All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2013 – Page 4
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NewsCSR to renew Buenos Aires EMU fleet
ARGENTINA: Complete renewal of the EMU fleet operating suburban services on the 1 676 mm gauge Sarmiento and Mitre routes in Buenos Aires was announced by President Cristina Fernández on January 10. Under a contract valued at US$506m, Chinese manufacturer CSR is to supply 55 trainsets totalling 409 vehicles, which ...
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NewsNetwork Rail awards 10-year electricity supply contract
UK: Network Rail has awarded EDF Energy a 10-year contract to supply around 3·2 TWh of electricity a year for the rail network. Network Rail procures electricity centrally for the rail industry, charging train operators for traction power supplied through overhead and third rail electrification. In what Network Rail ...
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NewsParis tram T4 branch enquiry underway
FRANCE: A public inquiry considering plans to build a 6·5 km branch of Paris tram route T4 from Gargan to Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil closes on January 24. The branch would have 11 stops, and is expected to carry 37 000 passengers a day. The €214m scheme is being managed by ...
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NewsJean-Marc Janaillac
Jean-Marc Janaillac has been named President & CEO of Veolia Transdev and has also replaced Jérôme Gallot on the Executive Committee of major shareholder Caisse des Dépôts. Jérôme Nanty becomes Secretary General, succeeding Olivier Grunberg who is transferring to Veolia Environnement.
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NewsRail franchising 'not fundamentally flawed', Brown review finds
UK: The Department for Transport published the Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme on January 10, the second of two independent inquiries launched in the wake of the collapse of the Inter-City West Coast refranchising process in October last year. Authored by Eurostar Chairman Richard Brown, the report was ...
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NewsLow-floor trams ordered for Suzhou Industrial Development Zone
CHINA: CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock has won an order to supply 18 low-floor trams for a light rail line which is under construction in the Suzhou National New & Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone. The rolling stock order announced on January 10 is the first won by CSR Puzhen under ...
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NewsSaudi Landbridge consultancy contract awarded
SAUDI ARABIA: The Public Investment Fund has awarded Fluor Corp a 270m riyal contract to provide consultancy services for the Saudi Landbridge project. Under the 84-month contract Fluor is to review engineering designs for the railway in conjunction with Parsons Brinckerhoff, and will define implementation strategies and be responsible for ...
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NewsPioneer Railcorp buys Maumee & Western Railroad
USA: The Michigan Southern Railroad Co subsidiary of short line group Pioneer Railcorp completed the purchase of Maumee & Western Railroad Corp from RMW Ventures in late December. The 80 km line linking Woodburn, Indiana, and Liberty Center, Ohio, will be operated under the name Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railway. ...
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NewsNetwork Rail publishes 2014-19 Strategic Business Plan
UK: Network Rail published its Strategic Business Plan on January 8, setting out proposals to spend £37·5bn in 2014-19. The plan is the infrastructure manager's response to the publication last year of the UK and Scottish governments' High-Level Output Specifications outlining what the railway is required to deliver in Control ...
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NewsTrapeze acquires Seasam Group's public transport activities
FINLAND: Trapeze has acquired the Seasam House passenger information system business from Seasam Group. Seasam House has been renamed Trapeze Finland and is to be integrated with Trapeze's European activities, selling products from the Trapeze portfolio as well as its existing proprietary products. The transaction was completed on December ...
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NewsHigh speed line opens between Barcelona and Figueres
SPAIN: The Prince of Asturias joined Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, President of the Catalunya regional government Artur Mas and Development Minister Ana Pastor on January 8 to officially open the completed high speed line between Barcelona Sants and Figueres Vilafant. Revenue services were due to start the following day. RENFE ...
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NewsMinneapolis awards Southwest LRT contracts
USA: Two contracts each valued at $16·8m have been awarded by the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities for preliminary engineering work on the 25·4 km Southwest light rail line in Minneapolis. AECOM will be responsible for the western section of the route, while the eastern section is to be ...
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NewsCNR Tangshan signs Turkish tram contract
TURKEY: Samsun Metropolitan Municipality has awarded CNR Tangshan Railway Vehicles a contract to supply five 100% low-floor trams to increase passenger capacity on the city's light rail network. The €7·5m contract signed on December 17 requires the first tram to be delivered by December 2013 and the last by February ...
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NewsDLR operating contract extended to 2014
UK: On January 7 Transport for London announced that Serco Docklands will have its contract to operate the Docklands Light Railway extended by 18 months. The contract extension is worth around £100m and will cover the period from April 2013 to September 2014. The terms are the same as in ...
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NewsKaohsiung picks CAF to build catenary-free trams
TAIWAN: Kaohsiung City Government’s Mass Rapid Transit Bureau announced on January 4 that it had selected a consortium of CAF and Evergreen Construction to build the first stage of the city’s catenary-free circular light rail line. Now expected to cost NT$15·6bn, the 22·1 km route with 36 stops will link ...
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NewsHoek van Holland railway to be converted to metro
NETHERLANDS: Proposals to convert the 24 km railway between Schiedam Centrum and Hoek van Holland for metro operation were approved by Stadsregio Rotterdam and the municipalities of Maassluis, Vlaardingen, Schiedam and Rotterdam on December 17. The cost is put at €318m, including the purchase of 18 additional Bombardier Swift three-section ...
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NewsGerman operating contracts awarded
GERMANY: Bayern transport agency Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft and Rhein-Main transport authority RMV have selected DB Regio for a contract to operate hourly Main-Spessart services between Frankfurt, Aschaffenburg and Würzburg for 12 years from December 13 2015. Trains will continue on to Schweinfurt and Bamberg every 2 h. DB Regio plans to ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2013
Brazilian environmental protection agency Ibama has granted approval for upgrading works to commence on 100 km of metre gauge infrastructure as part of the Transnordestina project. This covers the section from Salgueiro in the state of Pernambuco to Missão Velha in Ceará. From April 2 Air France is to ...
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NewsMore Flirts for Belarus
BELARUS: Last month Belarusian Railways signed a firm order for Stadler Bussnang to supply a further six Flirt electric multiple-units in 2013-14. The five-car EMUs are intended for regional routes and will offer greater comfort and more luggage space than the units which Stadler has delivered for Minsk suburban services. ...
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NewsRailway planned to link steel plant and port
CAMBODIA: Under an agreement worth up to US$11bn, a 405 km north-south railway is to be constructed as part of a Chinese-funded investment to build steel production and port facilities in the country. The railway would be built by China Railway Group under contract to the Chinese-backed ...