All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2014 – Page 3
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NewsLucchini RS continues expanding
EUROPE: Italian wheel manufacturer Lucchini RS is expanding its European operations with three strategic acquisitions, the company's Chairman Guiseppe Lucchini told Railway Gazette at InnoTrans on September 23. In Austria, the group has established a new Central Europe subsidiary as a 75:25 joint venture with local company SMW, whose owner ...
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NewsPermanent magnet motors
CHINA: CSR has developed permanent magnet traction motors for two applications. The TQ-600 synchronous motor has been used on a build of trains for the Shanghai – Kunming high speed line. Rated at 600 kW at a speed of 4 200 rev/min, the motor has a high power density of ...
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NewsShinkansen simulator on show
JAPAN: Opportunities to drive trains on the Shinkansen are rare, but visitors to InnoTrans are able to do just that on a driver training simulator on the JR East stand. Supplied by Ongakukan Co Ltd, the simulator offers a 4K technology screen with an accurate representation of driving an E5 ...
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NewsKnorr-Bremse to supply Crossrail platform screen doors
UK: Crossrail Ltd announced on September 23 that it had selected Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd as preferred bidder for contract C631, covering the supply of platform screen doors for seven underground stations. Contract value ‘is in the region of £28m’, says Crossrail. Knorr-Bremse is to supply full-height platform screen ...
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NewsFirst Sustina export order
JAPAN: East Japan Railway train manufacturing subsidiary J-Trec has won an order to supply its Sustina design for the Purple Line in Bangkok. A fleet of 21 three-car sets will be delivered to Thailand in 2016 from the company’s factory in Yokohama, and JR East will set up a local ...
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NewsEuropean Commission approves Thalys restructuring
EUROPE: The European Commission announced on September 22 that it had approved the restructuring of Thalys as a 60:40 joint venture between SNCF of France and SNCB of Belgium. Operating high speed services from Paris to Brussels, Amsterdam and Köln, Thalys had originally been established in partnership with DB of ...
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NewsManchester exercises M5000 option
UK: On September 22 Bombardier Transportation announced that, together with consortium partner Vossloh Kiepe, it had signed an option worth £34m with Transport for Greater Manchester to supply an additional 16 M5000 light rail vehicles for the Metrolink network. Bombardier says that its share of the option is worth £25m. ...
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NewsButler extension opens in Perth
AUSTRALIA: The first scheduled service on the 7∙5 km extension of the Transperth network from Clarkson to Butler departed from Butler station at 11.51 on September 21. Built at a cost of A$221m, the Butler extension has opened ‘several months early and A$20m under budget’, according to the Government of ...
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NewsLandfill trains to boost SLR freight
SRI LANKA: The Ministry of Urban Development has unveiled a US$107m project to use rail to transport municipal waste from Colombo to a proposed landfill in the northwest of the island. The scheme will be funded by the government as part of the Metro Colombo Urban Development Project to ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2014: Monday
Monday is the day for exhibitors to set up their stands, before the show opens to visitors on Tuesday morning.
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NewsSiemens to supply San Francisco LRVs
USA: On September 19 Siemens announced that it had been awarded a $648m contract by San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to supply an initial 175 light rail vehicles. With an option for an additional 85 cars, this is the ‘largest LRV contract ever awarded in the USA to Siemens’, according ...
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NewsHigh speed line included in India-China railway action plan
INDIA: The Railway Board and China’s National Railway Administration signed a three-year memorandum of understanding and action plan for technical co-operation on September 18, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Potential areas of co-operation include training 100 Indian Railways staff in heavy ...
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NewsCross-border revival
EUROPE: Work is underway to reopen the 7·4 km line between Đurmanec in Croatia and Sveti Rok ob Sotli in Slovenia. The line closed in 1994 owing to the poor condition of the infrastructure and the problems of managing the border crossing following independence. The scope of the €6·6m ...
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NewsDHL launches Suzhou – Warszawa block train
INTERNATIONAL: DHL Global Forwarding has launched a scheduled weekly intermodal service from Suzhou in China to Warszawa in Poland, with a journey time of around 14 days. The company says the block train running via the Trans-Siberian route ‘takes half the time of ocean freight and is a sixth of ...
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NewsWorld rail market September 2014
Luxembourg: CFL is to deploy Quintiq’s scheduling software. Norway: Jernbaneverket has awarded Rejlers, Dronninga Landscape, CF Møller Architects and Tom Stillesby four-year framework contracts to support network expansion planning. Poland: Koleje Mazowieckie has awarded IDS-BUD a 21·6m złoty contract to build a train washing plant. USA: A ...
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NewsMetrans takes delivery of Traxx locomotives
EUROPE: The Metrans rail freight subsidiary of the Hamburger Hafen & Logistik port and logistics group is taking delivery of 20 Bombardier Traxx F140 MS multi-system electric locomotives. These will primarily be used to haul freight from Hamburg and Bremerhaven to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and also ...
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NewsOyster readers begin accepting National Rail ITSO smart cards
UK: Passengers using the Key smart card issued by train operator Southern and its parent rail and bus company Go-Ahead can now buy tickets to London including weekly, monthly or annual Travelcards which are valid for unlimited travel on public transport within Greater London. The official launch by Transport ...
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NewsCeneri base tunnel dispute resolved
SWITZERLAND: The Federal Supreme Court has upheld two appeals by the preferred bidders against the Federal Administrative Court’s decision to block the award of two contracts for fitting out the 15·4 km Ceneri base tunnel. The losing bidders for the contracts had appealed to the Federal Administrative Court, which ruled ...
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NewsInnoTrans: The global gathering
The world's railway industry meets at the InnoTrans rail technology exhibition in Berlin on September 23-26.