All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2015
All articles published this month.
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NewsUrban rail news in brief
The first Kyiv metro Line 1 cars arrived at KVSZ’s workshops for modernisation last month. KVSZ is modernising 50 Line 1 cars in conjunction with Itochu, J-TREC, Mitsubishi Electric, Fuji Electric and Knorr-Bremse; this is the second phase of modernisation following the completion of phase 1 in 2014. ...
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NewsArriva’s Jylland operating contract extended
DENMARK: The Ministry of Transport has exercised an option for DB subsidiary Arriva Danmark to continue to operate local passenger services in central and western Jylland for a further two years. ‘We are obviously very pleased,’ said Arriva Danmark director Ivan Skødt Andersen on May 20. ‘We see it as ...
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NewsFS appoints privatisation advisors
ITALY: Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane has appointed advisors to assist with the flotation of a minority stake in the business, the state railway holding group announced on May 28. The advisory team will be led by McKinsey & Co, working with Ernst & Young Financial Business Advisors Spa and the ...
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NewsTel Aviv Red Line contractor selected
ISRAEL: Project authority NTA has selected a Chinese-Israeli joint venture to undertake civil works for the Red Line of the Tel Aviv light metro. The joint venture comprises the China Railway Tunnel Group subsidiary of China Railway Group (51%) and the Solel Boneh Infrastructure subsidiary of Shikun & Binui Group ...
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NewsTransport MEPs call for cross-border intermodal ticketing
EUROPE: Member states in the European Union should co-operate to share timetable and fare information in order to boost the development of intermodal ticketing, according to a report adopted by the European Parliament’s Transport & Tourism Committee on May 28. Due to be presented to the full Parliament in July, ...
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NewsLead role for Boswell
Hitachi Rail Europe Chairman Alistair Dormer has announced the appointment of Karen Boswell (photo) as Managing Director with effect from June 1. Formerly Managing Director of UK passenger operator East Coast, she succeeds Keith Jordan who is to take up an international role where he will be involved in the ...
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NewsMichael Finger
Supercapacitor and battery supplier Maxwell Technologies has named Michael Finger as Senior Vice-President of Global Sales.
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NewsSuzanne Tarplee
London-based legal practice Stephenson Harwood has seconded partner Suzanne Tarplee to high speed delivery company HS2 Ltd where she will serve as interim General Counsel and Company Secretary.
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NewsSherrye Hutcherson
Sherrye Hutcherson joined US Class I Union Pacific from Omaha Public Power District on May 4; she becomes UP’s Vice-President for Human Resources.
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NewsSteve Creighton
Siemens’ UK rail automation business has named Steve Creighton as Delivery Director, Central East. He will have responsibility for a number of signalling projects in eastern England.
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NewsLucky moves on
The Chief Executive of Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa Lucky Montana has revealed that he will not seek to renew his contract with the operator when it ends in March 2016. Speaking to local media, Montana said that his decision to leave PRASA was partly a result of health ...
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NewsUrgent action needed to reverse TET decline
FRANCE: Urgent action is needed to save SNCF’s network of conventional long-distance passenger services, says Philippe Duron in his foreword to a report on the future of these Trains d’Equilibre du Territoire, submitted to the government on May 26. Socialist MP for Calvados, Duron has presided over a committee of ...
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NewsJR West picks MerMec inspection technology
JAPAN: West Japan Railway Company has selected MerMec to supply machine-vision technology for its track inspection fleet, the railway’s General Manager Eiji Tsubone announced at a meeting of the EU-Japan Industrial Dialogue on Railways & Urban Transport Suppliers in Brussels on May 21. Following ‘a long tendering and evaluation period’, ...
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NewsAlstom acquires Balfour Beatty stake in Signalling Solutions Ltd
SSL: Alstom announced its acquisition of Balfour Beatty’s 50% stake in the Signalling Solutions Ltd joint venture on May 28, giving it sole ownership. The price was not disclosed. Alstom said the business would ‘continue to trade as SSL for the foreseeable future.’ The 50:50 joint venture was established by ...
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NewsHitachi Rail Europe opens Milton Keynes office
UK: Hitachi Rail Europe has opened an office in Milton Keynes to house its Learning & Development division and also the project team working on the AT200 electric multiple-units ordered for Abellio's ScotRail franchise. There will initially be 25 staff at the office, with capacity for up to 50. Hitachi ...
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NewsSwitzerland unveils biggest timetable shake-up since Bahn 2000
SWITZERLAND: This year’s timetable change on December 13 will be ‘the most ambitious since the introduction of Bahn 2000 in 2004’, Swiss Federal Railways announced on May 26. Long-distance services are set to expand by 660 000 train-km, or about 1%, while regional services will increase by 2·3 million train-km, ...
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NewsIneco studies Cairo - Luxor high speed line
EGYPT: Spanish state-owned engineering consultancy Ineco announced on May 27 that it is to carry out a feasibility study for building a high speed line between Cairo and Luxor. According to Ineco, this 600 km route between the country’s two principal cities would be major addition to Egypt’s tourist infrastructure. ...
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NewsRail Connection wagon leasing joint venture formed
USA: Industrial and transport sector investment advisor ITE Management and the Rail Connection Inc subsidiary of wagon repair and maintenance company Appalachian Railcar Services have formed a joint venture to acquire, lease and operate wagons. The companies said the Rail Connection LLC joint venture would ‘focus on ...
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NewsVolkerRail awarded Zwolle – Wierden electrification contract
NETHERLANDS: Infrastructure manager ProRail and the province of Overijssel have awarded VolkerRail a contract to electrify the 40 km Zwolle – Wierden section of the 67 km Zwolle – Enschede route. The 1·5 kV DC electrification will enable electric multiple-units to replace diesel in December 2017, when operations are ...