All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 371
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NewsChengde – Shenyang heads next tranche of PDL openings
CHINA: National operator China Railway Corp has launched passenger services on four more new lines, following on from the five routes that opened on December 25-26 and taking the total length of new line inaugurated this month to more than 2 500 route-km. December 29 saw the start of operation ...
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NewsSeoul starts work on regional express network
SOUTH KOREA: Groundbreaking ceremonies for the northwestern arm of Seoul’s planned three-line Great Train Express network were held at the Kintex exhibition centre in Goyang on December 27. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport, the GTX network is intended to link outlying suburbs in the north and ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market - December 2018
Canada: The City of Québec and transport authority RTC have awarded Systra Canada a seven-year C$12·5m contract to undertake engineering design for a proposed 23 km tram line. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada is to provide legal services under a separate five-year contract worth C$375 000. Chile: Metro de Santiago ...
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NewsWorld rail market - December 2018
Afghanistan: The Afghanistan Railway Authority and Afghan National Insurance Co have signed a memorandum of understanding for fire, health, vehicle, railway equipment, third party and cargo insurance services. Finland: Helsinki transport operator HKL is to deploy Teleste’s S-Aware situational awareness platform to support decision making when to complex or ...
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NewsAGV demonstrator car arrives in Doncaster
UK: An intermediate car from Alstom’s Pégase AGV demonstrator arrived at the National College for High Speed Rail campus in Doncaster in early December, having been transported more than 1 000 km from the supplier's La Rochelle factory in France. Built in 2007, the car previously formed part of Alstom’s ...
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NewsDouble-tracking funded
SWITZERLAND: The federal government approved a SFr23·3m financing agreement on December 14 which will enable Swiss Federal Railways to go ahead with double-tracking the 800 m Goldach – Rorschach Stadt section of the St Gallen – St Margrethen route. Construction permits have already been obtained, and work is expected to ...
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NewsMetafrax orders methanol tank wagons
RUSSIA: Metafrax has awarded United Wagon Co’s TikhvinChemMash plant a contract to supply a further 100 Type 15-6880 methanol tank wagons by May, saying the decision was taken following the good operating performance of a previous batch. The chemical producer currently has more than 400 1-T and Tpr tank wagons. ...
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NewsXi’an opens second north-south metro line
CHINA: The new Line 4 of the Xi’an metro was formally opened at 10.00 on December 26. Running entirely underground for 35·2 km, the north-south line connects the city’s high speed rail hub at Xi’an Bei (North Square) with Hangtian Xincheng via the main station close to the old city ...
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NewsVisakhapatnam metro ready to start
INDIA: Groundbreaking ceremonies for the planned 42·5 km Visakhapatnam Metro Rail network in Andhra Pradesh are expected to take place in February, following a decision to accelerate the project. Speaking at a meeting with the Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Regional Development Authority on December 26, the Principal Secretary from the Ministry of ...
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NewsSolaris to supply electric buses to private operator in München
GERMANY: Solaris is to supply three Urbino 12 electric buses to private bus operator Josef Ettenhuber for services in München. The buses will be built to a new design. The 240 kWh Solaris High Energy batteries will be charged via a plug-in connection, and the buses will be fitted ...
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NewsFive new lines open in two days
CHINA: Revenue services began on two more high speed lines on December 25, with another inaugurated the following day, along with two new mixed-traffic railways. First to open on December 25 was the 293 km Harbin – Mudanjiang Intercity Railway, running southeast from the capital of Heilongjiang province to a ...
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NewsTransNamib and Botswana Railways sign container terminal MoU
NAMIBIA: National railway TransNamib and its Botswana counterpart Botswana Railways have signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of a container terminal at Gobabis. Located around 110 km west of Namibia’s border with Botswana, Gobabis is the terminus of a 1 067 mm gauge line from the port of ...
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NewsParis commuter EMUs ordered
FRANCE: SNCF has awarded Bombardier Transportation a €330m firm order to supply a further 42 seven-car and five eight-car train Francilien suburban electric multiple-units. The contract announced on December 21 has been placed on behalf of Greater Paris public transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités, which is funding the order. The latest ...
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NewsParis commuter EMUs ordered
FRANCE: SNCF has awarded Bombardier Transportation a €330m firm order to supply a further 42 seven-car and five eight-car train Francilien suburban electric multiple-units. The contract announced on December 21 has been placed on behalf of Greater Paris public transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités, which is funding the order. The latest ...
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NewsNS orders 88 Sprinter EMUs
NETHERLANDS: A €400m firm order for CAF to supply a further 50 three-car and 38 four-car Civity electric multiple-units was announced by national passenger operator NS on December 27. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2020. The latest order builds on a 2014 contract covering 68 three-car and 50 four-car ...
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NewsGreen Cargo and SSAB reach five-year agreement
SWEDEN: Following a 1½ year procurement process, high strength steel steelmaker SSAB has awarded Green Cargo a contract to move around 3 million tonnes/year of ingots and finished products between its plants in Luleå, Borlänge and Oxelösund, and to provide shunting services at the Borlänge and Oxelösund ...
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NewsAccessible narrow gauge coach
RUSSIA: Kambarka Engineering Works has launched the 750 mm gauge VP750-DITS accessible coach. The design is intended to be suitable for railways of between 600 and 1 000 mm gauge. The vehicle has two wheelchair spaces with support panels, securing belts and horizontal handrails, and carries ramps which can be ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market - December 2018
Azerbaijan: ŽOS Zvolen has completed work on the first two of five ČKD-built CME3 Co-Co diesel-electric locos which are being refurbished for ADY with the complete renewal of all equipment except bodyshells to extend their service life by 15 years. Canada: Montréal metro operator STM has ordered a further ...
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NewsTacuarembó - Rivera reopens as track renewals completed
URUGUAY: Passenger services returned to AFE’s northern route between Tacuarembó and the Brazilian border at Rivera were reinstated on December 19 following an 18-year hiatus. Passenger services on this route had operated intermittently for a number of years after 1993 but were withdrawn with effect from December 13 2000. Two ...
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NewsChinese coaches to re-equip Yangon – Mandalay expresses
MYANMAR: The national parliament in Naypyitaw has approved government plans to purchase new rolling stock for Myanma Railways’ principal Yangon – Mandalay services using funding from China. The Ministry of Transport & Communications intends to procure 14 standard and 14 first class vehicles for the route, which carries more than ...