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NewsMerseyrail EMU fleet to be replaced
UK: Liverpool regional transport authority Merseytravel is to procure a new fleet of electric multiple-units to replace the 59 three-car Class 507 and 508 EMUs used on Merseyrail services which are now approaching 40 years old. The higher availability and improved reliability of modern EMUs is expected to enabling a ...
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NewsVojens – Vamdrup double-tracking completed
DENMARK: Transport Minister Hans Christian Schmidt inaugurated the second track between Vamdrup and Vojens in Jylland on September 7, marking the official completion of a two-year project to remove one of the last sections of single track on the route through Jylland to Germany. The 20 km section has ...
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NewsSun International to revitalise The Blue Train
SOUTH AFRICA: Following an open tender, national freight operator Transnet has selected tourism, leisure and gaming group Sun International to develop and implement a marketing strategy for The Blue Train luxury train service. The agreement with Sun International was signed on September 8 and will run for up to ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
Polish track and bridge supplier KZN Bieanów has established a German subsidiary. Curry Rail Services has received an AAR wagon builder’s licence following an inspection of its facilities in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. EP Cargo has acquired a majority stake in LokoTrain. EP Cargo Chairman Tomáš Novotný said LokoTrain’s portfolio ...
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NewsMTR’s Stockholm metro contract extended
SWEDEN: Stockholm transport authority SL exercised an option on September 8 for MTR Stockholm to continue to operate the city’s metro network for a further six years. The subsidiary of Hong Kong’s MTR Corp began operating the network in November 2009 under an eight-year contract. This has now been extended ...
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NewsRocla to build Florida sleeper plant
USA: Rocla Concrete Tie announced a long-term sleeper supply agreement with Florida East Coast Railway and passenger rail project promoter All Aboard Florida on September 8. Construction of a concrete sleeper plant in Fort Pierce, Florida, is set get underway immediately, with production scheduled to begin in early 2016. ...
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NewsLandbridge design contract extended
SAUDI ARABIA: The Public Investment Fund has extended Italferr’s contract to undertake design work for the planned Landbridge. The Landbridge project comprises a 950 km double-track mixed traffic line running from the Port of Jeddah to Riyadh, where it would connect with the existing railway which would be upgraded ...
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NewsRussian signalling R&D agreement
RUSSIA: An agreement to establish a signalling R&D centre by the end of the year was signed by Alstom, Transmashholding and the NIIAS and Skolkovo Foundation research organisations during the Expo 1520 trade fair. The R&D centre is to be located at the Skolkovo technology cluster near Moscow. According ...
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NewsThales adopts open-source ERTMS testing tool
GERMANY: Signalling and train control supplier Thales Deutschland has agreed to use the ERTMSFormalSpecs open-source modelling tool to test braking curves in the development of its onboard unit for the ETCS Baseline 3 specifications. Tool developer ERTMS Solutions announced on September 9 that it had signed an agreement with Thales ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - September 2015
Istanbul Ulam has called tenders for 75 four-car trainsets to operate on the future Line M7. The first three sponsors for Kuala Lumpur’s Station Naming Rights Programme are AirAsia, Bank Rakyat and Suez Capital. Nippon KOEI has carried out a feasibility study for a 35 km metro ...
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NewsTokyo peoplemover to receive lightweight train
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has completed a five-car Model 330 automated rubber-tyre light metro trainset which is expected to enter service on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Nippori-toneri Liner peoplemover next month. The cars have an unpainted double-skin aluminium body structure which is designed to be around 1·5 tonnes lighter ...
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NewsAlstom completes Dublin tram overhaul
IRELAND: Alstom has completed the 300 000 km overhaul of 26 Citadis 402 trams supplied in 2009 for Dublin’s Luas light rail Green Line. This follows completion last year of the 600 000 km overhaul of the original batch of Citadis 401 trams which are now concentrated on the Red ...
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NewsEdmonton opens northern Metro Line
CANADA: Revenue services on the second light rail route in Edmonton began running on September 6, when the capital of Alberta inaugurated the Metro Line serving the north of the city. Built at a cost of C$665m, around $90m below budget, the 10 km Metro Line diverges from the existing ...
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NewsTickets with a flick of the wrist
PAYMENT: NFC contactless payment devices for public transport applications have been launched by FEIG Electronics and PureWrist. FEIG's cVEND plug is designed for seamless integration into validation terminals, and cVEND box for mounting in a kiosk, terminal or ticket gate, with or without a display. 'cVEND is ideal for ...
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NewsPurple Line trains set sail for Bangkok
THAILAND: The first of 21 three-car metro trainsets being built by East Japan Railway’s J-TREC business for Bangkok’s Purple Line was shipped from Yokohama on September 7. The entire fleet is scheduled to arrive in Thailand by January, and revenue services on the 23 km Purple Line running from ...
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Paul Plummer
Paul Plummer, Group Strategy Director of Network Rail, has been appointed Chief Executive of the UK’s Rail Delivery Group and the Association of Train Operating Companies. Plummer has been one of the two Network Rail members of the RDG since its inception in 2011, and will take up the ...
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Oliver Christian Feicks
Oliver Christian Feicks has been appointed Chairman of the management board of rolling stock energy absorption technology company Axtone with effect from September 1, replacing Marcin Kowalczyk who has decided to step down after 10 years. Feicks was previously Managing Director & Chief Sales Officer at GHH Radsatz International Holding, ...
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NewsPrime Minister opens Delhi metro extension to Faridabad
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the 13·9 km southern extension of Delhi metro Line 6 (Violet) from Badarpur to Escorts Mujesar in the satellite city of Faridabad on September 6. This takes the metro over the border from the capital territory into the state of Haryana. Revenue services began ...
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NewsPassenger trains return to the Scottish borders
UK: The first public passenger trains for 46 years ran between Edinburgh and Tweedbank on September 6, when revenue services began over the 48 route-km Borders Railway. The launch of revenue service comes amid a week of celebrations marking the reopening of approximately a third of the former Edinburgh – ...
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NewsMetro trains to feature ‘elephant tusk’ inspired lighting
INDIA: Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has revealed the future appearance of the 25 Metropolis trainsets which are to be supplied by Alstom Transport’s s Sricity plant. Alstom’s Design & Styling department at Saint-Ouen in France collaborated on the design with KMRL and Tata Elxsi, which devised the livery. Their brief ...
