Russian railway news – Page 24
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NewsMoscow Metro orders 832 cars
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has selected Transmashholding subsidiaries Metrowagonmash and Transholdleasing to supply 832 metro cars in 2014-17. The contract is worth 143·9bn roubles, with maintenance for 30 years. The city of Moscow will provide finance in instalments over 15 years. The only other bid came from a ...
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NewsRussian Railways to reduce stake in Aeroexpress
RUSSIA: The Russian Railways board has approved the sale of half of its 50% stake in airport train operator Aeroexpress to TransGroup subsidiary Delta-Trans-Invest, which currently has a 25% shareholding. The reported price of €11·7m is based on a market value calculated by an independent appraiser. Announcing the ...
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NewsMoscow university co-operation agreements
RUSSIA: Two Moscow universities signed co-operation agreements in December, with Bombardier Transportation and Russian Railways respectively. Bombardier and Moscow State University of Railway Engineering have embarked on a three-year partnership to support ‘future exchange in areas including science, innovation and development of railway transportation systems’. Specific objectives cover collaboration in ...
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NewsEMD locomotives to be tested in Russia
RUSSIA: Electro-Motive Diesel is to supply demonstration SD42AC-R diesel locomotives to Russia this year for performance testing and certification. The 3 000 hp locomotives powered by 12-710 engines are being built at EMD's plant in Muncie, Indiana. In December EMD and Russian rolling stock supplier UralVagonZavod signed a memorandum of ...
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NewsMoscow - Kyiv Talgo services to start next year
EUROPE: The Federal Passenger Co business of Russia Railways and Ukrainian national railway UZ have agreed to introduce Talgo rolling stock on two daily Moscow - Kyiv services from the fourth quarter of 2014. Patentes Talgo is currently finishing production of the first 20-car rake of coaches for RZD. This ...
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NewsRussian Railways' 1·2tr rouble three-year investment plan
RUSSIA: The government met on November 14 to consider the draft three-year investment and financial plan for Russian Railways. This envisages spending 396bn roubles in 2014, 415bn roubles in 2015 and 438bn roubles in 2016. 'This is a lot, but then, the company's tasks are challenging too', said Prime Minister ...
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NewsUnited Wagon Co and Tatravagónka open bogie casting plant
SLOVAKIA: Prime Minister Robert Fico and Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin attended the official launch of the Railway Casted Components joint venture on November 7. RCC has been established by Tatravagónka and Russia's United Wagon Co to produce Barber bogie castings for 1520 mm gauge wagons. The partners have invested ...
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NewsFlat rate for China to Europe container traffic
INTERNATIONAL: On November 7 a timetable for the establishment of jointly-owned intermodal freight operator United Transport & Logistics Co was agreed in Astana by President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, First Deputy Head of Belarusian Railways Vladimir Mikhailyuk and President of Kazakh national railway KTZ Askar Mamin. UTLC is expected ...
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NewsRZD's double-deck sleeping cars enter service
RUSSIA: The first of 50 double-deck coaches which Transmashholding's Tver Carriage Works is delivering to Federal Passenger Co entered service on the Moscow - Adler route on November 1. In December 2010 RZD's passenger business ordered 38 Type 61-4465 sleeping cars with eight four-berth compartments on each deck, four cars ...
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NewsRussian turnout component manufacturer privatised
RUSSIA: A joint venture of SP-Technology and Vossloh Cogifer has completed the acquisition of a 75% minus two shares stake in Novosibirsk Switch Plant, Russia's largest manufacturer of switches and crossings. The remaining stake is held by Russian Railways, which accounts for 87% of Novosibirsk's sales. Founded in 1942, Novosibirsk ...
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NewsFertiliser wagon deliveries underway
RUSSIA: Fertiliser and chemical transport company Acron-Trans is taking delivery of 400 mineral fertiliser hopper wagons ordered from United Wagon Co's leasing business Rail1520 under a three-year lease. The wagons are being built by United Wagon Co's Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant for delivery by January 2014. They are fitted ...
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NewsStadler power module for Russian DMU
RUSSIA: Metrowagonmash has developed a prototype DP-M diesel multiple-unit jointly with Stadler. As with the Swiss firm's GTW family, the traction equipment is mounted in a separate section between the passenger vehicles. However the Russian GTW+ version is larger, with four rather than two axles on the powered section.
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NewsFrom Ruskin to Russia
RUSSIA: Anglia Ruskin University in the UK is to provide management training for senior staff at Russian Railways in co-operation with consultancy Knowledge Associates Cambridge. The agreement signed in August, will see Anglia Ruskin’s Ashcroft International Business School work with RZD’s Corporate University to develop a joint learning plan for ...
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NewsGas fuelled turbine-electric locomotive prototype
RUSSIA: Sinara’s Lyudinovsky plant has produced a prototype natural gas fuelled turbine-electric locomotive, using components of a TEM7A. The twin-section Do’Do’+Do’Do’ designated GT1h-002 is rated at 8·3 MW and has a maximum speed of 100 km/h. One section contains the gas turbine supplied by Kuznecov which drives an electrical generator ...
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NewsUral Locomotives unveils twin-section AC 11201
RUSSIA: Ural Locomotives unveiled a pre-series AC 11201 electric freight locomotive at the Expo 1520 trade show in Moscow on September 12. The locomotive has been produced at the Siemens-Sinara joint venture’s plant near Yekaterinburg using traction equipment from Siemens, and it is designed for operation on AC networks throughout ...
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NewsWagon component joint venture
RUSSIA: US rolling stock component and braking equipment manufacturer Wabtec Corp signed a joint venture agreement with United Wagon Co at the Expo 1520 railway show at Shcherbinka on September 12, paving the way for the introduction of new technology in the Russian and CIS rail freight markets. Incorporated in ...
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NewsMoscow metro maintenance contract
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has awarded Metrowagonmash a 30-year contract to maintain 248 Type 81-760/761 metro cars which were supplied in 2012. The Transmashholding subsidiary will take over the metro’s Novogireyevo depot under the contract, which requires 232 cars to be available for service. In a separate development, ...
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NewsHigh axleload bogie partnership for the 1520 region
RUSSIA: Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant operator United Wagon Co has signed a deal to gain full intellectual property rights to the Motion Control 18-9836 bogie which Amsted Rail developed for 1 520 mm gauge wagons. Under the agreement announced on August 22 Amsted Rail will continue its direct licensing ...
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NewsRussian Railways Logistics delivers oversized refinery equipment
RUSSIA: The Russian Railways Logistics subsidiary of national railway company RZD has successfully moved an out-of-gauge load weighing a total of 334 tonnes from the Atomenergomash plant at Volgodonsk to an oil refinery at Ryazan. The refinery equipment was carried on two 12-axle wagons. Its route was planned by the ...
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NewsZhengzhou to Hamburg freight train arrives
INTERNATIONAL: An inaugural freight from Zhengzhou in China arrived at Hamburg-Billwerder yard in Germany on August 2. The train was operated on behalf of Zhengzhou International Land Port Development & Construction Co, with DB Schenker responsible for the logistics services outside China. The 10 214 km route through China, Kazakhstan, ...