All Railway Gazette International articles in November 2020
All articles published this month.
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Organisations
Yinchuan Metro
Monorail opened 2017; single line with eight stops. Metro network in planning; opening scheduled 2025 or after. The China Flower Expo Park in the northern part of the city is served by a monorail loop buit by BYD and opened on September 1 2017. Yinchuan is developing plans for ...
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Guangan Metro
Single monorail line under construction. This straddle-beam monorail line using the BYD system is under construction from Guangmen and mainline Guangan South station running southeast before turning north to serve Wufu and Youkezhongxin. Opening was due for 2020 but has been delayed. A northward extension adding five stops is in ...
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Urban In DepthBuilding back better
Public transport operators around the world face a massive challenge in the years ahead, as countries and cities seek to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic that has swept around the globe during 2020.
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Taizhou Rail Transit
Single inter-urban metro line opened 2022 serving 15 stations. A suburban line running south from Taizhou Zhongxin opened on December 28 2022 (52·4 km, 15 stations). Line S1 connects Taizhou via Luqiao and interchange at Wenling with the Ningbo–Taizhou–Wenzhou fast line and the Hangzhou–Shengzhou–Taizhou high-speed railway, then southeast to Wenling ...
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Liuzhou Metro
Two-line straddle monorail network under construction for expected opening in 2024-25. Line 1 will run southwest–northeast for 37 km, and will be mostly elevated. Starting in Liujiang district, it will run east to Yangjia then north to the main station, then turning east across the city and after crossing the ...
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NewsArgos ready to deliver digital interlockings
FRANCE: Following an 18-month research programme, SNCF Réseau has selected three consortia to develop, commission and maintain pre-production digital interlockings.
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NewsTraxtion targets open access opportunities
SOUTH AFRICA: Rolling stock leasing and engineering company Traxtion Group has announced plans to invest in additional locomotives and wagons to support open access operations as the 22 500 km Transnet network is opened up to new entrants. On October 15 South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced ...
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NewsShorter N700S to serve Nagasaki
JAPAN: JR Kyushu is to introduce a six-car derivative of the N700S high speed train family for use on the isolated Kyushu Shinkansen branch from Takeo Onsen to Nagasaki, which is scheduled to open in 2022.
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail signs ‘landmark’ wagon leasing contract
UK: Greenbrier Europe is to build 570 wagons which infrastructure Network Rail will lease from Wascosa under a 10-year deal which includes maintenance by GB Railfreight. The contract, announced on October 29, includes Falcon box wagons, JNA wagons for transporting bulk ballast and Flex Freight System modular ...
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NewsReopenings will add capacity to São Paulo network
BRAZIL: Governor of São Paulo state João Doria has announced that two moribund sections of the national rail network will be reinstated as part of a R$6bn plan to expand capacity within the state from 35 to 75 million tonnes of freight a year.
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NewsPrivate partner for Slovenia’s national rail freight operator
SLOVENIA: The supervisory board of national railway holding company Slovenske Železnice has approved a strategic partnership between its freight division SŽ-Tovorni Promet and Praha-based European energy, infrastructure and logistics group EP Holding.
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NewsRail Logistics takes delivery of road-rail Unimog
ROMANIA: Tank wagon maintenance and cleaning company Rail Logistics has taken delivery of a Unimog U423 with Zagro road-rail equipment. To be used for the reliable and rapid shunting of tank wagons on the tracks at Rail Logistics’ industrial site, the road-rail vehicle is designed for a ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London and government agree six-month funding package
UK: Transport for London confirmed on the morning of November 1 that an agreement had been reached for the Department for Transport to make further emergency funding available to address the forecast shortfall in passenger revenue as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This will ensure ...
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Rail Business UKFerrybridge to Goole resignalling contract awarded
UK: Network Rail has awarded Alstom a £28m contract to resignal the Ferrybridge – Goole line. The project will commence in 2021 with the renewal of six level crossings, including point machine conversions and civil works. Commissions is planned for summer 2023, with the closure of a ...
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Metro Report InternationalCheck-in/Be-out ticketing goes live
GERMANY: Following testing, municipal operator Stadtwerke Osnabrück has gone live with Check-in/Be-out bus ticketing using the YANiQ app based on the XiXo platform. Passengers swipe to check in, and the system automatically logs them out when they alight. Users receive a bill at the end of the ...
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