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New CAF Trains for Northern to Enter Service on 1 July

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United Kingdom: On 1 July the first nine trains of Northern’s new fleet for local services will enter service.  A Class 331 Civity EMU for Northern by CAF © Northern The trains will operate services between Cumbria and Manchester Airport, Liverpool and Manchester Airport, and Doncaster and Leeds. In total, Northern’s new fleet

Network Rail regions go live

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UK: The first phase of a restructuring of infrastructure manager Network Rail into 14 routes reporting to five regions was implemented on June 24. This is intended to devolve responsibility and decision-making to smaller organisations which are closer to customers, and to give local managers the ability to tackle performance issues. In

50 Years of Expertise in High Performance UPS Solutions

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Our customers tell us that we are their best asset when it comes to protecting critical infrastructure and ensuring power availability with our high performance UPS solutions. The reason? Because you’re our inspiration. For more than 50 years, we have partnered with you to continuously evolve our products and services. Including modular

24 June: news in brief

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New Network Rail regions launched NEW regions at Network Rail went live today. The five regions are Eastern, North West & Central, Scotland’s Railway, Southern, and Wales and Western, and they will be devolved in turn into a total of 14 routes. Performance has been declining over the past five years.

Beyond the Digital Buzzwords

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The New European Rail Supply Industry’s Vision on Digitalisation By Tommaso Spanevello, Public Affairs Manager, UNIFE In recent years, digitalisation has been advancing at increasing speed across all industrial sectors, public entities and society at large; and the rail sector is no exception. While sometimes perceived as being conservative, the truth is that rail

Assisted travel lounge opened at Birmingham New Street

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UK: Network Rail has opened a £175 000  assisted travel lounge at Birmingham New Street station for use by passengers who need help getting between trains and the station concourse. Designed with the guidance of Birmingham New Street’s accessibility forum, the lounge has bright multicoloured signs to aid the visually impaired,

‘Emek ve Adalet Yürüyüşü’ tamamlandı

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Hizmet-İş Sendikasının, Bolu Belediyesindeki işten çıkarmaları protesto için başlattığı “Emek ve Adalet Yürüyüşü”nün 11’inci günü, Devlet Demiryolları 2’nci Bölge Müdürlüğü önünde sona erdi.

From the archive: The big bird that flew too far

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Words: Nick Pigott As the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive in the world at the time, Kestrel promised a motive power revolution… but it turned out to be ‘too good for its own good’! Shunned by BR despite its 125mph speed potential, it vanished behind the Iron Curtain where it became the

Camira: Made for Travelling in Style

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With the ever-increasing demand on rail networks and operators striving to design trains that offer more for passengers, suppliers are being put to the test and asked to up their game in what they can provide to the rail sector. It all comes down to what defines a good train journey

We regret the delay to your train…

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For every late train there is a reason. Some are straightforward, others more complex, and each knock-on has an affect around the network, but with each delay comes a cost. Phil Marsh explains the work of the Delay Attribution Board, which adjudicates for the industry on the more complex cases IN

‘İmamoğlu, neredeyse ‘Marmaray’ın ihalesini ben yaptım’ diyecek’

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İçişleri Bakanı Soylu, CHP İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkan Adayı Ekrem İmamoğlu’nu eleştirerek, “Geçen akşam dinledim. Neredeyse ‘Marmaray’ın ihalesini ben yaptım.’ diyecek.” dedi.

‘İmamoğlu, neredeyse ‘Marmaray’ın ihalesini ben yaptım’ diyecek’

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İçişleri Bakanı Soylu, CHP İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkan Adayı Ekrem İmamoğlu’nu eleştirerek, “Geçen akşam dinledim. Neredeyse ‘Marmaray’ın ihalesini ben yaptım.’ diyecek.” dedi.

