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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 ...
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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 ...