All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 807
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NewsDoha metro Red Line contractors selected
QATAR: Qatar Rail has selected contractors for the Red Line North construction phase of the Doha metro. One contract is for the construction of an underground section of the Red Line; the other is for building Msheireb and Education City stations. The consortium selected for Red Line North includes ...
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NewsCHSRA evaluates Central Valley construction contract bids
USA: With a submission worth $985m, a joint venture of Tutor Perini Corp, Zachry Construction Corp and Parsons Corp has been selected by the California High Speed Rail Authority as the best-ranking of five shortlisted bids for a design-build contract for the Madera – Fresno starter section of the planned ...
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NewsSouth West Trains EMUs to get AC traction equipment
UK: Porterbrook Leasing has awarded Vossloh Kiepe UK a £40m contract to supply solid-state inverters and AC traction motors to replace electro-mechanical control equipment and DC motors on the 91 Class 455 electric multiple-units operated by South West Trains on the 750 V DC third rail network serving London Waterloo. ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - April 2013
Asian Development Bank and the European Investment Bank signed a memorandum of understanding with Ho Chi Minh City officials on March 13 to provide €200m towards the US$857m cost of building the 17 km first phase of metro Line 5. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has announced plans to call ...
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NewsLow-energy ticket machine
LUXEMBOURG: National railway CFL has ordered 83 Dualis 2000 TSI self-service ticket machines and associated Dualis Cemas back-end systems from ICA Traffic. All the operating features of the machines including the 15 in touch screen display will be between 700 mm and 1200 mm above ground level to comply ...
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NewsChildren's ticket gates
CHINA: Hong Kong's MTR Corp has installed two custom-designed 'child-friendly' ticket gates at its Disneyland Resort station. The gates are 100 mm lower than standard, and decorated with characters from the Toy Story films. 'For obvious reasons, Disneyland Resort Station serves more child passengers than other MTR stations,' said Operations ...
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NewsAustralian high speed rail study published
AUSTRALIA: What Minister for Infrastructure & Transport Anthony Albanese called 'the most detailed and comprehensive study ever undertaken into high speed rail in this country' was published on April 11. The study identifies a potential 1 748 km route for a double-track electrified high speed line between Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra ...
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NewsFastening partnership
USA: Atchison, Kansas-based Amsted RPS has formed a joint venture with Swiss supplier Schwihag to supply rail fastenings for the North American market. The joint venture has been established to supply Class I railways with SKL fastenings for use on heavy-axleload routes, in accordance with 'Buy America' requirements. Amsted RPS ...
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NewsHump yard modernisation gets underway
GERMANY: Following successful projects to modernise the Köln Gremberg and Hagen Vorhalle marshalling yards, DB ProjektBau has awarded Pintsch Tiefenbach and AIS Automation Dresden a contract to provide new control equipment for the Seddin Nord hump yard southwest of Berlin. The contract worth 'several million euros' covers the provision of ...
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NewsInfrastructure funding in demand
INTERNATIONAL: Greater government investment in rail infrastructure is needed, although few industry leaders believe that sufficient funds will be made available, according to a multi-modal study published by the Norton Rose international legal practice on March 15. Entitled The Way Ahead - Where are you now?, the group's fourth annual ...
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NewsKTZ places electric multiple-unit order
KAZAKHSTAN: National railway KTZ has ordered a 10-car Type ED9E electric multiple-unit from Transmashholding’s Demikhovsky Engineering Plant subsidiary. Delivery is planned for July. Announcing the order on April 10, Transmashholding, said the ED9E offers lower power consumption than previous generations of AC unit. The new EMU will ...
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NewsSales up 22% at Transmashholding
RUSSIA: Rolling stock manufacturer Transmashholding has reported sales totalling 130bn roubles in 2012, up 22% on the 2011 figure of 106·3bn roubles. The largest increase came from locomotive and wagon orders, with sales of mainline electric freight locomotives up 40% from 308 to 434 sections, and sales of diesel freight ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
CSR Nanjing Puzhen is undertaking trials with a prototype Shanghai Line 13 metro car which has been assembled using friction stir welding for the main components of the aluminium body, and not just for smaller elements as previously. A consortium of Industrial Development Corp, Commuter Transport Engineering, the National ...
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NewsEtihad Rail takes delivery of EMD locomotives
UAE: The first two of seven SD70ACS locomotives which Electro-Motive Diesel is supplying for the initial phase of the national rail network have been unloaded at Mussafah Port in Abu Dhabi, Etihad Rail announced on April 10. The heavy freight locomotives are to be moved to Mirfa in the Western ...
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NewsTopping-out ceremony for first West Island Line station
CHINA: Hong Kong's MTR Corp held a topping-out ceremony for Kennedy Town station on April 10, the first of three stations being built as part of the West Island Line project. 'This is a really exciting moment in the construction of the West Island Line', said MTR Corp CEO Jay ...
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NewsSiemens to supply Kazakh rail mill
KAZAKHSTAN: Siemens Metals Technologies has been awarded an 'upper double-digit million euro' contract to supply Aktobe Rail & Section Works with a rail and section rolling mill. The mill is being constructed under the auspices of national railway KTZ and will supply rail for domestic use as well as export ...
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NewsPrivate company awarded high speed line rail grinding contract
CHINA: The CRM-Vossloh Track Maintenance joint venture of Chinese rail equipment services provider CRM and Vossloh Rail Services has won a contract to undertake preventative rail grinding on the 1 300 km Beijing - Shanghai Passenger-Dedicated Line. Announcing the contract on April 9, Vossloh said it was the first time ...
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NewsFGC to host Getaway trials
SPAIN: Under the European Union-funded Getaway project to improve the safety of public spaces, Catalan regional operator FGC is to hold four emergency evacuation exercises at Sant Cugat station in the suburbs of Barcelona. With the participation of researchers from the University of Greenwich in the UK, the first two ...
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NewsPhoenix airport peoplemover crosses above taxiway
USA: The first phase of the PHX Sky Train automated peoplemover at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona was opened by Mayor of Phoenix Greg Stanton on April 8. The 2·7 km double-track elevated guideway crosses an active taxiway at a height of 30 m, providing sufficient clearance for ...
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NewsIndia's PCM Group acquires Rail.One
RAIL.ONE: Concrete sleeper and ballastless track technology supplier Rail.One has been acquired by PCM Group of Industries, an Indian conglomerate with engineering, communications, energy, steel, media, tea and other interests in India, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Thailand and Bhutan. Financial details have not been disclosed. Announcing the deal on April ...