All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 823
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NewsPutin opens factory to produce a wagon every 24 min
RUSSIA: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin officially launched production of wagons at the Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant in Leningrad oblast on January 30. Industrial investment business ICT Group has designed the TVSZ factory around the latest production processes from the automotive, aerospace and rail sectors. According to ICT, it ...
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NewsCAF named preferred bidder to supply new Midland Metro trams
UK: Having received bids submitted from 'all over the world, not just Europe', on February 2 West Midlands transport authority Centro named CAF as preferred bidder to supply new trams to replace the existing Midland Metro fleet and provide additional capacity on the 21 km light rail route linking Birmingham ...
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Joseph Lhota
Joseph Lhota has been appointed Chairman & CEO of New York MTA, having held the post in an acting capacity since November. He succeeds Jay Walder, who left in October to become CEO of Hong Kong’s MTR Corp.
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NewsThales to upgrade Turkish high speed line to ETCS Level 2
TURKEY: National railway TCDD has awarded Thales a €20m contract to install ETCS Level 2 and GSM-R communications on the existing 251 km high speed section of the Ankara - Istanbul route. Deployment of Level 2 in place of the present Level 1 supervision is expected to increase capacity on ...
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NewsSystra to take over SNCF and RATP engineering businesses
FRANCE: Engineering consultancy Systra, which is owned jointly by main line operator SNCF and urban operator RATP, is to take over the engineering businesses of its two shareholders with a view to enhancing its prospects on the international market. A draft agreement covering the proposals was announced on January 11. ...
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NewsSingapore offers loyalty prizes to encourage off-peak metro travel
SINGAPORE: 'Incentives for Singapore's Commuters' has been launched by Land Transport Authority as part of a programme to examine methods for spreading peak travel demand. Metro commuters participating in the Insinc study are awarded credits proportional to the distance they travel, with the credits entered into a lottery with cash ...
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NewsAnother €1bn to fund DB enhancement programme
GERMANY: Federal Transport Minister Minister Dr Peter Ramsauer confirmed on January 31 that another €1bn of federal funding would be made available for infrastructure improvements across the DB network by 2015, following the completion of a three-year programme funded by a €1·4bn ‘stimulus package’ and €100m from DB’s own resources. ...
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NewsUkrainian Railways orders 300 electric locomotives
UKRAINE: Transmashholding is to supply state railway UZ with 230 Type 2ES4K electric freight locomotives for 3 kV DC routes and 70 Type 2ES5K locomotives for AC routes. Last August the government approved a 28·7bn hryvnia renewal programme which would see 509 locomotives ordered in 2012-16. A preliminary agreement was ...
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Vijaya Kanth
Vijaya Kanth, formerly General Manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction), has been appointed Financial Commissioner of the Indian Ministry of Railways.
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NewsEBRD loan supports Serbian concrete sleeper plant
SERBIA: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is providing a loan to support the development of a concrete sleeper plant at Svilajnac, 100 km south of Beograd. EBRD said the €2·8m loan to the Serbian Track Experts joint venture of Austrian firms Porr Bau and Maba Track Solutions is ...
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NewsLyon – Torino funding agreed
EUROPE: French Transport Minister Thierry Mariani met Italy’s Vice-Minister for Infrastructure & Transport Mario Ciaccia in Roma on January 30 to sign a supplementary agreement covering the final route, phasing and funding of the high speed line between Lyon and Torino. Hoping that the European Union will provide co-funding at ...
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NewsLatvian resignalling goes live
LATVIA: National railway holding company LDZ officially unveiled its first fully-computerised signalling and train control system on January 26, marking completion of a seven-year project partially funded by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund. The resignalling of Latvia’s east-west main line linking Jelgava and Daugavpils is one of the first applications ...
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NewsWeight challenge for Wuppertal monorail car designer
GERMANY: Swiss-based engineering group Prose is taking responsibility for all the mechanical aspects of a rolling stock project for the first time, in its role as Vossloh Kiepe's mechanical engineering partner for the development of a new fleet of cars for the schwebebahn suspension monorail in Wuppertal. Wuppertaler Stadtwerke awarded ...
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NewsThree-car trains to Woolwich Arsenal
UK: London’s Docklands Light Railway introduced three-car operation on its Bank – Woolwich Arsenal route with effect from January 30, adding capacity for an extra 1 500 passengers/h ahead of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This means all DLR routes are now worked with three-car trains during the morning ...
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NewsAlstom signalling for LGV Est Phase 2
FRANCE: RFF has awarded Alstom Transport and Legrand SA a €40m contract to supply signalling for the second phase of LGV Est Européen, Alstom announced on January 30. Running for 106 km between Baudrecourt and Vendenheim, Phase 2 is due to open in 2016. It will complete high speed infrastructure ...
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NewsConstruction of Schaffhausen S-Bahn begins
SWITZERLAND: A ceremony on January 26 marked the official start of construction work for the Schaffhausen S-Bahn project, a programme of infrastructure upgrades which will enable the provision of a half-hourly local train service, increasing to every 15 min in the peaks. An extra platform is to be provided at ...
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NewsChinese locomotives on their way to Belarus
BELARUS: The first of 12 Class BCG-1 electric locomotives being built for Belarus Railway was completed at CNR’s Datong plant in December. Ordered in October 2010 at a cost of 700m yuan, the 9·6 MW, 25 kV 50 Hz twin-section locos are derived from the HXD2 heavy-haul locomotives being assembled ...
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NewsRailway Directory 2012 now available
With 736 pages, the 117th edition of Railway Directory includes listings and contact details for almost 4500 companies and organisations around the world, covering every sector of the railway industry. Providing listings for government and regulatory bodies and associations as well as infrastructure managers and train operators, the book covers ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Led by President Claire Porter, a delegation from the Institution of Railway Signalling Engineers has undertaken a tour of Hong Kong and mainland China as part of an effort to raise awareness of the body. IRSE is keen to establish a local section in Beijing, and discussions were held with ...
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NewsNetwork Rail plans alliances with train operators
UK: Infrastructure manager Network Rail formally announced plans to form 'alliances' between its operational regions and franchised passenger train operating companies on January 23, saying this would streamline decision-making and deliver 'a more passenger-focused operation at lower cost'. Framework agreements have been reached with Abellio Greater Anglia, which takes over ...