All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2018
All articles published this month.
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Belgian rail freight operator Lineas has opened an operations centre in Mainz to monitor the approximately 200 trains per week that it operates in Germany. According to Business Development Director Jan Elfenhorst, this will support the expansion of the Green Xpress enhanced wagonload network. The company is also planning to ...
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NewsHigh speed trainsets to be delivered within three months
CHINA: China Railway Corp has awarded Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation a 2·2bn yuan contract to supply 10 CR400AF high speed trainsets within three months. The contract for five eight-car and five 16-car 350 km/h trainsets was awarded to the 50:50 joint venture of Bombardier Transportation and CRRC Sifang at ...
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In depthA growing network in Bordeaux
The Bordeaux tram network is soon to expand further, with a new line due to be commissioned in 2020.
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NewsIveco presents battery trolleybus with in-motion charging
TROLLEYBUS: Iveco presented its Crealis battery trolleybus at the IAA Commercial Vehicles 2018 trade show in Hannover. Assembled by Iveco in the Czech Republic in June, the 18 m long vehicle uses an Urbanway chassis and bodyshell with electrical equipment from a Škoda Electric’s prototype Škoda 35 Tr trolleybus. ...
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Metro Report InternationalConnected vehicle test track opens in Düsseldorf
GERMANY: The City of Düsseldorf and Siemens Mobility officially opened a 20 km test track for automated and connected vehicle on September 24. Düsseldorf public transport operator Rheinbahn has provided 16 of its buses to be fitted with on-board equipment for test track operations. The equipment transmits vehicle location ...
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NewsInterest invited in Almaty Light Rail Transit PPP
KAZAKHSTAN: The city of Almaty’s transport department has invited expressions of interest in a public-private partnership contract to develop a light rail line for opening in the third quarter of 2022. The proposed Almaty LRT would have 37 stops on a 22·7 km 1 435 mm gauge route along one ...
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NewsDB plans high speed line renewals programme
GERMANY: Infrastructure manager DB Netz has announced plans for a major refurbishment of its two oldest high speed lines in a five-year programme costed at €825m. Work on the 327 km Hannover – Würzburg Neubaustrecke is to start in 2019, with the 99 km Mannheim – Stuttgart route following in ...
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NewsLocoTech to plan ÖBB locomotive modernisation
AUSTRIA: Transmashholding’s maintenance services business LocoTech and Austrian Federal Railways’ ÖBB Technische Services have signed an agreement to co-operate to modernise, maintain and lease locomotives used in Austria, Hungary and southeast Europe. As the the first stage of the planned co-operation, LocoTech is to develop a concept for the modernisation ...
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Metro Report InternationalWuhan metro adds two lines
CHINA: The Wuhan metro network expanded on October 1 with the opening of two driverless lines. Line 7 runs from Garden Expo North in the north to Yezhihu in the south, serving 19 stations along its 30·4 km route. The end-to-end journey time on the underground line is 51 ...
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NewsArriva wins Praha suburban rail operating contract
CZECH REPUBLIC: Praha transport authority ROPID has selected DB’s Czech subsidiary Arriva Vlaky to operate suburban train services on route S41 between Roztoky u Prahy and Hostivař via Holešovice and Libeň. Arriva’s first subsidised train operating contract in the Czech Republic will initially run for three years from the December ...
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NewsWascosa and Aves One acquire 4 400 wagons
EUROPE: A consortium of wagon leasing company Wascosa and Hamburg-based logistics assets investor Aves One completed the acquisition of 4 400 wagons from the Nacco subsidiary of CIT Group on October 1. Wascosa has also taken over Nacco’s operations in Hamburg. VTG announced plans for the acquisition of Nacco in ...
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NewsVeolia to sell Transdev stake to Rethmann Group
TRANSDEV: Veolia has signed a draft agreement to sell its 30% stake in transport group Transdev to German family-owned water, recycling, logistics and public transport business Rethmann Group for €340m. The deal announced on October 2 is subject to regulatory approval, which is expected by the end of the ...
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NewsPacific Surfliner Charger locomotive unveiled
USA: The first Siemens Charger locomotive for Pacific Surfliner services between San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and San Diego was officially unveiled by Amtrak and Caltrans at Los Angeles Union station on October 1. Caltrans has ordered a total of 22 Charger locomotives, using about $100m of state, federal and ...
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NewsNurminen Logistics plans to sell wagon fleet
RUSSIA: Nurminen Logistics announced on October 2 that it was considering selling the wagons owned by its Russian subsidiary OOO Nurminen Logistics, saying this would free up capital to support a strategy of focusing on its rail operations and freight forwarding activities in the Russian rail market. The Russian wagon ...
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NewsDB expands international ticket purchase options
EUROPE: Deutsche Bahn has expanded the range of cross-border and foreign rail tickets which can be booked through its website and mobile app. Passengers can now book travel on SNCF and Thalys services, and Eurostar is to be added from October 8. Until now only selected connections were offered ...
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NewsFilzenexpress electrification agreement
GERMANY: An agreement to finance electrification of the 19 km route between Ebersberg and Wasserburg am Inn was signed on September 28 by Bayern Transport Minister Ilse Aigner and Südostbayernbahn’s infrastructure director Christian Kubasch. A feasibility study in 2016 put the cost of electrification at around €22m, including associated station ...
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NewsOpen access operator's competition complaint upheld
FINLAND: Transport regulator Trafi has instructued state operator VR to make its charges for handling cross-border freight more transparent, following a complaint from the country’s only private operator. Fenniarail has been hauling trains between the Russia-Finland border and UPM’s paper mills since January. Its complaint related to VR’s pricing of ...
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NewsFlixTrain: ‘We want to make sustainable mobility accessible to everyone’
Having grown from a tech startup to an international coach company in just five years, FlixMobility has now entered the rail market. The e-commerce platform seeks to become a multimodal provider of sustainable transport, CEO & Co-Founder André Schwämmlein tells Railway Gazette International
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NewsRATP opens Singapore office
SINGAPORE: RATP Group has opened an office in Singapore that will serve as its headquarters for the Asia-Pacific region. Shaun Tan heads the RATP Dev Asia Pacific subsidiary. RATP Group said that it intends build strong co-operation with Singapore’s public transport authorities and operators through partnerships. ‘Throughout its ...
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NewsFour-storey Bangkok Bang Sue station takes shape
THAILAND: Construction of a new passenger hub for Bangkok is around 70% complete and on course for opening towards the end of 2020, according to municipal officials. Bang Sue Grand Station will be a four-storey structure covering 300 000 m2 and would replace Hua Lamphong as the city’s principal main ...