All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2014 – Page 5
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NewsCSR delivers first Mitre cars
ARGENTINA: The first 12 of an initial batch of 30 electric multiple-unit cars delivered by CSR of China for the Mitre commuter route were unloaded in Buenos Aires on September 6. CSR is supplying a total of 30 six-car EMUs to operate Mitre routes electrified at 830 V DC third ...
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NewsRussian government approves United Transport & Logistics contribution
INTERNATIONAL: The Russian government has formally approved Russian Railways’ planned contribution of assets to the United Transport & Logistics Co intermodal freight joint venture of the national railways of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. RZD is to contribute its 50% plus two shares stake in TransContainer and 100% minus one share ...
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NewsBasel takes delivery of first Flexity tram
SWITZERLAND: The first Flexity Basel tram from Bombardier Transportation arrived at the Wiesenplatz depot in Basel in the early hours of September 4. It took four days for the tram to be transported by Universal Transport on a low-loader from Bombardier’s Bautzen plant. It will now undergo testing on ...