All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2015 – Page 5
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NewsGE Transportation completes testing of Tier 4 engine
USA: GE Transportation announced on April 9 that it had completed production tests of an Evolution Series Tier 4 engine. This was the first engine to be put through a new test cell at the company’s engine plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and it will now be sent to an ...
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NewsConsultation on Bulgarian railway recovery strategy
BULGARIA: A draft strategy for the development of the rail network in 2015-22 and the restructuring of state railway company Holding BDZ was published for consultation by the Minister of Transport, Information Technology & Communications on April 7. Minister Ivaylo Moskovski said ‘joint and targeted actions’ by National Railway Infrastructure ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
Kraków-based ZUE has agreed to purchase up to 70% of ThyssenKrupp’s Polish track business Railway GfT Polska. Hungarian rolling stock manufacturing and maintenance company Dunakeszi Járműjavító and Stadler Rail have signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint production of vehicles for the Hungarian market.Lifting equipment supplier Mechan has appointed ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - April 2015
Over the Chinese New Year period from February 18 to 24, the national rail network in China carried a total of 45·0 million passengers, an increase of 6·5 million on last year. A single day record of 9·47 million passengers was reached on February 24. China and Kazakhstan launched ...
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NewsBroad gauge Vectron arrives in Finland
FINLAND: The first broad gauge version of the Siemens Vectron locomotive family has been delivered to Helsinki, where it was displayed to the public on April 7. No 193 971 is an ‘advance locomotive’. It is fitted with instrumented wheelsets which gather data to feed into the design of ...
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NewsShanghai places first Chinese Citadis tram order
CHINA: Shanghai Songjiang Tramway Investment & Operation Co has awarded the Shanghai Alstom Transport joint venture of Shanghai Rail Traffic Equipment Development Co (60%) and Alstom (40%) a €72m contract to supply 30 Citadis trams for use in the Songjiang suburb of Shanghai. Announcing the order on April 9, Alstom ...
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NewsRussian Railways Logistics takes stake in Latvian rail freight forwarder
LATVIA: Russian Railways Logistics has acquired a 50% stake in Riga-based freight forwarding company Liepājas Naftas Tranzīts through its RZDL Multimodal business. Announcing the deal on April 9, RZDL said its aim was to expand the rail freight market and establish a ‘consolidated rail transport chain’ connecting with Latvia’s ...
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NewsJim Squires
Current Norfolk Southern President Jim Squires will succeed Wick Moorman as CEO on June 1. Squires will continue as President, while Moorman is to retain his duties as Executive Chairman of the board.
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NewsClearing the air
SPAIN: The Improve Life project to assess and improve air quality in metro stations and trains has been launched in Barcelona. The EU’s LIFE programme is funding 50% of the €0·8m cost, and the results are to be made available to other operators so that the recommendations can be applied ...
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NewsLondon Overground concession expressions of interest invited
UK: Transport for London has invited expressions of interest in the next concession to operate London Overground inner-suburban passenger services. The current contract held by the London Overground Rail Operations Ltd joint venture of MTR Corp and Arriva expires on November 12 2016. The new concession is planned to run ...
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NewsAlstom/TMH electric locomotive enters service
KAZAKHSTAN: The first of 95 Type KZ4AT electric passenger locomotives has entered revenue service on the Astana – Kokshetau route, Alstom announced on April 2. Two more are now on test and are expected to be handed over this year. The KZ4AT was developed by Alstom and Transmashholding and is ...
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NewsWorks begins on Brazilian rolling stock plant
BRAZIL: Hyundai Rotem President & CEO Seung-Tack Kim was joined by São Paulo state Governor Geraldo Alckmin and President of Hyundai Rotem Brasil André Han on April 2 at a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for a rolling stock factory at Araraquara. Investment agency Investe São Paulo is ...
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NewsMadinah public transport programme consultant appointed
SAUDI ARABIA: AlMadinah AlMunawwarah Development Authority has appointed Louis Berger as programme management office consultant for the implementation of the AlMadinah AlMunawwarah Public Transportation Programme, which the professional services consultancy says is ‘one of the most ambitious transportation infrastructure initiatives in the Middle East.’ The aim of the MPTP is ...
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NewsPrime Minister opens Praha metro extension
CZECH REPUBLIC: Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Mayor Adriana Krnáčová opened a 6·1 km western extension of Praha metro Line A from Dejvická to Nemocnice Motol on April 6. Revenue services began at 15.00. The extension has intermediate stations at Bořislavka (previously proposed as Červený Vrch), Nádraží Veleslavín and Petřiny, ...
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News‘Groundbreaking’ approach to light rail maintenance agreed
NETHERLANDS: Utrecht province’s tramway agency Regiotram Utrecht and Strukton Rail signed a new contract for maintenance of the Utrecht sneltram infrastructure on April 1. The contractor said the ‘groundbreaking’ maintenance concept would be ‘the first of its kind in the Netherlands.’ Strukton Rail has a five-year contract to maintain the ...
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NewsJR East unveils Yamanote Loop Series E235 EMU
JAPAN: East Japan Railway has unveiled a prototype for its next generation of electric multiple-units to operate the 1 067 mm gauge Yamanote Loop around the centre of the capital. This heavily-used 34·5 km circular line serves the main Tokyo Station as well as the key interchange at Shinjuku, which ...
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NewsRussian and Vietnamese railways sign co-operation agreement
VIETNAM: The construction of a railway line in the south of Vietnam could be the pilot project for the joint development of infrastructure under a co-operation agreement which was signed by national railway DSVN and Russian Railways during Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s official visit to Hanoi on April 6. ...
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NewsFaiveley Transport awarded Kochi metro train contracts
INDIA: Alstom Transport has awarded Faiveley Transport a series of contracts to supply onboard equipment for the 25 three-car Metropolis trainsets its Sricity plant in Andhra Pradesh is to build for the Kochi metro under a €85m contract awarded in October 2014. Faiveley’s contracts have a total ...
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NewsThales awarded Danhai tram signalling contract
TAIWAN: Thales has been awarded a €17m contract to design and supply signalling, communications and a control centre for the light rail lines which China Steel Corp is building in the Danhai district of the New Taipei City region. The contract covers the 10 km Phase 1, which includes the ...
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NewsSofia airport metro link opens
BULGARIA: An extension of Sofia metro Line M1 to the airport opened on April 2. Following an official ceremony at 10.00 passenger services began at 13.00, with free travel for the rest of the day. The 5 km section extends the line east from Tsarigradsko Shosse with four stations and ...