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NewsSecond-generation depot personnel protection system launched
DEPOTS: Zonegreen has launched a second generation of its SMART Depot Personnel Protection System, which combines powered derailers, road-end control panels, train detection equipment, warning signals and personal datakeys to protect staff and infrastructure. DPSS is now widely used in the UK, and the second generation has been designed with ...
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NewsBelgrano upgrading funded
ARGENTINA: Regional development agency Fonplata has agreed to provide 59% of the US$60m cost of upgrading 80 km of the Belgrano network between Perico in Jujuy province and Pocitos in Salta. The remaining 41% is to be provided by local sources. Aiming to restore the rail link between northern Argentina ...
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NewsDisused Tube station to be leased
UK: Transport for London has announced that it will lease part of a disused Underground station to businesses ‘who have the ability to use the space to create something exceptional and establish the next chapter in the station’s history’. TfL announced on April 28 that it is seeking businesses ...
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NewsTram trials begin in Santos
BRAZIL: Trial passenger operation began between Mascarenhas de Moraes and João Ribeiro on the Santos light rail line on April 27. Two vehicles are providing free travel Monday to Friday between 13.00 and 16.00. When fully operational, the 11 km first phase of the VLT network will link Barreiros ...
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NewsModertrans sole bidder in revised tram procurement
POLAND: Modertrans was the sole bidder to supply six trams to Wrocław in a tender that closed on April 23. The base order is worth 23m złoty, with an option for a further 16 trams. The Poznań-based manufacturer plans to supply partially low-floor vehicles of its Moderus Beta design. ...
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NewsMelbourne Metro Rail advisers appointed
AUSTRALIA: A joint venture of Aurecon, Jacobs and Mott MacDonald has been appointed as the technical, planning and engagement adviser for the Melbourne Metro Rail cross-city tunnel. Project delivery organisation Melbourne Metro Rail Authority has been allocated an initial A$40m to develop proposals for the 9 km link, which ...
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NewsABB wins Swiss substation contracts
SWITZERLAND: ABB has received turnkey contracts worth US$30m from Swiss Federal Railways and private operator Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn to supply three traction substations by 2018. The manufacturer says that this will help the operators to increase capacity by strengthening and stabilising their power supplies. The SBB order covers 132/66/15/11 ...
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NewsWire ropes as platform screens
SWEDEN: South Korean firm SKD-Hitec has demonstrated a platform screen door made from wire ropes at Stockholm’s Åkeshov metro station. Rather than sliding doors, Rope Screen Door uses lightweight panels made of self-tensioned wire ropes which move down to screen the platform edge. The manufacturer says the system could be ...
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NewsSAR’s first passenger train arrives
SAUDI ARABIA: The first of five passenger trainsets for the North-South Railway has arrived in the Kingdom, Saudi Railway Co announced on April 27. Designed for 200 km/h operation in temperatures up to 55°C, the diesel push-pull trainsets are being supplied by CAF under a 533m riyal contract signed in ...
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NewsCuban freight wagon joint venture agreement
CUBA: The UVZ-Logistik subsidiary of Russia’s Uralvagonzavod is to establish a transport logistics joint venture in Cuba, in partnership with Cuban metallurgy and engineering firm GESIME and national operator Unión Ferrocarriles de Cuba. Under an agreement signed at the 13th Russian-Cuban Intergovernmental Commission on Trade in Kazan, the joint ...
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NewsEnlarged Rail Hub Milano opens
ITALY: An opening ceremony for the enlarged Rail Hub Milano was held in Melzo, to the east of Milano, on April 23. The rail yard has been enlarged from 160 000 m2 to 260 000 m2 and four new 750 m long tracks have increased the internal rail length ...
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NewsTennant Creek – Mount Isa railway study
AUSTRALIA: The Northern Territory government has committed A$1m to undertake a feasibility study for the construction of a 600 km line from Tennant Creek, NT, to Mount Isa in Queensland. The study is expected to take two years to complete. The east-west link connecting the Alice Springs – Darwin ...
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NewsFrecciarossa 1000 to carry passengers in June
ITALY: Trenitalia is to put its first Frecciarossa 1000 high speed trains into revenue service with the start of the summer timetable on June 14, the national operator announced on April 25. The announcement was made during a non-stop run between Milano and Roma conveying Italian President Sergio Mattarella. He ...
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NewsWorld rail market April 2015
Australia: Jacobs Engineering Group is to provide environmental impact assessment services for the Sydney Rapid Transit extension of the North West Rail Link under Sydney Harbour (RG 7.14 p14). Germany: Init is to modernise ticketing systems on Bremen trams and buses by the end of 2017. The stored-value BOB ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market April 2015
Austria: EIB is providing track contractor Swietelsky with a €50m loan to support the development of faster and cheaper maintenance methods. The project is being undertaken at Swietelsky’s R&D centre in Fischamend and includes the construction of two prototype maintenance vehicles. Egypt: National Authority for Tunnels has awarded Alstom, ...
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NewsElectric Traction - Motive Power and Energy Supply
by Andreas Steimel BOOK REVIEW: This 400-page book is a compilation of lectures held at Ruhr-Universität Bochum over the past 20 years, and is intended for readers with a solid knowledge of electric motors and electronics. After a short historical review of electric traction and mechanical drives, the ...
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NewsVossloh secures medium-term financing
VOSSLOH: On April 24 Vossloh Group announced that it had secured its medium-term financing with the successful closing of a syndicated loan of over €500m. The facility has been provided by a banking syndicate with 11 participants. The mandated lead arrangers and book runner are Bayerische Landesbank, Commerzbank, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg ...
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NewsPlatform edge Anywhere Door for multiple train types on test
JAPAN: Platform edge doors designed to accommodate multiple types of rolling stock with varying numbers of doors and locations on the car side are being tested by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Transportation Equipment Engineering & Service Co. The design is branded Dokodemo Door (‘Anywhere Door’), after a magical door which ...
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NewsChina backs Jakarta – Bandung high speed proposal
INDONESIA: On the fringes of the Asian-African Summit on April 22, President Joko Widodo and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the two countries to co-operate on the development of a high speed line between Jakarta and Bandung. Provisionally costed at US$6·7bn, ...
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NewsTrainline launches Apple Watch app
UK: Ticket retailer Trainline has announced a mobile app for Apple Watch, which it says will provide a ‘convenient and innovative new way for customers to check live train times, platform information, check their train is on route and access mobile ticketing straight from their wrist.’ The Apple Watch ...