All Railway Gazette International articles in December 2017
All articles published this month.
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NewsInaugural run on Haramain high speed line
SAUDI ARABIA: An inaugural train ran between Madinah and Makkah over the Haramain high speed railway on December 31. Completing the 450 km trip in 2 h 52 min, the train conveyed Saudi Transport Minister Dr Nabil bin Mohammed Al-Amoudi and Spanish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Álvaro Iranzo, along with ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market - December 2017
Australia: Faiveley Transport has been awarded contracts totalling more than US$150m to supply braking systems, HVAC, doors, driver vigilance units, pantographs and energy monitoring systems and 15 years of maintenance services for the 512 double-deck EMU cars which the RailConnect NSW consortium of Hyundai Rotem, UGL and Mitsubishi Electric ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market - December 2017
Canada: CP has awarded Ensco Rail a contract to provide track geometry and rail profile inspection systems for a new track evaluation vehicle. Czech Republic: Kapsch CarrierCom has won a KC294m contract to install GSM-R on the České Budějovice – Plzeň route and connecting lines, a total of 153 ...
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Metro Report InternationalFour lines open as Guangzhou metro expands
CHINA: Three new metro lines and another extension were opened in Guangzhou on December 28, adding 83·8 km and taking the total network length to 390·6 km. Having opened its first line in 1997, the city now has the country’s third largest network. Four more lines are currently under construction ...
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NewsKeolis’ Lille operations contract renewed
FRANCE: The Métropole Européenne de Lille municipal authority has renewed its contract with Keolis for the operation of the city’s Transpole public transport network, it announced on December 15. The seven-year contract runs from April 1 2018, and covers metro, tram and bus services, as well as ...
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NewsWorld rail market - December 2017
Portugal: Siscog is to supply Medway with a locomotive and crew scheduling and management package based on its Fleet and Crews products. Taiwan: Ricardo is to provide verification services for the construction of the 27 km Taoyuan metro Green Line. Ukraine: UZ has awarded Deloitte ...
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NewsRail-specification ball valves developed
VALVES: IMI Precision Engineering has developed a range of robust ball valves specially designed to meet rolling stock standards and to offer consistency across a temperature range between -40°C and +85°C. The range includes lever, latching or locking handles for on-board applications including door and step systems and wagon controls. ...
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Metro Report InternationalSecond metro line opens in Hefei
CHINA: The second metro line in Hefei was opened for revenue service on December 26, exactly a year after the first route in the capital of Anhui Province was inaugurated. Running entirely underground, the 37·8 km east-west Line 2 links Nangang to Sanshibu. There are 24 stations, including an interchange ...
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NewsCentre-Val de Loire orders double-deck TET trainsets
FRANCE: The Centre-Val de Loire region has ordered a fleet of 32 double-deck EMUs from Bombardier to operate 200 km/h inter-city services on three TET routes. The Omneo Premium trainsets are expected to enter service from 2020, with all in traffic by 2022. Placed by SNCF Mobilités on behalf of ...
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NewsCN orders 200 GE diesel locos
CANADA: In order to ‘accommodate future growth opportunities and drive operational efficiency’, Canadian National announced on December 22 that it had ordered 200 new diesel locomotives from GE Transportation for delivery over the next three years. The order includes a mix of EPA Tier 4 compliant Evolution Series locomotives and ...
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Metro Report InternationalHesop reversible substation introduced to Milano metro
ITALY: Milano transport operator ATM has put into service a reversible substation at Rogoredo station on metro line M3. Alstom has supplied a 1·5 kV 4 MW Hesop substation. This becomes the second Hesop substation in commercial operation on a metro line, following a 600 V 1 MW substation ...
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NewsLighter and safer seats
SEATS: Commuters at opposite sides of the USA are now sitting on BASF’s Basotect open cell melamine foam, which Rogers Corp is using in BART and Long Island Rail Road seat cushions. According to BASF, the foam’s density of less than 9 kg/m3 helps reduce the overall weight of seats, ...
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Metro Report InternationalGuiyang metro maintenance locos delivered
CHINA: CRRC Times Electric has delivered two electric maintenance vehicles to Guiyang. These will operate on the city’s future metro Line 1, where they will provide emergency traction to rescue failed trains, as well as track maintenance services. The Qinling DXDC vehicles have a maximum speed of 80 km/h ...
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NewsAmtrak launches New York Penn navigation app
USA: Amtrak has launched FindYourWay, an iOS and Android app based on the Zyter platform which uses more than 400 beacons inside New York Penn station to provide real-time gate, train and boarding information as well as directions to gates, exits, cash machines and restaurants. The beacons use Bluetooth Low ...
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NewsMauritius orders Urbos LRVs
MAURITIUS: CAF is to supply a fleet of 18 Urbos light rail vehicles to operate the Metro Express light rail line, following the signing of a €100m contract with Larsen & Toubro Ltd on December 26. The Indian firm is responsible for procuring the rolling stock as part of its ...
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NewsMachine learning to customise journey planning
UK: The University of Surrey has been awarded £230 000 from the Department for Transport through Innovate UK to create an onward journey planning assistant which would learn a user’s needs to enable it to offer tailored real-time alternative routes in the event of a delay to a journey. ...
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NewsModi inaugurates Delhi orbital metro line
INDIA: The first section of Delhi Metro Line 8 was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 25, being joined for the ceremony in Noida by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Governor Ram Naik. One of two fully-automated orbital lines now under construction as part of ...
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Metro Report InternationalWuhan opens three metro lines in one day
CHINA: The first phase of Wuhan metro Line 8 was opened for revenue service on December 26, along with a short extension of Line 1 and the east-west Yangluo Line suburban metro. Line 8 runs fully underground from Jintanlu in the northern part of the city to Liyuan in the ...
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NewsWinter Olympic KTX line inaugurated
SOUTH KOREA: Revenue operations began on December 22 of the Seoul – Gangneung high speed railway, following an inauguration ceremony at Gangneung the previous day attended by Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon and officials from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport and the Ministry of Sports, Culture & Tourism. Linking ...
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NewsTapa – Tartu modernisation completed
ESTONIA: National railway Eesti Raudtee has completed a project to modernise 57 km of the Tapa – Tartu line to enable passenger trains to run at a maximum speed of 120 km/h and freight trains at 80 km/h. The EU met 85% of the €25m cost of the project, with ...