Prototype 220 km/h trainset on test
24 June 2012,
05:00:00
UKRAINE: Testing is underway with the first
of two prototype 220 km/h inter-regional electric multiple-units being built by
Kriukov Car Building Works for national railway UZ. The nine-car units are rated
at 4 MW, and equipped for operation on lines electrified at 3 kV DC and 25 kV 50
Hz. The two driving cars have 20 second class seats and all axles powered. There
are two first class trailers cars with 64 seats, three second class cars with 94
seats, a third class car with 112 seats and a 47-seat dining car. Onboard
facilities include air-conditioning, CCTV and two wheelchair spaces. The
stainless steel car bodies are 3420 mm wide, and the axle load is 18 tonnes. The
first unit is based at Kharkiv depot for testing. UZ intends to operate the
units at up to 200 km/h on the Kharkiv - Kyiv route.
News in Brief - June 2012
23 June 2012,
05:00:00
Construction of the 1260 km Luliang -
Rizhao heavy haul coal railway which will link mines in China’s Shanxi
province with the coast in Shandong province was launched on May 5. The line is
being built at cost of 99·8bn yuan and is expected to open in 2014 with an
annual capacity of 200 million tonnes. Trafikverket has awarded SJ
Norrlandståg a SKr100m/year contract to operate overnight trains from
Stockholm to northern Sweden for 5½ years from June 2013, with an option to
extend for two years. Following a successful pilot on 18 routes, Indian Railways
has announced plans to roll out Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation
across the network over the next 18 months. Simran enables mobile phone and
computer users to obtain real-time information on train positions. Russian
Railways plans to invest 737bn roubles modernising the Baikal Amur
Magistral to accommodate more general freight transferred from the
Trans-Siberian line, where 181bn roubles will be spent to focus on passenger and
container traffic. Spanish infrastructure authority ADIF has completed a €31m
programme to install GSM-R on the 80 km Bilbao suburban network. The
two-year project included the development with Indra of an operator’s terminal
for analogue and digital track-train communications. On May 1 RailAmerica
announced the completion of its acquisition of Marquette Rail for
$40m. Swedish open access freight operator Peterson Rail ceased trading
on May 11. Set up by Norwegian paper and packaging group Peterson AS in 2007, it
was sold to Nordic Rail in January 2011. The Norwegian national budget has ben
revised to allocate a further NKr326m to infrastructure manager
Jernbaneverket. NKr200m will go towards repairing flood damage to the
Dovrebanen and tunnel fire safety in Oslo, NKr100m is for upgrading the
Ofotbanen and the remainder for work to separate co-located Jernbaneverket and
BaneTele communication systems.
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