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NewsDB launches training programme for refugees
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has launched a railway training scheme for refugees who have previous experience of electrical engineering. An initial group of 15 people originally from Nigeria, Eritrea, Congo, Iran, Algeria, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia have been selected for the programme, which runs for 28 months and starts with ...
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NewsFeature articles in the November 2015 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 PTC standoff goes to the wire News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief October 2015
US customer group Consumers United for Rail Equality has been relaunched as Freight Rail Customer Alliance, with a wider remit to lobby government for 'competitive freight rail service and fair prices.' After a 10 year gap, Bulgaria's BDZ reintroduced dining cars on September 7. The initial service is on ...
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NewsWorld rail market October 2015
Algeria: Alstom has awarded Indra a €4·2m contract to supply magnetic and contactless fare collection systems for the Setif tramway. Australia: 4Tel passenger information systems using track circuit and GPS data are being insalled on V/Line’s Bendigo Line. Germany: DB Netz has licensed SBB’s Rail Control System train ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief October 2015
Russian Railways and Yingkou Port Group have signed a memorandum of co-operation to create logistics centres in Moscow and Yingkou and a joint venture to manage cross-border cargo clearance and port transhipment. An internal restructuring of Danish national passenger operator DSB came into effect from September 1, creating ...
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NewsFeature articles in the October 2015 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 Time to rise above the hot air News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations ...
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NewsScandinavian rendezvous at Nordic Rail 2015
SWEDEN: More than 300 exhibitors from 25 countries across Europe, the USA and China will be assembling in Jönköping this month for the Nordic Rail exhibition on October 6-8. Marking its 20th anniversary this year, Scandinavia’s biennial railway trade fair was launched in 1995, and since 2007 it has ...
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NewsHigh speed line to Essaouira planned
MOROCCO: The government has issued a Declaration of Public Utility for the development of a second high speed line, which would link Marrakech with the coastal city of Essaouira. National railway ONCF has been tasked with leading the planning and design of the railway, including assessing land acquisition requirements. Covering ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - September 2015
To improve links between the Trans-Siberian and BAM routes, Russian Railways has opened the 3·4 km Avda – Gromadsk spur, built at a cost of 1·7bn roubles and including a 550 m curved viaduct with a 4 m height difference between the ends. A twice-weekly intermodal service from ...
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NewsWorld rail market September 2015
Iran: In partnership with Garivekan and Zitron, Indra is to supply its Horus tunnel monitoring and control package for Mashhad metro Line 2. Luxembourg: Luxtram has awarded a consortium of Transdev, Transamo and Nantes operator Semitan a three-year contract to provide operational assistance for the Luxembourg light rail line ...
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NewsPassenger trains return to the Scottish borders
UK: The first public passenger trains for 46 years ran between Edinburgh and Tweedbank on September 6, when revenue services began over the 48 route-km Borders Railway. The launch of revenue service comes amid a week of celebrations marking the reopening of approximately a third of the former Edinburgh – ...
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NewsFeature articles in the September 2015 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 Controlling the future News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers Analysis ...
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NewsNational Training Academy for Rail accreditation
UK: Expected to open later this year, the UK's National Training Academy for Rail near Northampton has reached an agreement with engineering certification organisation EAL covering 39 of its planned courses. Backed by the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering, NTAR is located beside the Siemens rolling stock maintenance depot ...
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NewsWorld rail market August 2015
Austria: ÖBB has ordered seven Gloria reachstackers and three TT618i terminal tractors plus a DCG 160-12 fork lift from Kalmar for its Wolfurt, Wels and Wien Süd terminals. China: Shanghai Shentong Metro Co has awarded a joint venture of Bombardier and CSR Nanjing Puzhen an 808m yuan turnkey contract ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - August 2015
Kazakhstan’s national railway KTZ and India’s Ministry of Railways have signed a memorandum of co-operation aiming to develop freight traffic via the ports of Mundra/Mumbai and Bandar Abbas and then by rail through Iran to Kazakhstan. DB and SBB have launched single wagonload services branded DB SCHENKERswiss-shuttle and SBB Cargo ...
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NewsFeature articles in the August 2015 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 World Congress on High Speed Rail: a sober outlook in Tokyo News Main Line Urban ...
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NewsWorld rail market July 2015
Canada: IVU Traffic Technologies is to supply VIA Rail with crew duty scheduling software, customised to reflect the way very long-distance trains are staffed with several crew teams, and to support seniority bidding whereby duty requests made by longer-serving staff have priority. India: Mumbai Metro Rail Corp has awarded ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - July 2015
Austria’s Federal Administrative Court has rejected a legal challenge to the Semmering Base Tunnel project, ruling that the environmental studies are adequate and the existing line’s World Heritage status is not threatened. Belarus Railways has moved the date of its annual timetable change from the end of May to ...
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NewsFeature articles in the July 2015 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. The July 2015 issue includes our biennial survey of the world’s fastest timetabled trains. Subscribe today. Comment Netherlands Railways crisis News Main Line ...
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NewsWorld rail market June 2015
France: A consortium of Sopra Steria Consulting, HaCon and Cereza/Groupe Talan is to supply HaCon’s train planning software for use by 650 train planners at SNCF Réseau. Russia: Siemens is to build a €60m maintenance centre on the Metallostroy depot site in St Petersburg to service Sapsan and Lastochka ...