All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2016 – Page 5
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NewsRegional infrastructure funding agreed
ITALY: Regional rail services and international corridors are set to receive a further boost, after the CIPE joint economic planning committee of the transport and finance ministries agreed on August 10 to allocate €11·5bn for transport investment, primarily rail. The package has three main pillars – regional railways, corridor development ...
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NewsPK TS trams ordered for Rostov
RUSSIA: PK Transportnye Systemy has been selected to supply 16 trams to Rostov-na-Donu. Deliveries from Transmashholding’s Tver Carriage Works are due to be completed by the end of November. The single-section 71-911E City Star is 16·5 m long and 2 500 mm wide with capacity for 170 passengers at ...
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NewsBrookfield Rail takes track maintenance in-house
AUSTRALIA: Western Australia freight network concessionaire Brookfield Rail brought its track and civil maintenance activities in-house with effect from August 15. Track maintenance on the 5 500 km network had previously been undertaken by John Holland, and Paul Lowney, Brookfield Rail’s General Manager, Asset Management & Projects, said the companies ...
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NewsModernised Polar Bear Express coach unveiled
CANADA: The first of 16 coaches used on the Polar Bear Express service which are being refurbished at Ontario Northland’s North Bay workshop was unveiled by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on August 12. The province is providing C$17m to upgrade Ontario Northland’s Polar Bear Express, which provides the only year-round ...
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NewsMilano metro extension work to restart
ITALY: Milano City Council has approved a revised plan for the northern extension of metro Line M1. Work is due to resume later this year, with opening planned for 2017. The bankruptcy of the original contractor caused work on the 1·8 km underground extension to stop. The estimated €23·3m ...
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NewsBucurești metro funding proposals published
ROMANIA: The Ministry of Transport published a funding proposal on August 10 that includes an extra €52·5m for current projects. The money is to come from the sale of greenhouse gas emission credits. The largest share of the proposed funds is to be put towards metro Line M6, which ...
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NewsRolling stock components on display
PARKER HANNIFIN: Rolling stock components including control valves and filtration equipment for pneumatic systems will be showcased by Parker Hannifin at InnoTrans 2016, along with control systems for pantographs, doors and couplings. The company’s range of rugged hoses and connectors used in rail applications will also be on display. Also ...
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NewsBudamar expands into the Balkans
EUROPE: Slovak company Budamar Logistics has bought a stake in Croatian open access freight operator PPD Transport, as part of its plans to expand into the Balkan region. Budmar is mainly targeting Croatia and Serbia, where it plans to provide rail and logistics services to major industrial companies. On July ...
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NewsCaltrain signs double-deck EMU and electrification contracts
USA: On August 15 the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board formally signed contracts for Balfour Beatty to electrify the 82 km Caltrain rail corridor between San Francisco and San Jose and for Stadler to supply a fleet of double-deck electric multiple-units. Stadler is to supply 16 six-car EMUs under its ...
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NewsBergen trams reach Birkelandsskiftet
NORWAY: Bergen Mayor Marte Mjøs Persen and Hordaland County Mayor Anne Gine Hestetun inaugurated an extension of Bergen’s Bybanen tram route on August 15. The southern extension from Lagunen to Birkelandsskiftet adds 6 km and five stops to the route. Journey time on the extension is 8 min, bringing ...
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NewsGenesee & Wyoming to buy Providence & Worcester Railroad
USA: Genesee & Wyoming Inc entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Providence & Worcester Railroad Co on August 12. Subject to customary closing conditions, Surface Transportation Board regulatory approval and the backing of P&W shareholders, the $126m deal is expected to be concluded in the fourth quarter ...
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NewsCAF to supply Mexico City metro trains
MEXICO: Sistema de Transporte Colectivo has awarded CAF México a €164m contract to supply 10 nine-car rubber-tyred metro trainsets for Line 1 in Mexico City. Deliveries are due to begin in the first half of 2018. The contract announced on August 16 forms part of the rolling stock and ...
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NewsTrains resume between Kolwezi and Dilolo
DR CONGO: Ahead of the relaunch of regular passenger and mail trains on August 25, Ilunga Ilunkamba, Director-General of state railway SNCC, joined a special train inspecting the upgraded route between Kolwezi and Dololo on August 11.No trains have used this 422 km section of the former Benguela Railway in ...
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NewsCRRC signs Iranian locomotive contract
IRAN: The Rail Pardaz subsidiary of rolling stock engineering company Rail Pardaz Seri has ordered 30 locomotives from Chinese manufacturer CRRC Ziyang. CRRC said the contract signed on August 9 was the first locomotive order it had won in Iran since the lifting of international sanctions. It is CRRC Ziyang’s ...
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NewsLapp enters the European rolling stock cable market
LAPP GROUP: First time InnoTrans exhibitor Lapp Group will be presenting its range of rolling stock cables, and highlighting the logistics concepts and network of worldwide storage facilities which enables the German company to reduce the delivery time for standard products from several weeks to less than 24 h. ...
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NewsRegional passenger service co-funding agreed
CZECH REPUBLIC: The government has approved a proposed 15-year agreement between the Ministry of Transport and the 14 regions for the co-funding of regional passenger services in 2020-34. This guarantees that each of the country’s 14 regions will get an inflation-linked contribution of KC0·3 for each KC1 they spend ...
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NewsFRA awards $25m of PTC implementation grants
USA: The Federal Railroad Administration announced on August 16 the award of a total of $25m to 11 projects to assist with the implementation of Positive Train Control. The FRA received 30 eligible applications requesting a total of $90·6m. The projects selected are: Metrolink (California): $2·4m to develop, test, ...
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NewsDoha metro concrete structures delivered
QATAR: Heavy-lift logistics company ALE has completed the delivery of 1 470 pre-tensioned concrete pedestal, girder, bridging and segment structures between 10 and 36 m long and weighing between 30 and 100 tonnes for the construction of the first phase of the Doha metro. Over a period of 11 months ...
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NewsLDz and CZ Loko to produce fuel cell locomotive
LATVIA: A memorandum of understanding for the production of a hydrogen fuel cell powered locomotive using components from an outdated ČME3 diesel shunting locomotive was signed on August 11 by representives from national railway LDz, Czech locomotive manufacturer CZ Loko and Canadian fuel cell specialist Ballard Power Systems. The participants ...
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NewsLima metro Line 2 train shipped
PERU: The first trains for Lima metro Line 2 were shipped from the port of Salerno in Italy on August 16 by shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. Each 17·6 m long car, weighing 35 tonnes was loaded onto the Cerinthus by crane. The journey to the Peruvian port of Callao is expected ...