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Wednesday, 19 December 2018

06:35

Kochi Metro Rail to Start water ride Service Soon

Kochi Metro Rail to Start water ride Service Soon

Kochi, Metro Rail News: You will be able to ride the water metro soon in the Kochi. This service may start in December 2019. Kochi Metro Rail Limited had earlier planned to run it in April but then it was extended for October. This project will be ready with the help of German. “will give Metro tender till January”  said KMRL director of APM Mohammed Hanish said 
KMRCL is launching an Integrated Water Transporter project, which costs 819 crores. Germany’s company is investing Rs 582 crore in KfW. Hansih said that Germany’s Ambassador is very happy with the progress of the project. “the land acquisition work has started soon” He said.  
Highlights
  • Kochi Metro Rail Limited had earlier planned to run it in April but it was extended for October
  • Metro Agency is launching an Integrated Water Transporter project, which will cost 819 million
  • About 100,000 people living on the islands from the water metro will benefit
  • According to the plan, there will be two types of boat in this project. They will be made from fiber-rainforest plastic.
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Friday, 9 March 2018

19:29

New Locomotive For Service in Germany 'Smartron"-Siemens

New Locomotive For Service in Germany 'Smartron"-Siemens
BERLIN: Siemens is offering a new locomotive for service in Germany. The Smartron is tailored for a specific transport function and utilises all the advantages provided by standardisation.As a pre-configured locomotive, the Smartron has been conceived for transporting freight in Germany and ensures customers cost-efficient operation and the highest safety standards. The Smartron has already received approval for operating in Germany. The locomotives can now be ordered and will be delivered beginning late in 2018. The first locomotive of the new series is immediately available to customers for test runs and demonstration.
Source:RailNews
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Tuesday, 18 October 2016

08:24

Can Germany help Indian trains run on time?

Can Germany help Indian trains run on time?
Aiming to reduce travel time by trains, India has entered into a pact with Germany to deepen collaboration in the field of railways and high speed trains.
With an objective of reducing travel time significantly, India has signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany for running high-speed trains in the country.
The agreement was reached during talks between German minister for transport Alexander Dobrindt and railways minister Suresh Prabhu at Rail Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday.
The ministers focused on deepening collaboration and strengthening ties in field of railways and high-speed trains.
An MoU was signed between Indian Railways and DB Engineering and Consulting GmbH.
FOCUS ON SPEED AND SAFETY
Germany will help in increasing speed of trains in India. The railway corridors for increasing speed are to be identified by the Indian railways soon. Germany will also help in station redevelopment plan of the railways in a big way.
The 300-kmph high speed bullet corridor, Mysore-Bengaluru- Chennai will be extended upto Vijayawada. Germany will commence a study for extending the corridor from January next year.
Germany will also share its expertise in reducing accidents on railway tracks. Indian railways hopes to accomplish its zero-accident mission with the help of Germany.
A working group has been constituted on railway safety comprising experts from Germany and India. Dobrindt is in India as part of the follow up of Prabhu’s visit to Germany in April this year.

Source:Rail News 
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Monday, 26 September 2016

19:00

Alstom unveils emission-free Coradia iLint Locos

Alstom unveils emission-free Coradia iLint Locos 

Zero-Emission Hydrogen-powered Train unveiled in Germany

Berlin: Two years after inking the first letters of intent (LoIs) with various German states and entities, French multinational Alstom’s zero carbondioxide (CO2) emission passenger train is set to grace the European country’s rail network.

Launched on Tuesday at railway trade fair InnoTrans, in Berlin, Germany, the new Coradia iLint locomotive is being promoted as a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered alternative to diesel-powered locomotives and a more cost-effective choice compared to the electrification of lines.

Germany would be Alstom’s launching pad on route to the delivery of lower CO2 emission products, Alstom chairperson and CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge said at a press briefing on the sidelines of the trade show.

The move forms part of the company’s commitment to cut the energy consumption of its solutions by 20% by 2020 and is a part of the solutions Germany will adopt with its commitment to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40% from a 1990 baseline in the next four years.

“Germany is the ideal starting point for hydrogen technology, as customers increasingly demand innovative and environment-friendly products and the transport authorities push for the implementation of regional emission-free transport technologies,” Poupart-Lafarge commented.

He pointed out that a significant portion of Europe’s rail network – 50% in the case of Germany, with some 20 000 km of nonelectrified track – remains nonelectrified, with the number of diesel locomotives operating still high.

LoIs were signed in 2014 with the German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, as well as with the Public Transportation Authorities of Hesse, for the development of a fuel-cell train.

An LoI was also concluded with the town of Calw in 2015.

