All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 39
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NewsEarthquake warning system deployed on high speed line
ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI has inaugurated a seismic warning system to enhance safety on the 211 km Roma – Napoli high speed line.
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Metro Report InternationalSão Paulo suburban lines to be equipped with ETCS
BRAZIL: Operating concessionaire ViaMobilidade has awarded Alstom a contract to deploy ETCS Level 2 on São Paulo lines 8 (Diamante) and 9 (Esmeralda). The R$1bn signalling modernisation project is to be completed within six years.
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NewsOntario Tech University launches ‘Canada’s first’ railway engineering course
CANADA: A railway engineering course is to be launched by Ontario Tech University later this year.
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NewsWells Fargo agrees to sell rail assets
USA: Wells Fargo & Co has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the assets of its rolling stock leasing business to a joint venture of GATX Corp and Brookfield Infrastructure.
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NewsTrump administration claims ‘no viable path forward’ for California’s high speed rail project as FRA report issued
USA: The Federal Railroad Administration has issued a report outlining the problems facing California’s high speed rail programme, warning that it sees ‘no viable path forward’ for the project.
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NewsStadler reveals Euro DuFour locomotive concept
EUROPE: Stadler has unveiled its Euro DuFour modular locomotive concept, intended to compete with the established Siemens Mobility Vectron and Alstom Traxx families in the four-axle loco market.
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NewsAI optimises rail freight staff schedules
GERMANY: Zedas says the addition of AI-powered staff scheduling to its Zedas Cargo logistics software had ‘drastically’ reduced planning effort and ‘significantly’ improved resource utilisation.
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NewsRobot positions container wagon pins
GERMANY: The use of an autonomous mobile robot to automate the repositioning of folding pins on container wagons has been successfully tested by Hamburger Hafen & Logistik and the Fraunhofer Centre for Maritime Logistics & Services.
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NewsRolling stock cybersecurity partnership
INTERNATIONAL: Duagon’s D527 Multi-Ethernet Secure Gateway can now be supplied with the CylusOne rail-specific cybersecurity platform
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NewsAlstom ‘reshores’ rolling stock production to New York state
USA: Alstom has expanded its rolling stock factory at Hornell in New York state with the opening of the $75m Plant 4.
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NewsNorfolk Southern offers vocational training scholarships
USA: Norfolk Southern is offering Trades on Track scholarships to vocational students within its 22-state network.
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NewsSpanish and Japanese operators collaborate on high speed rail
INTERNATIONAL: Central Japan Railway and Spanish national operator RENFE have signed a set of technical, operational and strategic collaboration agreements.
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NewsTurkey calls tenders for construction of Siirt railway
TURKEY: Infrastructure manager TCDD has called tenders for the construction of a 34 km extension of the Yolçatı – Diyarbakır – Batman – Kurtalan railway to Siirt.
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NewsKonkan Railway to be merged into Indian Railways
INDIA: The quasi-independent Konkan Railway is on course to be merged into Indian Railways.
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NewsExplosive rail wagon holding yard opened
USA: An explosive railcar holding yard has been opened at the Crane Army Ammunition Activity site in Indiana. CAAA is part of the Joint Munitions Command, which receives, inspects, stores, ships, renovates and demilitarises conventional ammunition, missiles and related components. The new ...
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NewsEuropean Commission issues guidelines on railway infrastructure access charges
EUROPE: The European Commission has adopted guidelines on the setting of track access charges, aiming to prevent mark-ups being a barrier to market entry.
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NewsEstonia lets more Rail Baltica construction contracts
ESTONIA: Two construction contracts have been signed covering northern sections of the Rail Baltica corridor which will link the Baltic states with Poland.
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NewsXi’an to Almaty tourist train launched
ASIA: A tourist train has been launched between Xi’an in China and Almaty in Kazakhstan.