All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2014 – Page 4
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NewsBorders Railway tracklaying begins
UK: A ‘major construction milestone’ in the £294m Borders Railway project to reinstate the Edinburgh – Tweedbank route was announced on August 13, after the first section of track was laid in Bowshank Tunnel near Galashiels. Slab track is being installed through the 200 m long 19th century tunnel ...
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NewsGroundbreaking starts trans-Sulawesi railway construction
INDONESIA: Minister of Transportation Evert Erenst Mangindaa attended a groundbreaking ceremony in Siawung on August 12 to formally launch construction of the 145 km Makassar – Pare Pare first phase of the planned trans-Sulawesi railway network The line is to be built under the MP3EI national infrastructure programme. It ...
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NewsSolar powered level crossing for remote locations
AUSTRALIA: V/Line has installed its first solar powered level crossing, at Huntly on the Bendigo – Echuca line in northern Victoria. The site is 1·2 km from the nearest power source, and digging trenches for underground power cables would be expensive and risk disturbing local flora. The 18 solar ...
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NewsNippon Sharyo expands US rolling stock plant
USA: Nippon Sharyo USA has opened a third production hall at its plant in Rochelle, Illinois. ‘We will now be able to fabricate, weld, and assemble parts for our car bodyshells right here, making Nippon Sharyo a 100% Buy America compliant rail car builder’, said Nippon Sharyo Chairman ...
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NewsStudies for 4 676 km of new railway
BRAZIL: On August 8 the Ministry of Transport appointed a total of 20 sole or joint-venture bidders from the private sector to undertake technical feasibility studies for new railways totalling 4 676 km. For each of the six routes, the ministry has appointed up to 14 bidders to prepare studies, ...
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NewsTwo interested in Cowra Lines revival
AUSTRALIA: Transport for New South Wales has received submissions from Australian Rail Partners and Cowra Rail Co in response to its call for private sector proposals to reopen the 200 km Cowra Lines on a commercially-sustainable basis under a fixed-term licence. Operations between Blayney and Demondrille and Koorawatha and ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Indian Railways has awarded Knorr Bremse’s Sydac subsidiary an A$30m contract to build and equip training centres in 12 cities over the next three years. Sydac will provide 12 full-cab simulators for driver training plus 72 smaller simulators, maintaining the equipment for eight years. Spanish Development Minister Ana Pastor ...
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NewsConnect with a RockStar at InnoTrans
WEIDMÜLLER: The RockStar HighPower connector will be displayed at InnoTrans by Weidmüller. Specially designed for inter-vehicle cables carrying up to 55 A and 1 500 V, the three and four-pin high-current connectors have a compact dustproof and waterproof impact-resistant design with maintenance-free crimp connections.
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NewsGE highlights locomotives, signalling and data at InnoTrans
GE TRANSPORTATION: Locomotives, signalling and the RailConnect 360 data platform will at the heart of GE Transportation’s presence at InnoTrans. There will the opportunity to take a close look at a PowerHaul diesel locomotive on the outdoor tracks, while indoors there will be information on heavy-haul Evolution Series ...
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NewsYoung Rail Professionals from across the world to meet in Berlin
YRP: Building on the success of its presence at the last two InnoTrans events, the UK’s Young Rail Professionals will be holding an evening drinks reception at the Railway Gazette stand on September 25. The reception will provide a networking opportunity for young railway professionals from all over the ...
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NewsBeijing orders driverless metro trains
CHINA: CNR Changchun is to supply 60 trains for the first driverless metro line in mainland China. The first two are due to be delivered in May, and will enter service on the 10 km Yanfang Line in Beijing from December 2015. The stainless-steel-bodied Type B trainsets will ...
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NewsPerth airport rail link approved
AUSTRALIA: Detailed proposals for an 8·5 km rail link to serve Perth Airport and the city’s ‘eastern foothills’ suburbs were announced by the Premier of Western Australia Colin Barnett on August 11, following the endorsement of the A$2·2bn scheme by the state cabinet. The line would will diverge from Transperth’s ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - August 2014
The Hamburg and Niedersachsen transport authorities have exercised an option to extend Metronom’s contract to operate Hamburg – Cuxhaven trains for a further two years until December 2017. PKP SA is to sell a further 17% stake in PKP Cargo, reducing the Polish national railway holding company’s stake to ...
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NewsPlanning for obsolescence management
MOXA: At InnoTrans Moxa will highlight how the in-house development of CPUs for its ToughNet series of ethernet switches will ensure long-term availability, which in turn will assist rolling stock refurbishment contractors with obsolescence management. ToughNet supports Moxa’s new Dynamic Ring Coupling. This enables fast automated reconfiguration when trains are ...
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NewsBattery EMU test running begins in Derby
UK: An electric multiple-unit which has been retrofitted with lithium iron magnesium phosphate battery packs is now undergoing trials on the test track at Bombardier Transportation’s Derby plant. A series of fast runs is to be undertaken later this year at Network Rail’s Rail Innovation & Development Centre on the ...
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NewsMaking better rails
VOESTALPINE SCHIENEN: Under the slogan ‘good is good, but better carries it’, Voestalpine Schienen will showcase the latest developments in the world of rail steels. Its heat-treated grade 400 UHC HSH hypereutectoid steel combines hardness with a resistance to rolling contact fatigue and corrugation. Voestalpine says the steel can double ...
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NewsCompact rail miller to be unveiled at InnoTrans
LINSINGER: The Austrian railhead profiling specialist will be unveiling its latest compact SF02T-FS rail milling train at InnoTrans 2014. This is one of a pair that the company is due to deliver to Hong Kong’s MTR Corp in the spring of 2015. The small-profile SF02T-FS has been designed for use ...
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NewsLong-life cargo tracker
FREIGHT: Now available from Hunter Global Tracking is the Bulldog cargo tracker unit. This cable-free device is distinguished by a battery life of up to 15 years, allowing the user to ‘fit and forget’. The long life is achieved by the battery working in ‘deep coma’ mode, only ‘waking up’ ...
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NewsBattery water filling station
ENAG: The PRC water filling station has been developed by ENAG to top up Ni-Cd batteries with demineralised water. It is fully automatic to ensure the operator’s safety, and it can be used to fill all the cells in a Ni-Cd battery in one operation, or for traditional element-by-element ...
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NewsHSL-Zuid Traxx locomotive delivered
NETHERLANDS: The first of 19 Traxx F160 MS electric locomotives being built at Bombardier Transportation’s Kassel plant for NS Reizigers arrived in Amsterdam on August 11. The 160 km/h locomotives are to be operated with refurbished ICR coaches on domestic services from Amsterdam to Rotterdam and Eindhoven using the HSL-Zuid ...