Policy: New entrants promise to reshape South African freight market
No fewer than 11 private freight train operators have been granted conditional access to the Transnet network under the government’s rail reform programme. Market opening offers hope that declining rail freight volumes can be reversed and infrastructure renovated. Benjámin Zelki investigates.
TMS Maritime completes seawall repairs
UK: TMS Maritime has completed repairs to the sea wall between Dawlish and Teignmouth, where the seaward face suffered significant damage from Storm Chandra and a substantial sink hole closed the footpath adjacent to the line.
Slovakian infrastructure manager completes its largest project
SLOVAKIA: Infrastructure manager ŽSR has formally completed modernisation of the important junction at Žilina, the largest single project in its history.
South Korean support for Ukrainian high speed rail studies
UKRAINE: The government of South Korea has allocated US$8m to support a feasibility study for the development of a high speed rail link between Kyiv and the EU.
Romanian railway modernisation contracts awarded
ROMANIA: Infrastructure manager CFR SA has awarded the Asocierea TrackWorks consortium of Alstom and Terna contracts for modernisation of two sections of the Craiova – Drobeta Turnu Severin – Caransebeș route totalling 83 km.
‘Global first’ in London tram track renewals
UK: In what supplier Sika says is a world first, contractor VolkerRail has installed polymer rail grout on a section of embedded track on the London Trams network using a machine instead of manual application.
Regulation: How an interventionist infrastructure manager spurred high speed rail demand in Spain
Infrastructure: Eulynx controllers support digital transformation
Loram partnership to expand One Big Circle’s circumference around the world
Zambia Railways Ltd seeks private financing to fix three broken legs
Next sections of Napoli – Bari high speed line open
Consortium chosen to deliver Mexican ETCS project
Indian-Russian consortium wins Rs11bn rail defect monitoring contract
Middle East: Early planning is critical to rail project success
AtkinsRéalis awarded £98m signalling contract
High Speed 2 told to explore cutting speeds to reduce costs
Ontario buys tracks for Northlander passenger train service
Light at the end of the tunnel in HS2’s Euston saga
Satellites help provide high-level estimates to lower railway electrification costs
Vossloh to supply high speed rail grinding train to China
Collaboration to offer mission-critical rail communications with a pathway to FRMCS
Morocco: World Cup deadline brings a clear sight of goal
Łódź high speed rail tunnel signalling contract awarded
Automatic train operation over ETCS demonstrated in Finland