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NewsRegiotrans restarts operations
ROMANIA: Private passenger operator Regiotrans hopes to resume all its previous services this month, after regaining an operating certificate on March 30 and repairing enough rolling stock to reinstate one-third of its previous routes on April 1. National safety agency ASFR had withdrawn the company’s operating certificate on March ...
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NewsPlasser & Theurer delivers ballast profilers
POLAND: Plasser & Theurer has supplied infrastructure manager PKP PLK with two USP 2010 SWS-U universal ballast distribution and profiling machines. The P-IC 2.0 Plasser Intelligent Control system offers a clear touch-screen menu with access to all machine functions from one place. The machines have a centre plough, shoulder ploughs ...
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NewsDubai Expo 2020 metro extension approved
UAE: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, approved a 15 km extension of Dubai metro’s Red Line on April 11. The Route 2020 project would build a branch of the Red Line from Nakheel Harbour & ...
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NewsRolling stock maintenance joint venture formed
SINGAPORE: A joint venture agreement for the provision of rolling stock maintenance, repair and overhaul services in Southeast Asia was signed by Faiveley Transport and the Singapore Rail Engineering subsidiary of transport operator SMRT on April 9. Faiveley Rail Engineering Singapore’s activities will include support for braking, door, platform screen ...
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NewsBangkok Sukhumvit Line extension contracts
THAILAND: Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand has signed four contracts for the construction of the northern extension of the BTS Skytrain Sukhumvit Line from Mo Chit to Ku Kot. Italian-Thai Development signed a 15·3bn baht contract for civil works on the 12 km Mo Chit – Saphan Mai ...
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NewsTrams start serving Toulouse airport
FRANCE: Trams started serving Toulouse Blagnac Airport on April 11 with the opening of Route T2. The 2·4 km branch leaves the T1 route at Ancely and has two intermediate stops at Nadot and Daurat. T2 services run to the southern terminus of the original tram route at Palais ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - April 2015
Wi-fi has been rolled out across the whole of the Moscow metro network. Voters in Oberhausen have rejected a proposal to extend tram Route 105 to connect the Essen and Oberhausen networks. US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has proposed a regulatory framework to increase the responsibilities of ...
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NewsCustom-built crane wagon for Africa
WAGON: A wagon for carrying a heavy road crane to the sites of infrastructure works or derailments on a line in Africa has been designed by Belgian company DAXI and built by Electroputere VFU Pașcani of Romania. The 1 435 mm gauge wagon is 23·58 m long over the buffers, ...
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NewsEMD delivers Ferromex locomotives
MEXICO: Ferromex has taken delivery of the first 10 of a batch of 19 additional Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe locomotives ordered last year under a contract which includes an 11-year maintenance agreement. They are expected to enter service by June. ‘We are very pleased to receive the first 10 EMD locomotives ...
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NewsDB Schenker Rail UK deploys Zephir battery shunters
UK: This month DB Schenker Rail UK has begun using Zephir 1800e Crab battery machines instead of diesel shunting locomotives at its Toton and Crewe depots, where almost 14 000 loco movements are undertaken each year. The freight operator says the Zephir 1800e CRAB is capable of moving 400 ...
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NewsGE Transportation completes testing of Tier 4 engine
USA: GE Transportation announced on April 9 that it had completed production tests of an Evolution Series Tier 4 engine. This was the first engine to be put through a new test cell at the company’s engine plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and it will now be sent to an ...
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NewsConsultation on Bulgarian railway recovery strategy
BULGARIA: A draft strategy for the development of the rail network in 2015-22 and the restructuring of state railway company Holding BDZ was published for consultation by the Minister of Transport, Information Technology & Communications on April 7. Minister Ivaylo Moskovski said ‘joint and targeted actions’ by National Railway Infrastructure ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - April 2015
Over the Chinese New Year period from February 18 to 24, the national rail network in China carried a total of 45·0 million passengers, an increase of 6·5 million on last year. A single day record of 9·47 million passengers was reached on February 24. China and Kazakhstan launched ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
Kraków-based ZUE has agreed to purchase up to 70% of ThyssenKrupp’s Polish track business Railway GfT Polska. Hungarian rolling stock manufacturing and maintenance company Dunakeszi Járműjavító and Stadler Rail have signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint production of vehicles for the Hungarian market.Lifting equipment supplier Mechan has appointed ...
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NewsBroad gauge Vectron arrives in Finland
FINLAND: The first broad gauge version of the Siemens Vectron locomotive family has been delivered to Helsinki, where it was displayed to the public on April 7. No 193 971 is an ‘advance locomotive’. It is fitted with instrumented wheelsets which gather data to feed into the design of ...
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NewsShanghai places first Chinese Citadis tram order
CHINA: Shanghai Songjiang Tramway Investment & Operation Co has awarded the Shanghai Alstom Transport joint venture of Shanghai Rail Traffic Equipment Development Co (60%) and Alstom (40%) a €72m contract to supply 30 Citadis trams for use in the Songjiang suburb of Shanghai. Announcing the order on April 9, Alstom ...
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NewsRussian Railways Logistics takes stake in Latvian rail freight forwarder
LATVIA: Russian Railways Logistics has acquired a 50% stake in Riga-based freight forwarding company Liepājas Naftas Tranzīts through its RZDL Multimodal business. Announcing the deal on April 9, RZDL said its aim was to expand the rail freight market and establish a ‘consolidated rail transport chain’ connecting with Latvia’s ...
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NewsJim Squires
Current Norfolk Southern President Jim Squires will succeed Wick Moorman as CEO on June 1. Squires will continue as President, while Moorman is to retain his duties as Executive Chairman of the board.
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NewsClearing the air
SPAIN: The Improve Life project to assess and improve air quality in metro stations and trains has been launched in Barcelona. The EU’s LIFE programme is funding 50% of the €0·8m cost, and the results are to be made available to other operators so that the recommendations can be applied ...