All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2017 – Page 8
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NewsKonya metro route confirmed
TURKEY: Konya Metropolitan Municipality has finalised plans for a two-line metro network in the city. To be built in three stages, the network would connect the city’s main universities and hospitals. Plans for a metro were originally published in 2015, and a feasibility study started in November 2016. Geological ...
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Metro Report InternationalPanamá City takes delivery of more Metropolis metro cars
PANAMA: The first three metro cars to augment the Panamá City metro Line 1 fleet arrived in the city on April 26 from Alstom’s Santa Perpetua plant in Spain. Alstom is supplying 70 Metropolis cars under a contract awarded in 2015. Five six-car trainsets will augment the current fleet, ...
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NewsB Logistics renamed Lineas as it aims for modal shift
BELGIUM: The part-privatised former SNCB freight business has been rebranded from B Logistics to Lineas, reflecting what the company sees as a change in focus from survival and business transformation to growth. The new name was chosen to be 'completely different', international and to reflect an ambition to create 'lines' ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Gabon has become the first African country to ratify the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. ABB and IBM have announced a strategic collaboration to bring together ABB Ability data capture and IBM Watson artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for ...
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NewsHitachi trainset for Devon and Cornwall sets sail from Japan
UK: The first of the Hitachi AT300 electro-diesel trainsets for Great Western Railway services from London to Devon and Cornwall left the Japanese port of Kobe on April 26, and is expected to arrive in Southampton during June. GWR and leasing company Eversholt Rail ordered 22 five-car and ...
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NewsMTR Corp to assist MRT Jakarta
INDONESIA: Project promoter MRT Jakarta signed a memorandum of understanding with the MTR Academy on April 27 to support the development of the city’s first metro line. The MTR Academy will share operational, maintenance and human resource experiences from its home market in Hong Kong, and will help MRT ...
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom and Airbus to co-operate on cybersecurity
CYBERSECURITY: Alstom and Airbus have signed a strategic co-operation agreement in cybersecurity that aims to develop a risk management model adapted to the evolution of the transport industry. Alstom notes that the expansion of the internet of things and big data, coupled with the increase in cyberattacks, requires new ...
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Metro Report InternationalFTA announces low-emission bus funding
USA: The Federal Transit Administration announced on April 27 that it is to provide up to $55m per year in grants through its Low or No Emission (Low-No) Bus programme. The deadline for applications is June 26, and winners are to be announced by September 30. The programme is to ...
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NewsSiemens to buy planning software company HaCon
GERMANY: Siemens announced an agreement to acquire Hannover-based planning, scheduling and information systems software provider HaCon on April 28. The parties have agreed not to disclose financial details of the deal, which subject to regulatory approval is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017. HaCon is to ...
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NewsAbellio orders Talent EMUs
GERMANY: Abellio has placed a firm order for Bombardier Transportation to supply a further five Talent 2 electric multiple-units for use on the Neckartal services from Stuttgart which it is to operate from June 2019 under a contract awarded by the Land of Baden-Württemberg. The order for two three-car and ...
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NewsMontecargo privatisation cancelled
MONTENEGRO: The Council for Privatisation & Capital Projects has cancelled plans to sell stakes in national rail freight operator Montecargo and port operator Luka Bar to Poland’s OT Logistics Group. The tender commission believed that while sole bidder OT Logistics was a credible investor and the process ...
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Metro Report InternationalLondon to install 300 rapid charging points for electric taxis
UK: Transport for London has selected five suppliers to fund, maintain, operate and install a network of rapid charging points for electric taxis: The Centrica Consortium of Centrica, Evolt and ChargePoint ServicesBluepointLondonChargemasterElectricity Supply BoardFastned Five suppliers have been selected so that a competitive market is created, with the aim ...
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NewsSaeed Mohammadzadeh
Dr Saeed Mohammadzadeh has replaced Mohsen Pourseyed Aghaei as President of Iranian national railway holding group RAI. He also serves as Vice-Minister for Road & Urban Development and as a Professor at the Railways Faculty of the national Science & Industry University in Tehran.
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NewsSubsea cable fault detection demonstrated to rail industry
UK: Viper Innovation recently held an industry event to demonstrate potential rail signalling power supply applications for its CableGuardian technology which is used in the undersea oil and gas sector to monitor, detect and locate of cable insulation and conductor faults. Cable failures can have a variety of causes ranging ...
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NewsGB Railfreight to implement Ideagen safety software
UK: GB Railfreight is to implement Ideagen’s Coruson cloud-based compliance management software, which it expects will help improve safety, reporting and risk management and ensure that risk-based decisions are taken using the most recent and accurate data. Coruson will also provide a direct link to the Safety Management Intelligence System ...
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Rail Business UKEast West Rail leads culture change
UK: ‘We can build it quicker and cheaper, but what is “it”?’, East West Rail Chairman Rob Brighouse asked on April 25, as he addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group. Clarity on what ‘it’ is should drive the business model chosen to implement the project that would ...