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El Insurgente passenger trains reach Mexico City

Lun, 09/09/2024 - 15:00
MEXICO: The El Insurgente suburban rail service has reached the western edge of Mexico City.
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App trial to help blind and low vision passengers navigate Boston stations

Lun, 09/09/2024 - 13:00
USA: The NaviLens smart phone navigation app for visually impaired people is being tested on Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Boston commuter rail network.
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TransPennine Express makes progress with driver training and staff recruitment

Lun, 09/09/2024 - 13:00
UK: TransPennine Express Managing Director Chris Jackson says good progress is being with tackling the operator’s backlog of driver training, which was a key issue behind the service reductions brought in with the December 2023 timetable. However, it will not be completed until next year.
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Germany: Makeover promises long-term stability

Lun, 09/09/2024 - 08:00
‘Too busy, too old and too kaputt’ was how Baden-Württemburg Transport Minister Winfried Hermann described the heavily used main line between Frankfurt and Mannheim. The 70 km route was closed on July 15 for a massive all-in-one rebuild, with reopening set for December 14.
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World rail freight news round-up

Lun, 09/09/2024 - 07:00
News from the world rail freight market.
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Metre-gauge EMU order increased

Dom, 09/08/2024 - 07:00
EUROPE: Italian operator SSIF has placed a firm order for an additional four-car Stadler electric multiple-unit for use on the 1 000 mm gauge Domodossola – Locarno line which it operates in partnership with its Swiss counterpart FART. This takes SSIF’s total order to four units.
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Moldova joins the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail

Sáb, 09/07/2024 - 07:00
MOLDOVA: Moldova has become the 52nd Member of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail. Based in Switzerland, OTIF is the intergovernmental organisation which develops a unified legal framework for railways which is applied by countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Jordan and UAE to co-operate on Aqaba railway project

Vie, 09/06/2024 - 15:00
JORDAN: Government and railway officials from the United Arab Emirates have signed four agreements to support Jordan with a US$2·3bn project to build a 360 km railway linking potassium and phosphate production facilities to the port of Aqaba.
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Stadler is ‘on track in a challenging environment’

Vie, 09/06/2024 - 14:00
STADLER: ‘Despite the ongoing challenging environment, Stadler achieved a solid performance in the first half of the year, aided by a diversified product portfolio and market success with alternative drive systems’, Group CEO Markus Bernsteiner said on August 28.
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TransPennine Express aims to get more out of its fleet

Vie, 09/06/2024 - 13:00
UK: TransPennine Express is seeking to achieve higher levels of performance from its fleet, its Fleet, Safety & Service Delivery Director Paul Staples explained when Rail Business UK recently visited Arwick depot. The operator says it is also ‘anticipating great things’ from the trial conversion of a Hitachi trainset to ...
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Interview: Record funding is flowing – but Germany’s railway must deliver

Vie, 09/06/2024 - 09:00
The building blocks to turn round performance on Germany’s national network are being put in place thanks to an unprecedented investment programme, but Deutsche Bahn and infrastructure arm DB InfraGO must deliver on their promises, warns Federal Minister for Digital & Transport Dr Volker Wissing. Murray Hughes put the questions.
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Railway supply industry news round-up

Vie, 09/06/2024 - 07:00
This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.
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AI project aims to prevent level crossing safety incidents

Vie, 09/06/2024 - 06:00
UK: Purple Transform has been awarded Innovate UK funding to develop and trial the use of artificial intelligence to alert staff to potential safety incidents at level crossings.
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Comment: Contrasting approaches to fixing things

Jue, 09/05/2024 - 13:00
The transport ministers of Britain and Germany are taking contrasting approaches to addressing the problems facing the railways in both countries. While Federal Transport Minister Dr Volker Wissing believes management reorganisation cannot solve DB’s problems, his UK counterpart Louise Haigh is taking the opposite view as rail reforms move ahead. ...
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Gotthard Base Tunnel fully reopens after derailment damage is repaired

Jue, 09/05/2024 - 12:45
SWITZERLAND: The 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel has fully reopened, 389 days after a derailed freight train caused extensive damage to the slab track in the western bore of the world’s longest railway tunnel.
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Spanish high speed lines to be linked by chord

Jue, 09/05/2024 - 11:00
SPAIN: High speed rail infrastructure manager ADIF Alta Velocidad has awarded Vías y Construcciones a €40m civil works contract for the construction of a chord at Olmedo to enable through running between the Galicia and Asturias/Burgos high speed lines.
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Rhein-Ruhr fares reform to cut through the ‘tariff jungle’

Jue, 09/05/2024 - 07:00
GERMANY: Rhein-Ruhr transport association VRR is to implement its largest-ever fares reform in March 2025, aiming to clear the ‘tariff jungle’ by eliminating 500 of the current 650 ticket types and reducing the number of price levels from seven to three.
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Vietnam plans rail reform as high speed line plan revived

Jue, 09/05/2024 - 07:00
VIETNAM: The Ministry of Transport has put forward proposals for rail reforms which aim to better meet local needs when planning transport infrastructure for 2030, and looking further ahead to 2050. Planning has also restarted for a much-discussed north-south 350 km/h high speed line.
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Bulgarian EMU order signed as previous procurements hit problems

Mié, 09/04/2024 - 17:03
BULGARIA: The Ministry of Transport & Communications has signed a contract for Škoda Group to supply 20 four-car 160 km/h electric-multiple units for use on long distance services from Sofia to Burgas, Varna and Ruse.
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Haigh gives the go-ahead for Shadow Great British Railways

Mié, 09/04/2024 - 13:30
UK: Secretary of State for Transport Louise Haigh has given the go-ahead for the creation of a Shadow Great British Railways, ahead of the future primary legislation which will be needed to create Great British Railways as an arm’s length body overseeing both train services and infrastructure.
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