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4 December 2013 | By Frederik Allert, Product Engineer, Bombardier Transport France S.A.S.
BOMBARDIER1 FLEXX1 Compact is now a well-established name in the world of bogies for railway vehicles. There are currently more than 7,000 FLEXX Compact bogies in service or on order worldwide...
4 December 2013 | By Rütger Fenkes, Project Leader, TAP TSI
Not too long ago, travelling abroad by rail was a privilege reserved for a selected few. With poor telecommunications, reservations made by telephone and recorded on manual reservation coupons, journeys had to be arranged well in advance. Likewise, the focus of the former national railway administrations was on domestic travellers.…
High-speed rail; Spain & Portugal profile; Swedish profile; Research & Development; Freight; Rolling Stock Design; and much more...
In this High-Speed supplement: The potential of high-speed rail: CER’s perspective; Thalys: a model of highspeed mobility; HS2: building a connected Britain; Putting into service the Albacete to Alicante high-speed section...
26 September 2013 | By Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd, Minister of Infrastructure, Sweden
Increased influence for customers and public transport actors creates better conditions for the railway to enhance its competitiveness. Swedish railway reforms of the past 25 years have been based on this premise, together with state responsibility for management of the rail network run by an independent infrastructure manager. The result…
26 September 2013 | By Pedro Fortea, Director, MAFEX
As the result of a strong commitment to research and development, the Spanish rail industry has made available to the international market a modern fleet of rolling stock vehicles for all kinds of transportation for both passengers and goods, plus the offering of skilled train maintenance services as well as…
26 September 2013 | By Marco Filipe Santos, Head of the Catenary and Electric Traction Department, REFER Engineering S.A
Electrical compatibility between fixed installations and rolling stock, at power supply level, is paramount when dealing with power quality, system availability and reliability. This article addresses power quality and power quality monitoring on alternate current 25 kV electrification systems, focused on overvoltages generated by near resonance frequency harmonics. Theoretical background…
26 September 2013 | By Maria Jaderholm, Project Manager Railway Operations, Transportstyrelsen
Transportstyrelsen – the Swedish Transport Agency – represents Sweden in the EU and also listens to the demands from the Swedish railway market. In an interview for Global Railway Review, Maria Jäderholm, Project Manager for Railway Operations at the Swedish Transport Agency, reveals that by listening, explaining and creating dialogue…
26 September 2013 | By Jan Schönbeck, Director of Purchasing & Logistics, Trafikverket and Camilla Ahston, Procurement Strategist, Purchasing and Logistics, Trafikverket
The first railway in Sweden was built in 1856. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Sweden had a combination of both private and public railways...
26 September 2013 | By Thomas Silbersky, Director of Sales and Marketing Division, SJ
Competition on the Swedish railway is on the rise as new players enter the market. While procured rail traffic was exposed to competition in the early 1990s, the deregulation of commercial domestic traffic first began in 2007 and was only fully deregulated in 2010. Since then, SJ’s competition has grown…
Founded in 2011 by 15 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from across the parliamentary committees, Rail Forum Europe (RFE) is an international non-profit association that brings together EU decision-makers and the rail sector to achieve a better understanding of rail-related issues. RFE is currently supported by 20 full member…
26 September 2013 | By Paul Mazataud, Managing Director, Rail Freight Corridor 2 and Deputy Head of Development, RFF
By 10 November 2013, six of the nine rail freight corridors initially foreseen by the EU Regulation 913/2010 concerning a European network for competitive freight will become operational. Rail Freight Corridor 2 (RFC2) is one of them. These corridors are extremely ambitious and will lead to major changes for international…
26 September 2013 | By Jon Shaw, Senior Project Director for the AVENTRA platform and the Divisional Head of Engineering for Bombardier Rolling Stock Atlantic & Services
Bombardier Transportation prides itself on offering the broadest product portfolio in the rail industry and delivers innovative products and services that set new standards in sustainable mobility – conserving energy, protecting the environment and improving total train performance for passengers and operators. In an interview for Global Railway Review, Jon…
26 September 2013 | By Chris Baker, Director of the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education
In very broad terms, railway aerodynamic effects increase in severity with the square of the speed of the train – and historically came to become of concern as the speed of passenger trains increased beyond around 100km/h. In the first instance, attention was paid to reducing the aerodynamic drag of…
Rolling Stock maintenance; Level Crossing safety; Alpine profile; Infrastructure maintenance; Signalling; and much more...
