Main line rail industry news – Page 511
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NewsBLS selects Stadler for its largest rolling stock order
SWITZERLAND: BLS has selected Stadler for the largest rolling stock order it has placed, a SFr650m contract covering the supply of 58 single-deck electric multiple-units in 2021-26. The order includes 30 EMUs for RegioExpress services and 28 for S-Bahn Bern routes. The 105 m long six-car 160 km/h Flirt units ...
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NewsStrasbourg trams cross the border
FRANCE: April 29 marked the start of tram services from Strasbourg into Germany, following a ceremony the previous day with French and German officials. German Chancellery Chief of Staff Peter Altmaier called the start of services ‘an especially important, perhaps historic event’, and praised the co-operation between the two ...
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NewsRoca electrification reaches City Bell
ARGENTINA: Electric services began operating between Berazategui and City Bell on April 24, marking completion of the latest phase of the project to electrify the Roca commuter route between Buenos Aires and La Plata at 25 kV 50 Hz. According to the Ministry of Transport, work continues with the aim ...
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NewsFeature articles in the May 2017 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the latest issue of Railway Gazette International, the leading business journal for railway operators and suppliers, read in 140 countries. Subscribe to Railway Gazette International today. Comment Follow the money News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers Analysis ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Easyfresh Logistics has undertaken a trial movement of refrigerated containers between Silla near Valencia in Spain and Moerdijk in the Netherlands, using Transfesa facilities at the break of gauge at the Portbou/Cerbère border crossing into France. It is hoped to start a regular service this summer, covering the 1 800 ...
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NewsGB Railfreight to implement Ideagen safety software
UK: GB Railfreight is to implement Ideagen’s Coruson cloud-based compliance management software, which it expects will help improve safety, reporting and risk management and ensure that risk-based decisions are taken using the most recent and accurate data. Coruson will also provide a direct link to the Safety Management Intelligence System ...
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NewsSubsea cable fault detection demonstrated to rail industry
UK: Viper Innovation recently held an industry event to demonstrate potential rail signalling power supply applications for its CableGuardian technology which is used in the undersea oil and gas sector to monitor, detect and locate of cable insulation and conductor faults. Cable failures can have a variety of causes ranging ...
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NewsSaeed Mohammadzadeh
Dr Saeed Mohammadzadeh has replaced Mohsen Pourseyed Aghaei as President of Iranian national railway holding group RAI. He also serves as Vice-Minister for Road & Urban Development and as a Professor at the Railways Faculty of the national Science & Industry University in Tehran.
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NewsMontecargo privatisation cancelled
MONTENEGRO: The Council for Privatisation & Capital Projects has cancelled plans to sell stakes in national rail freight operator Montecargo and port operator Luka Bar to Poland’s OT Logistics Group. The tender commission believed that while sole bidder OT Logistics was a credible investor and the process ...
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NewsAbellio orders Talent EMUs
GERMANY: Abellio has placed a firm order for Bombardier Transportation to supply a further five Talent 2 electric multiple-units for use on the Neckartal services from Stuttgart which it is to operate from June 2019 under a contract awarded by the Land of Baden-Württemberg. The order for two three-car and ...
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NewsSiemens to buy planning software company HaCon
GERMANY: Siemens announced an agreement to acquire Hannover-based planning, scheduling and information systems software provider HaCon on April 28. The parties have agreed not to disclose financial details of the deal, which subject to regulatory approval is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017. HaCon is to ...
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NewsMTR Corp to assist MRT Jakarta
INDONESIA: Project promoter MRT Jakarta signed a memorandum of understanding with the MTR Academy on April 27 to support the development of the city’s first metro line. The MTR Academy will share operational, maintenance and human resource experiences from its home market in Hong Kong, and will help MRT ...
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NewsHitachi trainset for Devon and Cornwall sets sail from Japan
UK: The first of the Hitachi AT300 electro-diesel trainsets for Great Western Railway services from London to Devon and Cornwall left the Japanese port of Kobe on April 26, and is expected to arrive in Southampton during June. GWR and leasing company Eversholt Rail ordered 22 five-car and ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Gabon has become the first African country to ratify the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. ABB and IBM have announced a strategic collaboration to bring together ABB Ability data capture and IBM Watson artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for ...
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NewsB Logistics renamed Lineas as it aims for modal shift
BELGIUM: The part-privatised former SNCB freight business has been rebranded from B Logistics to Lineas, reflecting what the company sees as a change in focus from survival and business transformation to growth. The new name was chosen to be 'completely different', international and to reflect an ambition to create 'lines' ...
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NewsKonya metro route confirmed
TURKEY: Konya Metropolitan Municipality has finalised plans for a two-line metro network in the city. To be built in three stages, the network would connect the city’s main universities and hospitals. Plans for a metro were originally published in 2015, and a feasibility study started in November 2016. Geological ...
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NewsMRCE sells diesel locomotives
EUROPE: Irish-registered RIVE Rail Leasing Ltd has acquired 32 Vossloh diesel shunting locomotives from Mitsui Rail Capital Europe, in a transaction co-arranged by Paribus Capital and Paris-based RIVE Private Investment. Senior debt was structured and provided by KfW IPEX-Bank. RIVE Rail Leasing is a joint venture between investors advised by ...
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NewsPolRegio receives first Pesa Link DMU
POLAND: Pesa officially handed over the first of a batch of Link diesel multiple-units to national local passenger operator PolRegio in Warszawa on April 27. PolRegio placed an order in February for three two-car DMUs for 37·6m zloty, with options for two more at 25·1m złoty. Pesa was the ...
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NewsRegioJet partners with GKB to enter the Austrian market
AUSTRIA: Czech open access operator RegioJet is to enter the Austrian passenger market with the launch of four daily Wien – Břeclav – Brno – Praha return services from the December 2017 timetable change. The inter-city services would have ‘the best prices on the market’, RegioJet said, with its onboard ...
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NewsUK railway news round-up
RSSB has published its Standardisation of Coupling Arrangements report which recommends that trains travelling at speeds under 250 km/h should use couplers compatible with the Scharfenberg Type 12 and Voith 136 design. RSSB said there is currently only a 50% chance that the nearest locomotive to a broken-down train has ...