All Railway Gazette International articles in December 2009 – Page 3
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NewsIndustry News in Brief
Control and communications systems provider Invensys Rail is to open a Global Centre of Excellence for communication-based train control in central London. ‘With key international project wins, including this month’s £255m São Paulo Metro award, we are delighted to offer our clients centralised CBTC expertise from our new office in ...
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NewsFirst Franciliens enter service in Paris
FRANCE: ‘This is the most important development in public transport since the launch of the TGV’, claimed Jean-Paul Huchon, President of the Ile-de-France transport authority STIF, welcoming the first Francilien EMU at Paris Nord on December 12. Accompanied by SNCF President Guillaume Pepy, Bombardier Transportation President André Navarri and local ...
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NewsAuckland train procurement begins shortly
NEW ZEALAND: KiwiRail is call tenders early in the New Year for the supply of up to 114 electric multiple-unit cars for Auckland, following the cabinet's approval of a NZ$500m loan on November 24. The first of the 1 067 mm gauge EMUs will enter service on the Eastern ...
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NewsBarcelona’s first driverless metro line enters service
SPAIN: On December 13 José Montilla, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, inaugurated the first five stations of metro Line 9 between Can Zam and Can Peixauet.He was accompanied by the Minister of Land Planning & Public Works, Joaquím Nadal, the Mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Núria Parlón, Vice-President ...
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NewsA star is born
BELGIUM: Ceremonies on December 8 at the Dutch-Belgian border near Noorderkempen and outside Brussels Midi station marked the completion of the Belgian high speed network, which forms a star of four lines. Planning for the first line from the French border to Brussels began back in 1988. From December 13, ...
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NewsCollision analysis experts appointed for train project
SOUTH KOREA: Rolling stock manufacturer Hyundai Rotem has appointed UK-based consultancy Frazer-Nash to assess the crashworthiness of an aluminium-bodied commuter train which it is developing. The electric multiple-unit is initially targeted at the Korean market, but Hyundai Rotem hopes to export orders will follow. Frazer-Nash will investigate the effects ...
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NewsCEVA link approved
SWITZERLAND: Voters in the Swiss canton of Genève have backed the provision of an extra SFr113m required to go ahead with the CEVA project to link the city's main Cornavin station with Eaux Vives station, terminus of a 6 km line from Annemasse in France which will be modernised and ...
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NewsTren Eléctrico contracts awarded in Lima
PERU: Transport Minister Enrique Cornejo announced the selection of the Tren Eléctrico Lima consortium, comprising Graña y Montero SA and Norberto Odebrecht SA, to carry out the civil works and E&M scope on the 12·3 km extension of Lima's metro Line 1 at a cost of US$410·2m on December 2. ...
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NewsCambodian railway to be revived by 2013
CAMBODIA: Asian Development Bank announced a second US$42m loan towards rehabilitation of the dilapidated rail network on December 16, doubling the funding it is providing for the US$141m project. ADB said freight trains will begin running on the southern line between Phnom Penh and Kampot near the Vietnamese border in ...
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NewsGovernment go ahead for more electrification
UK: Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis announced plans to electrify a further three routes in northwest England on December 14. The £200m programme builds on plans to electrify a Liverpool - Manchester route which were announced in July. These additional routes are Huyton - Wigan (24 km), allowing electric trains to ...
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NewsPortuguese high speed contract awarded
PORTUGAL: On December 12 the Ministry of Public Works, Transport & Communications announced that the Elos consortium had been awarded a 40-year concession to build, finance and maintain the first section of the high speed line between Lisboa and the Spanish frontier, the 165 km between Poceirão and the border ...
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NewsFirst trans-Hudson tunnel contract awarded
USA: A $583m contract for the 1·6 km Manhattan tunnel section of the trans-Hudson rail link between northern New Jersey and New York has been awarded to a joint venture led by Barnard and Judlau Contracting. This is one of three design-build tunnel sections on the $8·7bn project, which also ...
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NewsSersa Group buys Total track
CANADA: Sersa Group has acquired a 68% stake in Ontario-based Total Track, which undertakes track construction and maintenance work in Ontario and Québec. The companies have previously co-operated on various projects, and Swiss-based Sersa Group said it believes the acquisition 'is an important milestone for its further development in ...
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NewsLight rail preferred for LA’s Crenshaw corridor
USA: The Los Angeles MTA board of directors on December 10 selected light rail as the locally preferred alternative for the 13·7 km Crenshaw - Los Angeles International Airport corridor. The $1·3bn project will connect the Expo LRT line’s Crenshaw station with Aviation station on the Green Line from ...
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NewsMetropolis cars arrive in Santiago
CHILE: Three Metropolis metro cars arrived in Santiago on December 15, the first of 36 cars being supplied by Alstom to supplement the fleet working steel-wheeled Lines 4 and 4A.The cars were ordered by Metro de Santiago in June 2008 at a cost of US$48m, as an option on the ...
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NewsGE and Transnet sign 100-locomotive deal
SOUTH AFRICA: GE Transportation announced the signing of a contract with Transnet Ltd to supply Transnet freight Rail with 100 C30ACi freight locomotives on December 18. Deliveries are scheduled for 2011-12. The manufacturer says they will be the first diesel-electric locomotives with AC traction equipment in sub-Saharan Africa. They are ...
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NewsBombardier to supply 246 Movia cars for Shanghai Line 12
CHINA: Shanghai Rail Transit Line 12 Development Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Shanghai Shentong Metro Group, has signed a 2bn yuan contract with Bombardier and its Chinese partners to supply 246 Movia cars for Shanghai Line 12. The contract, which comprises 41 six-car trains, spare parts and operator training, was ...
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NewsOakland Airport Connector peoplemover contract awarded
USA: The San Francisco BART board voted on December 12 to award a joint venture of Flatiron and Parsons a contract to build a 5·2 km cable-hauled peoplemover linking Coliseum BART station with Oakland International Airport. Doppelmayr Cable Car will supply the vehicles and has been awarded a separate operations ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - December 2009
Veolia Transport has been selected to operate the Valenciennes urban transport network for the period 2010-17. The other bidders were current operator Transdev and Keolis. On November 6 Metro de Santiago inaugurated San José de la Estrella station, which is located between Trinidad and Los Quillayes ...
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NewsSBB Cargo stays independent
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has abandoned plans to team up with another operator in an attempt to strengthen its freight business. Announcing this on December 17, SBB said that SBB Cargo will continue to operate independently, although it will look for opportunities to co-operate with other organisations to develop international ...
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