All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2017 – Page 5
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NewsBombardier Transportation starts work on digitised assembly hall
GERMANY: The foundation stone for an €8m final assembly hall was laid at Bombardier Transportation’s Bautzen rolling stock plant on June 15, in the presence of federal Minister for Economic Affairs & Energy Brigitte Zypries, Sachsen’s Minister of Economics Martin Dulig and Mayor Alexander Ahrens. Bombardier is investing €20m ...
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Metro Report InternationalShijiazhuang metro opens
CHINA: June 14 saw the inauguration of the 28th metro in China, when two lines opened in Shijiazhuang. These form the first phase of a planned six-line network in the city that would total 169·2 route-km with 144 stations. Line 1 runs from Xiwang in the west to Xiaohedadao ...
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NewsSNCB seeks to develop BeNeRail distribution partnership
EUROPE: Speaking on the sidelines of the Amadeus Rail Innovation Forum in Praha on June 13, SNCB’s Manager for International Sales Paul Geyssens indicated that the Belgian national operator is planning to expand its collaboration with travel software specialist Amadeus through the BeNeRail distribution joint venture of SNCB and Dutch ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Bombardier is to cut 650 jobs at Villeneuve and Zürich in Switzerland, trade union Unia said on June 8. Local media report that Siemens is in talks with Iran’s Industrial Development & Renovation Organisation about the joint production of metro rolling stock components. Louis Berger and Egis have ...
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Metro Report InternationalFederal funding for REM agreed
CANADA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on June 15 that the federal government is to provide C$1·28bn towards the construction of the Réseau Électrique Métropolitain automated metro project in Montréal. All the funding for the project is now in place. Public pension and insurance investor Caisse de dépôt et ...
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NewsElectro-diesel Flirt unveiled
ITALY: The first electro-diesel version of the Flirt multiple-unit family was unveiled at Stadler’s Bussnang plant in Switzerland on June 15, two years after the Valle d’Aosta region awarded a €43m contract for the supply of five units and the provision of five years of maintenance. The Flirt3 units are ...
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NewsManchester to trial cycle hire
UK: A six-month cycle-hire pilot in central Manchester and Salford will start on June 29. Mobike, which currently runs cycle-hire programmes in China and Singapore, is supplying 1 000 bikes. These will be equipped with smart locks that will allow them to be picked up and dropped off at ...
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NewsBrisbane to start work on Cross River Rail
AUSTRALIA: Enabling works to facilitate construction of the A$5·4bn Cross River Rail project in Brisbane are to start in September, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Minister for Infrastructure Jackie Trad announced on June 14. The Cross River Rail Delivery Authority has approved demolition work at the GoPrint site, a former ...
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NewsBYD ADL to supply more short electric buses to London
UK: RATP Dev London has selected a joint venture of Shenzhen-based BYD and Alexander Dennis as preferred bidder to supply 36 electric buses. The operator signed a memorandum of understanding with BYD on June 14 at the Guangdong Economic & Trade Co-operation Conference in London, and contract signature is due ...
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NewsSNCB does not expect DB to run to London
EUROPE: Deutsche Bahn has effectively deferred its high-profile plan to run direct high speed trains between Germany and London. Reports in the French press last week had quoted Birgit Bohle, Managing Director of DB Fernverkehr, suggesting that the German operator had no desire to compete directly with its French counterpart ...
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NewsShift2Rail project grants awarded
EUROPE: Another 17 research projects with a combined value of €110·9m have been selected for financing under the 2017 Call for Proposals, the Shift2Rail joint undertaking announced on June 14. These will share up to €60·1m of EU co-financing under the multi-year research programme. The call for proposals had been ...
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NewsUK railway news round-up
Conservative Member of Parliament for Epsom & Ewell Chris Grayling has retained his position as Secretary of State for Transport in the cabinet announced by Prime Minister Theresa May following the general election. Network Rail has begun a ‘soft’ market-testing exercise seeking external expertise to determine what would be the ...
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Metro Report InternationalBART makes crime data publicly available
USA: The police department of San Francisco’s BART has made data for serious crimes at and around its stations publicly available. Fed by data from the police department’s computer-aided dispatch, CrimeMapping.com shows information about reported Part I crimes at BART stations. Details of crimes in the surrounding area are ...
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NewsIsrael Railways sets out ambitions to double the network by 2040
ISRAEL: An ambitious strategy to double the size of the national rail network by 2040 and develop links to neighbouring countries was set out by Israel Railways at a presentation in Tel Aviv in June 8. The proposals would see the network expand from the 1 232 km which ...
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NewsOscar Vazquez
Oscar Vazquez has been named Country Managing Director for Bombardier Transportation in Spain. Retaining his role as Project Portfolio Head for Continental Europe & Metro Applications, he replaces Álvaro Rengifo who will continue in an advisory role.
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Metro Report InternationalTrapeze to open public transport research lab
SWITZERLAND: Trapeze has established a subsidiary called AMoTech, which is to open a centre of competence for research into autonomous mobility. The Public Transport Lab in Neuhausen would be used to conduct tests of autonomous vehicles, including a self-driving shuttle supplied by Navya. The aim of these tests would ...
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Metro Report InternationalGuangzhou Metro rolls out its longest train
CHINA: Guangzhou Metro has unveiled its longest train at CRRC Dalian’s factory. The eight-car trainset is the first of 17 that will enter service on Line 13 later this year. The Type A trainset is 186 m long and 3 000 mm wide with capacity for 3 456 passengers. ...
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NewsSNCF Logistics’ investment in BLS Cargo approved
SWITZERLAND: SNCF Logistics’ planned acquisition of a 45% stake in BLS Cargo will come into effect at the beginning of July, BLS AG said on June 14. This follows Swiss and German regulatory approval for the planned acquisition, which had been announced by the companies on February 16. From July ...
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NewsBeer train launched
BELGIUM: Rail freight operator Lineas ran a pilot service carrying Jupiler beer from AB InBev’s brewery at Jupille near Liège to Delhaize’s warehouse in Ninove on June 13. The train is to run three times per week, and is expected to remove 5 000 lorry trips per year from the ...
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NewsKyiv orders more Elektron trams
UKRAINE: Kyiv tram operator Kyivpastrans has announced that Elektrontrans has submitted the best offer to supply seven 100% low-floor trams to operate on the city’s 1 524 mm gauge network. The supplier’s offer of 301m hryvnia beat a higher bid from UKVZ. It will supply its T5B64 unidirectional five-section ...