Main line rail industry news – Page 496
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
In order to focus on the road sector, Sensys Gatso Group has signed an agreement for Ricardo Rail to sell its Automatic Pantograph Monitoring System and later manufacture it under licence. ‘This strategic co-operation with Ricardo Rail allows us to focus on our core business, while still being able ...
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NewsEuro Cargo Rail restructuring on course
FRANCE: DB Cargo subsidiary Euro Cargo Rail announced on July 4 that restructuring had completed a key stage, with its redundancy programme agreed by the unions and approved on June 23 by the government regional office responsible for employment. ECR had begun negotiations with the unions in December 2016, originally ...
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NewsNorthern’s Pacer replacement multiple-units under construction
UK: The first of the Civity UK multiple-units ordered for Arriva’s Northern franchise in northern England are now under construction at CAF’s factories at Irun and Zaragoza in Spain. The 25 two-car and 30 three-car Class 195 diesel multiple-units and 31 three-car and 12 four-car 25 kV 50 Hz Class ...
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NewsBHEL and Kawasaki sign metro rolling stock agreement
INDIA: BHEL and Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a technology collaboration agreement on June 29 covering the manufacture of stainless steel metro cars and bogies. Under the agreement, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities are to be established at BHEL’s Indian site using Japanese technology. BHEL says that the agreement ...
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NewsICF rolls out new generation Kolkata metro train prototype
INDIA: Indian Railways’ Integral Coach Factory in Chennai rolled out the first of two prototype metro trainsets for the Kolkata metro on July 4 in the presence of Railway Board Chairman A K Mittal. According to ICF, the use of three-phase IGBT AC traction equipment and regenerative braking means ...
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NewsJeffrey Rosen
The US Senate has confirmed lawyer and former Amtrak board member Jeffrey Rosen as Deputy Secretary at the federal Department of Transportation.
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NewsUK railway news round-up
Caledonian Sleeper has introduced a bus link from Crianlarich to Oban for a 14-week trial period, operated by West Coast Motors and funded by Transport Scotland. This avoids the need for passengers to wait at Crianlarich for the next train. The bus connects with sleeper arrivals on Monday to Saturday ...
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NewsDB Regio retains re-routed RB27 contract
GERMANY: Following a European tender, the Rheinland, Rhein-Ruhr and Rheinland-Pfalz Nord transport authorities announced on June 30 that they had selected incumbent DB Regio NRW for the next contract to operate passenger service RB27 from Mönchengladbach to Köln and Koblenz. The contract runs for seven years from December 2019 and ...
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NewsKuala Lumpur – Singapore high speed rail tender to be called this year
ASIA: Almost 400 participants from 165 supply, consultancy, finance and operating organisations attended an industry briefing organised by Kuala Lumpur – Singapore high speed line project promoters MyHSR Corp and Land Transport Authority on July 5. The event in Singapore was held to provide information and seek feedback on the ...
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NewsRotterdam tests hydrogen fuel cell buses
NETHERLANDS: Two hydrogen fuel cell electric buses started test running in Rotterdam on June 30, ahead of entry into service later this year. In early 2016 transport authority RET signed a contract for Van Hool to supply the first zero-emission buses to Rotterdam from its factory in Koningshooikt in ...
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NewsSolaris to supply more electric buses to Warszawa
POLAND: Warszawa bus operator MZA has ordered 10 Urbino 12 electric buses from Solaris Bus & Coach, the supplier announced on July 3. The 12 m long buses powered by lithium ion batteries are expected to enter service from the start of 2018. MZA ordered 10 Urbino 12 electric ...
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NewsSNCF buys online ticket retailer Loco2
FRANCE: Independent online ticket retailer Loco2 announced on July 5 that it had been bought by SNCF’s Voyages-sncf.com business. Loco2 co-founders Kate and Jamie Andrews will remain with the business they launched in 2012. Kate Andrews said it would continue to operate as an independent company, but the new owner ...
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NewsElectric buses ordered for Malmö
SWEDEN: Bus operator Nobina has ordered 13 Volvo 7900 Electric buses, the manufacturer announced on June 28. Due to enter service on the 14·7 km Route 7 in Malmö from the end of 2018, the 12 m long buses will be powered by lithium ion batteries. These will be ...
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NewsNapoli – Bari double-tracking commissioned
ITALY: As part of the project to create a high speed, high capacity route between Napoli and Bari, a 21 km section of double-track on the Foggia – Benevento – Caserta line was commissioned on June 28. A special train worked by an ETR485 tilting trainset conveyed Transport Minister Graziano ...
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NewsBombardier Transportation relocates Berlin headquarters
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation moved its global headquarters in Berlin to Brookfield Properties Germany’s Eichhornstraße 3 building with effect from July 3. There are around 250 employees at the new headquarters near Potsdamer Platz, which has been laid out with a focus on collaboration, personal productivity and flexibility, as well as ...
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NewsSaudi Arabia invites interest in operating its rail network
SAUDI ARABIA: The national Public Transport Authority has invited international railway operators and investors to express interest in forming a long-term partnership to operate the country’s rail network. The process forms part of the Saudi Vision 2030 programme, which aims to increase the role of the private sector in the ...
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NewsBern station expansion gets underway
SWITZERLAND: A long-discussed project to expand the main station in Bern was officially launched on July 3, following completion of the planning approval process on June 26. The Zukunft Bahnhof Bern project is intended to provide much-needed capacity increases in several areas, as both the SBB through station and the ...
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NewsHeathrow Airport 22 train/h service agreed
UK: Heathrow Airport Ltd, Transport for London and the Department for Transport have reached an agreement for Elizabeth Line services to run to Terminal 5, with the total number of rail services to the airport to increase from 18 to 22 trains/h in 2019. Planned rail services to Heathrow ...
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NewsGreen Cargo orders Transmontana locomotives
SWEDEN: Green Cargo has ordered two Transmontana electric locomotives from Romanian company Softronic for delivery in mid-2018. The freight operator expects the new locomotives to be able to haul trains of up to 3 000 tonnes, twice the load of its Rc locomotives dating from the 1970s. Announcing the order ...
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NewsXPT train and track monitoring contract awarded
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales TrainLink has awarded remote conditioning monitoring specialist Perpetuum a five-year contract to collect and monitor rolling stock and track information using sensors which will be fitted to the fleet of XPT power cars used on inter-city passenger services. This is the UK-based company’s first multi-year contract ...