All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2013 – Page 3
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NewsTBM arrives for Rio Line 4
BRAZIL: Work is now underway in Rio de Janeiro to assemble a 2 000 tonne Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine that is to be used in the construction of metro Line 4 from Ipanema to Barra da Tijuca. At 120 m long and with a diameter of 11⋅5 m, the TBM ...
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NewsOil to fund electrification and reduced journey times
DENMARK: Electrification of all main lines 'as soon as practicable' and works to reduce each leg of a København - Odense - Aarhus - Aalborg journey to 1 h are to be financed from North Sea oil revenues through a DKr27·5bn Togfonden DK infrastructure investment fund, the government announced on ...
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NewsRail at heart of US$68bn investment programme
THAILAND: Construction of four standard-gauge dedicated passenger lines and the doubling of 3 000 route-km of metre-gauge lines is at the heart of a US$67·6bn infrastructure investment bill approved by cabinet ministers in Bangkok on March 20. Rail infrastructure accounts for the lion’s share of the planned capital outlay, with ...
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NewsOperators to install DMU driver advisory systems
UK: Knorr-Bremse has been awarded two contracts to fit its Leader Driver Advisory System to Bombardier diesel multiple-units operated by Govia's Southern and London Midland franchises. The operators are hoping to see improved timekeeping and a reduction in fuel consumption as a result of optimised driving techniques. Leader DAS uses ...
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NewsJoint venture to produce brakes for the 1520 market
RUSSIA: Russian Railways subsidiary Federal Freight Co and Knorr-Bremse have established the Knorr-Bremse 1520 joint venture to manufacture rolling stock braking products for the CIS market. Manufacturing will initially be undertaken at Knorr-Bremse's Voronezh plant, until the completion of a €26m factory at Tver during 2014. The company is ...
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NewsEU supports Slovenian GSM-R roll-out
SLOVENIA: The European Commission agreed on March 15 to provide €99m from the Cohesion Fund to support the €149·5m national roll-out of GSM-R. The project will require more than 250 base stations on the 1 230 route-km rail network, along with a central control system and management centre. Completion is ...
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NewsDB agrees to fit ETCS on Corridor A
GERMANY: Introduction of ERTMS on the Emmerich - Basel section of the Rotterdam - Genova Corridor A is to be completed by the end of 2018, Deutsche Bahn confirmed on March 8. Under the deployment strategy outlined by the European Commission in 2008, six priority corridors were due to be ...
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NewsJR East introduces 320 km/h running
JAPAN: With the launch of its new timetable on March 16, East Japan Railway began regular operation at 320 km/h between Utsonomiya and Morioka on the Tohoku Shinkansen, using its Series E5 trainsets. This is currently the fastest permitted speed for revenue services in Japan. Derived from the Fastech 360 ...
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NewsCaltrain upgrading deal agreed
USA: Work to upgrade and electrify the Caltrain commuter rail corridor between San Francisco and San Jose to accommodate high speed trains is set to move forward, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the California High Speed Rail Authority and the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board which ...
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NewsNomad Digital acquires Inova Multimedia
GERMANY: Nomad Digital announced its acquisition of the assets and contracts of public transport information, entertainment and CCTV system supplier Inova Multimedia on March 19. Inova has delivered more than 28 000 display screens to customers including Alstom, Bombardier, Siemens, BLS and NBC Universal, for use in Germany, Austria, Belgium, ...
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NewsOperating contracts awarded by Länder
GERMANY: The Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has awarded DB Regio a contract to operate Ost-West services for 15 years from 2015. The contract covers the operation of around 3·5 million train-km/year on non-electrified routes from Pasewalk to Lübeck, Grambow, Bützow and Ueckermünde. Meanwhile, Sachsen-Anhalt and Brandenburg have awarded the Mitteldeutsche S-Bahn-Netz ...
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NewsJR East to test CBTC
JAPAN: East Japan Railway has shortlisted two European companies for a project to install communications-based train control on one of its Tokyo suburban lines. Alstom and Thales have been selected to bid for the work, which covers a 29·7 km section of the Joban Local Line between Ayase and ...
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NewsUnified railway law aims to boost Europe - Asia freight
INTERNATIONAL: A joint declaration expressing willingness to create a common legal regime for rail traffic across Asia and Europe was signed by 37 countries at a ministerial meeting in Genève on February 26. The aim is to establish 'a unified set of transparent and predictable' legal conditions for international rail ...
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NewsViaduct protection
UK: During a £12m upgrade of Network Rail’s Ouseburn Viaduct which carries the UK’s East Coast Main Line in Newcastle, Carillion identified a problem just above the rocker plates where, owing to limited access for applying protective paint, there was a potential for rainwater to build up. This could ...
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NewsNews in Brief
India’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved construction of a 121·7 km broad-gauge line from Gevra Road to Pendra Road in Chhattisgarh. The Rs8·4bn project will by undertaken by a special purpose vehicle formed by Ircon International, South Eastern Coalfields and the state of Chhattishgarh. Swiss firm InterRail Holding ...
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NewsAirline training for railway staff
UK: Train operator First Great Western has reached agreement with low-cost airline Flybe for more than 1 000 of its staff to participate in a purpose-designed customer service training course at the Flybe Training Academy near Exeter and at FGW's training unit at London Paddington over the next nine months. ...
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News'No delay' to High Speed 2 as legal challenges dismissed
UK: Under-Secretary of State for Transport Simon Burns confirmed on March 15 that there would be ‘no delay’ to the planned High Speed 2 railway between London and the north of England after a series of legal challenges to the project were dismissed at the High Court ...
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NewsLegal framework to support Islamabad - Istanbul freight
PAKISTAN: The Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail expects that Pakistan will become its 49th member state in September, after the government deposited an application for accession to the COTIF convention on February 21. The convention sets out a legal framework for international rail transport, and Pakistan's accession is ...
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NewsWorld rail market March 2013
China: Construction contractor Samsung-Hsin Chong JV has appointed BMT Asia Pacific to provide system assurance and risk management for the Kowloon City Section of Hong Kong’s Shatin – Central Link project. Mexico: The Secretariat of Communications & Transportation has extended Viabilis’ concession for the Chiapas – Mayab railway from ...