Nomad Digital Secures Next Generation WiFi Services Contract in California

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The Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA), an intercity passenger train system in California, has formally awarded Nomad Digital with the “Next Generation WiFi Services Contract”. CCJPA has procured, by the selection of Nomad Digital, the future installation, testing, operation, and maintenance of a next-generation WiFi network on board Capitol Corridor trains

SJ wins north Norway operating contract

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NORWAY: The SJ Norge subsidiary of Sweden’s national passenger operator has been selected for the Lot 2 Nord operating contract, national railway agency Jernbanedirektoratet announced on June 17. The contract covers long-distance passenger services on the Dovrebanen and Nordlandsbanen routes from Oslo to Trinbdheim and Bodø, as well as the Rørosbanen,

The Network in Transit(ion)

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Global Demand for Transportation is on the Rise Co-authored by: Kyle Connor, IoT and Transportation Industry Principal, at Cisco &Dani Schrakamp, Global Government Market Manager, at Cisco The past year turned out to be a success for the rail industry – outperforming the original projected growth rate, rail traffic grew at 2.9

Unipart Rail: Value through Innovation

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Innovation for innovation’s sake is not a good position to take. It’s critical that innovation delivers value, helping the railways to improve and deliver a better service to operators and passengers. Our value in innovation is added though: Increasing safetyOptimising costReducing riskImproving performanceIncorporating digital solutionsIncreasing corporate responsibility At Unipart Rail we carefully assess both

Transforming the Rail Industry with AI and IoT Technologies

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are being adopted globally by all industries to drive efficiency, improve productivity and reduce costs. The rail industry is no exception. Fuelled by intelligence from AI-driven systems and applications, railway operations are becoming safer, smarter and more reliable, significantly enhancing the passenger travel experience and freight logistics

Stäubli: Strong Connectors for Swissloop

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Swissloop once again calls upon Stäubli’s performance and know-how. A new round of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Competition for high-speed transport systems in evacuated tubes will soon take place, following the pre-qualifications that were held in fall last year. The technical concept of the newly formed young Swissloop team from the Zurich

GB Railfreight to reopen March sidings

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UK: GB Railfreight has secured a lease for the disused March Up Yard rail sidings in Cambridgeshire in eastern England. The operator plans to use the site for the stabling and maintenance of rolling stock which is used on freight trains between Middleton Towers and Yorkshire, to carry aggregates between the

Unipart Agrees Five-Year Sicut Deal in Australia and NZ

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Sicut Composite Railway Sleepers deliver superior performance, longer life and better value for rail track asset owners. They also offer a truly sustainable option where the use of recycled and recyclable materials and carbon reduction are important factors. The unique technologies used in Sicut’s sleepers have been developed by the globally-renowned polymers research

TAZARA seeks opportunities with the private sector

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AFRICA: The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority board is seeking to develop open access operations to increase traffic on its network, ‘in view of the good performance by the private operator so far’. Following its meeting in Dar es Salaam on June 1, the board directed the railway’s management to appoint a contracts

1960s Railtours with a difference

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For this month’s Practice & Performance , Keith Farr takes a nostalgic look at some notable steam rail tours from the 1960s One fine June evening in 1967, a friend and I were enjoying dinner in the restaurant car of the 17.05 Euston-Carlisle. During the soup course we were discussing our

12 June: news in brief

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Floods disrupt train services FLOODS have been disrupting train services in many parts of the country after torrential rain during the past 24 hours. Some London lines were badly affected last night, and for a while passengers were advised to avoid the south London area. The situation is improving now, but

Fleet Focus: Britain’s new trains

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Exciting times are ahead as the first trains of two new fleets entered service during April and May. A total of 22 new or fully refurbished fleets are due for introduction by 12 train operators over the next three years, and The RM will be taking a closer look at

Bombardier Launches Updated MITRAC Solutions

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Bombardier launched its latest version of its MITRAC solution at UITP in Stockholm.  Bombardier’s TALENT 3 Battery Electric Train © Bombardier The mobility provider has updated its MITRAC solution to reduce life-cycle costs. This reduces both investment and running costs for operators. Further, the new solution will have a smaller negative impact

