All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2015
All articles published this month.
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NewsTunnelling technology at InnoTrans 2016
INNOTRANS: A dedicated Tunnel Construction area will once again feature at InnoTrans 2016, showcasing underground communication, fire protection and security technologies as well as tunnel construction products. Companies including Herrenknecht, Talleres Zitrón, Pöyry and Niedax have booked places, and will be displaying new tunnelling equipment. Swiss tunnel cleaning firm ...
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NewsScheidt & Bachmann and Octopus announce ticketing partnership
CHINA: Fare collection technology supplier Scheidt & Bachmann and the Octopus Applications Ltd commercialisation subsidiary of the company which runs Hong Kong’s smart card system have formed a global partnership to offer ticketing services. The partners plan to offer systems enabling passengers to use a range of contactless fare media ...
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NewsAlstom to supply Swedish national traffic management system
SWEDEN: Trafikverket has awarded Alstom a €66m contract to design, supply and maintain an Iconis traffic management system covering its entire network. The contract announced on September 30 will run for eight years, with an option for a further nine, and has been awarded as part of a wider ...
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NewsHigh speed line to Essaouira planned
MOROCCO: The government has issued a Declaration of Public Utility for the development of a second high speed line, which would link Marrakech with the coastal city of Essaouira. National railway ONCF has been tasked with leading the planning and design of the railway, including assessing land acquisition requirements. Covering ...
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NewsMarmon and Wells Fargo buy GE Capital rail businesses
USA: GE Capital announced the signing of three agreements to sell its wagon leasing and repair activities on September 30. The sales ‘to buyers that are long-term players in the industry committed to expanding the businesses’ form part of GE’s strategy to sell most GE Capital assets and focus on ...
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NewsPTC deadline extension legislation introduced
USA: Bipartisan legislation which would extend the December 31 2015 deadline for the implementation of Positive Train Control was introduced by the leaders of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure on September 30. This follows a Government Accountability Office study which confirmed that most railways would not be able ...
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NewsUpgraded Kraków Airport rail link reopens
POLAND: A new station at Kraków Airport was inaugurated on September 28, marking the return of rail services to the airport after modernisation of the line. The 11·9 km route from Kraków Główny station closed on February 1 2014 for upgrade work. Until then, services had been operated by ...
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NewsPaul Plummer
Paul Plummer, Group Strategy Director of Network Rail, has been appointed Chief Executive of the UK’s Rail Delivery Group and the Association of Train Operating Companies. Plummer will take over from Michael Roberts in November.
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NewsMidi-Pyrénées orders more double-deck EMUs
FRANCE: SNCF has exercised an option for a further eight Bombardier Transportation Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units to be delivered in 2017-19. The €56·5m contract announced on October 1 is being financed by the Midi-Pyrénées region, which ordered an initial 10 Regio 2N EMUs in December 2013. In ...
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NewsSiemens opens locomotive servicing and data analysis centres
GERMANY: Bayern Transport Minister Joachim Herrmann and Siemens Mobility CEO Jochen Eickholt officially opened a locomotive service centre at the manufacturer’s München-Allach plant on October 1. Siemens says the new 2000 m2 covered hall will enable it to undertake locomotive manufacturing and maintenance at a single location for the first ...
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NewsProgress Rail to buy Rail Product Solutions
USA: Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail Services Corp announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase track fastening supplier Rail Product Solutions Inc from Amsted Rail Co on September 29. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition ‘expands our portfolio of track related products and ...
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NewsCanadian Pacific acquires steel transloading business
CANADA: Canadian Pacific Railway has acquired Steelcare Inc, which operates Canada's largest steel transloading facility at CP's Aberdeen yard in Hamilton, Ontario. The transaction announced on September 29 includes TransCare Logistics Corp, Prometheus Six and East Port Warehousing & Distribution businesses. The Plant Six site in Hamilton has two ...
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NewsFinnish passenger market to be opened to competition
FINLAND: Proposals for opening the passenger rail market to competition are to be published in spring next year, Minister of Transport & Communications Anne Berner announced on October 1. The ministry is to study the possible options for competition, aiming to identify the most viable model for Finnish conditions ...
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NewsModernised EMU presented to Przewozy Regionalne
POLAND: The first of 21 EN57 electric multiple-units modernised by Pesa subsidiary ZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki was presented to national regional train operator Przewozy Regionalne at the Trako trade fair in Gdańsk on September 22. The three-car EN57AL-2102 has a new livery, as well as a reconfigured interior. it has ...
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NewsLondon Underground energy recovery trial proves successful
UK: Transport for London has announced that the ‘world first’ installation of Alstom's Harmonic & Energy Saving Optimiser inverting substation energy recovery technology on a metro line has proved successful. As well as feeding energy regenerated by braking trains back into the traction power supply, HESOP can return power ...
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NewsScandinavian rendezvous at Nordic Rail 2015
SWEDEN: More than 300 exhibitors from 25 countries across Europe, the USA and China will be assembling in Jönköping this month for the Nordic Rail exhibition on October 6-8. Marking its 20th anniversary this year, Scandinavia’s biennial railway trade fair was launched in 1995, and since 2007 it has ...
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NewsAlstom multiple-unit maintenance site goes electric
GERMANY: Alstom Transport has opened an electric multiple-unit servicing, repair and refurbishment facility at the Braunschweig site where it undertakes similar work on diesel multiple-units under contract to various train operators. The €15m expansion of the site’s facilities includes two additional workshops, 1·5 km of 15 kV 16·7 Hz ...
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NewsEMD unveils its first Tier 4 diesel locomotive
USA: The first of six pre-production Tier 4 compliant diesel locomotives being built by the Electro-Motive Diesel subsidiary of Progress Rail Services was unveiled at the Railway Interchange 2015 exhibition in Minneapolis on October 4. On show at the outdoor display in BNSF’s Northtown Yard, the SD70ACe-T4 locomotive is powered ...
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NewsLucknow metro chooses Alstom trains and signalling
INDIA: Lucknow Metro Rail Corp has awarded Alstom a €150m contract to provide rolling stock and signalling for the future line. Announcing the contract on October 5, Alstom said it would supply 20 four-car Metropolis trainsets from its Sri City factory in Andhra Pradesh. The trains will be air-conditioned ...
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NewsBursa begins LRV testing
TURKEY: The first two vehicles for the T2 extension of the Bursaray light metro network in Bursa are now on test. Bursa Metropolitan Municipality has ordered 12 Silkworm light rail vehicles from Durmazlar as part of the extension project, following an order for 60 LRVs placed at the start ...