All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2018 – Page 8
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NewsOdesa takes delivery of trolleybuses
UKRAINE: Odesa has taken delivery of all 47 trolleybuses ordered from Belkommunmash in 2015. The BKM-321 low-floor trolleybuses were purchased with the aid of an €8m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development. The first was delivered in December 2017. Dynamic acceptance testing is currently taking ...
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NewsStadler selected for Waldenburgerbahn contract
SWITZERLAND: Baselland Transport has selected Stadler to supply 10 light rail vehicles to operate on the Waldenburgerbahn line, the operator announced on October 23. BLT is ordering the vehicles under a joint procurement with Aargau Verkehr, which is to receive eight for the Limmattalbahn project in Zürich. BLT expects ...
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Rail Business UKEurostar deploys interactive robot at St Pancras station
EUROPE: Eurostar passengers in the departure area of London St Pancras station can now interact with a humanoid robot to find more information about their journey. Eurostar expects this to be particularly popular with families. The Pepper robot from SoftBank Robotics was supplied by Robots of London. It uses a ...
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NewsLimmattalbahn rolling stock supplier selected
SWITZERLAND: Aargau Verkehr has selected Stadler to supply eight Tramlink light rail vehicles for the Limmattalbahn line being developed to the west of Zürich. Aargau Verkehr is ordering the vehicles under a joint procurement with Baselland Transport, which is to receive 10 for the Waldenburgerbahn line. Aargau ...
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NewsDanish ETCS pilot route goes live
DENMARK: Regional passenger services operated by Nordjyske Jernbaner began using ETCS Level 2 between Frederikshavn and Lindholm near Aalborg on October 21. The Aalborg – Frederikshavn line was selected as the early deployment pilot route for the western ERTMS infrastructure contract within the national signalling programme. This is the first ...
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NewsBattery trolleybus delivered to Opava
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Electric delivered its first 32 Tr battery trolleybus to Opava from its Plzeň factory on October 15. In January operator DPMO signed a contract worth KC135·5m excluding VAT for the supply of 10 trolleybuses. The model is based on SOR’s NS 12 bodyshell and is fitted ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
Chiltern Railways is to operate an Oxford Parkway to London Marylebone via Bicester Village service on December 26, when services do not normally run. ‘Although it’s unusual for the railway to be open on Boxing Day, we’ve found this service to be very popular with our customers’, said Commercial Director ...
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NewsUganda rail revival funding agreed
UGANDA: An agreement to fund rehabilitation of the 375 km Northern Line between Tororo and Gulu has been signed by the European Union which will provide a €21·5m grant and the government of Uganda which is to contribute €13·1m. The metre gauge line from the Kenyan border to northern Uganda ...
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NewsSingapore orders 60 electric buses
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority has awarded three contracts for the supply of battery electric buses, it announced on October 24. BYD and ST Engineering Land Systems are each to supply 20 single-deck buses under contracts worth S$17m and S$15m, respectively. A consortium of Yutong and NARI is to supply ...
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NewsHyundai Rotem to supply trains for Almaty metro extension
KAZAKHSTAN: Hyundai Rotem has signed an 80·8bn won contract to supply 32 metro cars for the Almaty metro, the manufacturer announced on October 25. Rotem is to deliver the vehicles from its Changwon plant in South Korea by 2020, in time for the opening of the line’s ...
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NewsHelsinki trams run in Schöneiche
GERMANY: Škoda Transtech and Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Strassenbahn finalised a deal to transfer two pre-series ForCity Smart Artic trams from Helsinki on October 25. The sale takes place after two months of testing on the metre-gauge line near Berlin with the support of Helsinki transport operator HKL and Voith ...
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NewsRail terminal opened to serve Jaguar Land Rover car factory
SLOVAKIA: Infrastructure manager ŽSR has opened a public intermodal freight terminal at Lužianky in near Nitra to serve the Jaguar Land Rover car factory which was officially inaugurated on October 25. The Jaguar Land Rover plant has the capacity to produce 150 000 cars a year. Up to 80% of ...
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NewsFour prequalify for Danish EMU contract
DENMARK: Four manufacturers have prequalified to bid for the Future Trains contract to supply and maintain at least 100 electric multiple-units which would replace most of national passenger operator DSB’s diesel fleet. They are: Alstom Transport Danmark;Bombardier Transportation Denmark; Siemens Mobility; Stadler Bussnang. The government gave the go-ahead ...
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NewsTram-train service to Rotherham launched
UK: Passengers aboard the 10.35 departure from Rotherham Parkgate on October 25 made history as they rode the first tram-train in revenue service in the UK. Opening of the Sheffield – Rotherham tram-train route marks the culmination of a pilot programme more than a decade in the ...
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NewsFlirt Akku battery multiple-unit unveiled
GERMANY: Stadler has officially unveiled the prototype Flirt Akku, a version of its Flirt family of electric multiple-units which is equipped with a battery to permit operation on non-electrified or partly-electrified routes. The unit was officially unveiled on October 25, when it carried guests between the Stadler Pankow factory in ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Presenting its Q3 results on October 25, Vossloh said it is expects group sales in 2018 to be ‘toward the lower end’ of the guidance of €875m to €950m. EBIT and the EBIT margin are predicted to be below 2017, mainly as a result of the very strong performance in ...
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NewsState aid for modal shift approved
BELGIUM: The European Commission has approved a state aid scheme which is designed to encourage the modal shift from road to rail and inland waterway of freight traffic to and from Belgian seaports. The €70m scheme running to the end October 2023 provides a subsidy per train or per ...
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NewsDriving innovation in rail freight
EUROPE: ‘We need a quantum leap’, suggested DG Move’s Director of Land Transport Elisabeth Werner, speaking at a workshop in Brussels on October 25 to launch the European Rail Industry Freight Agenda. Emphasising that rail freight had a key role to play in the decarbonisation of European transport, Werner warned ...
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Metro Report International3D printed tram front end presented
SPAIN: CAF subsidiary RL Components presented a tram front-end produced using additive manufacturing on October 24. The front-end fitted to an Urbos tram at Tranvía de Zaragoza’s depot was developed in partnership with CAF Digital & Design Solutions. Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, enables the design ...
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NewsCatania offers students free travel
ITALY: Università degli Studi di Catania is offering all 45 000 students enrolled in the current academic year free public transport in the city. Free travel is currently valid on all urban bus routes managed by AMT and on the metro, but not on suburban and regional bus lines ...