“The only exhaust is water steam and condensed water. No greenhouse gases or particles are exhausted from the train and electricity is produced without any generator or turbine, which makes the process much quicker and more efficient,” Poupart-Lafarge added.

In a fact sheet outlining the features of the new train, Alstom highlighted the use of high-performance lithium-ion batteries for the storage of energy from the fuel cell when not in use.

“The battery stores energy from the fuel cell when not needed for traction or from the kinetic energy of the train during electrical braking and allows supporting energy delivery during acceleration phases. They accumulate the energy not immediately used in order to later supply it as needed.”

Coradia iLint, which is based on the diesel train Coradia Lint 54, will be manufactured at Alstom’s Salzgitter site, in Germany, with the first of the new trains scheduled to enter commercial service in 2018.


Source:RailNews
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Tuesday, 10 May 2016

16:11

Indian Railway signed MoUs with 12 countries on Technical Cooperation in the last 2 years

Indian Railway signed MoUs with 12 countries on Technical Cooperation in the last 2 years

New Delhi: Ministry of Railways have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs)/Protocols during the last two years for technical cooperation in the rail sector with the following foreign countries or their Railways : (i) Sweden, (ii) France , (iii) Japan, (iv) Russia (v) United Kingdom (vi) Slovak Republic, (vii) Kazakhstan (viii) Canada, (ix) South Korea, (x) China, (xi) Czech Republic and (xii) Germany. The MoUs /Protocols enable technical visits, exchange of technical experts, reports and documents, training programme, feasibility studies/pilot projects etc.

The ongoing cooperation projects through these MoUs/Protocol are as under:-

(i) China:- (a) High Speed Rail feasibility study for Delhi-Nagpur section, (b) Feasibility study for upgradation of Speeds to 160 kmph on Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysore corridor, (c) Training Programme for Indian Railway Officers on Heavy-haul Technology.

(ii) South Korea: – Feasibility Study for speed raising of Delhi-Mumbai route to 200 km/h.

(iii) Japan: – Mumbai- Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project- Technical and financial assistance

(iv) France: – (a) Technical and Execution Study for upgrading the speed of passenger trains between Delhi-Chandigarh upto 200 kmph (b) renovation/development study of Ludhiana and Ambala railway stations.

(v) Germany: – Feasibility study for High Speed Rail of one route as mutually agreed.
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Tuesday, 6 October 2015

07:39

Siemens has opened a new rail service centre at its Munich-Allach plant in Germany

Siemens has opened a new rail service centre at its Munich-Allach plant in Germany, for the manufacture and maintenance of locomotives.

Designed to carry out preventive and corrective maintenance of locomotives, the new 2,000m² centre is the company's first site that combines production and maintenance at a single location.

The company noted that it will equally carry out repair work and modernisation at the new centre in Munich, which is a major node in east/west and north/south connections in the European rail network.

Every locomotive travelling across Europe passes through Munich, which can also serve as an interim stop for major inspections, maintenance, overhauls or additional tests.
Siemens Mobility
In the future, the new centre will also help rail operators to avoid lengthy transfers to send their locomotives for servicing.
"These two facilities will pave the way for Siemens to provide the rail service of the future."

It also creates synergies as production engineers receive direct feedback from their servicing colleagues, which can be used into the latest locomotive developments.
Bavaria interior and transport minister Joachim Herrmann said: "This traditional factory, once solely for locomotives, has become a facility for modern technology that sets standards for innovation and service."

The company has also established a new data services centre at the site, where huge amounts of information from remote diagnostic systems will be analysed on vehicles worldwide to identify patterns and improve predictive maintenance.

Siemens mobility CEO Jochen Eickholt said: "These two facilities will pave the way for Siemens to provide the rail service of the future. Double-digit growth is expected in the market for digital service in particular, and we have invested in this field in Allach so that we can profit from this growth and create value for the benefit of our customers."
In future, the data centre will analyse and process maintenance data from projects around the world at a high level and over the long term.
Digitalisation facilitates optimal access to data that is important for service activities
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Last September, the Munich Public Transportation Company (MVG) started revenue service with the new Siemens-built Avenio low-floor light rail vehicle (LRV) on tram Line 19 from St Veit Strasse to Pasing Station, Germany.

Source :http://www.railway-technology.com/news/newssiemens-opens-new-locomotive-servicing-and-data-analysis-centres-in-munich-4685316
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Thursday, 2 July 2015

07:52

China competes with Siemens AG, Bombardier and Kawasaki for Global Rail Contracts

China competes with Siemens AG, Bombardier and Kawasaki for Global Rail Contracts

Shanghai: China is competing with Germany’s Siemens AG, Canada’s Bombardier Inc and Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd for global rail contracts – the same companies that helped it build a high-speed rail network that is now the world’s longest at 16,000 kilometres.

