All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 729
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NewsRail market was rigged
GERMANY: The Bundeskartellamt competition authority has imposed fines totalling €232m on companies which operated anti-competitive agreements in the German rail, switches and sleeper market in 2001-11. The proceedings were triggered by an application for leniency filed by Voestalpine. 'The aim of the agreements was to divide up tenders or projects ...
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NewsStadler and Newag win PKP Intercity train order
POLAND: PKP Intercity has selected a consortium of Stadler Rail and Newag for a contract to supply 20 Flirt electric multiple-units for long-distance services by October 2015. The contract announced on August 28 is worth 1·156bn złoty, plus a further 465m złoty for 15 years of maintenance. Bids had also ...
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NewsLecip Holdings acquires smart card company Arcontia International
SWEDEN: The acquisition of Swedish smart card reader and software supplier Arcontia International by Japanese ticketing, lighting and electronic signage technology company Lecip Holdings Corp was announced on August 22. 'After a few years of close collaboration, Lecip and Arcontia have taken the next step in combining our portfolios that ...
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NewsSiemens to support Swiss network control system to 2025
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has awarded Siemens a €260m contract to continue to support and develop the Iltis traffic management system until the end of 2025. Originally developed for SBB and first deployed in Bern in 1995, Iltis provides computer-based control and automation functions. It is used to manage train ...
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NewsCaptrain acquires Scandinavian operators
EUROPE: Swedish infrastructure maintenance and renewals company Railcare Group has sold its Swedish and Danish train operating businesses Railcare Tåg and Railcare Danmark to rail freight and logistics company Captrain Deutschland Following 18 months of negotiations, the two businesses were acquired by SNCF Geodis, which transferred them to its Captrain ...
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NewsTokyo Waterfront metro line proposal
JAPAN: Tokyo’s Koto Ward is expected to present plans in September for a metro line serving the city’s waterfront area. To be operated by Tokyo Metro, the 5·2 km line would link Toyosu station on the Yurakucho Line with Sumiyoshi on the Hanzomon Line via Toyocho on the Tozai ...
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NewsPerth light rail funding
AUSTRALIA: Western Australia’s 2013-14 budget has allocated A$432m over four years for construction of the 22 km Metro Area Express light rail line, serving the inner north, central west and eastern suburbs of Perth. The mostly-segregated route would run south from the Polytechnic West Balga Campus in Mirrabooka, following ...
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NewsForth Bridge public access proposal
UK: Network Rail has unveiled proposals for the provision of visitor access to the top of the Forth Bridge, which the infrastructure manger describes as 'the world's most recognised railway bridge'. Two concepts have been identified by a feasibility study undertaken as part of an application for UNESCO World Heritage ...
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NewsFirst Sun Link streetcar is on its way
USA: The first light rail vehicle for the Modern Streetcar line in Tucson has started its journey from the United Streetcar factory in Clackamas, Oregon. It will spend five days travelling on a special flatbed trailer to the Arizona city, after which it will be reassembled and undergo four to ...
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NewsMoscow metro awards contract for expansion works
RUSSIA: Mosinzhproekt has won a 564bn rouble contract to build 70 km of lines and 33 stations on the Moscow metro. The company, owned by Moscow city council, was the only bidder that qualified. Bidders were required to have completed metro projects worth more than 40bn roubles in the ...
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NewsKnorr-Bremse buys Railcare from administrators
UK: Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd acquired the business and assets of rolling stock repair and refurbishment company Railcare Ltd from its joint administrators on August 26. Following the acquisition, Knorr-Bremse has formed Knorr-Bremse RailServices (UK) Ltd as a new rolling stock maintenance and repair company operating with its ...
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NewsKyiv metro gets new station and trains
UKRAINE: A test train ran to the new southern terminus of Kyiv metro Line 2 at Teremki on August 23. The 1·4 km extension is due to open for passenger service in October. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov visited the new station and boarded the test train, one of a ...
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NewsLos Angeles fare collection support contract extended
USA: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has extended its support services contract with Cubic Transportation Systems for six years. The contract covers the repair and maintenance of fare collection equipment and back-office technology for processing smart card data for Metro and 10 regional operators. The extension is worth ...
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NewsGovernment invests in Tafí Viejo workshops
ARGENTINA: With the aim of increasing production capacity for wagon overhaul, the federal government has allocated 15m pesos to modernise equipment at the Tafí Viejo rolling stock maintenance workshops in the province of Tucumán. Training in project management and industrial design has been provided by national technology body INTI. With ...
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NewsMoscow metro maintenance contract
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has awarded Metrowagonmash a 30-year contract to maintain 248 Type 81-760/761 metro cars which were supplied in 2012. The Transmashholding subsidiary will take over the metro’s Novogireyevo depot under the contract, which requires 232 cars to be available for service. In a separate development, ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market August 2013
Canada: Track Tec’s KolTram business is to deliver turnouts and other track components for the construction of Vancouver’s Evergreen Line. China: CNR has received orders to supply 16 ‘rail ambulance’ 160 km/h catenary repair vehicles. Denmark: Banedanmark has appointed Systra and COWI to develop a delivery strategy for ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market August 2013
Australia: National Railway Equipment Co is to supply seven N-ViroMotive genset locomotives to Pacific National for use at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks from mid-2014. Austria: Wiener Linien has ordered four more battery locos from Vossloh Kiepe and Schalker Eisenhütte for delivery in 2015. Brazil: São Paulo suburban ...
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NewsBlast and paint shop built
USA: The Airblast AFC joint venture of UK-based blast booth supplier Airblast Ltd and US spray booth and painting equipment company AFC Finishing Systems has recently supplied a US$1·4m wagon painting facility to a customer in Ohio. This includes blast, paint and drying booths 27 m long and 9 m ...
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NewsHelsinki starts automated metro tests
FINLAND: Three Helsinki metro M100 trainsets equipped for automatic operation by Siemens started test running on August 21. Final approval was given by TÜV Rheinland. The trains will initially retain a driver on board, before drivers are phased out between late 2015 and the end of 2016. The first ...
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NewsMaking TRAX for Draper
USA: The final stage of Utah Transit Authority’s FrontLines 2015 light rail expansion project has opened. Regular service on the 6·1 km Blue Line extension to Draper Town Center started on August 18, following the official inauguration two days earlier. The three-stop extension runs south from Sandy Civic Center, ...