Main line rail industry news – Page 456
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market - December 2017
Canada: CP has awarded Ensco Rail a contract to provide track geometry and rail profile inspection systems for a new track evaluation vehicle. Czech Republic: Kapsch CarrierCom has won a KC294m contract to install GSM-R on the České Budějovice – Plzeň route and connecting lines, a total of 153 ...
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NewsKeolis’ Lille operations contract renewed
FRANCE: The Métropole Européenne de Lille municipal authority has renewed its contract with Keolis for the operation of the city’s Transpole public transport network, it announced on December 15. The seven-year contract runs from April 1 2018, and covers metro, tram and bus services, as well as ...
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NewsWorld rail market - December 2017
Portugal: Siscog is to supply Medway with a locomotive and crew scheduling and management package based on its Fleet and Crews products. Taiwan: Ricardo is to provide verification services for the construction of the 27 km Taoyuan metro Green Line. Ukraine: UZ has awarded Deloitte ...
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NewsRail-specification ball valves developed
VALVES: IMI Precision Engineering has developed a range of robust ball valves specially designed to meet rolling stock standards and to offer consistency across a temperature range between -40°C and +85°C. The range includes lever, latching or locking handles for on-board applications including door and step systems and wagon controls. ...
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NewsCentre-Val de Loire orders double-deck TET trainsets
FRANCE: The Centre-Val de Loire region has ordered a fleet of 32 double-deck EMUs from Bombardier to operate 200 km/h inter-city services on three TET routes. The Omneo Premium trainsets are expected to enter service from 2020, with all in traffic by 2022. Placed by SNCF Mobilités on behalf of ...
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NewsCN orders 200 GE diesel locos
CANADA: In order to ‘accommodate future growth opportunities and drive operational efficiency’, Canadian National announced on December 22 that it had ordered 200 new diesel locomotives from GE Transportation for delivery over the next three years. The order includes a mix of EPA Tier 4 compliant Evolution Series locomotives and ...
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NewsLighter and safer seats
SEATS: Commuters at opposite sides of the USA are now sitting on BASF’s Basotect open cell melamine foam, which Rogers Corp is using in BART and Long Island Rail Road seat cushions. According to BASF, the foam’s density of less than 9 kg/m3 helps reduce the overall weight of seats, ...
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NewsAmtrak launches New York Penn navigation app
USA: Amtrak has launched FindYourWay, an iOS and Android app based on the Zyter platform which uses more than 400 beacons inside New York Penn station to provide real-time gate, train and boarding information as well as directions to gates, exits, cash machines and restaurants. The beacons use Bluetooth Low ...
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NewsMauritius orders Urbos LRVs
MAURITIUS: CAF is to supply a fleet of 18 Urbos light rail vehicles to operate the Metro Express light rail line, following the signing of a €100m contract with Larsen & Toubro Ltd on December 26. The Indian firm is responsible for procuring the rolling stock as part of its ...
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NewsMachine learning to customise journey planning
UK: The University of Surrey has been awarded £230 000 from the Department for Transport through Innovate UK to create an onward journey planning assistant which would learn a user’s needs to enable it to offer tailored real-time alternative routes in the event of a delay to a journey. ...
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NewsModi inaugurates Delhi orbital metro line
INDIA: The first section of Delhi Metro Line 8 was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 25, being joined for the ceremony in Noida by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Governor Ram Naik. One of two fully-automated orbital lines now under construction as part of ...
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NewsWinter Olympic KTX line inaugurated
SOUTH KOREA: Revenue operations began on December 22 of the Seoul – Gangneung high speed railway, following an inauguration ceremony at Gangneung the previous day attended by Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon and officials from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport and the Ministry of Sports, Culture & Tourism. Linking ...
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NewsTapa – Tartu modernisation completed
ESTONIA: National railway Eesti Raudtee has completed a project to modernise 57 km of the Tapa – Tartu line to enable passenger trains to run at a maximum speed of 120 km/h and freight trains at 80 km/h. The EU met 85% of the €25m cost of the project, with ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Croatian open access freight company Transagent Špedicija is to deploy a former British Rail Class 92 multi-system locomotive previously used by DB Cargo Romania on intermodal services from the port of Rijeka to Hungary and Serbia. Austrian operator Stern & Hafferl has ordered a Bombardier Traxx F140 AC Last Mile ...
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NewsSamskip expands wagon fleet
EUROPE: Logistics company Samskip has taken delivery of the last of 100 Type T-3000 wagons manufactured by Slovakian company Tatravagónka which it is leasing from Nacco under a five-year deal. The wagons are designed to transport Mega Huckepack trailers as well as all types of containers. They are equipped with ...
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NewsRoad-rail vehicles eliminate manual handling during electrification installation
UK: Keltbray Aspire has worked with SRS Sjölanders to develop six mobile elevating work platform road-rail vehicles for use when installing overhead line electrification. Kelbray said the machines acquired at cost of more than £3m are a ‘UK first’. In addition to the 12 m reach, 500 kg mobile basket ...
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NewsTransmashholding invests in Argentina
ARGENTINA: Transmashholding of Russia is to spend US$3m to refurbish and reopen the Mechita rolling stock workshops in the province of Buenos Aires, under the terms of an agreement signed on December 20 by Franco Comparato, representing its local subsidiary TMH Argentina, and Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura President ...
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NewsAlstom takes majority stake in Kazakh joint venture
KAZAKHSTAN: Alstom announced on December 22 that it had signed an agreement to acquire from national railway KTZ its 25% stake in the EKZ electric locomotive production joint venture. Subject to regulatory approval, this would see Alstom hold 75% of the company, the remaining 25% owned by Transmashholding. When EKZ ...
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NewsElectric tests hit 160 km/h in Israel
ISRAEL: A Bombardier Traxx AC electric locomotive on test on the A1 fast line reached a new national record speed of 160 km/h on December 21. The test run took place on the 12 km section between Anava Junction and Latrun monastery, where final telecommunications fit-out works are in progress. ...
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NewsVirtual ticket agents aim to boost ticket machine use
UK: Greater Anglia says its is the first train operator in England to roll out Scheidt & Bachmann’s FareGo ViTA ‘virtual ticket agents’ across its ticket machines, enabling passengers who have a query to press a button to contact staff via a two-way audio link. The 196 Scheidt & Bachmann ...