All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2012 – Page 5
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Led by President Claire Porter, a delegation from the Institution of Railway Signalling Engineers has undertaken a tour of Hong Kong and mainland China as part of an effort to raise awareness of the body. IRSE is keen to establish a local section in Beijing, and discussions were held with ...
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NewsRailway Directory 2012 now available
With 736 pages, the 117th edition of Railway Directory includes listings and contact details for almost 4500 companies and organisations around the world, covering every sector of the railway industry. Providing listings for government and regulatory bodies and associations as well as infrastructure managers and train operators, the book covers ...
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NewsChinese locomotives on their way to Belarus
BELARUS: The first of 12 Class BCG-1 electric locomotives being built for Belarus Railway was completed at CNR’s Datong plant in December. Ordered in October 2010 at a cost of 700m yuan, the 9·6 MW, 25 kV 50 Hz twin-section locos are derived from the HXD2 heavy-haul locomotives being assembled ...
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NewsConstruction of Schaffhausen S-Bahn begins
SWITZERLAND: A ceremony on January 26 marked the official start of construction work for the Schaffhausen S-Bahn project, a programme of infrastructure upgrades which will enable the provision of a half-hourly local train service, increasing to every 15 min in the peaks. An extra platform is to be provided at ...
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NewsAlstom signalling for LGV Est Phase 2
FRANCE: RFF has awarded Alstom Transport and Legrand SA a €40m contract to supply signalling for the second phase of LGV Est Européen, Alstom announced on January 30. Running for 106 km between Baudrecourt and Vendenheim, Phase 2 is due to open in 2016. It will complete high speed infrastructure ...
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NewsThree-car trains to Woolwich Arsenal
UK: London’s Docklands Light Railway introduced three-car operation on its Bank – Woolwich Arsenal route with effect from January 30, adding capacity for an extra 1 500 passengers/h ahead of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This means all DLR routes are now worked with three-car trains during the morning ...
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NewsWeight challenge for Wuppertal monorail car designer
GERMANY: Swiss-based engineering group Prose is taking responsibility for all the mechanical aspects of a rolling stock project for the first time, in its role as Vossloh Kiepe's mechanical engineering partner for the development of a new fleet of cars for the schwebebahn suspension monorail in Wuppertal. Wuppertaler Stadtwerke awarded ...
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NewsLatvian resignalling goes live
LATVIA: National railway holding company LDZ officially unveiled its first fully-computerised signalling and train control system on January 26, marking completion of a seven-year project partially funded by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund. The resignalling of Latvia’s east-west main line linking Jelgava and Daugavpils is one of the first applications ...
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NewsLyon – Torino funding agreed
EUROPE: French Transport Minister Thierry Mariani met Italy’s Vice-Minister for Infrastructure & Transport Mario Ciaccia in Roma on January 30 to sign a supplementary agreement covering the final route, phasing and funding of the high speed line between Lyon and Torino. Hoping that the European Union will provide co-funding at ...
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NewsEBRD loan supports Serbian concrete sleeper plant
SERBIA: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is providing a loan to support the development of a concrete sleeper plant at Svilajnac, 100 km south of Beograd. EBRD said the €2·8m loan to the Serbian Track Experts joint venture of Austrian firms Porr Bau and Maba Track Solutions is ...
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Vijaya Kanth
Vijaya Kanth, formerly General Manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction), has been appointed Financial Commissioner of the Indian Ministry of Railways.
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