All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2011 – Page 2
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NewsDeutsche Bahn agrees ICx train order with Siemens
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has reached agreement with Siemens to order up to 300 ICx trainsets. Approved at an extraordinary meeting of the DB board in Frankfurt on April 21, the deal is due to be signed after a 14-day 'waiting and information period', at which point DB plans to place ...
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NewsBielefeld Vamos light rail vehicle unveiled
GERMANY: The first of 16 high-floor light rail vehicles for Bielefeld city transport operator MoBiel was presented to a select audience at HeiterBlick’s Leipzig plant on April 14. MoBiel placed a €47m order for the cars with a consortium of Vossloh Kiepe and HeiterBlick on January 26 2009. Vossloh Kiepe ...
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NewsPraha metro car modernisation complete
CZECH REPUBLIC: Skoda Transportation completed a long-term programme to modernise Praha metro’s original Soviet-built Type 81-71 rolling stock when the last of 93 five-car trainsets was handed over on February 12. The KC10bn programme was launched with a prototype in 1996. It encompassed overhaul of traction motors, underframes and gearboxes, ...
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NewsNational plan to put cities 90 min apart
SOUTH KOREA: The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs has published plans for national network of high speed and upgraded lines which would put the most of the major cities within 90 min travel time of each other by 2020. The second national railway plan published on April 3 ...
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News£200m package to ease Cardiff bottleneck
UK: Network Rail unveiled a £200m three-year plan to alleviate the congested double-track bottleneck through Cardiff on April 12. Local passenger traffic is growing at 8% a year, and the opportunity to increase capacity arises because the area is being resignalled and electrification of local commuter lines is planned. The ...
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NewsTank wagon contract takes GATX into Turkey
TURKEY: GATX Corp's tank wagon leasing business GATX Rail Europe has entered the Turkish market with the deployment of a fleet of 95 m3 petroleum tank wagons ordered from RAIL Tur of Kayseri. Transtur will mange the fleet, which carries refined products for BP Turkey. 'It is especially satisfying ...
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NewsQatar integrated rail project launches in May
QATAR: Next month is due to see the formal launch of the 'integrated rail project', with Qatar Railway Development Co holding an industry day to provide details of the proposed network which is provisionally costed at 130bn riyals. QRDC is a 51:49 joint venture of state-owned property development group Qatari ...
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NewsHofuf bypass contract
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Railways Organization has awarded SAAd Al Mobty & Partners a 659m riyal contract for construction of a bypass to move its existing railway away from the centre of Hofuf, which is a key junction on the SRO main line between Dammam and Riyadh. Realignment of ...
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NewsPerella Weinberg Partners to acquire AIG wagon leasing business
USA: An agreement for Perella Weinberg Partners' Asset Based Value investment vehicle to acquire the AIG Rail Services wagon leasing business from American International Group was announced on April 19. Financial details were not disclosed. On completion of the transaction in the second quarter of 2011 Perella Weinberg Partners will ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market April 2011
Africa: Using Chinese financial support, Tazara has ordered six diesel locomotives with GE Transportation technology to be delivered from China later this year. Bulgaria: Sofia has acquired 20 Tatra T4D-C trams from Halle. Canada: On March 14 Bombardier announced a C$125m order to supply Toronto’s GO Transit with 50 ...
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Ghanim bin Saad Al Saad
Ghanim bin Saad Al Saad, Managing Director of Qatari Diar, has been named Chairman of the new Qatar Railways Company which has been founded to oversee development of the country’s planned rail network. Abdulla Al Subaie has been appointed Managing Director.
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NewsColourful celebrations mark opening of Reims tram
FRANCE: Reims tram line 1 was inaugurated by Adeline Hazan, the city’s Mayor and president of Reims Métropole, on April 16 with other officials joining the ceremony which began a weekend of colourful celebrations to mark the opening. Commercial operation started two days later with trams running at headways of ...
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NewsDB Regio orders multi-engine Traxx diesel locomotives
GERMANY: DB Regio has awarded Bombardier Transportation a framework contract for the supply of up to 200 Traxx DE Multi-Engine locomotives, which will have four small diesel engines in place of one large prime mover. The nine-year agreement announced on April 18 is worth €600m, and includes a €62m firm ...
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NewsChina South is aiming to be number one rolling stock supplier
CSR Zhuzhou President Xu Zongxiang tells Railway Gazette International about the company’s ambitions to become the world’s largest rolling stock manufacturer.
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NewsWorld rail market April 2011
India: Jaipur Metro Rail Corp has appointed Mott MacDonald to advise on tendering the Rs100bn project to build two metro lines totalling 35 km by mid-2013. Iraq: The Kurdistan regional government has awarded three contracts each worth around US$2·2m for tram feasibility studies. Italian firms ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Boring of the 10·8 km Shiziyang Tunnel under the Pearl River estuary in China’s Guangdong province was completed last month. According to the Xinhua News Agency trains will run at 350 km/h through the tunnel when the 140 km Guangzhou – Shenzhen line opens in 2012. Spanish infrastructure manager ADIF ...
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NewsProgress Rail Services buys Balfour Beatty track component business
UK: Balfour Beatty Rail announced an agreement to sell its manganese steel casting, track panel, turnout and crossing design and manufacturing business to the Progress Rail Services subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc on April 15. The transaction will be completed in May. The business operates from five sites in the ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market April 2011
Australia: The TrackStar Alliance of Thiess, United Group Infrastructure, Aurecon and Aecom has been awarded a A$475m contract to build the 9·5 km Richlands - Springfield section of Queensland's Springfield suburban line by 2013. China: Harsco has won orders totalling $11m to supply rail grinders to the Suzhou and ...
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Mike Franczak
Mike Franczak took over as Executive Vice-President, Operations, at Canadian Pacific with effect from April 1, on the retirement of Ed Harris. Franczak was previously Senior Vice-President, Operations, and a member of the executive committee, having joined CP in 1987.
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NewsFaster to Samarkand
UZBEKISTAN: An ¥18·1bn Japan Bank for International Co-operation loan to fund electrification of the 389 km Marakand – Qarshi – Qumqo’rgo’n – Termez line was among the agreements reached when President Karimov made an official visit to Japan in February. President Karimov has also signed a decree financing modernisation ...