All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2016 – Page 5
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NewsSTIF finalises Paris suburban rail investment programme
FRANCE: Rail is at the heart of a programme of transport investment announced by Ile-de-France transport authority STIF on July 13.Among the commitments outlined by STIF is the renewal or replacement by 2021 of 708 trainsets used on the five high-capacity RER suburban lines. According to STIF, this marks a ...
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NewsNew metro concession model agreed in Singapore
SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority announced on July 15 that it had reached an agreement with concessionaire SMRT for implementation of the government’s New Rail Financing Framework model on the North-South and East-West metro lines, the Circle Line and the Bukit Panjang LRT. Subject to final approval by SMRT shareholders, ...
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NewsCAF confirms UK assembly plant
UK: Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF confirmed to Railway Gazette on July 14 that it is preparing to open a UK assembly plant to support the contracts it has won in recent months. The company says it intends to establish facilities ‘to carry out rolling stock assembly and testing, as ...
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NewsWill Whitehorn
Stagecoach Group Director Will Whitehorn has replaced Beverley Bell as President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport in the UK.
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NewsNS and Alstom sign inter-city train contract
NETHERLANDS: National passenger operator NS formally awarded preferred bidder Alstom the Inter-city New Generation contract for the supply of 79 electric multiple-units on July 15. The contract worth more than €800m has been finalised following the rejection of an objection from Siemens, one of the four bidders which had been ...
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NewsTransdek installs bespoke access platforms for Wabtec Rail
UK: Specialist loading bay and lifting equipment manufacturer Transdek has designed and installed more than 200 m of access platforms and two bespoke goods lifts at Wabtec Rail’s rolling stock repair and refurbishment facility in Doncaster. Wabtec sought to optimise its safe working practices and increase operational efficiency at the ...
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NewsMagnitogorsk tram modernised
RUSSIA: A Magnitogorsk KTM-5 tram which was damaged by fire last year has been extensively rebuilt by Yekaterinburg-based NPO Avtomatika, which sees a large potential market for modernising similar trams in use across Russia. The city of Magnitogorsk is planning to renew its entire fleet within 10 years, and modernisation ...
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NewsCustom-designed monorail auxiliary power supply
TURBO POWER SYSTEMS: An auxiliary power supply which was custom-designed for a monorail project will be the highlight of Turbo Power Systems’ presence at InnoTrans 2016. Unique features of the monorail APS include a liquid cooling system which incorporates modular line replaceable units with quick release no-leak couplings integrated into ...
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NewsRail freight news in brief
A $100m rail facility at a former army base at the Port of Oakland in California saw its first train on July 7, carrying Archer Daniels Midland Co agricultural products for shipping to Asia. The 123 new tracks in the Outer Harbor Intermodal Terminal area form part of a strategy ...
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NewsAntalya tram extension enters regular service
TURKEY: Regular services on an extension of the Antray light rail network in Antalya started on July 14. The 15·4 km eastern extension from Meydan to Expo 2016 has a 2·4 km branch to the airport. Services to the airport run every 20 min between 05.50 and 23.23. Expo ...
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NewsElectric test trains run on Great Western Main Line
UK: The first testing of an electric trainset between Reading and Didcot as part of the Great Western electrification programme was undertaken on the mornings of July 16 and 17, in what infrastructure manager Network Rail said was ‘a major milestone for the electrification project’. Having arrived from its ...
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NewsCAF to supply Quito metro trainsets
ECUADOR: CAF is to supply 18 six-car trainsets to operate on the first line of the Quito metro. The announcement of the US$183m order on July 15 follows the signing of a credit agreement between Spain’s Instituto de Crédito Oficial and Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance which covers funding of the ...
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NewsPrivatisation agency accepts FS bid for Trainose
GREECE: The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund confirmed on July 14 that it had accepted an €45m offer from Italian state railway group Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane for 100% ownership of Greece’s national passenger and freight train operator Trainose. This followed positive recommendations from HRADF’s advisers, two independent valuations and ...
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NewsHeidelberg breaks ground on tram diversion
GERMANY: A groundbreaking ceremony for Heidelberg’s Bahnstadt tram project took place on July 15. Lord Mayor Eckart Würzner, Baden-Württemberg Transport Minister Winfried Hermann, Technical Manager of transport authority RNV Martin in der Beek and CEO of operator HSB Michael Jäger attended the official start of work. Serving a new ...
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NewsOV-chipkaart to be converted from smart card to ID-based system
NETHERLANDS: Trans Link Systems which manages the OV-chipkaart national multi-modal fare collection system has awarded Scheidt & Bachmann, Octopus Applications and independent ID-based ticketing specialist BlueBridge Transactions a contract to convert the technology from a smart card-based system where data is stored on a user’s card to an account-based system ...
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NewsF125 debuts in California
USA: Southern California Regional Rail Authority formally unveiled its first F125 diesel locomotive at Los Angeles Union Station on July 18. Among those taking part in the celebrations were Metrolink CEO Art Leahy, Electro-Motive Diesel President & CEO Billy Ainsworth, Commissioner Fran Inman from the California Transportation Commission and US ...
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NewsUnited Grain Co to establish 8 500 wagon fleet
RUSSIA: United Grain Co has ordered an initial 1 500 Type 19-9549 grain hopper wagons from United Wagon Co’s Tikhvin plant, as the first stage of a development programme which envisages the formation of a fleet of 8 500 wagons by 2020. These would carry 10 million tonnes of grain ...
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NewsExpedia to use SilverRail platform to sell UK rail tickets
UK: Expedia Group has announced that it will use SilverRail’s SilverCore technology platform to sell National Rail tickets through its Expedia.co.uk website from autumn 2016. Expedia said this would be the first time a ‘global, full-service online travel agency’ offered rail bookings alongside air, hotel, car rental, activities and packages. ...
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NewsKuala Lumpur – Singapore high speed line to open in 2026
ASIA: The governments of Malaysia and Singapore signed a memorandum of understanding on July 19 setting out how the Kuala Lumpur – Singapore High Speed Rail Project is to be developed for opening by around 2026. The MoU covers technical parameters, the commercial model, border procedures, the regulatory framework and ...
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NewsZedas seeks smart data from big data
ZEDAS: Brandenburg-based data and software specialist Zedas will be focusing its display at InnoTrans 2016 on ‘smarter data’ rather than ‘big data’ through its Zedas Asset portfolio of software tools. The company believes that railway operators and infrastructure managers find juggling investment and maintenance priorities to be ‘a complex matter’ ...