All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2016
All articles published this month.
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NewsJezreel Valley railway inaugurated
ISRAEL: Transport Minister Israel Katz inaugurated the 60 km Valley Line from Haifa to ‘Afula and Beit-She’an on August 29, ahead of the planned start of public test running on October 16 and the expected launch of the full passenger service on November 4. Guests on the ...
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CRCC selected to build Kano light rail network
NIGERIA: Kano state’s Ministry of Works, Housing & Transport has provisionally awarded contracts for the construction of a light rail network in the city of Kano to a consortium of China Railway Construction Corp subsidiaries China Railway 18th Bureau Group and China Railway Construction Electrification Bureau Group. The 74·3 km ...
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NewsHuber+Suhner makes new connections at InnoTrans 2016
HUBER+SUHNER: Connected Mobility will be the theme of Huber+Suhner’s stand at InnoTrans 2016, where the Swiss firm will be highlighting its range of components for onboard, train-to-ground and trackside communications networks designed to support applications including internet access, e-ticketing, passenger information systems, train control, CCTV and fleet management. The Massive ...
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NewsKiel – Schönberger Strand revival gets underway
GERMANY: Schleswig-Holstein Transport Minister Reinhard Meyer attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the future Kiel-Ellerbek station on August 30, marking the start of work to reinstate regular passenger services on the 26 km Kiel – Schönberger Strand line which ceased in the early 1980s. The project is being managed by ...
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NewsGE buys supply chain software company ShipXpress
USA: GE Transportation announced the purchase of ShipXpress on August 30, saying the acquisition of the developer of cloud-based software for the transport, industrial and commodities sectors would expand GE’s portfolio into the logistics value chain and increase its ability to deliver information and transaction services for railway customers around ...
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NewsGB Railfreight signs Greenbrier sand wagon deal
UK: GB Railfreight has signed a deal to lease 41 Greenbrier 101·6 tonne hopper wagons from Nacco Leasing for a minimum of five years. This will support a five-year extension to GBRf’s 2014 contract to haul silica sand from Sibelco Europe’s King’s Lynn quarry to the Guardian Industries plant in ...
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NewsAurizon launches Sydney Port Shuttle
AUSTRALIA: On August 30 Aurizon announced it had begun operating a freight shuttle from the Port of Botany to the Enfield Intermodal facility in western Sydney, which it leases from NSW Ports under a 10-year deal. Aurizon expects the initial service, which operates six times a week, to increase ‘over ...
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NewsTaipei Circular Line driverless train unveiled
TAIWAN: Hitachi Rail Italy unveiled a prototype train for the Circular Line of the Taipei metro at its Reggio Calabria plant on August 30. All 17 four-car sets are due to be completed by late 2018. The driverless trainsets with aluminium alloy bodyshells are 68 m long and 2 ...
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NewsWest Midlands franchise ITT issued
UK: The Department for Transport issued invitations to tender for the new West Midlands passenger franchise to two shortlisted bidders on August 30: London & West Midlands Railway Ltd, a bid vehicle formed by the Govia joint venture of Keolis (35%) and Go-Ahead Group (65%) which has operated the ...
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NewsDallas Streetcar extension opens
USA: An extension of the Dallas Streetcar opened on August 29. The 1·3 km section links Beckley to Bishop Arts District in the Oak Cliff district in the southwest of the city, with an intermediate stop at Zang Boulevard/6th Street. The construction contract was approved in April 2015, and ...
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NewsFirst San Francisco Muni S200 vehicles nearing completion
USA: San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials visited Siemens’ plant in Sacramento on August 29 to look at the first of 215 light rail vehicles that Siemens is building for the city’s Muni network. The first vehicle is due to arrive in San Francisco ...
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NewsInauguration connects Tajik rail networks
TAJIKISTAN: The 40·7 km Vahdat – Yovon railway was inaugurated by President Emomali Rahmon on August 24, completing a 119 km link between the capital Dushanbe and the southern city of Qurghonteppa. The new route links Tajikistan’s central and southern rail lines, which were previously only connected via a circuitous ...
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NewsSamsun tram line extends for the first time
TURKEY: Samsun Mayor Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz and CEO of tram operator Samulaş Kadir Gürkan inaugurated an extension of the city’s tram line at 06.15 on August 27. The 5 km southeastern extension from Gar to Balıkçı with five stops forms the first phase of the 12 km extension that ...
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NewsWorld rail market August 2016
Australia: Public Transport Victoria has selected current operator NTT Data to manage the Myki smart card ticketing system for seven years from January 1 2017 under a new contract worth A$700m. Egypt: MidaRec is supplying Thales with control room communications voice recording equipment as part of the upgrade of ...
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NewsFrontRunner vision commissioned
USA: Utah Transit Authority has commissioned LTK Engineering to develop a strategic vision for the FrontRunner commuter service in Salt Lake City, supported by Fehr & Peers and Jacobs Engineering. UTA aims to reduce travel times on the 140 km route, and improve reliability and increase ridership. LTK will use ...
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NewsSt Petersburg light rail feeder line approved
RUSSIA: St Petersburg Investment Committee Head Irina Babyuk announced on August 22 the official preliminary approval of a light rail project to link the city with the town of Kolpino to the southeast. Preliminary studies and design have been carried out by LSR Group, and an invitation for tenders ...
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NewsRail freight news in brief
What is described as the first train from China to Afghanistan left Nantong in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on August 25, carrying 84 containers. It is scheduled to take 15 days to complete the journey to Hairatan via the Alataw Pass, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Two trains are scheduled to run ...
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NewsTest a quick-assembly rail heating system
ELTHERM: Visitors will be able to test their skills installing different rail and point heating systems on length of track which will form part of Eltherm’s stand at InnoTrans 2016. This is intended to demonstrate the flexibility and ease of handling of EL-Rail and EL-Point, and thus how much time ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market August 2016
Australia: Pacific National has awarded UGL contracts worth A$594m for the supply of three 1 067 mm gauge PH37 PowerHaul diesel locos and three more Class 93 C44ACi locos, the continued maintenance of Siemens Class 71, UGL/GE Class 92/93 and Goninan Class NR locos until June 30 2026, and the ...
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NewsAnother Klang Valley SSP Line contract awarded
MALAYSIA: Mass Rapid Transit Corp has awarded the contract for trackwork and maintenance vehicles on the Klang Valley MRT Line 2 project, also known as the SSP Line. The 1bn ringgit contract has been awarded to a joint venture of China Communication Construction Co (51%) and George Kent (49%). ...