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Descend into the underworld at Napoli Line 7 station
ITALY: An ‘art station’ designed by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor to provide a visual metaphor for the descent into the underworld is the architectural highlight of Napoli’s recently opened Line 7.
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Asset management platform to include ‘dark territory’ broken rail monitoring
INFRASTUCTURE: Vossloh has signed an agreement enabling it to make worldwide use of Athena Industrial’s Advanced Rail Condition Detection technology.
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RSK acquires Octavius Infrastructure
UK: Environmental engineering services company RSK Group has acquired rail and road contractor Octavius Infrastructure.
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DB InfraGO orders ‘green steel’ rails
GERMANY: Infrastructure manager DB InfraGO has awarded Saarstahl Rail a contract to supply an pilot batch of ‘green steel’ rail for use in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland.
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Depot management system optimises Zürich tram movements
SWITZERLAND: Zürich transport operator VBZ is using the PEAK.DMS depot management system from Peak Mobility to manage schedules for around 260 trams at five depots.
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EIB approves €1·7bn loan for Madrid – Irún high speed project
SPAIN: The European Investment Bank has approved €1·7bn in co-financing to complete the final 93 km segment of the high speed line between Madrid and the French border at Irún/Hendaye.
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Campaigners call to ‘end the fiction of Gatwick Express’
UK: Independent rail campaign group Railfuture has called for changes to train services between central London and Gatwick Airport.
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Railway systems and urban transport training for young Egyptian engineers
EGYPT: The Egyptian National Institute for Transport and engineering consultancy Egis have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop and deliver railway systems and urban transport training programmes for young engineers.
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Adapazarı tramway works to start this year
TURKEY: Works are scheduled to start by the end of the year on a 12 km tramway in Adapazarı, east of Istanbul.
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Scottish government scales back electrification ambition to focus on fleet renewal
UK: The Scottish government issued a revised rail decarbonisation plan on November 21 that shifts the focus away from electrification of infrastructure to emphasise reduction of emissions from rolling stock.
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Scottish government scales back electrification ambition to focus on fleet renewal
UK: The Scottish government issued a revised rail decarbonisation plan on November 21 that shifts the focus away from electrification of infrastructure to emphasise reduction of emissions from rolling stock.
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Freight: A fresh approach to wagon bearing health
Flats on wagon wheelsets continue to pose a derailment risk to railways around the world. Technology company Trilogical believes its novel approach to monitoring vibration could offer more reliable insights into wheelset condition.
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Australia: Melbourne’s Suburban Loop reaches lift-off
Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop is ultimately expected to add 90 km of 1 435 mm gauge automated rail service to the city’s rail mix, but project promoter SRLA is currently focusing on delivering the first 26 km section.Benjámin Zelki reports.
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Diesel locomotive battery tender to be tested in Western Australia
AUSTRALIA: Freight operator Aurizon is to trial the use of a Battery Electric Tender intended to reduce emissions from heavy haul rail operations.
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Interview: ‘We are waking Merseyrail up’
As its 25-year agreement to run electric suburban services around Liverpool nears its end, Merseyrail has become a model for how local control of rail operations can bring tangible benefits to the community, as its Managing Director Neil Grabham explains to Nick Kingsley.
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First section of Indian high speed railway to open in 2027
INDIA: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has announced the planned opening date for the first section of the Mumbai – Ahmedabad high speed line.
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Phú Quốc island metro to be developed through PPP
VIETNAM: The People’s Council of An Giang Province has approved plans to develop a metro line on Phú Quốc island through a PPP concession running for up 40 years.
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Railway supply industry news round-up
This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.
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‘Drones-in-a-box’ to inspect Spanish railways
SPAIN: Aviation safety body AESA has granted Ineco authorisation to use autonomous drones to inspect railway infrastructure.
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