All Railway Gazette International articles in December 2014 – Page 3
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NewsCSR announces Belgrano order
ARGENTINA: Chinese rolling stock supplier CSR announced on December 15 that it had been awarded an order worth 1∙7bn yuan to supply 80 diesel locomotives and over 2 000 wagons. As well as new traction and rolling stock for the 1 000 mm gauge Belgrano network, CSR says it ...
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NewsHannover opens light rail extension
GERMANY: Hannover opened an extension of light rail Route 7 from Schierholzstraße to Misburg on December 14. The opening was marked with a day of free travel between Kröpcke in the city centre and the new terminus. The 1·5 km extension adds three stops to the network. The journey ...
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NewsSeoul metro operators to merge
SOUTH KOREA: The Seoul metropolitan government announced on December 10 that it plans to merge the two city-owned metro operators by 2016. The original operator, Seoul Metropolitan Subway Corp, operates metro lines 1, 2, 3 and 4. In 1994 Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp was established with the aim ...
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NewsNaberezhnye Chelny opens tram link
RUSSIA: The city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan inaugurated a 6·1 km extension of its 1 524 mm gauge tram network on December 12. The new section runs along Naberezhnochelninskiy Prospekt, Prospekt Mira and Prospekt Syuyumbike with 11 stops. It provides a new link between Pedinstitut in the southwest ...
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NewsPATH airport extension study funded
USA: New York-New Jersey Port Authority has awarded a $6·4m contract to HNTB to study the proposed PATH metro extension to Newark Liberty International Airport. The three-year contract aims to determine a more precise cost estimate for the project, currently put at $1·5bn. A Port Authority study first recommended ...
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NewsBasel opens cross-border tram route
SWITZERLAND: A cross-border extension of Route 8 of the Basel tram network into Germany was officially inaugurated on December 12. Passenger services started on December 14 with a day of celebrations and free travel, including on heritage trams. The 2·5 km extension of BVB’s Route 8 runs north from ...
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NewsFrankfurt inaugurates tram link
GERMANY: A 1·1 km tram link along Stresemannallee in Frankfurt am Main opened on December 13 with celebrations and a weekend of free trips on heritage trams. The connection from Gartenstraße to Mörfelder Landstraße enables services on Route 17 to run from Hauptbahnhof to the suburb of Neu-Isenberg at ...
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NewsBerlin Hauptbahnhof tram extension opens
GERMANY: The first tram route serving Berlin Hauptbahnhof opened on December 14. The 1·8 km of new alignment has six stops, including an interim stop at Hauptbahnhof which is to be replaced by a larger facility in mid-2015. Beyond the Hauptbahnhof there is a one-way loop with stops at Lesser-Ury-Weg, ...
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NewsPolish Pendolino launches 200 km/h operation
POLAND: PKP Intercity launched its Express Intercity Premium services on four routes radiating from Warszawa with the timetable change on December 14. The trains are operated with a fleet of 20 non-tilting Pendolino trainsets certified to operate at up to 250 km/h. The seven-car Class ED250 trainsets have been supplied ...
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NewsEastcomtrans and EBRD sign wagon financing deal
KAZAKHSTAN: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development has signed an agreement to provide Eastcomtrans with a financing package worth US$30m. This will be used to purchase up to 500 open or other wagons for general freight, and for balance sheet restructuring. Eastcomtrans is one of the largest private freight ...
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NewsTransmash tests twin-engined shunter
RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Bryansk Engineering Plant has completed 300 h of test running with its prototype TEM33 twin-engined shunting locomotive. This is based on the manufacturer’s TEM18DM design, but has two 571 kW Caterpillar C18 engines with MSV Elektronika control systems. The engines can operate individually or together, to reduce fuel ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - December 2014
Keolis has renewed its contract to operate trams and buses in Bordeaux for a further eight years from January 1 2015. Odebrecht TransPort is to form a 60:40 joint venture with Mitsui to compete for urban rail concessions in Brazil. If approved by the Brazilian competition authority, Mitsui ...
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NewsMitsubishi Electric to build Bangalore factory
INDIA: As part of Mitsubishi Electric Corp’s strategy to achieve annual transport sector revenue of US$2·7bn by 2020, its Mitsubishi Electric India subsidiary is to build a US$8m factory in Bangalore to produce traction inverters, motors and other electrical equipment for rolling stock. Completion is planned by September 2015, ...
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NewsJoseph Szabo
Joseph Szabo is to step down as Federal Railroad Administrator at the end of the year to become a senior policy adviser at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
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NewsSuresh Prabhu
Suresh Prabhu was appointed India’s Minister of Railways on November 10, succeeding D V Sadananda Gowda who has become Minister for Law & Justice.
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NewsCalifornia selects preferred bidder to build second high speed line section
USA: The California High Speed Rail Authority announced on December 12 that it had selected a consortium of Dragados, Flatiron and Shimmick as preferred bidder for a design-build contract covering construction of a further 96 route-km of high speed line in the Central Valley. In selecting the ‘apparent best value ...
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NewsFlywheel delivered for DMU energy storage tests
UK: Ricardo has delivered an evaluation prototype of its latest generation of TorqStor carbon fibre flywheel to Artemis Intelligent Power, which is leading a project to develop energy recovery technology which could enable diesel-hydraulic multiple-units to reduce their energy consumption in a way analogous to the use of regenerative braking ...
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NewsTractive Power Corp sells first locomotive
CANADA: North Vancouver-based Tractive Power Corp has sold its initial TP56 three-axle industrial shunting locomotive to Parish & Heimbecker Ltd. The locomotive is to be used at P&H’s site in Cloverdale, British Columbia, where it has been in demonstration service since May. The TP56 is intended as a 'railcar ...
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NewsWorld Bank signs US$1·1bn Dedicated Freight Corridor loan
INDIA: The government, World Bank and project promoter Dedicated Freight Corridor Corp of India Ltd signed a US$1·1bn loan agreement to fund the second phase of the Eastern DFC on December 11. The 22-year International Bank for Reconstruction & Development loan has a seven-year grace period. The 1 839 ...
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NewsLiège selects tram contractor
BELGIUM: Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport has selected the MobiLiège consortium of Alstom Transport, BAM PPP PGGM Infrastructure Co-operative, DG Ingra and SRIW Environment to build the planned tram line in Liège. MobiLiège had been shortlisted in April along with the Legiaexpress consortium of Vinci Concessions, CFE, Bombardier Transportation ...