All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2018
All articles published this month.
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market - June 2018
Argentina: Alstom has signed a €5m contract to provide signalling for the 5 km elevated alignment which is being built for the San Martín commuter route in Buenos Aires. Alstom will act as subcontractor to UTE Green-Rottio. Czech Republic: Infrastructure manager SŽDC has awarded AŽD Praha a ...
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NewsDrammen diversion tunnelling tendered
NORWAY: Infrastructure manager Bane NOR has started prequalification for the next phase of its long-running Vestfold Line upgrading to double-track the inter-city route between Oslo and Larvik. Due to be completed around 2025, the Drammen – Kobbervikdalen upgrading project envisages the construction of a deviation suitable for 200 km/h operation ...
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Metro Report InternationalElizabeth Line maintenance trains on test
UK: Three maintenance trains for the Elizabeth Line are being tested ahead of delivery to London later this year. Linsinger is testing an MG31 UK rail milling train between Salzburg and Linz. The 48 m long vehicle assembled at Linsinger’s Steyrermühl factory in Austria will be transported by road ...
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NewsWarszawa tests increased metro frequencies
POLAND: Metro Warszawskie tested running Line 1 trains at 2 min headways during the morning peak on June 27. The operator expects that extending the east-west Line 2 at both ends would generate more ridership not only on that line, but on the north-south Line 1 as well. It ...
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Metro Report InternationalTicket machines with video links on test
GERMANY: Duisburg transport operator DVG is testing five Cubic Transportation Systems ticket machines which include video links to its customer service centre. Passengers can use the video links to talk to customer service staff who can assist with planning journeys and purchasing tickets. The video service is available between ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Reporting its annual results for the 2017 financial year, Stadler said it had seen ‘a successful year’, and now employed more staff than before the Swiss currency market ‘dislocations’ in 2015. Incoming orders amounted to SFr3·5bn, with a ‘considerable proportion’ coming from BLS, SBB and SOB in Switzerland. The Service ...
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NewsEVR Cargo becomes Operail
ESTONIA: State-owned freight operator EVR Cargo has been renamed Operail, in a change which the company said was ‘driven by the need to better reflect the nature of an international market-oriented logistics and transport company’. ‘Freight transport was an essential part of EVR Cargo’s identity, but has not been our ...
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NewsMING fleet to replace RER B Interconnexion stock
FRANCE: Île-de-France Mobilités, RATP and SNCF have called tenders for supply of replacement rolling stock for Paris RER Line B which links Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport and Mitry-Claye northeast of Paris with Robinson in the south and St Rémy-les-Chevreuse in the southwest. The contract covers a firm order for 146 ...
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NewsRCG venture runs Greek freight trains
GREECE: Open access freight venture Rail Cargo Logistics Goldair began operating its own trains on the national rail network on June 27, when it dispatched an initial trip from the RCG terminal at Sindos near Thessaloniki to Idomeni on the border with Macedonia. The joint venture between Austria’s Rail Cargo ...
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Metro Report InternationalValley Metro extension design contract approved
USA: Phoenix’s Valley Metro Rail board has appointed Jacobs Engineering to design Phase II of the Northwest Phase II light rail extension. This will extend the light rail line west from 19th Avenue on Dunlap Avenue, then run north on 25th Avenue and across I-17 on Mountain View Road to ...
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NewsProgress Rail to rebuild 30 CP locos
CANADA: Canadian Pacific has awarded Progress Rail a contract to modernise 30 SD90MAC locomotives to the SD70ACU specification. Major components will be remanufactured to improve performance and reliability, including the existing EMD 710 engines, and the locos will be fitted with new traction control systems and cabs meeting the latest ...
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NewsQueensland invests in Maryborough upgrade
AUSTRALIA: Visiting the Downer Rail rolling stock plant at Maryborough on June 26, Queensland’s Minister for Transport & Main Roads Mark Bailey announced that the state government is providing a A$10m grant for infrastructure improvements to support work on a range of refurbishment projects for Queensland Rail. The grant is ...
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NewsWagons delivered from Poland to Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARABIA: Abnormal load logistics specialist ALS has completed a 20-month project to deliver a total of 1 185 wagons of three types from The Greenbrier Companies’ Wagon Świdnica factory in Poland to Saudi Railway Co. The wagons are 14·35 m long, 3 200 mm wide and 4 500 mm ...
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NewsPardubice introduces new trolleybuses
CZECH REPUBLIC: City transport operator DP Pardubice put into service 15 Škoda 30Tr SOR trolleybuses on June 22. The KC118·5m order signed in November is partly financed by EU funds. The trolleybuses are intended to replace some of the city’s diesel buses following the opening of two extensions of ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
The InterCity East Coast franchise was handed over from Virgin Trains East Coast to London North Eastern Railway on June 24. VTEC said it had made premium payments of more than £800m since March 2015, 'an increase of more than 30% on previous payments to government under DOR'. However a ...
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NewsMälartåg double-deck train on show
SWEDEN: The first of 33 four-car Stadler double-deck EMUs for use on Mälartåg services in the Stockholm region was displayed at Stockholm C station on June 27. Leasing company Transitio ordered the 200 km/h units in June 2015 on behalf of the Mälab joint venture of local transport authorities in ...
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NewsStadler-Siemens consortium rolls out first Berlin S-Bahn train
GERMANY: The first of the electric multiple-units that a Stadler-Siemens consortium is supplying for the Berlin S-Bahn was rolled out on July 27 at Stadler’s Pankow factory in the capital. The four-car Class 484 EMU is due to arrive at Stadler’s site in Velten north of Berlin in the ...
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NewsPrima AZ8A freight locomotive for Azerbaijan unveiled
AZERBAIJAN: The first of 40 Prima T8 AZ8A electric freight locomotives ordered by national railway ADY was unveiled at the EKZ factory at Astana in Kazakhstan on June 27. The EKZ joint venture of Alstom (75%) and Transmashholding (25%) is supplying 40 freight locomotives and 10 Prima M4 AZ4A passenger ...
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NewsEU audit condemns ‘ineffective patchwork’ of high speed lines
EUROPE: A lack of cross-border co-ordination between member states has reduced the effectiveness of European Union investment in high speed rail, according to a report published by the European Court of Auditors on June 26. Suggesting that ‘there is no European high speed rail network’, the report concludes that there ...
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NewsFranconian interurban tram contract awarded
GERMANY: Project promoter Zweckverband Stadt-Umland-Bahn signed the engineering design contract for the Nürnberg Stadt-Umland-Bahn project on June 21. The contract was awarded to a consortium of Gauff Rail Engineering, Rambøll and Obermeyer. The 25 km tram route linking Nürnberg with the neighbouring towns of Erlangen and Herzogenaurach is estimated ...