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October 11, 2019 | Infrastructure

Rail Baltica launches tender for notified body

THE Rail Baltica Joint Venture (RB Rail) invites Notified Bodies (NoBo) to bid by November 4 for a contract to assess and verify conformity of the infrastructure of the new high-speed line with European Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI).

October 11, 2019 | High-speed

DB to improve international passenger services

GERMAN Rail (DB) plans to introduce its new ICE 4 high-speed trains on services from northern Germany to Switzerland with the start of the new timetable on December 15.

October 11, 2019 | Asia

KTM launches business class on KL - Padang Besar service

SULTAN Nazrin Shah of Malaysia officially launched a new business class service on October 11 which Malayan Railway (KTM) has introduced on an ETS2 EMU linking Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Padang Besar

October 11, 2019 | Main line

Dutch government to support return of international night train

THE Dutch secretary of state for transport, Mrs Stientje van Veldhoven, has agreed to provide a subsidy of €6.7m for the 2021-2024 period to support the reintroduction of an international night train service.

October 10, 2019 | Financial

EBRD arranges loans for new Istanbul metro line

THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has arranged a €97.5m syndicated loan for the construction of a new 13km north-south metro line in the Asian part of Istanbul.

October 10, 2019 | Signalling

JR East to introduce ATO on Joban Line next year

EAST Japan Railway (JR East) announced plans on October 8 to introduce automatic train operation (ATO) on the Joban Line commuter rail line in Tokyo by the end of 2020.

October 10, 2019 | Central/South America

Loan agreed to complete São Paulo monorail project

THE Latin American Development Bank agreed a Reais 1.2bn ($US 296m) loan to the Brazilian state government of São Paulo on October 7 to complete the first section of monorail Line 17/Gold of the São Paulo Metro.

October 10, 2019 | Infrastructure

Adif orders high-speed inspection train from Talgo

SPAIN’s infrastructure manager Adif has awarded Talgo a €39m contract to supply a 330km/h inspection train to monitor the condition of Spain’s high-speed rail network.

October 10, 2019 | Infrastructure

Train speeds could be increased on New York Subway according preliminary report

NEW York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) published preliminary findings from its Train Speed and Safety Task Force on October 8 which show that line speeds on some sections of the New York Subway could be increased by as much as 50%.

October 9, 2019 | Main line

FlixTrain expands its German rail network

GERMAN private open-access operator FlixTrain has announced plans to expand its long-distance rail services by adding additional stops and new routes to its network.

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