Main line rail industry news – Page 517
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NewsKuala Lumpur – Singapore design consultants appointed
MALAYSIA: Promoter MyHSR Corp has selected a mix of international and domestic firms to work as Reference Design Consultants on the Kuala Lumpur – Singapore high speed line project, the company announced on April 3. The consultants will be responsible for preparing the reference designs for the infrastructure alignment and ...
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NewsQuiet wagons mandatory by 2020
GERMANY: Noisy freight wagons will effectively be banned from the national rail network from the December 13 2020 timetable change, after Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt announced on March 30 that the Bundestag had passed legislation requiring the use of low-noise freight wagons as part of his ‘Quiet Rail Strategy’. ...
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NewsInnovative engineering underpins new Ilkeston station
UK: New stations at Ilkeston in Derbyshire and Low Moor in West Yorkshire opened on April 2. Passenger trains began calling at Ilkeston for the first time since 1967 with the opening of the £10m station following a project led by Derbyshire County Council. This was supported by an £4·5m ...
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NewsSNCF orders 30 Coradias for TET services
FRANCE: SNCF Mobilités has awarded Alstom a €250m contract to supply a further 30 Alstom Coradia multiple-units. These are scheduled to be delivered from September 2018 for use on Trains d'Equilibre du Territoire long-distance services on the Paris – Amiens – Boulogne, Paris – Bourges – Montluçon, Clermont-Ferrand – Nîmes, ...
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NewsBucurești metro expands
ROMANIA: A 2 km extension of metro Line M4 in București opened to passengers on March 31, taking the line northwest from Parc Bazilescu to Straulești with an intermediate station at Laminorului. Construction was completed on December 19. The project also includes the construction of a depot and a ...
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NewsBangkok Sukhumvit Line extended
THAILAND: A southern extension of the Sukhumvit Line in Bangkok opened at 13.00 on April 3, from Bearing to Samrong. Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang attended the opening ceremony for the new section of the elevated metro line. Samrong will offer interchange with the future Yellow Line monorail, which is ...
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NewsGurgaon metro Phase 2 opens
INDIA: Phase 2 of the Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon elevated metro opened on March 31. The 7 km southern extension takes the route to Sector 55-56, with five stations. Work began in October 2012, with Siemens acting as lead contractor. In June 2013 IL&FS Engineering & Construction announced that it ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Slovakian operator Express Group has bought from ŽOS Zvolen two refurbished Škoda Type 61E electric locos previously operated by ZSSK Cargo. These will be used for expansion into the 3 kV DC area in northern Slovakia and Poland. Express Group also plans to acquire a third Siemens ES64F4 loco in ...
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NewsSafety train on tour
USA: Norfolk Southern’s safety train has begun a 23-city tour to provide free emergency response training to first responders including fire and law enforcement departments, medical services and hazmat response teams, military and homeland security personnel and railway customers and suppliers. The train comprises a specially branded locomotive, two vans ...
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NewsFeature articles in the April 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 Riding the dragon News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers Analysis ...
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NewsVlexx signs Saarland Talent 3 EMU order
GERMANY: Vlexx has awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract to supply 21 three-car Talent 3 electric multiple-units. These will be used from December 2019 on regional services which it is to operate under the SaarRB Lot 2 contract awarded by local transport authorities in Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz during January. The EMUs ...
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NewsGO Transit RER receives C$1·8bn in federal funding
CANADA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on March 31 that the federal government is to provide C$1·8bn towards the GO Transit Regional Express Rail project being developed in the Greater Golden Horseshoe centred on Toronto. The money is to come from the New Building Canada Fund, with the province ...
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NewsDB Regio orders more Coradia Continental units
GERMANY: DB Regio has awarded Alstom a contract to supply 26 Coradia Continental electric multiple-units for use in Nordrhein-Westfalen and Rheinland-Pfalz. The firm order announced on March 31 has been placed within a 2012 framework agreement for the supply of up to 400 units, the first 28 of which entered ...
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NewsCatania metro reaches Nesima
ITALY: An extension of the Catania metro opened from Borgo to Nesima on March 31, with two days of free travel. The 3 km section has four stations. This is the second extension since the metro line opened in 1999. On December 20 a 1·9 km extension opened at ...
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NewsDigital freight train partnership formed
FRANCE: SNCF Logistics and maritime freight technology company Traxens have announced a partnership to develop technology for monitoring and real-time tracking of freight trains. This follows a year of research and testing of digital equipment for use in the rail environment. The project is to be launched at the Transport ...
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NewsLondon Underground orders Chinese wagons
UK: Transport for London has awarded the CRRC Shandong subsidiary of Chinese rolling stock conglomerate CRRC a contract to supply wagons to support track renewal and maintenance activities on the London Underground network. The order confirmed by CRRC on March 23 includes 66 open wagons and five flatbed wagons, along ...
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NewsGreek transport projects to receive EU funds
GREECE: Metro projects in Thessaloniki and Athens are to receive investment from EU cohesion funds, the European Commission announced on March 24. The grants form part of a €1·3bn funding package that would allow projects started in the 2007-13 EU budget period to be completed in the 2014-20 budget period. ...
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NewsMoscow metro maintenance contract awarded
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro awarded Metrowagonmash a 25bn rouble contract on March 28 to maintain 50 eight-car Oka trainsets. These were produced by Metrowagonmash in 2012-14 and are stabled at the Ismailovo and Varshavskoye depots. Under the contract, 46 trainsets of the 50 have to be available for service each day. ...
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NewsIsaac Martín-Barbero
Isaac Martín-Barbero has succeeded Jesús Silva as President of Spanish state-owned engineering consultancy Ineco.
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NewsTrams run in Samarkand
UZBEKISTAN: Regular passenger services started on the first phase of the Samarkand tram network on March 29. Test running had started on March 26. The initial 6·4 km route links the city’s main station with the Sat Tepo district using an alignment mostly running in road medians. Construction of ...