Main line rail industry news – Page 12
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NewsVioleta Bulc named European Rail Champion as concerns over skills and diversity grow
EUROPE: Former European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc and Danish national operator DSB were the winners of the two annual awards handed out by trade associations CER and UNIFE at the European Railway Award in Brussels on January 29.
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NewsPort Harcourt – Aba tracklaying completed
NIGERIA: China Civil Engineering Construction Corp has announced the completion of tracklaying for the modernisation of the 1 067 mm gauge line running 63 km from Port Harcourt to Aba. Nigeria Railway Corp Managing Director Fidet Okhiria said services would commence in a few months once ...
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NewsCzech suppliers target Middle East rail opportunities
INTERNATIONAL: Rail and urban transport manufacturers sought to identify opportunities in Middle Eastern markets during a trade mission organised by national rail industry association ACRI as part of Czech President Petr Pavel’s state visit to Qatar and Israel. ACRI Chief Executive Marie Vopálenská said there the ...
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NewsRail projects awarded EU military mobility funding
EUROPE: Rail freight facility development and capacity enhancement projects are included in 38 schemes to upgrade transport infrastructure for dual civilian and defence purposes which have been selected to receive €807m of Connecting Europe Facility funding.
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NewsDaejeon suburban railway construction starts
SOUTH KOREA: Construction has started on the 35·4 km first phase of the Chungcheong Province suburban railway serving Daejeon.
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NewsAI Mobility Lab at InnoTrans 2024
INNOTRANS: Companies involved in artificial intelligence, robotics, cybersecurity and data protection in the transport sector will be displaying their services in a dedicated AI Mobility Lab at the InnoTrans 2024 trade fair. Exhibitors in Hall 7.1a will include Konux, which offers AI for predictive maintenance, network ...
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NewsCo-operation to promote sustainable transport in Europe and Latin America
INTERNATIONAL: Spanish government-owned engineering consultancy Ineco and Latin America and Caribbean development bank CAF have signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of establishing a framework to share knowledge and promote the competitiveness of the transport sector. This includes an emphasis on the railway sector ...
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NewsLimerick commuter rail station and upgrading studies commissioned
IRELAND: National railway Iarnród Éireann has appointed AtkinsRéalis to support the development of plans for three stations in Limerick and Dublin and an expansion of capacity on the line to Ennis. The Limerick Shannon Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy includes a proposal for the development of a ...
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NewsAustralian rail sector promotes non-university career paths
AUSTRALIA: The Australasian Railway Association says that thousands of jobs are on offer across Australia in more than 80 careers in rail, and has launched an initiative aimed at school leavers seeking a path into work that does not require a university-level qualification. According to ARA ...
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NewsLyon – Torino tunnel boring machine handed over
EUROPE: The fourth of seven tunnel boring machines being used to excavate the Mont Cenis base tunnel has been formally presented to the Lyon – Torino project promoter TELT at Herrenknecht’s Schwanau factory in Germany, at a ceremony attended by Piemonte Region’s Transport Councillor, Marco Gabusi.
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NewsHitachi Rail to sell signalling businesses to MerMec
EUROPE: Hitachi Rail and MerMec have signed a put option agreement for the sale of Hitachi Rail’s main line signalling business in France and its signalling business units in Germany and the UK. A put option gives the seller the right, but not an obligation, to ...
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NewsBallastless track selected for Koper – Divača project
SLOVENIA: Project promoter 2TDK has selected RailOne’s Rheda 2000 slab track system for use on the second line being built on a new alignment to increase capacity between the port of Koper and the main line at Divača. The Institute of Civil Engineering of Slovenia, building ...
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NewsIndian electric locomotive brake contract awarded
INDIA: Siemens Mobility has awarded Wabtec Corp a Rs13bn contract to supply braking systems for 1 200 electric freight locomotives to be produced for Indian Railways. In January 2023 IR awarded Siemens a Rs260bn contract to supply and maintain 9 000 hp locos able to haul ...
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NewsDSB unveils Talgo 230 for Denmark – Hamburg services
DENMARK: The first of the Talgo 230 trainsets for national passenger operator DSB’s long-distance and international EuroCity services was unveiled in København in January 25.
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NewsRailfluencer Festival to be held at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: Influencers and bloggers will be able to meet leaders from the transport sector during the first international Railfluencer Festival, taking place at InnoTrans 2024. The festival is to be held on the morning of September 27. The programme will include a mix of lectures, photo ...
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NewsHydrogen high speed train to be developed
SPAIN: A group of Spanish companies has been awarded funding for the Hympulso project to power a Talgo 250 gauge-changing high speed trainset using renewable hydrogen. Talgo Class 730 electro-diesel trainsets used by national operator RENFE have a power car behind each driving car containing a ...
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NewsElectric loco modernisation aims to improve performance and efficiency
ROMANIA: National passenger operator CFR Călători has awarded contracts for the modernisation of 19 Electroputere LE5100 electric locomotives to bring their energy efficiency and reliability up to modern standards. The modernisation is being undertaken by locomotive overhaul contractor Reloc, with ABB supplying the traction equipment including ...
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NewsWork starts on next stage of Budapest southern ring capacity scheme
HUNGARY: Construction work on the second phase of the project to add capacity to Budapest’s Southern Circle railway ring between Kelenföld and Ferencváros started on January 15, the Ministry of Construction & Transport has announced.