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TMH Africa inaugurates South African plant

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SOUTH AFRICA: Russian rolling stock group Transmashholding officially inaugurated its first African factory on April 2. The former DCD Rolling Stock plant at Boksburg in Gauteng province was acquired last October by the TMH Africa joint venture of TMH International (70%) and its black economic empowerment partner Mjisa Investments (30%). It will undertake

Police hunt railway Brexit protestors

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DETECTIVES from British Transport Police are hunting the people who placed track circuit clips on railways in Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire in an apparent protest about the government’s handling of Brexit. Notes attached to the clips are reported to have said: ‘We will bring this country to its knees if we don't

MPs ‘alarmed’ over Crossrail delays

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► Warning signs were ‘missed or ignored’ ► Failure to identify root causes is ‘unacceptable’ ► Shortcomings in DfT’s project management ► Committee ‘not convinced’ that line will open in 2020 THE delays to Crossrail and its spiralling costs are ‘unacceptable’, a committee of MPs has concluded. The Commons

Progress Rail to repower GB Railfreight locomotives

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UK: GB Railfreight has awarded Progress Rail a contract to repower 16 serviceable, stored or non-running Class 56 diesel locomotives which it bought from UK Rail Leasing last June. The existing Ruston-Paxman RK3 engines and control gear on the locomotives dating from 1976-84 will be replaced with new EMD 12-710 Series

Talgo committed to UK expansion strategy

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UK: Planning for the development of a rolling stock manufacturing plant in Scotland and a research facility in northern England is continuing ‘at full pace’, Talgo Group President Carlos de Palacio Oriol told Railway Gazette in Madrid on April 1. Pointing out that Talgo’s two Spanish plants at Las Matas and

RAYLI SİSTEMLER SANAYİ TEKNİK KOMİTESİNİN OLUŞUMU VE GÖREVLERİNE DAİR TEBLİĞİ RESMİ GAZETEDE YAYINLANDI

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Amaç, Kapsam, Dayanak ve Tanımlar Amaç MADDE 1 – (1) Bu Tebliğin amacı; kalkınma planları, yıllık programlar ve stratejilerdeki ilke, hedef ve politikalar doğrultusunda raylı sistemler sanayi politikasının belirlenmesi, sektörün sorunlarının tespit edilerek çözüm yollarının geliştirilmesi amacıyla teknik komite oluşturulması ve bu komitenin çalışma usul ve esaslarını belirlemektir. Kapsam MADDE 2 – (1) Bu Tebliğ, raylı

Norfolk Southern names transformation team

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USA: Reporting ‘another year of record financial results’ on March 29, Norfolk Southern Chairman, President & CEO James Squires said the railway had seen strong growth in 2018, achieving an all-time best operating ratio of 65·4 after three consecutive years of improvement and a recording a 9% year-on-year increase in

Class 333 refurbishment unveiled by Northern

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NORTHERN has begun a refresh and refurbishment programme on its fleet of 16 Class 333 EMUs.  The work continues the refurbishment on Class 158s and 170s. The first unit to be refurbished is No. 333013, completed at the end of February. Following this is 333001 with 333011, due out by the end of

Government supports Borders Railway study

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THE government is to back a feasibility study which will examine the possibility of extending the Borders Railway from Tweedbank over the rest of its former route to Carlisle, via Melrose and Hawick. No formal announcement has been made, but the news came from Scottish secretary David Mundell in a letter

UWC rolls out ‘revolutionary’ articulated tank wagon

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KAZAKHSTAN: United Wagon Co says the design of 400 articulated liquefied petroleum gas tank wagons which it is supplying to company Texol is ‘revolutionary, with no other model on the CIS market able to match its technical and operational standards’. The Type 15-9541-01 was designed by UWC’s All-Union Research & Development

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