All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2010 – Page 2
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NewsKraków orders 24 Flexity trams
POLAND: Kraków transport operator MPK has placed an order for a further 24 Bombardier Flexity Classic trams to be delivered from March 2012 to 2013. A partnership of Bombardier and Vossloh Kiepe was the sole bidder for the €58·7m contract signed on July 22. Bombardier's share is worth €40m and ...
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NewsWashington metro upgrades get go-ahead
USA: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has been given the green light by the Federal Transit Administration to begin urgent repairs and upgrades to improve safety on the Metrorail network. The approval comes ahead of the actual award of the first $150m in funding under the Passenger Rail Investment & ...
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NewsFirst Matangi unit heads for Wellington
NEW ZEALAND: The first of 48 two-car 1·5 kV DC EMUs which Greater Wellington Regional Council ordered from a consortium of Hyundai Rotem and Mitsui in 2007 at a cost of NZ$235m is due to be delivered from South Korea in early August. The 1 067 mm ...
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NewsTunis orders more trams
TUNISIA: Alstom has been awarded a €58m contract to supply Tunis transport authority Transtu with 16 more Citadis trams and to maintain the expanded fleet of 55 vehicles for five years. The trams will be identical to the 39 trams delivered by Alstom between 2007 and 2009. These have been ...
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NewsGrant to save DR Congo railway from collapse
DR CONGO: A recovery plan to restore the financial and operational viability of national railway SNCC has been allocated 90% of the funding being made available under a World Bank-backed Multimodal Transport Project. The package is intended to rehabilitate infrastructure and ensure good governance to support economic integration and national ...
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NewsStansted Airport trains under construction
UK: The first of 30 four-car Class 379 Electrostar electric multiple-units for National Express East Anglia will begin tests at Bombardier Transportation's Derby plant in September, the manufacturer announced on July 21. The 160 km/h units have been ordered for use on services from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport ...
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NewsFinal tender issued for LGV Bretagne
FRANCE: Infrastructure manager RFF confirmed on July 21 that it had issued the final tender documents to the three bidders shortlisted for the ‘partnership contract’ to build LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire between Le Mans and Rennes. The three consortia led by Bouygues, Vinci and Eiffage have been given until ...
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NewsPioneering PPP energises Dijon tram
FRANCE: On July 1 the Grand Dijon urban authority and Inéo, a subsidiary of GDF Suez, signed a 26-year PPP agreement worth €176m to design, supply, maintain and finance the electrical and control equipment for the city’s tram network. Under the first deal of its kind in France, Inéo and ...
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NewsBoston orders MotivePower HSP46 diesels
USA: Meeting on July 14, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation board approved a contract with MotivePower Inc for 20 diesel locomotives of a new design, designated HSP46, valued at up to $114·6m. The 4 600 hp locomotives will be assembled at the company’s plant in Boise using major components ...
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NewsHyderabad metro bids announced
INDIA: Larsen & Toubro has emerged as lowest bidder to construct the Rs122bn Hyderabad metro network on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis. The project was officially approved by Urban Development minister S Jaipal Reddy at the end of June. Eight companies had been shortlisted for a new ...
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NewsFactory opens to support bearing technology shift
RUSSIA: A factory to produce sealed pre-lubricated compact tapered bearing units for Russian and export customers was opened in Tver on July 8. SKF is investing SKr235m in the plant, which at full capacity could employ 100 people producing up to 150 000 bearing units a year. SKF said the ...
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NewsNJ Transit approves FY2011 spending
USA: An order for 100 additional double-deck commuter cars, valued at up to $293·5m, and 10 dual-mode locomotives costing $78·8m, was approved on July 15 by New Jersey Transit, exercising options on existing orders with Bombardier. The decision came after the board passed a $1·8bn operating budget and $1·35bn capital ...
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NewsChina funds Argentina's rail revival
ARGENTINA: Chinese companies are to undertake route upgrades and supply rolling stock under a series of major contracts signed in Beijing on July 13, during the first state visit by President Cristina Fernández. With 85% of funding provided by China Development Bank, CMEC is to undertake a three-stage US$10bn upgrade ...
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NewsIn touch onboard
SAUDI ARABIA: Moxa is to provide ethernet switches for the data, information and CCTV networks onboard the 22 two-car trainsets AnsaldoBreda is to supply for the driverless metro being built at Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman women's university in Riyadh. Moxa has also supplied the Helsinki metro with ethernet switches for ...
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NewsFourth order for CRH1 high speed trains
CHINA: The Ministry of Railways has ordered an additional 40 CRH1 Zefiro high speed trains from the Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation joint venture at a cost of 5·2bn yuan, Bombardier announced on July 16. The eight-car trains will have a top speed of 250 km/h and capacity for 604 passengers, ...
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NewsKiwiRail announces Auckland electric train shortlist
NEW ZEALAND: KiwiRail has shortlisted Hitachi, Hyundai Rotem, Bombardier Transportation and a consortium of CAF and Mitsubishi for the contract to supply up to 38 three-car electric multiple-units to operate Auckland suburban services. KiwiRail is working with Auckland Regional Transport Authority to procure the 1 067 mm gauge trains as ...
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NewsRFF agrees terms for Tours – Bordeaux PPP concession
FRANCE: Infrastructure manager Réseau Ferré de France confirmed on July 15 that it had completed negotiations with the Vinci-led LISEA consortium over the PPP concession to build LGV Sud Europe Atlantique between Tours and Bordeaux, which it describes as ‘the largest railway project in Europe’, with a total cost of ...
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NewsDB Regio awarded Warnow-Netz operating contract
GERMANY: The Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has awarded incumbent DB Regio a new 13-year contract to operate Warnow-Netz regional services. Announced on June 30, the contract will be implemented in two phases and will eventually cover the operation of 4 million train-km a year. The first phase comes into effect in ...
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NewsWork underway on Ashkelon - Be’er-Sheva line
ISRAEL: Infrastructure works for the 60 km Ashkelon - Be’er-Sheva line were formally launched by Israel Railways on July 4. The US$500m project has been designated as of national importance and is scheduled for completion in early 2015. Initial work has already been undertaken on the Ashkelon ...
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