International & UK Railway News Sunday 29th December 2013

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Total Railway News

 

 

China's Railways Mileage Tops 100,000 km

 

S.Korean railway strike intensifies after gov't issues license for new subsidiary - WORLD - Globaltimes.cn

 

Delhi: Kejriwal promises action in railway demolition drive that left over 150 families homeless

 

Deadly fire engulfs India train

 

High-speed rail opens up line of prosperity

 

Gallery: New rail bridge is hoisted into place

 

Heritage railway's future 'secure'

 

 

 

Other News........

 

'Suicide bomber' hits Russia's Volgograd train station

 

 

National Rail Enquiries - Christmas and New Year Travel Summary 2013/2014

 

GWR - Gloucestershire's mainline heritage railway - Foremarke's last stand at the Christmas Cracker

 

Spring Steam Gala « West Somerset Railway

 

Rail 737: Franchising hold up leads to investment paralysis (Christian Wolmar)

 

 

Rail 736: The North could be about to lose out again

 

 

To the Edge of the World (Atlantic Books, 2013)

The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of the vastness of our world and hints at the hardships that were endured in its construction.  Read more >>

 

 

Russian Railways

 

Freight Services - Linking Eurasia

One of the Company’s main strategic goals is to achieve full integration into the Eurasian transport infrastructure in order to expand the East-West and North-South transport corridors across our huge continent to give operators the benefits of door-to-door delivery and greatly reduced costs and shipping times.

Russian Railways run national and international freight services for all types of commodity, ranging from coal, iron ore, cement and oil and oil products to automobiles and grain using specialised tank, box, flat, open-freight and grain cars.

We also operate containers and provide door-to-door delivery across Russia and Eurasia for your goods, giving you real-time information on the progress and location of your shipment using our electronic trading platform.

Russian Railways is committed to improving lines and rolling stock and expanding and upgrading East-West and North-South transport corridors across Eurasia. Operators benefit from greatly reduced costs and shipping times, while Russian Railways gain from rising freight volumes and increased revenues.

Russian Railways also expedite delivery times by:

• shipping freight containers within Russia and internationally using high-speed container trains;
• delivering containers directly to the consignee’s warehouses;
• employing simplified procedures at customs to ensure seamless transport across borders;
• legalizing documents on transit freight transported in containers;
• providing safe-passage for freight, with armed guards provided by the Russian Ministry of the Interior on all freight trains across Russia.

News

Dec 19, 2013 First transit container train departs from China to Nakhodka-East station via Suifenhe-Grodekovo border crossing RU EN A demonstration container train consisting of forty wagons of transit cargo has left for the first time the People's Republic of China for the southern ports of China and the Republic of Korea via the Vladivostok region of the Far Eastern Main Line. A special timetable schedule was developed specifically for this trip, with the train departing from the Grodekovo border station at 07:20 and arriving at the Nakhodka-Vostochnaya station at 18:00 Moscow time later the same day. Total travel time is 10 hours and 40 minutes. Both China and Russia now need rail transport between Suifenhe-Grodekovo – Nakhodka-Vostochnaya (Vostochny Port) nowadays. Among Chinese shippers are large companies such as HuaShen, which dispatches between 300-600 containers every month loaded with paper, chemical products and agricultural products to China's southern ports. This corridor is an alternative to the traditional route via the Chinese port of Dalian, which is now significantly overloaded. Rail transportation allows the shipment of goods in commercial quantities in the shortest possible time. The project to develop an international rail connection between Suifenhe in China and Grodekovo in Russia was implemented in the framework of the decisions adopted by the Working Group of the Greater Tumangan Initiative (GTI) in October 2013. One of the key areas of GTI cooperation is to organise transit shipments of Chinese exports via Russia's seaports in its Far East region. The regular dispatch of transit containers on this route will optimise the transport and logistics supply chain of goods from China's northern provinces and in the opposite direction by using the infrastructure of stevedoring companies of the Far East and Russian Railways. Russian Railways Channel on YouTube

Published on 29 Dec 2013

Crossrail, London's £14.8bn rail programme, is approaching its halfway mark. Mark Odell reports on the magnitude of an undertaking that will connect the east and west of the city with a line that includes 21km of twin-bore tunnels dug beneath the capital.

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