All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 12
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NewsHitachi Rail to sell signalling businesses to MerMec
EUROPE: Hitachi Rail and MerMec have signed a put option agreement for the sale of Hitachi Rail’s main line signalling business in France and its signalling business units in Germany and the UK. A put option gives the seller the right, but not an obligation, to ...
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NewsBallastless track selected for Koper – Divača project
SLOVENIA: Project promoter 2TDK has selected RailOne’s Rheda 2000 slab track system for use on the second line being built on a new alignment to increase capacity between the port of Koper and the main line at Divača. The Institute of Civil Engineering of Slovenia, building ...
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NewsIndian electric locomotive brake contract awarded
INDIA: Siemens Mobility has awarded Wabtec Corp a Rs13bn contract to supply braking systems for 1 200 electric freight locomotives to be produced for Indian Railways. In January 2023 IR awarded Siemens a Rs260bn contract to supply and maintain 9 000 hp locos able to haul ...
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NewsDSB unveils Talgo 230 for Denmark – Hamburg services
DENMARK: The first of the Talgo 230 trainsets for national passenger operator DSB’s long-distance and international EuroCity services was unveiled in København in January 25.
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NewsRailfluencer Festival to be held at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: Influencers and bloggers will be able to meet leaders from the transport sector during the first international Railfluencer Festival, taking place at InnoTrans 2024. The festival is to be held on the morning of September 27. The programme will include a mix of lectures, photo ...
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NewsHydrogen high speed train to be developed
SPAIN: A group of Spanish companies has been awarded funding for the Hympulso project to power a Talgo 250 gauge-changing high speed trainset using renewable hydrogen. Talgo Class 730 electro-diesel trainsets used by national operator RENFE have a power car behind each driving car containing a ...
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NewsElectric loco modernisation aims to improve performance and efficiency
ROMANIA: National passenger operator CFR Călători has awarded contracts for the modernisation of 19 Electroputere LE5100 electric locomotives to bring their energy efficiency and reliability up to modern standards. The modernisation is being undertaken by locomotive overhaul contractor Reloc, with ABB supplying the traction equipment including ...
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NewsWork starts on next stage of Budapest southern ring capacity scheme
HUNGARY: Construction work on the second phase of the project to add capacity to Budapest’s Southern Circle railway ring between Kelenföld and Ferencváros started on January 15, the Ministry of Construction & Transport has announced.
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NewsIncoming Polish government announces audit of CPK high speed rail and airport project
POLAND: The recently elected government has announced an audit of the Centralny Port Komunikacyjny railway, road and hub airport programme, along with leadership changes at the project promoter. On January 17 Maciej Lasek, the new Secretary of State for Development Funds & Regional Policy and the ...
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NewsBlackRock to acquire Global Infrastructure Partners
INTERNATIONAL: Investment company BlackRock has reached an agreement to acquire Global Infrastructure Partners, which has a portfolio including stakes in Australian rail freight operator Pacific National, rolling stock leasing group VTG and Italian open access high speed train operator Italo. The transaction announced on January 12 ...
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NewsWien S-Bahn ring plans announced
AUSTRIA: The Wien municipality has announced plans to create an S-Bahn ring from 2032 by combining two services and upgrading a freight-only line for passenger use. The orbital service would be formed from the existing S80 and S45 services; S45 trains would be extended from Handelskai ...
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NewsTaiwan Railway restructured as state-owned corporation
TAIWAN: Control of the national rail network has been transferred to a newly established Taiwan Railway Corp, as successor to the former Taiwan Railway Administration. Transformation of the railway from a government department into a state-owned corporation had been under discussion since 2002, but was given ...
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NewsBari – Bitritto railway opens
ITALY: Revenue passenger services on the newly-built Bari – Bitritto line began on January 9, following an inauguration ceremony the previous day. The standard gauge electrified single-track line is 11·9 km long, with 2·5 km running parallel to the existing Bari – Taranto main line and ...
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NewsKiwiRail orders track inspection car
NEW ZEALAND: KiwiRail has awarded MerMec a contract to supply a replacement track evaluation car. MerMec said the vehicle would provide ‘exhaustive’ real-time track analysis using 12 inspection and measurement systems including lasers, cameras and others sensors. MerMec CEO Luca Necchi Ghiri said the contract announced ...
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NewsÖBB orders the latest evolution of the Mireo EMU family
AUSTRIA: Austrian Federal Railways has placed a firm order for 70 electric multiple-units based on a development of Siemens Mobility’s established Mireo design. The €800m order announced on January 19 is the first to be placed under a €5bn 10-year framework agreement covering up to 540 ...
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NewsNarrow gauge hydrogen trains ordered as operator aims to be ‘modern and sustainable‘
ITALY: Reginal operator Ferrovie della Calabria has awarded Stadler a firm order to supply and maintain a further three 950 mm gauge hydrogen multiple-units. The order announced on January 18 has been placed under a June 2023 framework agreement awarded jointly by FdC and Sardinian transport ...
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NewsDB Regio places order as Coradia Stream high capacity becomes Coradia Max
GERMANY: DB Regio has ordered nine three-car and nine five-car Alstom Coradia Max partly double-deck electric multiple-units. The announcement of the order on January 18 comes after the Länder of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg awarded DB Regio the contract to operate Ostsee-Alster service RE1 between Hamburg ...