All Railway Gazette International articles in November 2019 – Page 13
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NewsTiranë airport rail link tenders invited
ALBANIA: Prequalified bidders have been invited to tender for a contract to modernise the existing 34·5 km railway between Durrës and the Tiranë Public Transport Terminal and construct a 5 km link to the international airport at Rinas. Both routes should be equipped with ETCS Level 1, ...
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Rail Business UKSoutheastern trials hidden disability awareness aids
UK: Southeastern is running trials of two hidden disability awareness schemes on the Tonbridge – Hastings route, and if successful hopes to roll them out more widely across the 176 stations it serves. Passengers who have difficulties communicating can use a Just A Minute card to discreetly ...
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Metro Report InternationalMetro training centre to be fitted with depot protection system
UK: Main contractor Galliford Try has awarded Zonegreen a contract to install its Depot Personnel Protection System at an £8·4m training and light maintenance facility which it is building for Tyne & Wear Metro operator Nexus. Intended to provide a wide range of ...
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NewsIllinois Railway completes PTC deployment
USA: OmniTRAX has announced that its Illinois Railway has become one of the first short lines to implement fully-functional positive train control. ‘We are delighted to be a first mover on PTC in the short line industry and are making our railroad even safer than it already ...
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Rail Business UKTalgo UK established and Longannet agreement signed
UK: Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Talgo has appointed its UK & Ireland representative Jon Veitch as Managing Director of Talgo UK, and has signed a framework agreement with Scottish Enterprise and Transport Scotland for the establishment of a manufacturing plant at Longannet in Fife should it win ...
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NewsFour bidders seek Spanish train paths
SPAIN: Infrastructure manager ADIF has received four requests for capacity to operate passenger services on the ‘general interest’ national network including the main high speed corridors. Applications for train paths from December 14 2020 were submitted by national incumbent RENFE, the Rielsfera subsidiary of France’s SNCF, Motion ...
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Rail Business UKLonger peaks increase Victoria Line capacity
UK: Transport for London introduced a new timetable for London Underground’s Victoria Line on November 4 that doubles the length of time during which services run at 100 sec headways. Following the completion of a signalling upgrade in 2017, Victoria Line services have been running every 100 ...
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NewsDigital campus supports Norway’s ERTMS roll-out
NORWAY: ‘The railway is moving into the digital era’, announced Digitisation Minister Nikolai Astrup, on October 31, when he inaugurated Bane NOR’s ERTMS test and training centre at Campus Nyland on October 31.
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Metro Report InternationalPoma to build cross-border Russia – China cable car
Photo: Shutterstock Heihe is separated from Blagoveshchensk by the River Amur INTERNATIONAL: Poma has been selected to build a cross-border cable car linking Russia and China. Planned to open in the second half of 2022, the 973 m long cable car over the River Amur would connect ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
DB Cargo Czechia has completed the delivery of five EffiShunter 600 locomotives from CZ Loko’s factory in the Czech Republic to İskenderun Demir ve Çelik’s steelworks at İsdemir in Turkey. The first two were transported by road for more than half of the 3 000 km ...
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Rail Business UKInPost installs delivery lockers at stations
UK: Govia Thameslink Railway and InPost have announced a partnership which will see automated parcel pick-up and drop-off lockers installed at 11 stations. Users will be able to collect items from a range of retailers including Boohoo, NastyGal and Holland & Barrett, and return items to Asos, ...
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NewsAntioquia Railway reinstatement proposal submitted
COLOMBIA: A draft plan for rebuilding the 63 km section of the closed Antioquia Railway between Barbosa, Medellín and Caldas has been submitted to the government by regional Governor Luis Pérez Gutiérrez, who said it could help relieve traffic around Medellín. The project is estimated to cost ...
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NewsTransContainer orders flat wagons
RUSSIA: Intermodal operator TransContainer has awarded United Wagon Co a contract to supply 100 Type 13-6851-05 flat wagons for the transport of heavy containers and tank containers. The contract announced on October 29 is TransContainer’s second for the type, following on from an order for 30 Type ...
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NewsDigital signalling test centre to be built in Sydney
AUSTRALIA: Transport for New South Wales has invited expressions of interest in a contract to build a testing facility for digital signalling technology. To be built at the Rail Technology Campus at Chullora in western Sydney, the Digital Systems Facility would enable technologies to be tested in ...
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NewsRussian Railways approves digital transformation strategy
RUSSIA: A digital transformation strategy running to 2025 has been approved by the Russian Railways board. The document defines the conceptual foundations and principles for the national railway’s digitalisation, setting priorities including the substitution of foreign IT with domestic technology. One of the main features of the ...
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NewsFuel cell train to be tested in the Netherlands
NETHERLANDS: A Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel-cell multiple-unit is to be tested on the Groningen – Leeuwarden line after an agreement was signed at the Klimaattop Noord NL climate summit by manufacturer Alstom, the province of Groningen, local operator Arriva, infrastructure manager ProRail and energy company Engie. ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Rail.One has open a plant at Schwandorf in Germany for the production of up to 180 000 m of prestressed concrete turnout bearers per year under a 15-year contract awarded by DB Netz in October 2017. The site is close to DB’s turnout plant to simplify ...
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Rail Business UKEast Midlands Railway launches The Platform feedback tool
UK: East Midlands Railway has launched The Platform, an online community where customers can share their experiences which is managed by independent research company Breaking Blue. ‘We currently have a post travel survey in existence which is very good for giving us statistics on how to improve ...