All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 525
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NewsProcurement of High Speed 2 trains begins
UK: The process to procure rolling stock for High Speed 2 was initiated on January 20, when the Department for Transport issued a periodic indicative notice regarding the acquisition of up to 60 trainsets. The formal call for tenders is planned for 2018, with the contract worth an estimated £2·75bn ...
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NewsTrenitalia awarded 10-year inter-city contract
ITALY: A 10-year ‘universal service contract’ for Trenitalia to operate socially-desirable day and night inter-city services was signed on January 19. Awarded jointly by the Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport and the Ministry of Economy & Finance, the contract is backdated to January 1 and runs to December 31 2026. ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Alstom booked €1·0bn of orders in its third quarter from October 1 to December 31 2016, with sales up 3% year-on-year to €1·7bn. As of December 31 the backlog had reached a record high of €33·8bn. Kazakhstan Railways and Etihad Rail discussed the possible implementation of joint infrastructure projects in ...
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NewsAssam approves Guwahati metro
INDIA: The Assam state government approved the Guwahati metro project on January 18. To be implemented by the Guwahati Metro Rail Corp special purpose vehicle, the metro network for Assam’s largest city is planned to have four lines totalling 203 route-km. The first of four phases would connect ...
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News£300m to improve Brighton Main Line resilience
UK: The Department for Transport has confirmed funding of £300m to improve the resilience of the London – Brighton main line and associated routes, infrastructure manager Network Rail announced on January 10. This will include track renewals, resignalling and civil works to improve resilience in areas which are known to ...
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NewsArtesyn and Hyukshin announce SIL4 signalling collaboration
SOUTH KOREA: Artesyn Embedded Technologies and Hyukshin Engineering Co have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development of commercial-off-the-shelf train control and signalling systems based on Artesyn’s ControlSafe Platform, which has been certified at Safety Integrity Level 4 by TÜV Süd. ‘The adoption of the SIL4 safety ...
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NewsUtrecht orders longer CAF trams
NETHERLANDS: The Province of Utrecht signed a contract with CAF on January 18 for the supply of 22 additional Urbos 100 trams. These are intended to replace vehicles that are more than 30 years old on the city’s sneltram network, which links Utrecht with Nieuwegein and Ijsselstein. The new ...
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NewsEP Cargo buys majority stake in Spedica
CZECH REPUBLIC: The EP Cargo rail freight business of power and industrial group EPH has agreed a deal to become the majority shareholder in transport and logistics group Spedica, which owns freight operator RM Lines. Subject to competition authority approval, EP Cargo is to acquire a 60% stake in Spedica, ...
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NewsOstrava tram contract signed
CZECH REPUBLIC: DP Ostrava has signed the SFr45m contract with Stadler for the supply of 40 trams from its Tango family. The contract includes an option to take only 30 trams, based on the same unit price as an order for 40. Ostrava Mayor Tomáš Macura announced on November ...
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NewsFirst China to UK rail freight service arrives in London
UK: The first demonstration rail freight service carrying textiles and other consumer goods from China to the UK arrived at the London Eurohub terminal in Barking just after 13.00 on January 18, having left Yiwu Xi station in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on January 1. The inaugural train is expected ...
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NewsKeolisAmey to operate Manchester Metrolink
UK: Transport for Greater Manchester announced on January 18 that it had signed a contract with the KeolisAmey joint venture for up to 10 years of operation and maintenance of the Metrolink tram network. The contract will come into effect from July, when the existing operations contract with RATP ...
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NewsFS signs deal to buy Greek national train operator
GREECE: The share purchase agreement for Italian state railway group Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane to buy 100% of Greek national passenger and freight train operator Trainose was signed on January 18. Privatisation agency Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund had named FS as preferred bidder on July 14 2016. Russian Railways ...
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NewsOne offer submitted for privatisation of Montecargo
MONTENEGRO: Polish port operator and freight forwarding company OT Logistics was the only company to submit a bid for a 51% stake in national freight operator Montecargo. Its binding offer was opened by the Tender Commission for Privatisation on January 16, and is subject to review to ensure compliance with ...
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NewsHyundai Rotem unveils prototype Seoul Line 5 metro car
SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai Rotem presented a prototype of its latest metro car at its Changwon factory on January 18. In December 2015 Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp — which operates metro lines 5, 6, 7 and 8 — awarded Hyundai Rotem a contract to supply 32 metro cars for ...
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NewsCarlos Aguilar
Dallas – Houston high speed line promoter Texas Central Partners has appointed former CH2M Hill Senior Vice-President Carlos Aguilar as CEO.
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NewsBaden-Württemberg awards passenger operating contracts
GERMANY: The Länd of Baden-Württemberg has awarded a series of contracts for the operation of passenger services. In partnership with Bayern, the Land has awarded DB RegioNetz the Netz 11 contract to operate Hohenlohe-Franken-Untermain services, after receiving no objections from losing bidders. The contract runs for 12 years from December ...
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NewsÖBB selects Siemens to supply 200 locomotives
AUSTRIA: Siemens AG Österreich has submitted the best bid for a framework contract covering the supply of up to 200 freight locomotives, Austrian Federal Railways told the shortlisted bidders on January 16. Formal award of the contract is still subject to the 10-day regulatory standstill period during which other ...
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NewsAbellio to sell 40% stake in Greater Anglia to Mitsui
UK: The Abellio UK subsidiary of Dutch national passenger train operator NS announced on January 17 that it had signed an agreement to sell 40% of its Greater Anglia business to Japanese trading group Mitsui & Co. Abellio said this would be the first time that a ...
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NewsHaramain High Speed Rail deal ratified
SAUDI ARABIA: On January 16 Spanish Development Minister Íñigo de la Serna welcomed the ratification of the November 2016 agreement between the Saudi Arabian authorities and the Al Shoula consortium, which sets a revised timescale for the completion of the Haramain High Speed Rail Line between Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah. ...
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NewsSpain spends €850m to improve port access
SPAIN: A total of €850∙5m is to be spent on rail projects in 2017-21 under an investment programme to improve land access to ports that was unveiled by Development Minister Íñigo de la Serna on January 9. Freight traffic moving to and from ports by rail has grown by 43% ...