All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 846
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NewsFRA launches Railroaders' Guide to Healthy Sleep
USA: Funded by the Federal Railroad Administration, an interactive web portal has been launched by the Department of Transportation to help railway staff to monitor their sleep patterns. Entitled ‘the Railroaders’ Guide to Healthy Sleep’, the site provides a range of tools to enable staff to record their sleep patterns ...
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NewsWorld rail market August 2012
Belgium: Rail Service Net has ordered a Rafamet UFB 125 N wheel lathe for delivery next year. France: RATP has signed an agreement with telecoms operator SFR that should see 3G and 4G available by the end of 2014 at the 170 busiest stations on the Paris metro and ...
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NewsCAF wins Sydney tram order
AUSTRALIA: Spanish manufacturer CAF has been awarded a A$20m contract to supply six new and four leased trams to Sydney, New South Wales Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian announced on August 16. The new light rail vehicles will be delivered from next year. They are needed for the 5·6 km ...
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NewsBNDES funds Carajás upgrade
BRAZIL: National development bank BNDES announced on August 23 that it had approved an agreement to provide R$3·9bn to mining company Vale, which is to be used to fund a RS$8bn programme to increase capacity on the Carajás Railway and other transport infrastructure for its northern iron ore operations. To ...
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NewsEurasian Development Bank backs Kazakh rail industry
KAZAKHSTAN: Eurasian Development Bank has signed a 10bn tenge 10-year loan to support the development of an 18bn tenge factory in Astana which will assemble electric locomotives based on Alstom technology. The factory is to be built by national railway KTZ and operated by the EKZ joint venture of KTZ ...
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Thomas Kratzer
Thomas Kratzer has been appointed Director of freight operator Captrain Germany, where he will work closely with Managing Director Henrik Würdemann.
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Paul Furze-Waddock
Paul Furze-Waddock, currently Business Development Director at Virgin Trains, will join National Express Group as Commercial Development Director in October.
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David Ferryman
David Ferryman has been elected as a Governor of Arema for a three-year term. The Canadian National Vice-President will assume his post at the association’s annual conference in September.
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Flavio Crivelli
Flavio Crivelli has been appointed Regional Co-ordinator, South, at SBB, succeeding Roberto Tulipani. Ilona De March has resigned from the Swiss operator’s board.
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NewsLocal rail specialists needed
AFGHANISTAN: The government is keen to ‘eliminate the lack of rail experts’ in the country as it seeks to develop its embryonic network, according to Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, Minister of Trade & Industry. Speaking during a visit to the border town of Hairatan on June 22, ul-Huq said that ‘we ...
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NewsConstruction of diesel engine factory begins
RUSSIA: The Governor of Penza oblast attended a ceremony on August 15 to launch construction of a diesel engine factory at Transmashholding's Penzadieselmash plant The factory is being developed by a joint venture of TMH and Wärtsilä under an agreement signed in May 2010. The first engines are expected to ...
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NewsInternational Rail Partners launched to seek freight line opportunities
INTERNATIONAL: Former RailAmerica and Patriot Rail Corp executives have launched International Rail Partners, a new company which aims to acquire freight railways in Canada, South America, Australia and Europe, along with 'other rail-related support businesses' in the USA, Canada and elsewhere. IRP has its headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, and ...
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NewsCzech Railways finally takes over Railjet train order
CZECH REPUBLIC: National passenger operator CD finally approved the purchase of a reduced batch of seven 230 km/h Viaggio Comfort seven-car push-pull trainsets from Siemens Mobility on August 16. They are to be deployed jointly with Austrian Federal Railways on the Praha - Brno - Wien - Graz ...
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NewsSupercapacitor light metro train unveiled
CHINA: CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive has unveiled a prototype light metro trainset which uses supercapacitor energy storage to operate without an external power supply. Developed in conjunction with Chinese Academy of Engineering, the trainset has underfloor power pick-ups which are used to charge the roof-mounted supercapacitor unit from a fixed ...
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NewsMatterhorn Gotthard Bahn orders Siemens control equipment
SWITZERLAND: Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply electronic interlockings, level crossing and operations control systems to replace life-expired equipment on the Mörel - Münster and Andermatt - Disentis sections of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. Commissioning is scheduled for autumn 2014, completing a phased upgrade of the metre gauge ...
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NewsArriva takes over Stockholm light rail operations
SWEDEN: Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Arriva took over from Veolia as the operator of Stockholm's Nockebybanan, Tvärbanan and Lidingöbanan light rail lines on August 20. In November 2011 Storstockholms Lokaltrafik selected Arriva for two parallel operating contracts covering local bus and light services. The overall package runs for 12 years and ...
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NewsBarcelona - Figueres high speed line progress
SPAIN: ADIF announced on August 9 that tracklaying had commenced on the 12·7 km La Sagrera - Mollet del Vallès section of the high speed line between Barcelona and Figueres. Work is being undertaken by Ferrovial Agroman under a €9·9m contract due for completion within seven months. ADIF says that ...
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NewsThe path to the future
RESEARCH: A number of leading railway academic institutions will be exhibiting at InnoTrans, updating visitors in the latest in research & development across a range of technical disciplines. Among the high profile attendees are the China Academy of Railway Sciences, Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute and Birmingham Centre for Railway ...
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NewsSound Transit launches Northgate Link construction
USA: A groundbreaking ceremony on August 17 marked the start of work on the Northgate Link light rail extension in Seattle, a 6·88 km route running mostly in tunnel from University of Washington station to U District, Roosevelt and Northgate. The project is expected to cost $2·1bn, with ...
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NewsDoha metro contracts awarded
QATAR: Qatar Rail has signed the first round of engineering and consultancy contracts for the planned US$36bn national network of railway and metro routes. Construction of the 75·4 km Phase 1a of the network is scheduled to begin in early 2013 for completion by October 2019 and opening in 2020. ...