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NewsX-ray backscatter looks deep inside sleepers
USA: Georgetown Rail Equipment Co and the University of Florida’s Nuclear Engineering Department have developed Aurora Xi, a method of using X-ray backscatter technology to look deep inside sleepers to reveal internal flaws which traditional inspections might not discover. As well as identifying decay in wooden sleepers and cracks in ...
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NewsDoha tram feels the heat
QATAR: Testing is underway at the Rail Tec Arsenal climate chamber in Wien to verify that the 19 Avenio trams which are being built by Siemens for the Education City People Mover in Doha will be able to cope with the extreme heat and high humidity found in Qatar. ...
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NewsRicardo to buy Lloyd’s Register Rail for £42·5m
RICARDO: Engineering and consulting company Ricardo announced an agreement to acquire consultancy and assurance business Lloyd’s Register Rail on April 17. Ricardo will pay Lloyd’s Register Group £42·5m on a cash-free and debt-free basis, funded from its £75m bank facilities; Lloyds Bank has increased its revolving credit facility with ...
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NewsCN announces Western Canada feeder line investment
CANADA: CN announced a multi-year programme to invest C$500m in infrastructure improvements on feeder rail lines in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan on April 16. CN said freight volumes in Western Canada have increased by more than 50% over the past five years, and the lines are handling rising volumes of ...
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NewsOliver Kraft
House of Logistics & Mobility Managing Director and former DB Netz CEO Oliver Kraft has joined Voestalpine BWG as CEO.
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NewsManuela Hutter Chalmers
Manuela Hutter Chalmers has been named Head of Finance & HR at Swiss railway Südostbahn.
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NewsRail industry news in brief - April 2015
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Works has awarded Uzbek state railway UTY a US$19m/year three-year contract to continue to operate and maintain the line from the border to Mazar-i-Sharif, which will now be used for export as well as import traffic. German operator Veolia Verkehr GmbH was renamed Transdev GmbH ...
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NewsAll Aboard Florida selects GE signalling
USA: Private inter-city service promoter All Aboard Florida has selected GE Transportation to supply signalling equipment for the 375 km corridor it plans to use between Miami and Orlando. GE Transportation said its sites in Melbourne and Jacksonville, Florida, would lead the design and engineering, with manufacturing in Warrensburg, ...
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NewsGo Rail to suspend Tallinn - Russia services
EUROPE: Estonian private operator Go Rail, which operates Tallinn – Moscow/St Petersburg passenger trains, confirmed on April 16 that it is to ‘temporarily suspend’ its services, owing to a ‘significant decrease in the number of tourists coming from Russia’. Chief Executive Alar Pinsel said that ‘being a private company that ...
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NewsAutoSlaap Trein car-carrying service closes
EUROPE: EETC Vakantietreinen announced the end of its AutoSlaap Trein car-carrying service on April 15, saying cost increases had left it with no other option but to cease operations. The company said this 'very unfortunate' decision would mean the loss of around 50 jobs. The weekly summer-only overnight services ran ...
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NewsOstrava airport rail link opens
CZECH REPUBLIC: Ostrava became the first city in the country with a rail link to its international airport when a single-track electrified line to Leoš Janáček Airport in Mošnov was inaugurated on April 13. The KC553m project was 85 % funded by the European Union, with the remainder from the ...
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NewsTDSi signs railway security technology agreement in China
CHINA: UK-based security and access control system manufacturer TDSi has signed a five-year strategic co-operation agreement with China Rail Chen Bang Technology Ltd, which will see TDSi's technology used on rail and metro projects throughout China. TDSi produces systems including access control technology, biometric readers, CCTV and associated software. Managing ...
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NewsA new infrastructure company by 2017
VOSSLOH: Vossloh AG will be transformed into a ‘new rail infrastructure company’ by 2017, the company said when presenting its results for 2014. The year’s financial performance was impacted by restructuring and realignment. ‘We took forward-looking, far-reaching decisions in 2014’, said Chairman Hans M Schabert. ‘In 2015, we are ...
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NewsToronto subway extension contract
CANADA: Toronto Transit Commission has awarded Bechtel Canada Co a contract worth ‘up to C$80m’ for project management of the Spadina subway extension to York, it announced on April 13. The contract runs until March 31 2018 and will see Bechtel staff join an integrated team with TTC. The ...
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NewsGreen metro substation
INDIA: Delhi Metro’s first ever ‘green’ electrical receiving substation has been put into operation at Faridabad, as test running started on the 13·9 km elevated Badarpur – Faridabad section of Line 6 on April 12. Construction started in September 2013 and the substation was completed in February 2015. It ...
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NewsGhana studies light rail and inter-city PPPs
GHANA: The minister responsible for public-private partnerships, Dr Rashid Pelpuo, has appointed New York investment bank Chesterfield Faring to devise a request for proposals for PPP contracts to develop a light rail line in Accra and an inter-city link between the capital and Kumasi. The elevated light rail line would ...
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NewsCutting edge technology
UK: Following two years of development, Terock Ltd has received Network Rail approval for its TRS330 rail shear, purpose-designed for cutting and clearing scrap rail. The road-rail vehicle mounted shear has a 1 000-tonne cutting force for breaking 65 kg/m rail quickly and efficiently, with 360° rotation which enables ...
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NewsInvestors back Mitsui Rail Capital expansion
NORTH AMERICA: A doubling of Mitsui Rail Capital’s wagon leasing business is envisaged under an agreement for Japanese companies JA Mitsui Leasing and Norinchukin Bank to take a 50% stake in the Mitsui subsidiary. The companies are to acquire the stake through a newly-established special purpose company, JAML ...
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NewsCNR delivers locomotives to DR Congo
DR CONGO: A batch of 18 CNR Beijing February 7 Railway Transport Equipment Co Type CKD8C1 diesel-electric locomotives ordered by national railway company SNCC was shipped from the Chinese port of Tianjin on April 8. The new locomotives were procured as part of the Multimodal Transport Project, which was launched ...
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NewsDallas Streetcar opens
USA: The Dallas Streetcar was officially opened at 09.00 on April 13, with a ceremony attended by city council member Scott Griggs and Dallas Area Rapid Transit President Gary Thomas. Passenger service began at 11.30. The 2·6 km standard gauge route links Oak Cliff in the southwest of the ...