Russian railway news – Page 25
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NewsOpen-system train control study
RUSSIA: RZD, its signalling and telecoms research institute Niias and Italian signalling equipment supplier ECM intend to study jointly the prospects for development of an open-architecture based train control system for Russian Railways and the wider 1520 region. The three parties signed a memorandum of understanding at the Russian Railways ...
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NewsJoint Eurasian freight operator agreed
INTERNATIONAL: The national railways of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus have signed an agreement to establish United Transport & Logistics Co, a jointly-owned company which would provide intermodal services within the three countries’ Common Economic Space, including transit routes between Europe and Asia. Once government approval is obtained for the plan, ...
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NewsRussian diesel engine joint venture agreed
RUSSIA: Engine manufacturer Tognum and rolling stock supplier Transmashholding have agreed to establish MTU Transmashholding Diesel Technologies, a joint venture which will produce engines at Kolomna near Moscow. Investment in the project is expected to be €80m, with the design of the new plant to be completed by November and ...
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NewsNorth Korean cross-border route upgrading progresses
RUSSIA: RZD President Vladimir Yakunin and North Korean Minister of Railways Jon Kil-su have signed a protocol on reconstruction of the Khasan – Rajin line, following talks in Moscow. They reported that the rebuilding work was ‘in its final stages’. The protocol outlines plans to create a single control ...
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NewsAlstom and TMH to design dual-voltage freight locomotive for RZD
RUSSIA: Alstom and Transmashholding are jointly to develop a dual-voltage freight locomotive for Russian Railways under an agreement signed at the 1520 Strategic Partnership’s International Business Forum in Sochi on May 30. To be designated 2ES20, the twin-section locomotive would be able to use both 3 kV DC and 25 ...
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NewsMoscow - Kazan should be Russia's first dedicated high speed line, says RZD
RUSSIA: An 803 km Moscow - Vladimir - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan route should form the first stage of a high speed rail programme, Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin told President Putin and other guests at recent conference held to discuss the prospects for developing dedicated high speed lines. ...
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NewsRussian production of Desiro RUS EMUs begins
RUSSIA: Domestic assembly of Desiro RUS electric multiple-units at the Ural Locomotives plant in Yekaterinburg was ceremonially launched by Siemens AG managing board member Roland Buschof and Dmitry Pumpyansky, President of Sinara Group, on May 25. Siemens' plant at Krefeld in Germany fulfilled Russian Railways' initial orders for the regional ...
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NewsTrans-Siberian container train takes seven days
RUSSIA: An express container train service taking just seven days to cover the 9 450 km between the far east port of Nakhodka and Moscow has been launched by Russian Railways, its TransContainer subsidiary and Global Ports Group’s Vostochnaya Stevedoring Co. The first 71-wagon express train was despatched from Nakhodka ...
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NewsHandover marks start of EP20 series production
RUSSIA: The first series-produced EP20 passenger locomotive was handed over to Russian Railways by manufacturer Transmashholding at a ceremony near Rostov on November 30. The first Russian electric locomotive design capable of hauling inter-city trains at up to 200 km/h, the EP20 is a single-section Bo-Bo-Bo passenger ...
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NewsTyva coal line PPP plan revised
RUSSIA: The government removed the 411 km Kuragino - Kyzyl railway from its list of state investment projects on November 14. The planned line in the Tyva republic is now to be funded by Eniseiskaya Industrial Corp, which owns coal mines at Kyzyl. The new single-track line electrified at 25 ...
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NewsRussian Railways Logistics to cut two days from China - Europe timings
INTERNATIONAL: The YuXinOu (Chongqing) Logistics joint venture has despatched its first container train from China to Europe using the CIM/SMGS Common Consignment Note. Using documentation meeting the legal requirements of both OTIF's CIM and OSJD's SMGS rules reduces costs to shippers, as there is no need to issue new notes ...
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NewsSochi’s swallow starts to fly
RUSSIA: Trial running has started in Sochi with the first of 38 Lastochka EMUs being supplied by Siemens in time for the 2014 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games. The multiple-unit was due to be presented to RZD Vice-President Valentin Gapanovich and Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov by the ...
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Metro Report InternationalMoscow Metro train production begins
RUSSIA: In April Transmashholding’s metro rolling stock manufacturing subsidiary Metrowagonmash began series production of 632 Type 81-760/761 cars ordered by Moscow Metro for delivery by the end of 2013. The cars will be equipped with air-conditioning, and onboard CCTV able to transmit images to the control centre. ...
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NewsTransmashholding sales up 38%
RUSSIA: Transmashholding has announced total sales of 106·3bn roubles for 2011, up 38% on the figure for 2010. The company said this growth was driven by fleet renewal programmes being undertaken by its customers, in particular Russian Railways. Products launched in 2011 included the EP20 electric locomotive for RZD and ...
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NewsTver assembles first metro car body
RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Tver Carriage Works completed its first metro car bodyshell in October. After assembly the Type 81-760 intermediate car shell was transported by road to TMH’s Metrowagonmash plant for fitting out before delivery to Moscow Metro. Metro cars are a new area of activity for the ...
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NewsPPP model to fund Moscow – St Petersburg high speed line
RUSSIA: The Russian government has confirmed its support for a public-private partnership backed by Russian Railways to construct a 658 km high speed line between Moscow and St Petersburg. Speaking in London on October 20, Denis Muratov, Chief Executive of RZD’s high speed rail agency Skorostnye Magistrali, ...
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NewsMoscow Metro signs 2011 car orders
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro General Manager Dmitri Gaev and Transmash Holding CEO Andrei Andreev signed contracts on September 7 covering the delivery of new rolling stock and refurbishment of existing vehicles during 2011. The signing ceremony was held at UITP’s Eurasia conference and ExpoCityTrans exhibition in Moscow, where ...
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NewsMoscow metro Line 3 extended to Mitino
RUSSIA: Mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov was among the passengers who rode the first train from Strogino to Mitino on December 26, when three new stations entered service on the Artbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.The northwestern suburb of Mitino has developed rapidly over the last 10 years and is now ...
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NewsRussian's Sapsan high speed trains enter service
RUSSIA: ‘This is not just a train and these are not just carriages, this is a different life, different technology, a different means of transport’, said Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin before joining passengers on the first Sapsan high speed train service from Moscow to St Petersburg ...
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NewsExpanding to exploit an open market
RUSSIA: The country’s second biggest freight operator has announced an IPO and listing on the London Stock Exchange. Globaltrans Chief Executive Sergey Maltsev told Andrew Grantham how he views the opportunities presented by market liberalisation.