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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
A professional skills programme has been launched by Alstom Transport and the Steelworkers Union of Taubaté as part of the staff recruitment process ahead of the opening of Alstom’s tram factory in the Brazilian city in December. US Class I railroads Norfolk Southern and BNSF are using the ...
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NewsVocational training in Castilla
SPAIN: The national government, the regional authority for Castilla y León and national operator Renfe have signed an agreement covering the establishment of a vocational training scheme for railway maintenance staff. The ‘dual professional training’ scheme is intended to provide vocational qualification in mechanical and electrical engineering skills to young ...
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NewsWorld rail market August 2014
Belgium: Following trials, Ingeteam is to supply five energy recovery systems for the Brussels metro which it says will make it possible to recover 10% to 30% of traction energy. France: Ateïs is to supply a public address system for RATP’s Châtelet Les Halles station. Panama: Transports Metropolitans ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Indian Railways has awarded Knorr Bremse’s Sydac subsidiary an A$30m contract to build and equip training centres in 12 cities over the next three years. Sydac will provide 12 full-cab simulators for driver training plus 72 smaller simulators, maintaining the equipment for eight years. Spanish Development Minister Ana Pastor ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - August 2014
The Hamburg and Niedersachsen transport authorities have exercised an option to extend Metronom’s contract to operate Hamburg – Cuxhaven trains for a further two years until December 2017. PKP SA is to sell a further 17% stake in PKP Cargo, reducing the Polish national railway holding company’s stake to ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - August 2014
VIA Rail, Island Corridor Foundation and Southern Railway of Vancouver Island have signed an agreement to revive Victoria – Courtenay passenger services which ceased in 2011. Funding of C$21m for infrastructure rehabilitation has been identified. The Blue Ridge Southern Railroad subsidiary of Watco Transportation Services is to purchase ...
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NewsUIC launches global railway MBA
INTERNATIONAL: Under the umbrella of its Railway Academy programme, UIC has announced the launch of a Railway Global Executive MBA course, to be hosted by the EM Lyon Business School in France. Subject to sufficient applications through member railways, UIC hopes that the first intake could start the Master’s course ...
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NewsFeature articles in the August 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the August 2014 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 The number one priority News Main Line Urban Rail Market: Contracts & Tenders Industry ...
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NewsWork starts to bridge Thailand – Cambodia missing link
SOUTHEAST ASIA: A ground-breaking ceremony at Poipet in Cambodia on July 25 marked the start of work to reinstate the cross-border railway to Thailand. The ceremony was attended by Cambodia’s Deputy Minister for Public Works & Transport Guang Sun and Thailand’s Permanent Secretary for Transport Soithip Traisuth. The attendees viewed ...
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NewsHitachi unveils modular EMU designs
UK: Hitachi Rail Europe unveiled full-size mock-ups of its AT100 and AT200 EMU designs in London on July 21. Aimed primarily at the UK market, the two designs are intended to augment the existing AT300 (Class 395/Class 800) design to create a family of trains. These can be configured using ...
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NewsWorld rail market July 2014
Netherlands: On behalf of all operators, NS has awarded Eneco a contract to supply traction electricity in 2015-25. From 2018 the annual requirement of 1·4TWh/year will be entirely supplied from wind power, 50% generated in the Netherlands. North America: DataTraks is to manage Transportation Technology Center Inc’s Trackside Acoustic ...
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NewsNews in Brief - July 2014
The Dutch cabinet has allocated an extra €1·1bn for rail projects. Platforms and a subway at Amsterdam Centraal are to be widened a cost of €431m, tracks lowered in Vucht to remove level crossings and a curve for freight trains built at Meteren. Norway’s Ministry of Transport has exercised ...
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NewsFeature articles in the July 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the July 2014 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 Balancing public and private Richard Hope reflects on 50 years of change in the rail sector ...
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NewsIran shares railway expertise with Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN: Iranian Islamic Republic Railways has signed a memorandum of understanding to provide the Afghanistan Railway Authority with training to support its plans for railway development and expansion. RAI said Iran would send technical experts to advise on railway organisation, maintenance and construction, to help accelerate the development of the ...
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NewsNews in Brief - June 2014
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport has given its approval to a SFr50m project to convert TPF’s 5·5 km Bulle - Broc-Fabrique branch from 1000 mm to 1435 mm gauge, to enable Fribourg RER services to be extended to Broc. Due to be executed in 2016-21, the project would be ...
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NewsWorld rail market June 2014
China: CSR Sifang has awarded Paul Wurth Group a contract to automate a bogie assembly line in Qingdao to increase productivity to 10 bogies per shift Poland: Ernst & Young has been retained to advise on options for restructuring Polish regional train operator Przewozy Regionalne. Preliminary conclusions are expected ...
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NewsNews in Brief - June 2014
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport has approved plans to build a new Albula Tunnel on the RhB network. Work is expected to start in 2015 for completion in 2020 at a cost of SFr345m. The existing 5864 m bore dating from 1903 would be retained for safety purposes. Russia’s Freight ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
SNCF and DB have pledged to relaunch their apprentice exchange programme, 50 years after it was first introduced. The programme forms part of the formal training of apprentices at both groups, and also offers a ‘range of socio-cultural opportunities’ aimed at ‘broadening the horizons’ of young railway staff. Built ...