programme will use a venture client model under which Talgo will buy a start-up’s products rather than acquire an equity stake. ‘We are looking for ...

  • Vossloh Rolling Stock DE18 locomotive in operation
    News

    BBL Logistik orders 10 locomotives

    2023-07-07T13:09:00Z

    GERMANY: BBL Logistik Group has ordered 10 Vossloh Rolling Stock DE18 diesel locomotives for delivery from June 2024. The order signed at the end of June includes options for the CRRC ZELC subsidiary to supply a further five of the Stage V emissions standard-compliant locomotives. BBL ...

  • Camira
    News

    Railway supply industry news round-up

    2023-07-07T05:00:00Z

    This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.

  • OeBB Railjet Stadler Kiss EMU impression
    News

    ÖBB orders first double-deck Railjet trains as passenger traffic booms

    2023-07-06T13:52:00Z

    AUSTRIA: Austrian Federal Railways has awarded Stadler a firm order to supply the first double-deck vehicles for its Railjet long-distance fleet, along with additional electric multiple-units for Cityjet local services. The €600m firm order for 35 Kiss EMUs signed on July 6 has been placed as ...

  • Queensland train
    News

    ‘Over and back’ speeds Brisbane ETCS testing

    2023-07-06T11:01:00Z

    AUSTRALIA: Hitachi Rail has adopted ‘over and back’ switching principles to speed up the testing of digital train control systems being installed on the southeast Queensland rail network. ETCS Level 2 operation is being introduced in conjunction with Brisbane’s Cross River Rail project, which will see ...

  • jp-Hokkaido-Series-737-exterior_6613-AN
    News

    Driver-only EMUs unveiled in Hokkaido

    2023-07-05T14:33:00Z

    JAPAN: JR Hokkaido has unveiled its first Series 737 EMUs, which are the railway’s first to be designed for driver-only operation.

  • Lobito Atlantic Railway consortium launch ceremony (2)
    News

    Lobito Atlantic Railway concession launched

    2023-07-05T13:21:00Z

    ANGOLA: Operations, management and maintenance of the 1 344 km railway along the Lobito Corridor were formally transferred to the Lobito Atlantic Railway consortium at a ceremony hosted by the Municipal Administration of Lobito on July 4. Present at the event were President of Angola João ...

  • Impression of train for Queensland
    News

    Downer picks Hyundai Rotem to support delivery of Queensland EMU fleet

    2023-07-05T08:04:00Z

    AUSTRALIA: Downer has formed a consortium with Hyundai Rotem to build, commission and maintain 65 six-car 1 067 mm gauge electric multiple-units for Queensland. The Queensland government had selected Downer in February as the preferred bidder over CAF and Alstom for the A$4·6bn contract, which is ...

  • TER Pays de Loire tram-train
    News

    Service increases planned as Pays-de-Loire awards its first tendered operating contract

    2023-07-05T05:00:00Z

    FRANCE: Incumbent SNCF Voyageurs has been awarded the first passenger train operating contract to be tendered by the Pays-de-la-Loire région. The contract covers the operation of tram-train services on the Nantes – Chateaubriant and Nantes – Clisson lines, as well as the Sud Loire rail network ...

  • Milano M4 opening
    Metro Report International

    Metro opening aims to make Milano even more liveable

    2023-07-04T13:57:00Z

    ITALY: An extension of Milano metro Line M4 has opened, providing a direct link from Linate airport to the city centre. The 5·3 km first phase of M4 from the airport as far as Dateo opened in November 2022, but was initially isolated from the rest ...