Main line rail industry news – Page 454
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NewsChongqing – Guiyang line opens
CHINA: A more direct Chongqing – Guiyang line which is suitable for 200 km/h operation opened on January 25, reducing the journey time between the cities from 10½ h to 2 h. Construction of the 347 km line had been launched on December 22 2010. The total cost of the ...
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NewsElectric buses enter service in Bratislava
SLOVAKIA: The first four of 18 electric buses that SOR is supplying entered revenue service in Bratislava on January 26. The two 12 m long NS 12 buses and two 8 m long EBN 8 vehicles are fitted with pantographs, although until the opportunity charging stations are completed, they ...
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NewsAlexandria electric bus contract signed
EGYPT: Alexandria Passenger Transportation Authority signed a contract with BYD on January 24 for the supply of 15 electric buses. Deliveries of the 12 m long K9 buses are due to begin in the first half of this year. BYD will also supply 18 charging masts.
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NewsPNR orders Indonesian DMUs
PHILIPPINES: State railway PNR has ordered two diesel-electric multiple-units from Indonesian rolling stock manufacturer PT Inka to boost its Manila suburban service between Tutuban and Alabang. The 485m pesos deal was signed on January 22 by PNR General Manager Junn Magno and PT Inka President Budi Noviantoro, at a ceremony ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Israeli cybersecurity start-up company Cylus has raised US$4·7m in seed funding from investors including Zohar Zisapel, a private investor and founder of technology group RAD, as well as Magma Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures and the SBI Group. ‘Current approaches to cybersecurity do not fit the architecture of railway networks today’, ...
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NewsFirst Lusail tram completed
QATAR: Alstom has presented the first Citadis for the Lusail Tram project to officials from Qatar Rail, following the completion of factory acceptance tests in France. Alstom is supplying 28 trams for the Lusail network. Branded Al Mehmel, the vehicles’ design is inspired by a type of ...
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NewsREMSA to host USA Pavilion at 'must-visit' InnoTrans 2018
INNOTRANS: The Railway Engineering-Maintenance Suppliers Association will once again host a USA Pavilion at InnoTrans 2018, providing US exhibitors with a turnkey service designed to ‘drastically simplify’ the process of exhibiting at an international trade fair. ‘The exclusive USA Pavilion provides a tremendous opportunity for US-based railway supply companies and ...
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NewsPoland adopts long-term infrastructure funding plan
POLAND: The Council of Ministers adopted a bill on January 16 which sets out a long-term railway maintenance budget for 2019-23. This is designed to enable national rail infrastructure manager PKP PLK to plan maintenance further in advance, reducing a backlog of work built up in previous years when large ...
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NewsElectric bus prototype on test in Poprad
SLOVAKIA: A prototype electric bus made by Troliga Bus started six to 12 months of trial operations in Poprad on January 23. The 12 m long low-floor Leonis EV is powered by synchronous permanent magnet motors mounted on the rear axle. The roof-mounted batteries take 4 h to recharge ...
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NewsUK railway news round-up
Hochtief has been appointed to build Great Western Railway's £40m Exeter Olds View Depot rolling stock maintenance depot. Construction is scheduled to start this spring for completion by early summer 2019. HS2 Ltd has published an outline concept for how the Colne Valley viaduct can be 'sensitively and aesthetically' ...
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NewsRENFE launches high speed to Castelló
SPAIN: National operator RENFE began operating high speed services between Madrid and Castelló de la Plana on January 23. Running over the high speed line from Madrid Atocha to Valencia and then on the 1 668 mm gauge Mediterranean Corridor to Castelló where a third rail has been laid on ...
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NewsMolten sulphur tank wagons ordered
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co’s TikhvinChemMash subsidiary is to supply 112 Type 15-6913 molten sulphur tank wagons to Gazprom’s transport business GazpromTrans under a 952m rouble contract. The design takes into account lessons learned from the operation of older vehicles and feedback from testing undertaken at Gazprom sites in Orenburg and ...
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NewsFlexity Wien starts test running
AUSTRIA: Transport Leader for Wien city council Ulli Sima joined officials from Wiener Linien and Bombardier Transportation to present the first Flexity Wien tram to the public on January 18, as testing of the vehicle started. Bombardier handed over the tram from its Wien factory at the end of ...
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NewsVibration analysis aims to reduce train door failures
EUROPE: A Vibration Analysis for Remote Condition Monitoring project funded from the EU’s H2020 Fast Track to Innovation programme aims to use remote monitoring to detect potential failures of train doors and predict their remaining lifetime. The vibration analysis algorithms will be combined with image recognition to distinguish between doors ...
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NewsGreen Cargo moves the same volume with fewer trains
SWEDEN: Green Cargo has begun using Innofreight's larger XXXL containers to deliver wood-based and refuse-derived fuel to Söderenergi’s fuel terminal in Nykvarn, enabling a reduction in the number of trains operated without reducing volumes. Green Cargo moves the fuel from Töva, Östavall, Ånge, Bastuträsk and Örnsköldsvik to Nykvarn, using double-headed ...
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NewsSitarail modernisation underway
AFRICA: Ceremonies were held in December to mark the formal start of work on a long-awaited project to rehabilitate the 1 260 km metre-gauge railway linking Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire with Ouagadougou in neighbouring Burkina Faso. Announced in mid-2015, the project was dependent upon renegotiation of the concession under which ...
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NewsPortugal plans €626m South International Corridor upgrading
PORTUGAL: Having called tenders in March last year for an €18·5m upgrading of the 11 km between Elvas and the Spanish border as part of the first phase of the proposed South International Corridor, infrastructure manager Infraestruturas de Portugal provided further details of the work programme in early January at ...
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NewsAdelaide electrification contract awarded
AUSTRALIA: Electrification of the 40 km Adelaide – Gawler suburban route is set to resume in the coming weeks, following the award of a contract for the first phase of the A$615m project. The South Australia state government announced on January 18 that it had selected Lendlease to complete 25 ...
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NewsTravel Support Cards to assist passengers with hidden disabilities
UK: Govia Thameslink Railway is introducing sets of Travel Support Cards to support passengers with hidden disabilities who need help with communication, such as those who are hard of hearing or have language or learning difficulties. The card has a ‘how you can help me’ space which is filled in ...
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NewsAutomatic train operation to be tested on Dutch freight corridor
NETHERLANDS: Automatic Train Operation is to be tested on the Betuwe Route dedicated freight line this year, following the signing of an agreement between infrastructure manager ProRail, freight operator Rotterdam Rail Feeding and technology supplier Alstom. It is planned that an RRF locomotive will run approximately 100 km from the ...