All Railway Gazette International articles in February 2016 – Page 4
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NewsDriverless metro reaches Barcelona airport
SPAIN: A further section of the orbital driverless metro line in Barcelona was inaugurated on February 12. The 19·6 km north-south Line 9 Sud in the west of the city connects Zona Universitària with stations at both terminals of the airport. There are 15 stations, including six interchanges. Services ...
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NewsMidland Metro trams to be converted for catenary-free operation
UK: The 21 CAF Urbos trams used on the Midland Metro light rail line are to be retrofitted with batteries to enable catenary-free operation, West Midlands transport agency Centro announced on February 12, and four more trams have been ordered which will be supplied with batteries already fitted. This will ...
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NewsSignalling TSI revised
EUROPE: Meeting on February 10, the European Union’s Railway Interoperability & Safety Committee – bringing together representatives of the member states – voted unanimously in favour of the proposed recast of the Control Command & Signalling TSI. Being enacted as a Commission Regulation, the Change Control Management Regulation enacts a ...
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NewsKazakh locomotive factory to be hub for exports
KAZAKHSTAN: Alstom announced on February 11 that it had completed the acquisition of an additional 25% stake in the EKZ electric locomotive manufacturing business from national railway KTZ, taking its shareholding to 50%. KTZ retains 25%, with the other 25% being held by Transmashholding. The deal had been agreed December ...
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NewsVladikavkaz orders trams
RUSSIA: Uralvagonzavod subsidiary Uraltransmash has agreed a leasing deal with the Vladikavkaz city authorities for the supply of 10 Type 71-407 trams. Uraltransmash presented the updated design of its four-axle single-section tram last year. The 39% low-floor vehicles feature asynchronous traction motors. Vladikavkaz has a 59 route-km network, ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market February 2016
Africa: CRRC Zhuzhou delivered 19 freight and three passenger locos to the port of Djibouti on December 13, the first of 33 electric locos ordered in 2014 for the new Djibouti - Ethiopia line. Austria: Traktionssysteme Austria is to supply Bombardier with 952 traction motors for Flexity trams ordered ...
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NewsCleaning up at InnoTrans 2016
INNOTRANS: Exhibitors in the cleaning technology hall at InnoTrans 2016 will be showing the latest products and services, including specialist train washing systems, cleaning agents, care products and disinfectants. Dr Schnell Chemie GmbH focuses on rolling stock interior and exterior cleaning. ‘We find that as a forum for innovation ...
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NewsBombardier completes sale of 30% stake in Transportation business
BOMBARDIER: Pension and insurance investor Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec’s US$1·5bn purchase of a 30% stake in Bombardier’s Transportation business was completed on February 11. This follows regulatory approval for the deal which had been announced last November. CPDQ has acquired a 30% stake in Bombardier Transportation ...
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NewsTrams ordered for Sétif
ALGERIA: Alstom announced the details of the 26 Citadis trams that it is to supply for Sétif on February 15. The order forms part of a framework contract signed in 2012 by Cital and Entreprise du Métro d’Alger for the supply of Citadis trams to operate on lines planned for ...
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NewsRussian metre-gauge tram under construction
RUSSIA: PK Transportnye Systemy presented a prototype tram that it is building for Yevpatoria at its new facility in the Tver Carriage Works factory. The 20·5 m long, 2 300 mm wide multi-articulated Type 71-922 Varyah tram is designed for metre-gauge networks. Yevpatoria envisages that it will order up ...
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News‘Last ever’ Class 66 locomotives delivered
UK: What manufacturer Electro-Motive Diesel and operator GB Railfreight expect to be the final batch of Class 66 locomotives to be built arrived at the port of Newport in Wales on February 12. The seven locomotives were unloaded the following morning, and take GBRf’s Class 66 fleet to 78 locomotives. ...
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NewsMoscow metro opens 200th station
RUSSIA: A southern extension of Moscow metro Line 1 on February 15 brought the number of stations on the network to 200. The 1·9 km section from Rumyantsevo to Salaryevo follows on from the opening of the previous extension, a 2·5 km section from Troparyevo to Rumyantsevo, on January 18. ...
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NewsBombardier opens Indian information services hub
INDIA: Bombardier Transportation has opened an information services hub at Gurgaon in the Delhi National Capital region. The new facility will work with the existing hubs in Canada and Germany to form an integrated team serving Bombardier Transportation locations across the world. Bombardier Transportation aims to ‘leverage the ...
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NewsBretagne funds EMU order
FRANCE: On February 16 Bombardier announced that SNCF had placed a €34m order for an additional four eight-car Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units. They are being financed by the Bretagne region and are scheduled to be delivered in 2019. The order is an option on a 2010 framework agreement ...
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NewsVilnius – Klaipėda DMU delivered
LITHUANIA: The first of seven Pesa 730ML diesel multiple-units which national operator LG has ordered for the Vilnius – Klaipėda route was unveiled in Vilnius on February 15. The 140 km/h units are similar to DMUs which Pesa has supplied to Belarus Railways, but with an upgraded interior suitable for ...
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NewsThree aims for Network Rail’s Digital Railway
UK: More trains, better connections and greater reliability are the three aims of Network Rail’s Digital Railway strategy to apply technology to make the most effective use of existing infrastructure, Digital Transformation Director Patrick Bossert told TechUK’s Digital Railway for the UK conference in London on February 11. NR’s ...
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NewsNetwork Rail to pilot Digital Railway in East Anglia
UK: Network Rail is finalising the site for a pilot deployment of technology integration under its Digital Railway programme, with the route from Norwich to Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth in East Anglia understood to be under consideration. The project aims to integrate ERTMS, train operations management systems and real-time ...
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NewsBuenos Aires ticketing contract awarded
ARGENTINA: National rail operator SOFSE has awarded Indra a €35m contract to supply ticketing equipment for the Buenos Aires commuter network. The Spanish company will equip more than 200 stations across the eight-line network with 1 400 ticket gates and 170 entrances suitable for wheelchairs. It will also supply ...
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NewsAPTA signs NFC MoU
USA: The American Public Transportation Association and the NFC Forum announced on February 17 that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to promote the use of near field communication technologies for public transport operators. The two organisations will work on training courses, white papers, case study analyses, customer ...
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NewsRock Rail signs first rolling stock financing deal
UK: Rock Rail Ltd has entered the rolling stock market with the signing of a deal worth more than £200m to finance a fleet of Siemens electric multiple-units for use by Govia Thameslink Railway. Equity for the deal announced on February 17 is being provided by Standard Life Investments ...