All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 395
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NewsDB spending halted as profits slump
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn Chief Executive Dr Richard Lutz has brought in emergency spending controls, amid reports of a third warning that the group’s 2018 profit target was unlikely to be achieved. According to local media, Lutz has written to senior executives warning that business had deteriorated in recent months rather ...
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NewsBattery-powered Desiro ML Cityjet Eco unveiled
AUSTRIA: An electric multiple-unit equipped with a prototype electric-battery hybrid drive system designed to enable through running onto non-electrified lines was unveiled by Siemens and Austrian Federal Railways in Wien on September 10. The Desiro ML Cityjet Eco has been produced using a series-built version of the Desiro ML EMUs ...
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NewsItaly – Slovenia passenger services reinstated
EUROPE: Through passenger services between Italy and Slovenia were reinstated on September 9, having been suspended in 2008. The revival of the service is the result of a partnership between the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, which owns the CAF-built ETR563 electric multiple-units deployed on the route, and national operators ...
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NewsŠkoda selected for Ostrava tram contract
CZECH REPUBLIC: Tram operator DP Ostrava announced on September 7 that it had selected Škoda Transportation to supply 40 low-floor trams for KC1·9bn. Stadler, CAF and Inekon also bid, but did not comply with the terms of the tender. Deliveries of the ForCity Smart vehicles are due between September ...
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NewsBattery buses inaugurated in Moscow
RUSSIA: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin inaugurated the city’s first battery electric bus route on September 1. Battery buses using overnight and opportunity charging have replaced trolleybuses on Route 73 between VDNKh Exhibition Centre and Bibirevo, enabling the overhead wires to be dismantled. KAMAZ and GAZ are supplying 100 ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Hupac Group recorded an 8% increase in traffic in the first half of 2018, with trans-Alpine transport through Switzerland up 9.4%. Hupac expects ‘continued constant growth’ for the second half of 2018, supported by a 15% increase in its wagon fleet and the deployment of eight multi-system locomotives. PKP Cargo ...
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NewsGet on the right lines with Rail.One
RAIL.ONE: Interdisciplinary teams and international experience will be highlighted by track technology supplier Rail.One at InnoTrans 2018. Structural flexibility and noise protection are important for urban rail applications, while long-distance and freight railways require products offering ease of installation, reliability and minimal maintenance. ‘We will be presenting our visitors ...
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NewsZevenaar – Didam upgrading contract awarded
NETHERLANDS: Infrastructure manager ProRail has awarded Strukton Rail a €40m contract to modernise and double-track the 4 km single track regional line between Zevenaar and Didam. Construction is expected to begin later this year for completion at the end of 2019. The maximum line speed will be increased from 100 ...
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NewsSteel coil wagons ordered
FRANCE: Leasing company Ermewa has awarded Đuro Đaković Specijalna Vozila a 127m kuna contract to supply Shimmns TTU four-axle wagons which will be used to transport steel coil for car manufacturers. Deliveries under the contract announced on August 27 are scheduled to begin in Q4 2018 and continue throughout 2019. ...
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NewsCP to launch €168m rolling stock procurement
PORTUGAL: The government’s Council of Ministers on September 6 gave the go-ahead for national passenger operator CP to start a rolling stock procurement process. Intended to cover the acquisition of 22 trainsets, an international tender worth €168·2m is to be called in 2019 in accordance with EU procurement rules. The ...
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NewsCatenary-free tram delivered to Kaohsiung
TAIWAN: The first test runs on the second phase of the Kaohsiung tramway are scheduled to get underway later this month, after the first tram arrived the port of Keelung from Alstom’s La Rochelle site in France on September 2. Revenue services are planned for 2019. In January 2017 China ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Stadler Rail is exploring options for a possible IPO next year, Bloomberg reported on September 4. The executive and supervisory boards of VTG AG published a joint reasoned opinion on September 5 recommending that shareholders do not accept the €53 per share voluntary public takeover offer made by the ...
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NewsLights show the way
TSL-ESCHA: Internal lights for trams and LRVs will be the focus of the TSL-Escha stand at InnoTrans 2018, where the company will be showing the VL55 lighting assembly. Intended to be fitted at ceiling level above the doors, it combines the internal lighting function and visual warning of door closure, ...
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NewsSerbia reopens line to the Bosnian border
SERBIA: Passenger services on the 65 km line from Šabac to Loznica and Brasina on the Bosnian border restarted on September 1, having been suspended since 2005. Services are to be extended to Zvornik Novi in Bosnia-Herzegovina from the December timetable change. Infrastruktura ŽS has rehabilitated the single track ...
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NewsRhein-Ruhr Express EMU maintenance depot opens
GERMANY: The Rail Service Centre where Siemens Mobility will maintain for 32 years the 82 Desiro HC electric multiple-units which it is supplying for Rhein-Ruhr Express services was officially inaugurated on September 6. The depot on the site of the former Dortmund-Eving marshalling yard has 5·5 km of track, a ...
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NewsCAF completes Solaris acquisition
CAF: Spanish group CAF completed its acquisition of 100% of the shares of Polish company Solaris Bus & Coach on September 4. CAF has also entered into an agreement for Poland’s PFR investment fund to acquire a 35% stake in Solaris on the same terms and conditions. 'CAF’s investment in ...
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NewsHigh-performance digital interface
HARTING: Data communications and connector specialist Harting has launched its first modular connector designed for the Category 7A transmission standard, adopted as the future standard for rail vehicle applications. Wi-fi and smarter passenger information systems, video surveillance and monitoring sensors are driving a rapid increase in the amount of data ...
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NewsRhätische Bahn orders locomotives
SWITZERLAND: Rhätische Bahn awarded Stadler Bussnang a SFr215m contract to supply seven two-axle overhead/battery electric shunting locomotives on September 3. They are scheduled to enter service in 2020, enabling 11 older locomotives to be withdrawn. The metre-gauge locomotives will be identical to ones ordered by Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn in ...
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NewsOdyssey tram unveiled
UKRAINE: On September 4 Odesa transport operator Odesmiskelektrotrans unveiled the first of six Odyssey-branded partially low-floor trams which it ordered from local supplier Vagonoremontni Maisterni in June. It is the 17th in a series of trams with bodies designed by Pragoimex and produced by Polytechnoservis to be assembled locally since ...
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NewsGet a lift to the train
PALFINGER: The lift supplier will be using InnoTrans 2018 to highlight the growing demand for wheelchair lifts in the rail sector as step-free access to trains becomes an increasingly important issue across the sector. Palfinger will be introducing its Trainlift TRV 1200, which has a lifting height of 1200 mm, ...