Infrastructure news – Page 14
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NewsTirol endorses Zillertalbahn hydrogen project
AUSTRIA: The Tirol provincial government has formerly endorsed proposals to convert the 760 mm gauge Zillertalbahn to hydrogen traction, whilst acknowledging that conventional overhead electrification would have been cheaper. The Land has commissioned further work on development of the concept, including a project structure and implementation ...
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NewsTrack machine order signed
BULGARIA: National Railway Infrastructure Co has awarded Plasser & Theurer a contract to supply three track machines. The contract signed by the infrastructure manager’s General Director Zlatin Krumov on June 19 covers the supply of a tamper, a ballast profiling machine and a machine for replacing ...
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NewsFaster Chicago – St Louis passenger trains introduced as Illinois route modernisation nears completion
USA: Accelerated inter-city passenger services running at up to 177 km/h were launched on the 457 km Chicago – Springfield – St Louis route on June 26.
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NewsFirst stage of Retiro terminus modernisation completed
ARGENTINA: The first stage of a complex rebuilding of the Mitre suburban railway’s Retiro terminus in Buenos Aires has been completed with a ceremony attended by Minister of Transport, Diego Giuliano. Services on the Mitre Railway’s JL Suárez and Tigre branches resumed running into Retiro on ...
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Rail Business UKHS2 viaduct draws on Spanish high speed rail experience
UK: A viaduct under construction for High Speed 2 is the UK’s first major railway viaduct to be entirely manufactured off-site, according to project promoter HS2 Ltd. The 800 m long viaduct will carry HS2 across the Thame Valley floodplain near Aylesbury, ...
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NewsWork starts on second high speed route between Pyeongtaek and Osong
SOUTH KOREA: Construction of a second double-track high speed line between Pyeongtaek and Osong has started. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 7 by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Cheongju, east of Osong, attended by President Yoon Seok-yeol. The 46·9 km line ...
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NewsInterim report finds faulty sleepers caused Garmisch derailment
GERMANY: The primary cause of the derailment of a regional train at Burgrain on June 3 2022 was an ‘infrastructure failure’, an interim report published on June 1 by the Federal Bureau for Investigation of Railway Accidents confirms. The train formed of five double-deck coaches being ...
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NewsRail projects receive share of €6·2bn of Connecting Europe Facility grant funding
EUROPE: Various rail enhancement schemes are among the 107 projects on the Trans-European Transport Network which have been allocated a total of €6·2bn under the latest EU Connecting Europe Facility grant provisions.
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NewsPresident Lula ‘very happy’ that Ferrovia Norte-Sul is finally completed
BRAZIL: At 10.30 on June 16 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was due to have taken part in ceremonies marking completion of Ferrovia Norte-Sul at Rumo’s Rio Verde rail terminal in the state of Goiás. Also scheduled to be at the event were Minister for ...
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Metro Report InternationalSubsurface mapping company enters UK market with tram survey
UK: Non-intrusive subsurface mapping technology company Exodigo has entered the UK market by working with Colas Rail on the West Midlands Metro extension programme. Colas Rail used Exodigo’s technology to scan for unmapped utilities on the route of the light rail extension to Birmingham’s future Curzon ...
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NewsBrightline completes construction of Orlando extension
USA: Private sector inter-city operator Brightline has formally marked the completion of construction work on its northern extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando, where passenger services are expected to launch this summer. Construction of the Orlando extension began in June 2019, one year after Brightline ...
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NewsKorean consortium to design Polish high speed line
POLAND: A consortium of Korea National Railway and Dohwa Engineering has been awarded a contract to design a 70 km section of 250 km/h line between Katowice and the Czech border. The 134m złoty contract announced on June 21 has been awarded as part of the ...
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Rail Business UKThameslink EMUs to get ETCS onboard upgrade
UK: A five-year contract to upgrade the Class 700 Thameslink EMU fleet to the latest specification of European Train Control System has been awarded through the cross-industry East Coast Digital Programme. The £32·7m contract announced on June 21 was signed by infrastructure manager Network Rail, operator ...
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NewsContract awarded for complex port railway extension
SPAIN: The Gijón port authority has awarded Comsa a €5·8m contract to undertake a complicated project to extend the 1 668 mm gauge rail network within the port complex at El Musel onto the northern breakwater The 2·9 km extension will have to cross roads and ...
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Rail Business UKR&D project looks at track buckling risk
UK: Network Rail has awarded six organisations contracts for the development and testing of remote condition monitoring technology to support the early detection of sections of track at risk of buckling in hot weather. The organisations selected under the Track Buckle Risk & Detection Design Contest ...
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NewsSNCF approves Pandrol clipping machine
FRANCE: National railway SNCF has approved the use of Pandrol’s CD200 IQ single rail clipping machine for e-clips or fastclips. It can clip up to 20 sleepers per minute, with a built-in sleeper lift function and a modular design enabling it to be easily lifted on ...
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NewsETCS Level 2 installed on Sopron – Szentgotthárd line
HUNGARY: Thales has completed equipping the 110 km Sopron – Szombathely – Szentgotthárd line with ETCS Level 2, the supplier announced on May 30. The single-track electrified line is maintained and operated by Austro-Hungarian cross-border railway group GySEV. Thales says its equipment is capable of automatically ...
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NewsNext Palermo – Catania route modernisation contract awarded
ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI has awarded a consortium of Webuild (75%) and Ghella (25%) a €1·32bn contract to rebuild the 30 km Fiumetorto – Lercara section of the Palermo – Catania main line on a new double-track alignment. The Lot 1+2 package is to include 20 ...
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NewsHigh speed line rail fastenings ordered
CHINA: Vossloh has received an order worth almost €50m to supply rail fastenings for the construction of a 600 km high speed line connecting Xiong’an in the northern province of Hebei with Shangqiu in Henan. Deliveries are scheduled for 2024. Vossloh Group is represented in China ...
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NewsGoldenPass Express begins gauge-changing again after wheel spacing modification
SWITZERLAND: The GoldenPass Express service has once again begun running through from Montreux to Interlaken, after modifications were made to the gauge-changing rolling stock to address problems with excessive track wear. Through running from the metre gauge Montreux-Oberland Bahn network to standard gauge BLS tracks began ...