All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2014 – Page 3
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NewsBangkok SkyTrain funding approved
THAILAND: The cabinet has approved Ministry of Finance loans to Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand for the construction of three SkyTrain lines in Bangkok. As well as being used to pay off debts and related expenses, the loan includes 10·9bn baht towards construction of the Purple Line from ...
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NewsS-Bahn Rhein-Main EMU deliveries begin
GERMANY: The first of 91 ET430 electric multiple-units ordered in November 2011 for use on S-Bahn Rhein-Main services was displayed to the public at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof on April 11. DB Regio Hessen is initially putting the units into service on route S1 and airport services, before deployment across routes S1, ...
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NewsFinancial close on £2·7bn East Coast IEP contract
UK: Financial close on the £2·7bn contract for 65 Hitachi Super Express Trains to operate on the East Coast Main Line was announced on April 16. The trainsets are being procured from the Agility Trains consortium of Hitachi Rail Europe and John Laing under the Department for Transport’s Intercity Express ...
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NewsDistributed diesel traction tested on Europe’s longest freight train
EUROPE: On April 12 Fret SNCF operated a 1 524 m long freight train between Sibelin yard near Lyon and Nîmes, hauled at up to 100 km/h by two Euro 4000 diesel locomotives built by Vossloh España. Weighing 4 020 tonnes, ‘the longest freight train ever run in Europe’ comprised ...
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NewsAbidjan urban line contractor selected
CÔTE D’IVOIRE: A consortium of DTP Terrassement, Bouygues Travaux Publics, Hyundai Rotem and Dongsan signed an initial agreement to build an urban rail line in Abidjan on April 11. Hyundai Rotem is to supply rolling stock and signalling, Dongsan Engineering electrification, and DTP Terrassement and Bouygues Travaux Publics and ...
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NewsGreater Anglia direct award franchise agreed
UK: The Abellio Greater Anglia subsidiary of Dutch national operator NS is to continue operating passenger services between London Liverpool Street and eastern England under a new 27-month franchise agreement announced by the Department for Transport on April 16. The short-term direct award franchise runs from July 14 2014 to ...
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NewsBeijing - Shenyang high speed line construction begins
CHINA: Construction of a 700 km Passenger-Dedicated Line linking Beijing and Shenyang in Liaoning Province began last month. The project was approved in 2009, when work had been scheduled to start the following year. Construction is now expected to take five years and cost 124·5bn yuan. Boring of the 8·8 ...
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NewsMTR Express to launch in March 2015
SWEDEN: On April 15 MTR Nordic announced that its MTR Express service between Stockholm and Göteborg is expected to launch in March 2015. MTR has applied to infrastructure manager Trafikverket for 10 daily train paths in each direction from the start of the 2015 timetable in December; this is one ...
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NewsTunnelling difficulties delay Express Rail Link completion
CHINA: The expected completion date for the 26 km Hong Kong section of the Hong Kong - Shenzhen - Guangzhou Express Rail Link has been put back to 2016 and the opening to 2017 as a result of unforeseen tunnelling difficulties, MTR Corp announced on April 15. During a severe ...
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NewsNews in Brief - April 2014
Turkey's transport minister attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a 40-month upgrade of the Konya - Karaman line on March 13. The 102 km route is being doubled and electrified, and the line speed raised from 120 km/h to 200 km/h. CSX is planning a 2014 capital investment programme totalling $2·3bn. ...
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NewsGovernment approves Dutch ETCS roll-out strategy
NETHERLANDS: A 10-year programme for the introduction of the European Rail Traffic Management System across the core rail network has been approved by the ruling cabinet of the coalition government. A budget of €2·5bn had previously been agreed for ERTMS implementation up to 2028, and the programme presented by State ...
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NewsHanoi metro Line 3 contractor chosen
VIETNAM: South Korean construction firm Daelim Industrial Co announced on April 11 that it had been awarded an US$84m contract to build the 8·5 km elevated section of Hanoi metro Line 3. Work is scheduled to start in May and end in late 2016. The initial phase of Line ...
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NewsTender issued for Singapore high speed route study
ASIA: Following the summit between Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak earlier this month, the Singapore Land Transport Authority on April 11 called tenders for an engineering feasibility study to develop ‘feasible corridors’ for the Singapore section of the planned 330 route-km high ...
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NewsMelbourne Airport link endorsed
AUSTRALIA: A programme for construction of the long-planned rail link to Melbourne Airport will be included in Victoria’s state budget to be published on May 6, the state Premier Denis Napthine announced on April 13. Identified as one of several major expansion projects in Public Transport Victoria’s Metropolitan Rail Network ...
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NewsDedicated Career & Education Hall at InnoTrans 2014
INNOTRANS: The dedicated Career & Education Hall at InnoTrans 2014 will enable companies from across the rail sector to target, contact and inspire potential recruits. The last exhibition attracted around 2000 students from many countries, including Sweden, Russia, South Korea, Japan and China. Focal point of the hall, ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market April 2014
Belarus: Metrowagonmash is to supply three trainsets to Minsk Metro. Brazil: Voith Turbo is supplying DIWA powerpacks, bogies and transmission components for 34 VLT DMUs being built by Bom Sinal for the cities of Natal (eight), João Pessoa (12), Fortaleza (eight) and Teresina (six). Cameroon: Camrail is taking ...
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NewsTrains across borders
Comparative studies on international co-operation in railway development By Dr Martin Schiefelbusch Reflecting that 'rail is today the mode of transport most negatively affected by the existence of borders within Europe', despite the Schengen agreement and a long history of co-operation, this book sets out to 'provide insights ...
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NewsChina – Mongolia coal link agreed
MONGOLIA: Chinese state-owned mining group Shenhua, which operates 1 765 km of heavy haul coal railway in northern and central China, has signed a joint venture agreement to develop a cross-border rail link to serve the Tavan Tolgoi coalfield in the South Gobi region. Under an agreement signed in Ulaanbaatar ...
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NewsFirst low-floor Suzhou tram rolled out
CHINA: The first of 18 trams for Suzhou has been rolled out at CSR Puzhen’s factory in Nanjing. This is the first vehicle produced under a 10-year technology licensing agreement signed between CSR Puzhen and Bombardier in July 2012. ‘We are proud to be part of this milestone and ...
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NewsCSX opens Central Florida intermodal terminal
USA: Revenue operations have started at the Central Florida Intermodal Logistics Center in Winter Haven, which is intended to provide a central hub for transport, logistics and distribution services covering Orlando, Tampa and South Florida. Owned by CSX affiliate Evansville Western Railway, the ILC is operated by CSX Intermodal Terminals ...