China began testing the first bullet train completely made from locally produced parts this week as part of a big government-led push to export railway technology.

China is also home to the world’s largest train maker by sales, CRRC Corp Ltd , which was formed when the government merged its two biggest train makers in June.

“The new train, with our full intellectual property rights, will facilitate our efforts to export China’s railway products and technologies,” said He Huawu, Chief Engineer of Railway operator China Railway Corp.

Foreign firms currently supply some of the parts that go into Chinese-made bullet trains, such as traction systems, analysts say.

The Chinese prototypes that are made from all-local parts have an operational speed of 350 km/hour and a top speed of 400 km/hour and, if successful, the trains will gradually replace older models currently in use, the paper added.

Earlier this year, a $3.75 billion tender that was initially won by a Chinese consortium to build tracks and supply bullet trains to Mexico was scrapped by the Mexican government.
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Monday, 15 June 2015

22:45

Alstom looks at Make in India initiative to double its Biz to Rs.5700 Crore

Milan: French transport company Alstom is looking to the Narendra Modi government’s
Make in India initiative to double its business in the country to 800 million euro (Rs 5,700 crore) in the next three years. The company is expanding its manufacturing facility in Chennai and opening a new factory for building traction systems in Coimbatore this year. Alstom will also supply the German market from India.

“The business environment in India has improved over the last year,” said Henri Poupart-Lafarge, president, Alstom Transporrt. “Things were not as rigorous on the implementation of projects till some time ago.” Alstom says India is the only country where it has a complete supply chain from design to manufacturing sourced locally. It plans to hire more than 200 engineers annually over the next three years to support its expansion. It currently employs 800 engineers.

The company is also looking to bring its elevated tramway technology Axonis to India. This doesn’t need tracks but runs on cables and has been pitched to various state governments, including Uttar Pradesh.

“If the proposal gets through, we will manufacture the train bogies in India itself,” Poupart-Lafarge said. “Many states have shown interest as this is a much more practical solution for small cities with narrow roads. It can even be the feeder for metro services.”

Alstom also expects growth from the dedicated freight corridor. It plans to partner Indian Railways in power supply and locomotives and has bid for the electrification and signalling contract for the Khurja-Bhaupur (343 km) section of the Eastern Corridor.

“The concept of smart cities is still being defined but transportation is an essential part and that is where our expertise comes in,” Poupart-Lafarge said. Alstom globally provides the complete range of systems, equipment and services for railway systems.

In India, the company provided the initial coaches and the technology for the LHB (lightweight all-metal) coaches used on the Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains. Besides, it is also running Train Information Systems for the Delhi, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Kochi metros.

One of the biggest challenges that the company faces in its metro projects is the absence of standard norms, with each city demanding unique specifications. “The execution of metro projects could be faster and more cost-efficient if there are uniform standards,” Poupart-Lafarge said. “The efforts of the Ministry of Urban Development in this direction are welcome.”
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Tuesday, 2 June 2015

13:10

Ratan Tata headed Kayakalp Council to Benchmark Indian Railways against 4 Global Giants

Ratan Tata headed Kayakalp Council to Benchmark Indian Railways against 4 Global Giants

New Delhi: The Ratan Tata-headed innovation council formed by rail minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has decided to benchmark Indian Railways against the train networks of four global giants – US, China, Russia and Germany.

The idea is to compare financial and operational performance indicators and work out a strategy for turning around Railways by using the best-suited model of innovation and development.

The council has asked the railway board for inputs on the railway systems operating in the four countries. The council held its first meeting on May 13 with Prabhu, Minister of State (MoS) Railways Manoj Sinha, Railway Board Chairman A K Mital, other board members and trade union representatives.

“It was decided in the meeting that the performance position of a few foreign railways including the US, Germany, Russia and China will be collected for the purpose of comparison and carrying out further analysis by the innovation council. The second meeting would be held then,” said an official privy to the developments.

India is similar to the nations on the list — except for Germany — in being a member of the 1-billion tonne freight club. India, the US, Russia and China are the only four countries in the world which carry more than a billion tonnes of freight on their railway networks annually.

However, India lags far behind the other nations in terms of structural and operational reforms, particularly in the freight segment. The US, China, Germany and Russia have already adopted significant degrees of privatisation and corporatisation of their railways over the past decades.

