All Railway Gazette International articles in November 2015 – Page 4
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NewsSBB orders locomotives with ‘working and waiting’ cabs
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways’ Infrastructure business has awarded preferred bidder Alstom a €175m contract to supply 47 Prima H4 electro–diesel locomotives. The four-axle locomotives are scheduled to enter service in 2018, and will be used to haul infrastructure trains and for shunting in yards at Lausanne and Limmattal. Alstom ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - November 2015
Czech open access operator LEO Express launched a LEO Express Easy feeder bus service between Mukacheve in Ukraine and Košice in Slovakia on October 16, connecting with its trains to Praha.On October 8 transport ministers from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia signed a letter of intent to establish an ...
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NewsAnime-themed Series 500 launched on Sanyo Shinkansen
JAPAN: West Japan Railway officially launched an anime-themed 500 Type EVA Shinkansen trainset into revenue service on November 7, marking the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sanyo Shinkansen. One of the railway’s nine Series 500 trainsets has been wrapped in a stylised livery to commemorate the 20th anniversary ...
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NewsDetecting mobile phone use in the cab
USA: Mobile asset monitoring technology company Wi-Tronix has launched a Mobile Phone Detection System which enables railways to monitor train crew compliance with their individual policies on the use of mobile devices in cabs. The Mobile Phone Detection System can identify powered and transmitting devices which are receiving an inbound ...
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NewsMilwaukee selects Brookville trams
USA: The City of Milwaukee agreed terms with rolling stock manufacturer Brookville Equipment Corp on November 13 for the supply of four Liberty Modern Streetcars to operate its starter line. The $18·6m contract includes options for up to 20 more vehicles. The three-section bidirectional trams will be 20·4 m ...
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NewsTest train catastrophe on LGV Est
FRANCE: Opening of the 106 km second section of LGV Est-Européenne between Baudrecourt and Vendenheim for commercial services is likely to be delayed, following the high speed derailment of a TGV test train on November 14. SNCF Réseau President Jacques Rapoport told local media that it was ‘reasonable to expect’ ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst Alstom metro cars for Riyadh under construction
SAUDI ARABIA: Production of the first of 69 two-car Metropolis trainsets for Riyadh metro lines 4, 5 and 6 has begun at Alstom’s Katowice plant in Poland. Metro project promoter Arriyadh Development Authority expects to unveil a full-size mock-up of a trainset in Riyadh shortly, and is scheduled to take ...
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NewsSEPTA awards light rail CBTC contract
USA: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has awarded Ansaldo STS a $53·2m design-build contract to install communications-based train control on light rail routes 101 and 102, also known as the Media-Sharon Hill Lines. The scope includes civil works and upgrading existing signalling on the 1 581 mm gauge routes totalling ...
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NewsTracklaying starts on Sulawesi railway
INDONESIA: The first track has been laid on the island of Sulawesi to mark the start of railway fit-out on the 145 km standard gauge route being built from provincial capital Makassar to the port of Pare Pare. The start of tracklaying at Lalabata in Barru regency on November ...
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NewsGera seeks tram operator
GERMANY: The city of Gera has invited expressions of interest in a contract to operate tram and bus services, and intends to award an operating contract on October 1 2016. Four organisations are reported to be interested: Transdev, Rhenus Veniro, DB Bus and regional bus operator Regionalverkehr ...
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NewsCross-border train ready to live longer and prosper
EUROPE: Translink NI Railways is undertaking a major refurbishment of the three locomotive-hauled trainsets used on the cross-border Enterprise service between Belfast and Dublin. The first completed eight-car set re-entered service on November 16, and all are expected to return to service by the end of the year. The Enterprise ...
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NewsBrookfield Rail reaches interim grain deal
AUSTRALIA: Infrastructure manager Brookfield Rail has signed a new track access agreement with Western Australia’s grain handling company CBH Group covering grain train operations in 2016. The contract will replace the current interim agreement which is due to expire at the end of this year, midway through the main shipping ...
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NewsWuppertal welcomes Generation 15 car
GERMANY: Wuppertal Mayor Andreas Mucke presented the first Generation 15 car for the city’s schwebebahn suspension monorail to a crowd of 5 000 at the Vohwinkel terminus on November 14. ‘This is a generational project that will shape our city for the next 40 years’, said Stadtwerke Wuppertal CEO ...
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NewsUzbekistan Railways orders more Talgo trainsets
UZBEKISTAN: National railway UTY has signed a €38m contract for Patentes Talgo to supply a further two 250 km/h trainsets in 2017. The extra trainsets have been ordered as part of the ongoing 25 kV 50 Hz electrification of the 291 km Samarkand – Bukhara line which is scheduled for ...
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NewsGo-Ahead and Abellio win Stuttgart passenger operating contracts
GERMANY: UK company Go-Ahead and the Abellio subsidiary of Dutch national railway NS have been selected for three contracts to operate Netz 1 passenger services from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister for Transport & Infrastructure Winfried Hermann announced on November 17. Formal award of the contracts by transport authority Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg ...
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NewsSBB inaugurates Olten control centre
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways formally inaugurated its regional control centre at Olten on November 17, in a ceremony attended by SBB CEO Andreas Meyer, the president of canton Solothurn Roland Fürst and the Mayor of Olten Martin Wey. BZ Mitte is one of four regional centres that will eventually manage ...
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News€100m for Rennes metro Line B
FRANCE: On November 13 state-owned investment bank Caisse des Dépôts signed an agreement with the greater Rennes authority to lend €100m towards the construction of metro Line B. The European Investment Bank is already lending €300m towards the project. According to Caisse des Dépôts, Line B is one of the ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market November 2015
Brazil: Kirow has supplied a TL70 tracklayer to Vale's Carajás Railroad. Canada: Bombardier Transportation is to supply Cityflo 650 CBTC for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line in Toronto. Estonia: Contractor Leonhard Weiss RTE is using Pandrol's Fastclip FE fastenings for the 56 km Tapa - Tartu track renewal ...
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NewsCabinet approves Chinese-backed standard gauge project
THAILAND: The Thai cabinet approved on November 17 the governance model for the planned north-south standard gauge network, being developed in partnership with China. Construction is due to begin in the middle of next year.Forming part of a trans-ASEAN corridor linking Kunming in southern China with Laos and the gulf ...
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NewsNürnberg expects to order Line U1 metro trains
GERMANY: Nürnberg metro operator VAG intends to order 21 four-car trainsets for Line U1 at a cost of €164m. Expected to enter service from mid-2018, the Type G1 trains are intended to replace the 42 Type DT1 two-car sets in service on U1 since the 1970s. Designed in collaboration ...
