All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2014 – Page 3
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NewsFeature articles in the September 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International
Feature articles in the September 2014 issue of Railway Gazette International, the leading business journal for railway operators and suppliers, read in 140 countries. Subscribe to Railway Gazette International today. Comment A question of pricing power News Main Line Urban Rail Market Industry Innovations Pointers ...
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NewsMalpensa Terminal 2 rail link contract awarded
ITALY: Main construction works for an extension of Milano’s Malpesa Express airport rail link from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 is set to get underway shortly, following the award of the €77m contract to Itinera. Terminal 2 handles six million passengers a year, around a third of the airport’s traffic, ...
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NewsCN inaugurates Winnipeg training centre
CANADA: Canadian National’s C$35m employee training centre in Winnipeg was officially inaugurated on September 9. President & CEO Claude Mongeau said ‘this state-of-the-art training centre is a cornerstone in CN’s workforce renewal, which this year will see the hiring of more than 3&bsp;500 employees across our North American network. It ...
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NewsNedTrain opens Utrecht technical centre
NETHERLANDS: The NedTrain rolling stock maintenance subsidiary of national passenger operator NS officially opened the first of four ‘technical centres’ on September 8. Located close to Utrecht Centraal station, the technical centre will undertake rolling stock repairs including pantograph, couplers and window replacement. The main building was designed and built ...
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NewsTransport Masters course launched
ITALY: La Sapienza university in Roma has launched a Masters degree in Transport Systems Engineering supported by FS Group and Bombardier Transportation. The industrial partners will be offering internships and scholarships for the course to ‘deserving applicants’. The course will be delivered entirely in English to ensure that students are ...
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NewsGovia directly awarded new South Eastern franchise
UK: Incumbent Govia has been directly awarded a new franchise to operate South Eastern services from the expiry of its current contract on October 12 2014 until June 24 2018, the Department for Transport announced on September 11. The current Integrated Kent franchise has been operated ...
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NewsTEN-T funding bids invited
EUROPE: The European Commission’s Innovation & Networks Executive Agency announced on September 11 that it had opened the bidding for €11·9bn of funding to improve European transport links under the revised TEN-T programme. Member state governments have until February 26 to submit proposals, with the selected projects to be announced ...
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NewsTrenitalia DMU on test
ITALY: Trenitalia has begun testing the first of 40 ATR220 Atribo diesel multiple-units which the national passenger operator ordered from Pesa in December 2013 at cost of €139·6m. Commissioning is scheduled for completion by the end of the year, with the 130 km/h air-conditioned DMUs to be deployed on services ...
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NewsFirst Kaohsiung trams arrive
TAIWAN: The first low-floor trams for the Kaohsiung light rail project arrived in the city on September 11. CAF is supplying a fleet of bidirectional trams from its Urbos family, equipped with CAF’s ACR onboard energy storage technology for catenary-free operation. The five-section vehicles are 34·2 m long with ...
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NewsSiemens to build Florida inter-city trains
USA: Private passenger promoter All Aboard Florida has selected Siemens to supply trainsets for its proposed Miami – Orlando inter-city service using the Florida East Coast Railway, the two companies announced on September 11. Siemens is to supply 200 km/h Charger diesel locomotives and ‘modern single-level inter-city passenger cars’. These ...
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NewsWagon leasing company calls for subsidy rethink
EUROPE: State subsidies for the installation of low-noise wagon brakes need to be rethought to increase uptake, according to Mark Stevenson, Chief Executive of wagon leasing company AAE. Replacing cast iron brake blocks with low-noise LL blocks cuts noise by around a half, according to Stevenson, and quieter trains ...
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NewsAuckland electrification complete
NEW ZEALAND: Auckland Transport’s Western Line was energised on September 4, completing the electrification of the city’s suburban network. Electric services on the Newmarket – Swanson route are scheduled to begin running next year. The first electric services started running in April on the Southern Line between Britomart and ...
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NewsNetwork Rail officially opens ‘biggest railway control centre’
UK: Network Rail’s Rail Operating Centre in York was formally inaugurated by local Member of Parliament Hugh Bayley on September 12. The largest of 12 centres being built to manage Great Britain’s entire rail network, the York ROC will eventually control signalling and rail operations on the East Coast Main ...
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NewsHitachi Class 800 trainsets begin testing in Japan
UK: The first of three pre-series Class 800 intercity trainsets ordered under the Department for Transport’s Intercity Express Programme has begun low-speed running trials on the test track at Hitachi’s Kasado factory in Japan. The first of the three bi-mode sets is expected to arrive in Britain early next ...
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NewsDB delivers management training
KAZAKHSTAN: Under a programme co-ordinated by consultancy DB International, 150 junior and mid-ranking managers from Kazakh national railway KTZ are to receive training in commercial and managerial skills from DB Mobility Logistics AG. The courses, which are being run into two batches until the end of October, will focus on ...
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NewsRail industry news in brief - September 2014
A three-year memorandum signed by China and Myanmar in 2011 for construction of a US$20bn Kyaukpyu – Kunming railway has expired, and the government of Myanmar has said local opposition means the project will not now go ahead. The Dutch government has decided that management of ...
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NewsAlstom-RZD consortium signs Serbian signalling contract
SERBIA: A consortium led by Alstom and RZD International and including local partner Institut Mihajlo Pupin has signed a contract to supply signalling systems for an upgrading of a section of the Beograd – Pančevo route by the end of 2016. This project is designed to support an increase in ...
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NewsNavi Mumbai orders metro trains
INDIA: CSR Zhuzhou signed a contract on September 10 to supply rolling stock for the first phase of Navi Mumbai metro’s Line 1. The contract is worth 300m yuan, including maintenance. The three-car trainsets would be 64·6 m long and 3 160 mm wide, with capacity for 1 128 ...
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NewsManila selects LRT Line 1 concessionaire
PHILIPPINES: On September 12 the Department of Transportation & Communications selected the Light Rail Manila consortium to extend and operate Manila LRT Line 1. The consortium of Metro Pacific Investments Corp, Ayala Corp and Macquarie Group was the sole bidder. It now has 20 days to comply with post-award ...