All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 640
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NewsManchester Victoria station modernisation completed
UK: Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin unveiled a plaque on October 6 to mark the completion of a £44m modernisation of Manchester Victoria station, which is used by more than 7 million passengers/year. The three-year project was managed by Network Rail, with BDP as architects and Morgan Sindall ...
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NewsUrumqi metro orders trains
CHINA: Urumqi Urban Rail Group Co has signed a contract with CRRC subsidiary Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co for the supply of 27 six-car trainsets for the city’s first metro line. The Type A trainsets would have four motor and two trailer cars, and a maximum design speed of 80 ...
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NewsOpen access operator NTV to order Pendolinos
ITALY: The board of open access high speed train operator NTV has approved the award of a contract for Alstom Transport to supply and maintain a further eight trainsets. Branded EVO, the new trainsets would be part of Alstom’s Pendolino family which NTV said offers ‘a brilliant mixture of reliability ...
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NewsDublin revives Metro North plans
IRELAND: Plans for a partly-underground high-capacity light rail line from central Dublin to the airport and northern suburbs are to be revived, the government said when announcing a €3·6bn seven-year public transport spending programme for 2016-22 on September 29. The line would run 16·5 km from St Stephen’s Green in ...
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NewsNico Buchholz
Nico Buchholz, formerly of Lufthansa, has joined Bombardier as Senior Vice-President & Chief Procurement Officer.
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NewsCummins delivers first QSK95 locomotive engine
USA: Cummins has shipped the first production QSK95 diesel engine built to a rail specification. The QSK95 is to power the 35 Charger passenger locomotives ordered by the states of Illinois, California, Michigan, Missouri and Washington and now under construction at the Siemens plant in Sacramento, as well as future ...
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NewsSamsun orders Durmazlar trams
TURKEY: Samsun Metropolitan Municipality announced on October 1 that it had awarded Durmazlar a €12·3m contract to supply eight trams. These are required to augment the current fleet of 21 for the opening of the 14 km extension of the route from Gar to Tekkeköy to the southeast of the ...
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NewsAlstom acquires Motala Train
SWEDEN: Alstom has acquired passenger rolling stock refurbishment, maintenance and repair company Motala Train from Motala Verkstad Group. Motala Train has a 5 600 m2 workshop in Motala and a second depot in Västeras, with a total of 73 staff and an annual turnover of €15m. Refurbishment work accounts for ...
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NewsBursa begins LRV testing
TURKEY: The first two vehicles for the T2 extension of the Bursaray light metro network in Bursa are now on test. Bursa Metropolitan Municipality has ordered 12 Silkworm light rail vehicles from Durmazlar as part of the extension project, following an order for 60 LRVs placed at the start ...
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NewsLucknow metro chooses Alstom trains and signalling
INDIA: Lucknow Metro Rail Corp has awarded Alstom a €150m contract to provide rolling stock and signalling for the future line. Announcing the contract on October 5, Alstom said it would supply 20 four-car Metropolis trainsets from its Sri City factory in Andhra Pradesh. The trains will be air-conditioned ...
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NewsEMD unveils its first Tier 4 diesel locomotive
USA: The first of six pre-production Tier 4 compliant diesel locomotives being built by the Electro-Motive Diesel subsidiary of Progress Rail Services was unveiled at the Railway Interchange 2015 exhibition in Minneapolis on October 4. On show at the outdoor display in BNSF’s Northtown Yard, the SD70ACe-T4 locomotive is powered ...
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NewsAlstom multiple-unit maintenance site goes electric
GERMANY: Alstom Transport has opened an electric multiple-unit servicing, repair and refurbishment facility at the Braunschweig site where it undertakes similar work on diesel multiple-units under contract to various train operators. The €15m expansion of the site’s facilities includes two additional workshops, 1·5 km of 15 kV 16·7 Hz ...
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NewsScandinavian rendezvous at Nordic Rail 2015
SWEDEN: More than 300 exhibitors from 25 countries across Europe, the USA and China will be assembling in Jönköping this month for the Nordic Rail exhibition on October 6-8. Marking its 20th anniversary this year, Scandinavia’s biennial railway trade fair was launched in 1995, and since 2007 it has ...
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NewsLondon Underground energy recovery trial proves successful
UK: Transport for London has announced that the ‘world first’ installation of Alstom's Harmonic & Energy Saving Optimiser inverting substation energy recovery technology on a metro line has proved successful. As well as feeding energy regenerated by braking trains back into the traction power supply, HESOP can return power ...
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NewsModernised EMU presented to Przewozy Regionalne
POLAND: The first of 21 EN57 electric multiple-units modernised by Pesa subsidiary ZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki was presented to national regional train operator Przewozy Regionalne at the Trako trade fair in Gdańsk on September 22. The three-car EN57AL-2102 has a new livery, as well as a reconfigured interior. it has ...
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NewsFinnish passenger market to be opened to competition
FINLAND: Proposals for opening the passenger rail market to competition are to be published in spring next year, Minister of Transport & Communications Anne Berner announced on October 1. The ministry is to study the possible options for competition, aiming to identify the most viable model for Finnish conditions ...
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NewsCanadian Pacific acquires steel transloading business
CANADA: Canadian Pacific Railway has acquired Steelcare Inc, which operates Canada's largest steel transloading facility at CP's Aberdeen yard in Hamilton, Ontario. The transaction announced on September 29 includes TransCare Logistics Corp, Prometheus Six and East Port Warehousing & Distribution businesses. The Plant Six site in Hamilton has two ...
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NewsProgress Rail to buy Rail Product Solutions
USA: Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail Services Corp announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase track fastening supplier Rail Product Solutions Inc from Amsted Rail Co on September 29. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition ‘expands our portfolio of track related products and ...
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NewsSiemens opens locomotive servicing and data analysis centres
GERMANY: Bayern Transport Minister Joachim Herrmann and Siemens Mobility CEO Jochen Eickholt officially opened a locomotive service centre at the manufacturer’s München-Allach plant on October 1. Siemens says the new 2000 m2 covered hall will enable it to undertake locomotive manufacturing and maintenance at a single location for the first ...
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NewsMidi-Pyrénées orders more double-deck EMUs
FRANCE: SNCF has exercised an option for a further eight Bombardier Transportation Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units to be delivered in 2017-19. The €56·5m contract announced on October 1 is being financed by the Midi-Pyrénées region, which ordered an initial 10 Regio 2N EMUs in December 2013. In ...