All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2013 – Page 2
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NewsKnorr-Bremse buys Railcare from administrators
UK: Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd acquired the business and assets of rolling stock repair and refurbishment company Railcare Ltd from its joint administrators on August 26. Following the acquisition, Knorr-Bremse has formed Knorr-Bremse RailServices (UK) Ltd as a new rolling stock maintenance and repair company operating with its ...
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NewsKyiv metro gets new station and trains
UKRAINE: A test train ran to the new southern terminus of Kyiv metro Line 2 at Teremki on August 23. The 1·4 km extension is due to open for passenger service in October. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov visited the new station and boarded the test train, one of a ...
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NewsLos Angeles fare collection support contract extended
USA: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has extended its support services contract with Cubic Transportation Systems for six years. The contract covers the repair and maintenance of fare collection equipment and back-office technology for processing smart card data for Metro and 10 regional operators. The extension is worth ...
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NewsGovernment invests in Tafí Viejo workshops
ARGENTINA: With the aim of increasing production capacity for wagon overhaul, the federal government has allocated 15m pesos to modernise equipment at the Tafí Viejo rolling stock maintenance workshops in the province of Tucumán. Training in project management and industrial design has been provided by national technology body INTI. With ...
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NewsMoscow metro maintenance contract
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has awarded Metrowagonmash a 30-year contract to maintain 248 Type 81-760/761 metro cars which were supplied in 2012. The Transmashholding subsidiary will take over the metro’s Novogireyevo depot under the contract, which requires 232 cars to be available for service. In a separate development, ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market August 2013
Canada: Track Tec’s KolTram business is to deliver turnouts and other track components for the construction of Vancouver’s Evergreen Line. China: CNR has received orders to supply 16 ‘rail ambulance’ 160 km/h catenary repair vehicles. Denmark: Banedanmark has appointed Systra and COWI to develop a delivery strategy for ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market August 2013
Australia: National Railway Equipment Co is to supply seven N-ViroMotive genset locomotives to Pacific National for use at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks from mid-2014. Austria: Wiener Linien has ordered four more battery locos from Vossloh Kiepe and Schalker Eisenhütte for delivery in 2015. Brazil: São Paulo suburban ...
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NewsBlast and paint shop built
USA: The Airblast AFC joint venture of UK-based blast booth supplier Airblast Ltd and US spray booth and painting equipment company AFC Finishing Systems has recently supplied a US$1·4m wagon painting facility to a customer in Ohio. This includes blast, paint and drying booths 27 m long and 9 m ...
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NewsHelsinki starts automated metro tests
FINLAND: Three Helsinki metro M100 trainsets equipped for automatic operation by Siemens started test running on August 21. Final approval was given by TÜV Rheinland. The trains will initially retain a driver on board, before drivers are phased out between late 2015 and the end of 2016. The first ...
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NewsMaking TRAX for Draper
USA: The final stage of Utah Transit Authority’s FrontLines 2015 light rail expansion project has opened. Regular service on the 6·1 km Blue Line extension to Draper Town Center started on August 18, following the official inauguration two days earlier. The three-stop extension runs south from Sandy Civic Center, ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The government of Oman has formally established National Rail Co to manage the development of the planned 1 000 km rail network, and selected Italferr for a 13·6m rial contract to provide preliminary design services. The European Commission has appointed the All Ways Travelling consortium of Amadeus, BeNe Rail IATA, ...
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NewsHigh axleload bogie partnership for the 1520 region
RUSSIA: Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant operator United Wagon Co has signed a deal to gain full intellectual property rights to the Motion Control 18-9836 bogie which Amsted Rail developed for 1 520 mm gauge wagons. Under the agreement announced on August 22 Amsted Rail will continue its direct licensing ...
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NewsBuenos Aires commuter routes return to state control
ARGENTINA: By means of a government resolution published on August 21, operation of the Roca, San Martín and Belgrano Sur commuter networks in Buenos Aires is to be transferred to federal railway operating company SOFSE. A new operating agreement is to be concluded within 90 days. Federal railway infrastructure company ...
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NewsMichael Logue
Michael Logue, Associate Administrator for Administration at the US Federal Railroad Administration, has been appointed Chief Safety Officer at Amtrak.
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NewsGreenbriar Equity Group acquires Nordco
USA: Track maintenance equipment supplier Nordco Inc announced on August 19 that it had been acquired by private equity investor Greenbriar Equity Group. Terms were not disclosed. Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP acted as legal counsel to Greenbriar Equity Group. Nordco has its headquarters in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and supplies ...
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NewsWaterloo signs light rail vehicle contract
CANADA: Bombardier Transportation announced on August 21 that it had signed a C$66m contract to supply 14 Flexity Freedom light rail vehicles to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The trams will be used on the 19 km Stage 1 of the ION light rail line that is scheduled to open ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
A delegation from Indian Railways and the Ministry of Urban Development has visited UK infrastructure manager Network Rail’s Anglia route offices at Stratford to look at the technical and operational challenges of suburban services and at integration of rail with other modes. The visit was organised by Network Rail Consulting. ...
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NewsCSR Zhuzhou rolls out first Transnet electric locomotive
SOUTH AFRICA: The first of 95 electric freight locomotives ordered by Transnet was rolled out at CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive's factory in China on August 20. The initial two locomotives are scheduled to be shipped by the end of September, with eight months of testing planned. The US$400m contract for ...
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NewsLebanese railway revival to be studied
LEBANON: Tenders for a study into the feasibility of rebuilding the disused railway from Beirut north along the coast to Tripoli are to be invited by the European Investment Bank during September. The standard gauge line linking Haifa, Beirut and Tripoli was built by Allied forces during World War II. ...
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NewsLondon Tramlink orders more Stadler trams
UK: London Tramlink has awarded Stadler Pankow a firm order to supply a further four Variobahn trams for the light rail network centred on Croydon. The additional Variobahn cars trams are to be built at Stadler's plants in Berlin and are scheduled to enter service from 2015. The £10·2m contract ...