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NewsFeature articles in the March 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Comment Seeking a more resilient railway News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry InnovationsPointers Analysis Attempting to halt French freight declineChannel Tunnel tribulationsBudget concerns constrain Indian Railways' ambitionsTake action on tank carsUpping the pace in RussiaUK investment and devolutionKeep pressing on in Thailand Safety & risk ...
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NewsWorld rail market February 2014
Australia: Sydney Trains is to deploy DeltaRail’s VIEW automated wheel and brake monitoring systems. Norway: NSB has appointed HaCon to supply a Hafas real-time door-to-door journey planner. Poland: T-Mobile is to provide internet access and entertainment services on 300 PKP Intercity coaches; a total of 1 500 will ...
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NewsNews in Brief - February 2014
EBRD is providing Kazakhstan’s national railway KTZ with a US$40m loan to fund energy-saving technology, including LED depot and station lighting, heat pumps, solar water heaters and boiler upgrades which will allow the company to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 000 tonnes/year. On January 13 the ...
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NewsPostgraduate programme on risk and safety
INTERNATIONAL: Following a successful pilot programme running since September 2013, Zhijiang University in Hangzhou, China, is formally launching this month a postgraduate programme in safety and risk management in partnership with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the UK universities of Birmingham and York. The partnership can be traced back to ...
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NewsNews in Brief - February 2014
The latest members of UIC are Malaysian transport authority SPAD, Beijing Jiatong University, Russian Railways’ high speed institute, Hungarian freight operator FoxRail, Poland’s Koleje Wielkopolskie, Italian logistics association UIR and Afghanistan Railway Authority. A groundbreaking ceremony in late December marked the start of civil works on a 220 ...
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NewsSaudi Railways Organization reviews safety
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Railways Organization has awarded DB International a contract to undertake a comprehensive review of its safety regime and operating standards. The review will be completed by the end of the year, with DB contracted to provide a further year of ‘supervision and follow-up’. Under the agreement, DB ...
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NewsMoscow university co-operation agreements
RUSSIA: Two Moscow universities signed co-operation agreements in December, with Bombardier Transportation and Russian Railways respectively. Bombardier and Moscow State University of Railway Engineering have embarked on a three-year partnership to support ‘future exchange in areas including science, innovation and development of railway transportation systems’. Specific objectives cover collaboration in ...
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NewsRail Academy to be created in the United Arab Emirates
UAE: A memorandum of understanding to establish a Rail Academy has been signed by the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research & Training and Thales. The planned Rail Academy would provide Emiratis with high-level professional and academic training programmes to support the country's railway and urban transport projects. The partnership ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2014
ADB is to provide $225 000 to support the creation of the Greater Mekong Railway Association, which will aim to develop railway institutional capacity and support connectivity and inter-operability in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. EIM has voted to revise its statutes to allow all European rail ...
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NewsWorld rail market January 2014
Finland: VR is to use Quintiq software supplied through distributor Ab Ovo for locomotive planning and dispatching. Poland: PKP Cargo has signed a 1·3bn złoty contract for PKP Energetyka to supply traction energy until December 2016. PKP IC has selected Kraft to develop apps for tablet computers it ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2014
Zhengzhou Railway Bureau has signed agreements with SF Express, China Post and UPS to carry express parcels on high speed trains, starting with the Beijing – Guangzhou line. Rail transport is expected to be 50% cheaper than by air. UK pension investor the Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd has increased ...
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NewsMetro-North access to Penn Station endorsed
USA: Speaking in Albany on January 8, the governor of New York State Andrew Cuomo offered his support for a commuter rail investment project which would see MTA Metro-North’s New Haven Line trains routed over Amtrak’s Hell Gate bridge into New York Penn Station. Provisionally costed at around $1bn, ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2014
Poland’s Małopolskie voivodship created its own regional passenger operator Koleje Małopolskie with effect from January 1, with a view to a phased takeover of services from PR around a year later. The voivodship owns four DMUs and 11 EMUs and has 17 EMUs on order, but estimates that it ...
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NewsTesting underway on Ankara – Istanbul fast line
TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined newly-appointed transport minister Lütfi Elvan in the cab of a CAF trainset to travel over the Arifiye – Köseköy section of the Ankara – Istanbul high speed corridor on December 27. Elvan has replaced Binali Yıldırım, who has stood down after 11 years ...
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NewsFeature articles in the January 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Comment Going green is not enough News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Analysis California’s high speed dream hits a hurdle No TGVs to Madrid ISO standards in Japan Europe 'The Fourth Railway Package is our top priority' Accelerating the Technical Pillar of ...
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NewsWorld rail market December 2013
Hungary: Audi has awarded DB Schenker Rail Hungária a contract to provide shunting services at its Györ automotive plant for a further three years. Poland: Gdynia port authority has appointed Elkol to plan electrification and modernisation works to support a 40% increase in capacity on the 6 km rail ...
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NewsNews in Brief - December 2013
EBRD is considering lending €133m to support Far Eastern Rail Co’s planned €378m acquisition of up to 10 000 wagons which would be leased to Russian coal miners. The wagons would have 25 tonne axleloads and be suitable for operation in block trains at higher speeds than existing vehicles. ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Transport for London and Crossrail Ltd have welcomed 140 recruits onto their graduate trainee scheme in a range of engineering and commercial disciplines. TfL expects to hire a similar number next year, and applications opened in late October for the 2014 entry. Running until October 2014, the EU-funded Actuate ...
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NewsNews in Brief - December 2013
On December 15 SNCB is due to introduce M6 double-deck rolling stock between Eupen and Oostende, following the start of a €2m project by Infrabel to improve clearances in a 60 m tunnel at Verviers-Central. A new deck over the railway is to be completed by mid-2015, part of ...
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NewsYou'll do better with us
GERMANY: Industry association VDB and its 180 members have launched a high-profile marketing, press and social media campaign to encourage more school-leavers and graduates to join the rail sector. Entitled 'You'll do better with us', the initial campaign features a series of adverts showing young people dressed in outlandish costumes ...