Industry Insider Week 23 – 13 Must-Read Rail Stories

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All the important rail news of the week, summed up for you in one place: our Railway-News Industry Insider Week 23 for 3–7 June 2019: Eurodual six-axle locomotive © Stadler Rolling Stock FLIRT train for Dallas, Texas © Stadler Stadler to Deliver 8 FLIRT Trains to Texas Swiss train manufacturer Stadler has entered into a

Stadler sees success on six axles

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EUROPE: Stadler says that its family of six-axle diesel, electric and bi-mode Eurodual locomotives are ‘30 to 40% better in terms of track forces’ than ‘most of the four-axle locos in use around Europe today’. Pascal Cantin, Stadler’s Head of Product Sales Locomotive and Sales Director Western Europe, told the Transport

Russian Railways orders high speed trains

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RUSSIA: Russian Railways has signed a €1·1bn order for a further 13 Velaro RUS high speed trains for use on the 650 km Moscow – St Petersburg route, Siemens Mobility announced on June 7. The 10-car trainsets will be supplied by Siemens Mobility and the Ural Locomotives joint venture of Siemens

Israel Railways Buys 74 TWINDEXX Vario Coaches

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Bombardier Transportation and Israel Railways (ISR) have signed a contract for 74 additional TWINDEXX Vario double-decker coaches. This order is part of a framework agreement that the two parties signed in October 2010. It is worth around 147 million euros (166 million USD). Bombardier says it will deliver all 74 coaches

7 June: News in brief

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Frankenstein A second rail union has called for privatisation to be reversed in the wake of a Transport Focus survey of how much passengers trust the railway industry, which left Southern trailing the list. However, the percentage of users who do trust Southern has risen from 17 per cent to

Infrastructure managers must do more to help freight, warns Mercitalia

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EUROPE: Mercitalia Logistics Chief Executive Marco Gosso strongly criticised the performance of European infrastructure managers at the Transport Logistic trade show in München on June 6. Insisting that the FS subsidiary would ‘increase the pressure on infrastructure managers’, Gosso said that freight operators were still not being adequately compensated for day-to-day

FirstGroup investor war gathers strength

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THE internal battle in FirstGroup, which operates Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and TransPennine Express, is becoming a war of words between the board and what it sees as a rogue investor. Ahead of an Extraordinary General Meeting later this month, First has launched a determined counter attack on US-based

Trenitalia to Get 14 New ETR1000 Very High-Speed Trains

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Hitachi and Bombardier have signed a contract with Trenitalia for 14 Frecciarossa 1000 (ETR1000) very high-speed trains. The contract also comprises maintenance services for a period of ten years.  Hitachi and Bombardier will design and manufacture 14 ETR1000 trains for Trenitalia © BombardierThe partnership split between Hitachi Rail SpA and Bombardier Transportation

Trenitalia orders 14 high speed trainsets

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ITALY: Trenitalia has confirmed an order for a partnership of Hitachi Rail (60%) and Bombardier Transportation (40%) to supply 14 more Frecciarossa 1000 high speed trainsets and maintain them for 10 years. The €575m deal announced on June 4 follows the publication in May of FS Group’s business plan for 2019-23. The

US Supreme Court Rules against the AAR

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In a battle that formally began in the courts in 2011 but that has its roots in the 2008 Passenger Railroad Investment and Improvement Act, the US Supreme Court has sided with Amtrak and against the Association of American Railroads (AAR).  Amtrak train © Jerry Huddleston under licence The AAR was seeking

Bombardier TRAXX MS3 Locomotive at Transport Logistic

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At Transport Logistic 2019, which takes place in Munich on 4–7 June, Bombardier Transportation will show off its TRAXX locomotive platform and service solutions. Bombardier TRAXX MS3 locomotive © Bombardier Michael Fahrer, President, Region Central and Eastern Europe and Israel, Bombardier Transportation, said: “We are happy to show visitors Europe’s newest locomotive platform

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