All News articles – Page 31
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NewsSBB invests SFr40m in ticket vending machines
SWITZERLAND: Reflecting a growing trend towards automated retail, Swiss Federal Railways has ordered 1 000 ticket vending machines from German supplier Scheidt & Bachmann. Worth around SFr40m, the order will see the first machines installed at Swiss stations in September this year, with deliveries continuing for approximately ...
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NewsTenders called for US passenger cars
USA: US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on April 20 that manufacturers had been invited to bid for a contract worth $551m to supply 130 double-deck cars for Amtrak services, under ‘a groundbreaking multi-state effort to jointly purchase standardised rail equipment’. With funding from the Federal Railroad Administration’s High Speed ...
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NewsChinese locos prepare for service
AUSTRALIA: Following successful testing that has included operation at up to 130 km/h and hauling ‘one of the biggest iron ore trains’ between Port Augusta and Adelaide last month, SCT Logistics expects its full fleet of CSR Ziyang diesel locomotives to be ‘up and running’ by June. SCT says that ...
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NewsJakarta - Bandung fast line study
INDONESIA: A Japanese consortium is to undertake a pre-feasibility study into a proposed 144 route-km fast passenger line between Jakarta and Bandung for opening by 2018. Following a co-operation agreement between the Indonesian government and the Japanese Ministry of Land, Transportation & Tourism, the study will be ...
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NewsNews in Brief - April 2012
In the light of the March 11 2011 earthquake, East Japan Railway has allocated ¥100bn to improving the earthquake resistance of its infrastructure over the next five years. China’s Exim Bank has approved a US$270m loan to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Transport for construction of the 27 km Matara ...
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NewsBombardier launches Saudi project management academy
SAUDI ARABIA: Bombardier Transportation has opened a Project Management Academy in Riyadh, offering a modular training programme to young Saudi nationals. Aimed at recent university leavers and engineering or business professionals, the postgraduate course combines classroom teaching with on-the-job training. Students will also have the opportunity to get involved ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market April 2012
Australia: Western Australia PTA has awarded UK firm Volo TV a £1m contract to provide at-seat touchscreen entertainment on Perth – Kalgoorlie trains. Angola: CNR began shipping 120 coaches to Angola in late February. Canada: Export-Import Bank of the United States provided a C$83·1m loan guarantee to support ...
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NewsWorld rail market April 2012
Australia: Transport for New South Wales has appointed Turner & Townsend to provide cost planning services for the Sydney light rail strategic plan. Arup, Hassell and Aurecon are engineering and design advisors. Zonegreen is to supply its Smart depot personnel protection system for the City Rail EMU maintenance centre ...
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NewsRail road solution bypasses Stromeferry rock fall
UK: A rock fall which obstructed the A890 road near Stromeferry in the Scottish Highlands in December left communities isolated, with a 225 km round trip needed to bypass the blockage by road. A ferry service was introduced as a temporary alternative, but a better solution was needed until Highland ...
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NewsHealthcare train enters service
SOUTH AFRICA: A second healthcare train was launched last month. Built by Transnet Rail Engineering at cost of R82m, 'Phelophepa II' has 20 permanent staff and 40 students providing health, dental, optometry and psychological treatment and education services. It will travel 15 000 km a year, serving 100 000 ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market April 2012
Australia: Bombardier has awarded Balfour Beatty Rail an A$14m contract to supply overhead line equipment for the Gold Coast tram project (RG 2.12 p59). China: China Railway First Survey & Design Institute has begun construction of a 25 km line to serve Zangge Potash Co’s Qaidam Basin site in ...
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NewsNews in Brief - April 2012
According to the Association of American Railroads, US freight railways will make capital investments totalling a record $13bn in 2012. The Bulgarian government has dropped plans to award a concession for management of Sofia Tsentralna station, which is to undergo a €30m refurbishment in 2013. This year the Metrans subsidiary ...
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NewsVIA Rail adopts condition-based strategy
CANADA: National passenger operator VIA Rail has appointed BMT Fleet Technology to develop a condition-based maintenance pilot programme and review its current maintenance strategies. VIA Rail hopes the results will help improve fleet performance and availability while reducing costs. The condition-based maintenance project runs to October and is focusing on ...
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NewsSNCF orders 40 Euroduplex sets
FRANCE: SNCF has exercised an option for a further 40 third-generation Duplex high speed trainsets from Alstom Transport under a framework agreed in June 2007. SNCF is already taking delivery of 55 of the 320 km/h multi-system double-deck trainsets, branded Euroduplex by Alstom. The first entered traffic in December 2011 ...
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NewsWaging war on litter
SWITZERLAND: Three days' worth of litter was collected by staff at Zürich Hauptbahnhof and put on public display to mark the launch of SBB's campaign to keep the network tidy. Noting that there has been 'a recent increase' in the amount of rubbish left on trains and at stations, SBB ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market March 2012
Argentina: In the first half of this year GE Transportation’s Contagem plant in Brazil is to begin deliveries of nine 3000 hp diesel locos ordered by Vale to haul potash from Río Colorado to Bahía Blanca (RG 2.12 p12). Czech Republic: CD-Telematika is to install GSM-R equipment on 197 ...
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NewsNews in Brief - March 2012
A consortium led by OHL ŽS has begun construction of an an €18m intermodal terminal at Žilina in Slovakia, partly funded by the EU. It is scheduled to open in January 2015, and ŽSR expects to handle 500 000 tonnes in the first year. Taiwan Railway Administration moved its ...
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NewsWorld rail market March 2012
Austria: ÖBB has appointed DO&CO to provide onboard catering services from April. Denmark: TE Connectivity’s FlexWave Prism distributed antenna system has been deployed to provide mobile phone coverage on underground sections of the København metro; it does not require active elements in the tunnels, simplifying maintenance. New Zealand: ...
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NewsSome like it hot
SAUDI ARABIA: CNR Dalian has supplied China Civil Engineering Construction Corp with two DF4DH diesel locomotives customised for use in high temperatures during work on Saudi construction projects. As well as dust filters, special features for use in the Middle East include 7 kW cab air-conditioning, a double-layer insulated roof ...
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NewsNews in Brief - March 2012
Ircon International and Rail Land Development Authority have agreed to establish Railway Station Development Corp to redevelop Indian Railways stations as ‘vibrant centres’ of city life with safe, modern and accessible commercial, entertainment and social facilities. The Land of Schleswig-Holstein has selected DB Regio Nord ...