Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 10/31/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Canada's TSB highlights fatigue on safety watchlist TSB Chair Kathy Fox discussed the board's 2018 Watchlist at a press conference this week. Photo – TSB YouTube The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) this week released its Watchlist 2018 to highlight…
Posts published in October 2018
Level crossing upgrading contract awarded 30 Oct 2018 SWEDEN: Trafikverket has selected Portugeuse company Efacec and its local partner IndustriSpar to develop, gain approval for and then supply a new generation of automatic level crossing protection systems, including control equipment, interfaces, barriers and road signs. The contract is worth €5m/year for an initial five years,…
Signalling changes reduce delays where road traffic uses rail alignment 30 Oct 2018 UK: Network Rail has made 'innovative' changes to the signalling system to reduce delays to road traffic at Stromeferry, where a section of the Inverness – Kyle of Lochalsh line has been paved to enable it to be used by road traffic…
Gibela assembly plant inaugurated 29 Oct 2018 SOUTH AFRICA: The Dunnottar industrial park where the Alstom-led Gibela joint venture will manufacture new EMUs for Prasa was officially inaugurated by President Cyril Ramaphosa and Transport Minister Blade Nzimande on October 25. The ceremony was also attended by Deputy Minister of Transport Sindisiwe Chikunga and the Premier…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 10/26/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Senate bill would provide railroads, ports equal footing for INFRA grants Sen. Tom Carper Photo – Carper's office Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) earlier this month introduced S. 3587, a bill that proposes to provide rail, intermodal and port projects a better…
Driving innovation in rail freight 26 Oct 2018 EUROPE: ‘We need a quantum leap’, suggested DG Move’s Director of Land Transport Elisabeth Werner, speaking at a workshop in Brussels on October 25 to launch the European Rail Industry Freight Agenda. Emphasising that rail freight had a key role to play in the decarbonisation of European…
Rail-car orders in the third quarter totaled 24,972 units compared with 23,788 units in the second quarter and 10,348 units in the first quarter, according to quarterly rail-car statistics released earlier this week by the Railway Supply Institute's American Railway Car Institute Committee. In third-quarter 2017, orders totaled 8,671 cars.Car deliveries in Q3 declined to…
Flirt Akku battery multiple-unit unveiled 25 Oct 2018 GERMANY: Stadler has officially unveiled the prototype Flirt Akku, a version of its Flirt family of electric multiple-units which is equipped with a battery to permit operation on non-electrified or partly-electrified routes. The unit was officially unveiled on October 25, when it carried guests between the Stadler…
(Adds detail on operating margin) Oct 25 (Reuters) - Union Pacific Corp on Thursday posted a bigger-than-expected jump in quarterly profit and said it was working to run its trains more efficiently as new U.S. trade policies and economic softening in Europe threaten to slow business down. Shares of Union Pacific, which connects 23 states…
(Recasts first sentence with expected impact of U.S. trade policies, adds executive comments, share price) Oct 25 (Reuters) - Union Pacific Corp reported a bigger-than-expected jump in quarterly profit on Thursday and said it was redoubling efforts to run its trains more effectively amid looming risks from new U.S. trade policies and economic softening in…