All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2008 – Page 3
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NewsArgentina confirms high speed rail consortium
AN INTERNATIONAL consortium led by Alstom has been formally selected to build South America's first high speed railway, President Cristina Fernández of Argentina officially announced on January 16. The Veloxia consortium was named as preferred bidder for a turnkey contract to construct the Buenos Aires – Cordoba line in June ...
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Alstom awarded Italian AGV contract
ALSTOM confirmed on January 17 that it had agreed a €650m contract to supply 25 Automotrice à Grande Vitesse trainsets to Italian open access company Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori. The announcement follows the award by the Italian Ministry of Transport of a railway company licence to NTV. Founded in December 2006, ...
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Intelligence January 2008
Argentina: The latest batch of ex-Portuguese Railways rolling stock to arrive in Buenos Aires included 10 diesel locomotives, three diesel railcars and four three-car EMUs. The first EMU to be refurbished from a previous shipment (RG 2.07 p62) has begun service trials on the Roca route to Temperley. Bangladesh: Permanent ...
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Caspian link work starts
CEREMONIES were held at Bereket in Turkmenistan's Balkan region on December 1 to mark the formal start of construction on the 697·5 km international rail corridor linking Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran (RG 11.07 p674). Held where the north-south Uzen - Gyzylgaya - Bereket - Etrek - Gorgan route will intersect ...
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Armenia confirms rail concession award
PRESIDENT of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin was in Yerevan on January 16 for the official award of Armenia's 30-year national rail operating concession to sole bidder RZD. The contract is expected to be signed during February, with Russian Railways' specially-formed 100% owned subsidiary South Caucasian Railway scheduled take over Armenian ...
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Blue Train and train blues
SERBIA'S Ministry of Defence is to sell a saloon car from the Blue Train, the fleet of luxury rolling stock built for President Tito. The Blue Train was subsequently used by the presidents of Yugoslavia and their state visitors, and in recent years has been available for private charter. ...
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Flushing line to grow
THE START of construction on the 2·4 km extension of New York City Transit's No 7-Flushing line from Times Square to 34th Street & 11th Avenue on the west side of Manhattan was announced on December 3 by Governor Eliot Spitzer and Mayor Michael R Bloomberg. The extension is a ...
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Punta Colonet rail link
THE MEXICAN government expects to open bidding in the first quarter of 2008 for US$7bn project to build a new port at Punta Colonet in Baja California, including a 350 km rail link to the US network. To be funded by the private sector, the new port would aim ...
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NewsDB buys into UK passenger market
UK: German national railway Deutsche Bahn AG confirmed on January 21 that it is to acquire Laing Rail, subject to approval from the UK government's Department for Transport, Transport for London and the Office of Rail Regulation. Laing Rail owns Chiltern Railways, which will become part of DB Regio AG, ...
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Border gap to be filled
WORK is to start this year on a new rail link between Switzerland and Italy. Agreement between the two governments to establish a 17·7 km route by 2013 was reached in November, with the Swiss parliament and the Canton of Ticino splitting the SFr134m cost of the Swiss part of ...
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RZD adopts long-range development strategy
RUSSIA: An ambitious 25-year plan for the evolution of the Russian rail network was formally adopted on November 24, reports Boris Lukov
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Metro and light rail news January 2008
Austria: Wiener Linien has placed a €135m order for 15 six-car metro trainsets with a consortium of Siemens, Bombardier and Elin EBG Traction. It is a second option on an agreement signed in 1998, with delivery scheduled for 2009-11. Chile: On December 10 weekday express services were introduced between Plaza ...
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EIB funds Spanish ERTMS
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has agreed to provide €530m to Spanish national operator RENFE, releasing an initial tranche of €340m under a 25-year loan agreement last month. The remainder is to be made available during 2008. The funding will be used to acquire 140 Civia EMUs for suburban services, as ...
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Delhi awards airport rail link PPP contract
DELHI METRO Rail Corp has awarded a 30-year build-operate-transfer PPP contract for the Airport Metro Express Line to a consortium formed of utility company Reliance Energy and Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. The 22·7 km line will link New Delhi station with Indira Gandhi International Airport via intermediate stations ...
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Networkers get a traction transplant
Working in partnership with HSBC Rail and Brush Traction, Hitachi is replacing key drive components to improve the performance of 97 Networker EMUs used on routes in southeast London and Kent
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Finance January 2008
Bulgaria: BDZ has placed a €120m bond issue to fund debt repayment and wagon upgrades. Further issues are planned under a programme running to 2017. Canada: The federal government has announced a C$27m contribution to the C$93m Asia-Pacific Gateway & Corridor Initiative which includes the construction of a CPR intermodal ...
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Market January 2008
Australia: Downer EDI Rail has awarded Knorr-Bremse a €140m contract to supply and maintain doors and braking systems for 626 EMU cars being built with Hitachi for the Reliance Rail PPP contract to supply trains for Sydney suburban services. Thales will supply communications and CCTV. Austria: Rail Cargo Austria's wagon ...
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NewsNanjing Metro places €85·5m train order
A CONSORTIUM of Nanjing CSR Puzhen Rail Transit, Alstom Transport and the SATEE joint venture of Alstom and Shanghai Electric Group has won a €85·5m contract to supply a further 126 trains for Nanjing Metro Line 1. The partners will supply 21 six-car Metropolis trainsets for an 18 km ...
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Arcelor Mittal goes open access
A SUBSIDIARY of steel producer Arcelor Mittal has become the eighth company to be granted a licence by the Spanish Ministry of Development to operate freight trains on the national network. Arcelor Mittal Siderail is the first private company to be issued with a licence covering the operation of between ...
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