Of the two countries with railway systems most comparable to India, the US and China, the US has traditionally had a privately owned rail freight operations system. China has had a departmental system historically but has now progressively reorganised its structure to the point where there is now no Ministry of Rail. It has a national rail corporation and a number of regional operators and specialised private railway operators especially in dedicated freight haulage.

While Indian Railways’ efficiency indicators have improved over time, they are still low when compared to global benchmarks. For example, traffic unit (addition of net tonne km or NTKM and passenger km or PKM) per employee is 0.84 for India compared to 1.4 for China, 2.0 for Russia and 15.1 for the US .

According to Indian Railways’ recently released white paper, NTKM per employee is 1.81 million in Russia, 1.23 million in China and 0.44 million in India. Similarly, PKM per employee is 0.15 million in Russia, 0.38 million in China and 0.66 million in India. This indicates how India fares better on the passenger indicator and worse on freight performance.

“There is a rich experience from other countries in creating competition and India has a great deal to learn from it, particularly as it is one of the last countries to restructure,” the Bibek Debroy committee on restructuring of the railway board and mobilisation of funds for Indian Railways said in its draft report submitted recently.

In the US, 28 per cent of the railways’ revenue goes into labour costs and 20 per cent is channelised to source fuel. For comparison, in India, 32 per cent of operating revenue goes into staff wages while fuel costs eat up 18 per cent of earnings. The two nations are also similar in earning 40-45 per cent of freight earnings from coal transport alone.

Also, in the US the private companies fund a great majority of their own infrastructure capital investment projects from customers on a commercial basis. While the Federal Railroad Administration makes capital grants, the total amounts are minor compared to commercial funding raised by the private freight railroads themselves. For comparison, Indian Railways continues to source over 40 per cent of its Plan Budget of ~1 lakh crore as support from the Centre.
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Monday, 25 May 2015

11:12

50 Cities to get Metro Rails for Rs.500000 Crore

50 Cities to get Metro Rails for Rs.500000 Crore

New Delhi: The government has finalised a plan to augment and launch mass rapid transportation systems across 50 cities to minimise commuter woes and ease pollution concerns.

Prime minister Narendra Modi has already cleared a proposal put up by the ministry of urban development, estimated to cost Rs 500,000 crore over the next four to six years. The Union government plans to share the cost of implementing the project with the respective state governments through special purpose vehicles.

And official in the prime minister’s office, who is not permitted to identify himself, said that prospective partners from South Korea, China, Japan, Germany, France, Russia and Canada have evinced interest in participating in the project.

“Every metro rail system would be very important, given our plan to build 100 smart cities and ensure environmentally sustainable transportation facilities,” the official said.

Modi is learnt to have specially discussed the metro rail projects with CEOs of top Chinese companies in Shanghai and Korean firms in Seoul during his recent visit to both the countries.

Most of the metro rail projects would be implemented through special purpose vehicles (SPVs) in which both state governments and the centre would have equity stakes. While most JVs are being planned as 50:50 ventures, certain innovations are also expected in some of the new projects where municipal corporations have expressed their desire to join the proposed SPVs as equity partners.

Already, some 13 metro projects have either been completed or are in various stages of completion. These include networks in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Che­n­nai, Jaipur, Mumbai (both metro, monorail), Kolkata and Kochi.

Tier-II cities like Lucknow, Kanpur, Gurgaon, Patna, Ahmedabad, Surat, Indore, Nagpur and Coimbatore have also been identified for setting up dedicated metro networks, while proposals are being evaluated for Chandigarh, Bhopal, Ludhiana and Kozikode.

A joint venture between Russia’s Mosmetrostroy and Gammon India has been implementing the Chennai corridor that is expected to be operational in the next few months and is likely to be inaugurated by chief minister J Jayalalithaa who returned to office on Saturday.

The Hyderabad metro, where Larsen & Turbo is the main concessionaire, is reportedly on schedule and is likely to roll out by October.

The latest to join the proposed list is Vijayawada with a link to Amaravathi, the new state capital of Andhra Pradesh, with an investment of Rs 6,823 crore. Delhi Metro’s founding honcho E Sreedharan is overseeing the project.

“Cities wanting to set up metro rail projects may have to compete and come up with innovative and compelling proposals,” the PMO official quoted earlier said.

Several innovations are being planned for implementing mass rapid corridors in different cities. For example, project authorities in Nagpur have been evaluating the possibility of running the network on solar power. Nagpur metro, where both French and German agencies have been in the reckoning, is looking at cost-effective project financing, both through equity and debt.

According to preliminary projections, at least 40 per cent of the required power for operating the system would be sourced from dedicated solar power plants. Land acquisition for the project has commenced earlier this month.
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