All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2014
All articles published this month.
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NewsChina - Europe rail freight joint venture agreed
INTERNATIONAL: A memorandum of understanding to form a strategic partnership to develop rail forwarding services between China and Europe has been signed by DHL Global Forwarding and the project office which is setting up the United Transport & Logistics Co joint venture of the national railways of Russia, Kazakhstan and ...
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NewsSBB orders 485 wagons
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways announced a SFr50m contract for Slovakian company ŽOS Trnava to supply 485 wagons to replace its infrastructure maintenance fleet on March 31. The order covers: 70 twin-axle hopper wagons; 140 bogie hopper wagons; 50 tipping wagons with high sides; 25 tipping wagons with low sides; ...
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NewsVoith to build €25m rolling stock component plant in China
CHINA: The groundbreaking ceremony for a €25m rail vehicle component plant in Shanghai is planned for December, Voith announced on March 31. Production at the 10 000 m2 facility is expected to start in early 2016. In addition, Voith is to set up an engineering centre which will adapt components ...
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NewsFirst electrification-ready stock delivered to Israel Railways
ISRAEL: National railway ISR has taken delivery of the first six of 72 double-deck coaches which Bombardier Transportation is supplying pre-equipped to operate with electric locomotives on routes which are to be electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz. ISR placed a €122m order for the coaches in September 2012 under ...
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NewsLocomotives reach Ethiopia by road
AFRICA: Five Chinese-built diesel locomotives for use on railway construction projects in Ethiopia have been delivered by road from the port of Djibouti by logistics company Steder Group FZCO. The locomotives weigh from 85 tonnes to 135 tonnes, and were carried on Steder Group's multi-axle trailers after being unloaded from ...
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NewsHans Schabert
Hans Schabert, a former Group President of Siemens Transportation Systems, has been appointed CEO of Vossloh AG. He took up the post on April 1, following the resignations of former CEO Werner Andree and Chief Operating Officer Norbert Schiedeck. Volker Schenk and Oliver Schuster have also been named as Executive ...
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NewsYehuda Bar-On
Yehuda Bar-On has succeeded Moshe Ben-Alon as General Manager of NTA, the company responsible for constructing a mass transit system in Tel Aviv.
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NewsTim Jackson
RATP Dev has appointed Tim Jackson as head of its new British Isles business unit, responsible for activities in the UK and Ireland which include operation and maintenance of Manchester Metrolink. A former Director of Angel Trains International, since 2010 he has been founder and managing partner of Steel Fleet ...
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NewsAntonín Prachar
Antonín Prachar has been appointed Minister for Transport in the Czech Republic’s new coalition government.
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NewsVeronique Hakim
Veronique Hakim has been selected to succeed James Weinstein as Executive Director of NJ Transit. Weinstein stood down on March 2 following criticism of the commuter rail operator’s readiness for February’s Super Bowl American football match, and its preparations for Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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NewsTEN-T co-ordinators named
The European Commission has named the 11 co-ordinators who will assist with implementing the revised TEN-T programme, which now focuses on nine trans-European transport corridors (RG 11.13 p8). Each route has a dedicated co-ordinator, and there are separate co-ordinators for ERTMS and the Motorways of the Sea. Existing ERTMS ...
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NewsFive consortia prequalify for Danish electrification programme
DENMARK: Infrastructure manager Banedanmark has shortlisted five of the eight consortia which expressed interest in the contract for the first phase of a national electrification programme which will see all Denmark’s main routes wired at 25 kV 50Hz by 2026. The shortlisted candidates are: Aarsleff/Siemens; ASB Consortium; Strukton/Balfour Beatty; EIS ...
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NewsAlaska Railroad awards PTC contract
USA: On April 2 Wabtec Corp announced the signing of contracts worth $16·6m for the implementation of Positive Train Control on the 840 km Alaska Railroad, which operates freight and passenger services. Wabtec is to provide PTC equipment for 54 locomotives, along with its Interoperable Electronic Train Management System and ...
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NewsMittelsachsen transport authority orders own EMUs
GERMANY: Transport authority Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen has awarded Alstom a €150m contract to supply 29 Coradia Continental 160 km/h electric multiple-units and maintain them for 16 years. The EMUs are to be built at Alstom's Salzgitter plant and are due to enter service in June 2016 on Elektronetz Mittelsachsen II services ...
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NewsTasRail completes wagon fleet renewal
AUSTRALIA: The last of 18 cement, 54 bulk ore, 17 coal and 120 intermodal wagons built by CNR Shenyang in China under a contract placed in late 2012 was ceremonially handed over to TasRail on March 31. The 1 067 mm gauge wagons have Wabtec brakes and SKF bearings. ‘Once ...
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NewsHS2 signs up Japanese consultants
UK: HS2 Ltd has signed a contract for consultancy services with Japan International Consultants for Transportation, a company owned 53% by East Japan Railway. The contract with an undisclosed value began on January 31 and runs for four months to May 31. Areas covered by the deal include ways of ...
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NewsUrumqi metro construction begins
CHINA: Construction of the first metro line in Urumqi was launched with a ceremony on March 20. Opening is scheduled for 2019. The line will run underground for 27·6 km from the international airport in the northwest to Santunbei in the south, serving 21 stations. Beijing Railway Construction & ...
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NewsSocial media could supplement passenger satisfaction surveys
UK: A research programme by DeltaRail is seeking to analyse train operators’ Twitter traffic to assess passenger satisfaction. It has been running for four months, and has already produced results which correlate with other satisfaction surveys DeltaRail analyses the content of tweets in the form of a ‘word cloud’. Generally, ...
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NewsGuadalajara Line 3 out to tender
MEXICO: Governor of Jalisco state Aristóteles Sandoval has signed off tendering documents for the project to build Line 3 of the Guadalajara light rail network. The 21·5 km route runs on a northwest-southeast alignment and is expected to cost nearly 17·7bn pesos. Around three-quarters of the alignment ...
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Metro Report InternationalGroundbreaking ceremony launches construction of Riyadh metro
SAUDI ARABIA: Construction of the Riyadh metro was officially started on April 3 with a groundbreaking ceremony led by Riyadh Governor Prince Khaled bin Bandar. Work started at five sites simultaneously. These include King Khaled International Airport, Olaya at the intersection of line 1 and 2, and the site ...