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NewsTrenitalia orders more Jazz EMUs
ITALY: National operator Trenitalia has awarded Alstom two contracts totalling €170m for the supply of 25 more Jazz regional electric multiple-units. The orders announced on April 23 are options on a €440m contract signed in November 2012, and will take Trenitalia's Jazz fleet to 95 units. The Jazz design is ...
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NewsNS confirms direct order for 58 Stadler EMUs
NETHERLANDS: National passenger operator NS formally awarded Stadler Rail a €280m firm contract to supply a total of 58 Flirt electric multiple-units on April 22. Deliveries are scheduled by the end of 2016, On December 5 NS had announced plans to order around 60 off-the-shelf Stadler units to meet ...
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NewsRZD taking delivery of 68 locomotives
RUSSIA: Russian Railways is to take delivery of 68 Transmashholding 2TE25KM freight locomotives this year. Two prototypes completed in December and February and are currently undergoing trials at the Shcherbinka test circuit near Moscow. A development of the 2TE116U, the twin-section 2TE25KM has Kolomna 18-9DG engines rated at 2 650 ...
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NewsCP Carga and EMEF to be privatised
PORTUGAL: The cabinet approved plans to privatise the freight and rolling stock maintenance subsidiaries of national operator CP at a meeting on March 26. The government says that it is planning to sell up to 100% of the share capital of CP Carga and EMEF. In both cases, the aim ...
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NewsA Coruña - Vigo upgrade completed
SPAIN: Renfe introduced a new timetable on the A Coruña – Vigo route on April 18, featuring express services operated with Class 121 EMUs which according to the national operator have increased capacity by 40% and cut journey times by up to 58%. Renfe reports that 6 200 tickets ...
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NewsBeer to fund light rail line
CANADA: The province of Ontario has announced plans to raise funds for construction of the planned Hurontario – Main light rail project in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area. The 23 km route would run southeast from Brampton, to the west of Toronto, to Mississauga and Port Credit on the ...
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NewsAlmaty metro extends west
KAZAKHSTAN: President Nursultan Nazarbayev opened a western extension of the Almaty metro line on April 18. The 2·7 km extension takes the line from Alatau to Moskva with an intermediate station at Sayran. Construction started in 2011. Two further extensions are planed: a 3·1 km section from Moskva ...
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NewsGWTR wins south Bohemia regional contract
CZECH REPUBLIC: The Jihočeský region has selected the GW Train Regio subsidiary of bus company ČSAD Jihotrans for a 15-year contract to operate regional passenger services on three lines totalling 229 km in the Šumava mountains from December 2016. Line 194 České Budějovice – Černý Kříž;Line 197 Číčenice – ...
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NewsERTMS User Group adopts formal specifications tool
EUROPE: The ERTMS Users Group has decided to use the ERTMSFormalSpecs open source tool as part of its process to manage change requests in the ERTMS specifications. Under a contract signed with the tool’s developer ERTMS Solutions on April 13, the ERTMS Users Group will make use of the ...
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NewsKVSZ to develop electric locomotive
UKRAINE: Rolling stock manufacturer Kriukov Car Building Works and national railway UZ are discussing plans to produce electric locomotives from 2017. KVSZ would build a prototype at its own expense, in the hope of winning an initial order to supply UZ with up to 40 units. KVSZ says its proposed ...
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NewsHydrogen-fuelled double-deck tram on test
UAE: The first of a fleet of fuel cell powered double-deck heritage-style open-top trams is now undergoing tests on the initial section of a line which will serve Emaar Properties’ Downtown Dubai development. Emaar says the tramway will operate between 16.00 and midnight on weekdays and from 15.00 to 23.00 ...
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NewsJapanese maglev testing tops 600 km/h
JAPAN: A new speed record for a magnetically levitated vehicle was set on April 21, when Central Japan Railway powered one of its Series L0 superconducting maglev units up to a maximum of 603 km/h on the test guideway in Yamanashi prefecture. According to JR Central, a speed of ...
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NewsMetro cars arrive in Baku
AZERBAIJAN: Alstom has delivered three trainsets for the Baku metro. Baku Metropoliten signed the order on May 12 2014. The trains, branded Oka, are based on Metrowagonmash’s Class 81-760B design and are composed of four motor cars and one trailer. They are expected to enter passenger service ...
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NewsCross-border railway study commissioned
CZECH REPUBLIC: Infrastructure manager SŽDC has appointed a joint venture of Mott MacDonald and Sudop Praha to undertake studies for a proposed be 200 to 350 km/h cross-border line connecting Litoměřice and Ústí nad Labem with Dresden in Germany. The electrified route through the Krušné hory/Erzgebirge mountains would bypass the ...
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NewsHeathrow ‘smart screens’ compare rail and taxi travel options
UK: Screens have been installed in the baggage reclaim area at London Heathrow Airport Terminal 2 showing passengers live price and journey time comparisons between taxis and the Heathrow Express train service to London Paddington station. ‘The aim of the journey comparison generator is to enable Heathrow passengers to get ...
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NewsMyHSR Corp to oversee high speed project
SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Malaysian government has approved the establishment of MyHSR Corp, a state-backed project delivery company which is to manage Malaysia’s share in the 38bn ringgit Kuala Lumpur – Singapore high speed project. As a first step, the Malaysian finance ministry is to be issued with 10 million ...
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NewsIstanbul opens Line M6
TURKEY: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Mayor Kadir Topbaş attended the opening of Istanbul metro’s Line M6 at 17.00 on April 19. The 3·3 km line runs east from Levent station on Line M2 to Boğaziçi Üniversitesi/Rumeli Hisarüstü with two intermediate stations. The line has an initial capacity of ...
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NewsRDC seeks more paths in Sylt Shuttle auction
GERMANY: Open access operator RDC Deutschland has applied to operate up to 59 additional car-carrying shuttle services a day between Niebüll and Westerland on the island of Sylt from December 2015. Applications for additional paths over the 39 km route closed on April 13 after RDC Deutschland secured a ...
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NewsCross Track TV in Brisbane
AUSTRALIA: XTD says its Cross Track TV is the ‘first designed for rail, cross-track digital video system’. It uses billboard-size LED screens and high-definition sound to broadcast information and advertising to passengers waiting at stations. Following installations in Sydney and Melbourne, Cross Track TV is being installed in at four ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market April 2015
Azerbaijan: ADDY has ordered 2900 wagons from Uralvagonzavod. Belarus: Belarus Railways and United Wagon Co have formed a strategic partnership to maintain wagons with Barber bogies in Belarus. Brazil: Trensurb has awarded Alstom a €2m five-year contract to maintain the 15 Alstom/CAF trainsets on Porto Alegre metro Line ...