International & UK Railway News Monday 14th January 2013

International Railway Journal

LEIPZIG Public Transport (LVB) has selected Trapeze to supply and install an integrated operations control system for its network..

RAIL.ONE, Germany, is to supply more than 530,000 bi-block concrete sleepers from its Rheda 2000 ballastless track system for installation on the 230km Honam high-speed line in Korea..

FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) says it will invest what it describes as an unprecedented amount this year to expand and modernise its passenger fleet and facilities..

PROVISIONAL traffic figures for December 2012 show that about 4 million Israelis travelled by train, which means that for the first time ever annual passenger traffic exceeded 40 million journeys.

ITALIAN open-access high-speed operator NTV is to launch a new service between Milan and the Adriatic Coast this summer in the first expansion outside its orignal network.



www.progressiverailroading.com US News.

Hurricane Sandy update: NJ Transit fully restores rail service into New York City

CSX installs two intermodal execs, reassigns another

KCS boots up online tool to help boost cross-border business

TriMet to raise parkway grade as part of Portland-Milwaukie light-rail project

Koch Industries seeks STB approval to acquire Texas South-Eastern

FTA awards $7 million in transit workforce development funds

Metrolink elects Morris chairman to succeed Katz

 

 

www.railway-technology.com Updates

 

Argentina orders Chinese trains to renew Buenos Aires EMU fleet
14 January, 2013 he Ministry of the Interior and Transport of Argentina has awarded a RMB3.43bn ($546m) contract to CSR Qingdao Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock, a subsidiary of China Southern Rolling Stock...

• CSR Puzhen to deliver Bombardier Flexity 2 design trams to Suzhou

• Network Rail starts enhancement work on Swindon-Kemble railway line

• Crossrail's fifth TBM starts tunnelling in south-east London

• Mermec to supply 15 detectors to Moroccan national rail operator

London Underground150 Anniversary Event on Steam Tube



3 videos from Sean Dudden.......

 

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CER and UNIFE launch European Railway Award website

CER and UNIFE launched a new website dedicated to the European Railway Award today. The fifth edition of the European Railway Award will take place on 26 February in Brussels. Registration is as usual free of charge and the prize money will be donated to charity. You can find more about this year’s winners, the registration process as well as the evening programme at www.europeanrailwayaward.eu.

Notes: The European Railway Award honours outstanding political and technical achievements in the development of attractive, profitable, and environmentally sustainable rail transport. Each award is rewarded with EUR 10 000 prize money, which is donated to charities of the laureates’ choice. Past winners include European ERTMS Corridor Coordinator Karel Vinck (2012), Alstom Senior Vice-President and Technical Advisor François Lacôte Francois Lacôte (2012), former mayor of London Ken Livingstone (2011), Managing Director of Knorr-Bremse Austria Stefan Haas (2011), former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez (2010), former member of the board of DB and former Chairman of DB Netz Roland Heinisch (2010), former Swiss Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger (2009), the inventor of the electronic train control system ETCS Bengt Sterner (2009), former Director General of SNCF Jean Dupuy (2007), and former Transport Commissioner Karel van Miert (2007). The European Railway Award 2013 jury comprised CEOs of railway and rail industry companies as well as political decision makers, including MEP Brian Simpson, Chairman of the Transport Committee in the European Parliament, and Matthias Ruete, Director-General of the European Commission’s DG Mobility and Transport. More information about the European Railway Award is available atwww.europeanrailwayaward.eu Follow us on Twitter@EU_RailwayAward

Shedmaster Railway News
From railwaygazette.com - UK: Birley Manufacturing has supplied a batch of coach underframe skirts to First Great Western under a contract worth almost £300 000.

World Heritage & Railway News

From gwsr.com - The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway is running its first-ever 'War in the Cotswolds' event on the railway, 27-28 April 2013.

Railway Engineering News

railwaygazette.com reports- COLOMBIA: Canadian rail consultancy Canarail and Bogotá-based railway engineering and consulting firm A de G Ingeniería have agreed an exclusive partnership for the Colombian market.