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NewsFreiberger Eisenbahn contract extended
GERMANY: Mittelsachsen transport authority VMS has exercised an option to extend Freiberger Eisenbahn’s contact to operate local passenger services between Freiberg and Holzhau near the Czech border southwest of Dresden for a further five years from December 2019. The agreement with the Rhenus Veniro subsidiary includes cost savings which will ...
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NewsFerrovia Circumetnea slab track contract
ITALY: Contractor CMS has commissioned install WEGH Group to supply its Arianna ballastless track for the Nesima – Misterbianco tunnel, which is being built to put the 950 mm gauge Ferrovia Circumetnea underground in the city of Catania. The contract covers 2·4 km of track, which WEGH Group will ...
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NewsPleven takes delivery of battery trolleybuses
BULGARIA: The city of Pleven has taken delivery of 14 low-floor trolleybuses from Škoda Electric, ordered earlier this year. The vehicles are equipped with batteries for off-wire operation and have a kneeling function for easier boarding. The northern Bulgarian city already has 40 Škoda Electric trolleybuses which have been in ...
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NewsHydrogen multiple-units enter service
GERMANY: The two prototype Coradia iLint fuel-cell powered multiple-units began operating in revenue service on September 17, following a formal launch the previous day with a ceremony at Bremervörde attended by representatives from the federal and Land governments, regional transport authority LNVG and operator Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser. ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
RZD Logistics has begun delivering Volvo cars from the factory in Chengdu to the Vorsino freight terminal outside Moscow. It expects to deliver 60 cars per month this year, and 1 000 cars next year. The iPort Rail freight terminal at Doncaster in northern England was officially opened by Princess ...
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NewsErmewa to install Amsted telematics
EUROPE: International wagon and tank container leasing group Ermewa has started installing the Amsted Digital Solutions telematics platform across much of its fleet, the two companies announced ahead of the InnoTrans 2018 trade fair in Berlin. With more than 40 000 assets, Ermewa was looking for comprehensive, end-to-end ...
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NewsIntegrated defect alert system deployed in Slovenia
SLOVENIA: An Incident-Response Management system which Iskratel has implemented for Slovenian Railways detected four cases of overheated wheels resulting from locked brakes in its first month of operation. Developed from a proof-of-concept exhibited at InnoTrans 2016 and due to be on show as a commercial product at InnoTrans 2018, the ...
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NewsUnderfloor lathe commissioned
CZECH REPUBLIC: A Hegenscheidt underfloor wheel lathe has been installed by Strabag at national operator ČD’s main coach and multiple-unit maintenance depot in Praha. Semi-permanently coupled trainsets can be worked on out without uncoupling the vehicles, which will simplify maintenance of Alstom Pendolino, Siemens Railjet and Škoda Transportation InterPanter, ...
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NewsThe winners and losers of Russian metros
The 2018 FIFA World Cup highlighted some sharp contrasts between Russia’s metro networks.
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NewsCRRC to display hybrid loco and carbon fibre metro car at InnoTrans
CRRC: Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC will be exhibiting two vehicles on the outdoor display at InnoTrans 2018. CRRC Zhuzhou is bringing a hybrid shunting locomotive developed for Deutsche Bahn, which ordered four of the vehicles earlier this year. The 750 kW TSI-compliant AZLok locomotives will be able to ...
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Rail Business UKFare collection competition concerns raised
UK: The market for ticket gates is 'a near-monopoly, with buyers of gates potentially paying too much', and the market for ticket vending machines is 'delivering poor service quality with low availability of machines', the Office of Rail & Road said on September 13 when it published an update to ...
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NewsWaratah Series 2 EMUs enter service in Sydney
AUSTRALIA: The first of the Waratah Series 2 double-deck suburban electric multiple-units entered passenger service with Sydney Trains on September 6. All 24 of the eight-car units are scheduled to be progressively introduced by early 2019. Transport for New South Wales ordered the EMUs from Downer EDI in December ...
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NewsAdani scales back Carmichael rail link plans
AUSTRALIA: In a bid to reduce the capital cost of its controversial Carmichael opencast coal mining project in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, Adani Mining announced on September 12 that it had dropped plans to develop an independent standard-gauge railway in favour of a 1 067 mm gauge connection to Aurizon’s existing ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2018: the rail industry meets in Berlin
The world’s largest rail trade fair returns to Berlin on September 18-21
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Metro Report InternationalHarsco wins Singapore metro grinder contract
SINGAPORE: Land Transit Authority has awarded Harsco Rail a contract to supply a 16 stone grinder custom designed for Singapore’s metro network. Modifications include electric motors and a small profile to operate in metro tunnels. ‘We have developed a strong partnership and open communication with LTA over the last ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission expressed preliminary concerns regarding the proposed merger of Siemens Mobility and Alstom on September 6. 'The ACCC’s preliminary view is that the proposed merger may substantially lessen competition in the supply of heavy rail signalling systems for passenger rail networks in Australia, in particular ...
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NewsFirst Greater Anglia Aventra completed
UK: Bombardier Transportation rolled out the first of 111 Class 720 Aventra electric multiple-units ordered by leasing company Angel Trains for use by Abellio’s Greater Anglia franchise at its Derby factory on September 13. The order comprises 89 five-car and 22 10-car 25 kV 50 Hz EMUs to operate ...
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NewsSNCF targets autonomous trains in five years
FRANCE: SNCF expects to see ‘semi-autonomous’ trains running on the French rail network by 2020 and fully automatic trains within five years, following the establishment of two consortia of suppliers and research institutes to develop and implement the technology. Providing an update on progress with the Train Autonome research programme ...
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NewsOrbital CityRail service expands
RUSSIA: Nizhny Novgorod suburban passenger operator JSC Volga-Vyatskaya announced on September 10 that its CityRail Priokskaya Line service linking the two halves of the city will become a year-round service with effect from October 15. The 50 km orbital route was launched in 2013, but unlike the CityRail Sormovskaya Line ...
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NewsLeasing joint venture targets opening of European rolling stock market
EUROPE: Rock Rail and Aberdeen Standard Investments have announced a joint venture to target the rolling stock leasing market in continental Europe and Scandinavia. They hope to build on experience gained through the financing of three train fleets in the UK, where they said they had generated a new ...