All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 809
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NewsRJ Corman Signaling launched
USA: Short line operator and railway construction, maintenance and repair contractor RJ Corman Railroad Group has entered the signalling design and supply market with the creation of RJ Corman Signaling. 'Work on the Nicholasville, Kentucky, facility is nearing completion', said Mike Wilson, Vice-President of the new subsidiary. 'We have identified ...
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NewsArriva RP awarded Kujawsko-Pomorskie contracts
POLAND: Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodship has awarded Arriva RP two contracts covering the provision of regional passenger services on around two-thirds of the electrified routes in the voivodship. Arriva RP already operates the non-electrified routes under a 10-year contract signed in 2009. The latest contracts run for two years from the December ...
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NewsStrukton Rail increases stake in CLF
ITALY: Strukton Rail announced its intention to increase its stake in Italian railway construction, maintenance and renewals contractor CLF from 40% to 60% on March 30. Unieco holds the remaining 40% stake in CLF, which has 500 employees and reported turnover of €121m in 2012. Strukton Rail has been ...
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NewsDSB reshuffle
DSB’s Commercial Director Gert Frost has resigned following the Danish state-owned passenger operator’s decision to streamline all operational activities under one director. His responsibilities will be taken over by Susanne Mørch Koch (photo), who will in turn pass on the management of long-distance and regional services to Director of Commuter ...
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NewsTokyo Metro inaugurates Shibuya connection
JAPAN: Through services between the metro networks in Tokyo and Yokohama began running on March 16, with the inauguration of a new connection between Tokyo Metro’s Fukutoshin Line and Toku Railway’s Toyoko Line at Shibuya in the southwest of the capital. Opened in 2008, the 1 067 mm gauge Fukutoshin ...
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NewsQueensland coal railway terms agreed
AUSTRALIA: Aurizon and GVK Hancock have signed non-binding terms for the development of a 495 km standard gauge railway and associated port infrastructure capable of handling 60 mtpa which would enable the exploitation of coal reserves in Queensland’s Galilee Basin. Last year GVK Hancock received primary environmental approvals for the ...
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NewsMetro Line 2 opens in Santo Domingo
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: President Danilo Medina inaugurated the second line of the Santo Domingo metro on April 1. Line 2 runs on an east-west alignment from María Montez to Eduardo Brito. The 12·8 km line has 14 stations, including an interchange with the north-south Line 1 at Juan Pablo Duarte. ...
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NewsDB orders Twindexx Vario EMUs for Main-Spessart services
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation announced a €113m firm order to supply Deutsche Bahn with 12 four-car Twindexx Vario electric multiple units on April 2. The contract has been placed within a December 2008 framework agreement. The latest batch of double-deck EMUs are to be used on Main-Spessart services between Bamberg, Würzburg, ...
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NewsMore Alstom trams arrive in Bordeaux
FRANCE: Alstom Transport delivered the first of 26 Citadis trams to Bordeaux on March 29 under a contract worth €80m. The 43 m 100% low-floor vehicles are for the lines being built under the 33 km Phase III expansion of the network, and they will be delivered over the following ...
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NewsVoith to develop tram technology for China
GERMANY: Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Group has selected Voith Engineering Services to develop a low-floor tram for the Chinese market. The €7m project will last until the end of 2014. As part of the collaboration between the two firms, Voith will train 15 Chinese employees at its headquarters in Chemnitz, ...
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NewsBertling joins Bombardier
Lutz Bertling has been named as the next President & Chief Operating Officer of Bombardier Transportation. Currently President & CEO of EADS subsidiary Eurocopter Group, he will take up his new post on June 3, succeeding André Navarri, who will remain as Strategic Advisor to Bombardier Inc President & CEO ...
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NewsRATP stops planting bulbs underground
FRANCE: Paris transport operator RATP has awarded Soitec and a Philips/Step consortium contracts totalling €11m for the replacement of 250 000 lamps and strip lights at its 302 metro and 66 RER stations with LEDs in 2013-17. RATP says it will be the first existing transport network to convert completely ...
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NewsFeature articles in the April 2013 issue of Railway Gazette International
Comment Goodbye Ministry of Railways, hello China Railways Corp News Main line Urban rail Innovations Industry Analysis Indian Railways: alive, but not kicking GSM-R progress in Britain A vision for rail in 2050 Signalling & train control ETCS or CBTC on cross-city links? Promoters ...
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NewsKTZ provides training grants
KAZAKHSTAN: National railway KTZ has provided an educational grant to support the training of 400 students from a number of technical colleges in rail-specific technology. Intended to give the students 'the symbiosis of theory and practice', KTZ expects the secondment in Astana to provide a practical basis to the students' ...
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NewsTfL launches Online Innovation Portal
UK: Transport for London announced on March 6 the introduction of an Online Innovation Portal intended to help staff, suppliers, industry partners and academics to 'share and capture' pioneering technology to meet the series of long-term challenges faced by London's rail networks. The portal is currently focused on harnessing concepts ...
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NewsAccelerated test chamber for on-train electronics
FRANCE: Supported by the Ministry of Higher Education & Research and the Nord-Pas de Calais region, the Valutec C3T transport technology centre at the University of Valenciennes & Hainaut Cambrésis has purchased a Highly Accelerated Life Test chamber. This will be used to test the performance and failure modes of ...
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NewsNews in Brief
UK operator First Great Western has conducted research to assess how passengers respond to onboard announcements. The research suggested that up to 40% of the content is 'no longer useful or relevant' to the passenger. Under a funding agreement signed on February 8, the European Investment Bank is lending ...
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NewsTCDD launches Eskisehir – Konya high speed service
TURKEY: A direct high speed service linking Eskisehir and Konya was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on March 23, accompanied by Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım and TCDD Director General Süleyman Karaman. Introduction of the direct service follows the completion of a 5 km west-to-south connecting curve linking ...
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NewsMore trains bought for Singapore Downtown Line
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority confirmed on March 28 the purchase of 15 three-car Movia trainsets from the consortium of Bombardier Transportation and Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles Co. The order is worth S$119·2m, with Bombardier's share valued at S$46m. LTA had already purchased 73 trainsets for the Downtown Line. Of ...