All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2010
All articles published this month.
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NewsRENFE unveils Class 112 high speed train
SPAIN: National operator RENFE unveiled the new Class 112 high speed train at its future home, the extended Santa Catalina rolling stock maintenance facility in Madrid, on June 29. A total of 30 Class 112s have been ordered from Talgo and Bombardier for the Madrid - Valencia high speed ...
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NewsDelhi Metro orders more Movias
INDIA: Bombardier Transportation announced an order to supply Delhi Metro Rail Corp with a further 74 Movia metro cars on June 30. The €83m contract has an option for a further 40 vehicles. Deliveries of the additional cars for the second phase of the metro will be competed in 2011. ...
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NewsCSR Zhuzhou to supply Gurgaon trains
INDIA: On June 21 Siemens signed a contract for CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive to supply five three-car trains for the 6·1 km six-station elevated metro line being built in Delhi by the Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon joint venture on a PPP basis. The vehicles will be delivered between November 2011 and ...
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NewsTube Lines sale completed
UK: Transport for London confirmed on June 27 that Tube Lines had become its wholly-owned subsidiary, following the conclusion of an agreement to purchase its shares from Bechtel and Amey. The latter had entered into an agreement to sell the PPP contractor for £310m on May 7.‘This deal opens a ...
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NewsBarcelona metro lines 9 and 10 reach La Sagrera
SPAIN: On June 26 José Montilla, president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, inaugurated a third section of Barcelona metro lines 9 and 10 from Bon Pastor to La Sagrera. TMB operated a 24 h service during the weekend and free commemorative tickets were distributed to mark the occasion.The 2·8 ...
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NewsSiemens Vectron locomotive on test
INTERNATIONAL: Fresh from its München assembly plant, a new Siemens multi-system electric locomotive targeted at European operators is being put through its paces at the Wegberg-Wildenrath test centre in Germany. Christened Vectron, the four-axle machine is destined to be one of Siemens' star exhibits at the InnoTrans 2010 event in ...
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NewsLA Gold Line extension breaks ground
USA: A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Los Angeles on June 26 for the 18·3 km first phase of the Gold Line Foothill Extension, which will take the light rail route from its current terminal in east Pasadena through the San Gabriel Valley to Azusa. However, only one contract ...
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NewsDB orders more double-deckers
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation is to supply DB with a further 21 double-deck coaches for use in Sachsen-Anhalt from the end of 2010. The €34m contract announced on June 24 was placed under a 2003 framework agreement which covered 298 vehicles worth €411m with options for a further 300 (RG 8.03 ...
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NewsNew York Flushing Line CBTC contract awarded
USA: New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded Thales a $343m seven-year contract to upgrade the No 7 Flushing Line to communications-based train control. In addition to its core CBTC technology, Thales will supply non-proprietary, free-space wireless radio communication between the train and wayside equipment. Similar open-architecture signalling systems have ...
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NewsCalgary and Edmonton funding confirmed
CANADA: The Alberta provincial government on June 22 made good on a long-standing promise and awarded Calgary and Edmonton C$800m each in transport funding. The money, part of Alberta’s C$2bn ‘Green Trip’ programme, will not come all at once. According to Transport Minister Luke Ouellette, it will be ‘pay-on-progress’.The province’s ...
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NewsBombardier to buy stake in RZD signalling business
RUSSIA: Bombardier Transportation has beaten Siemens to be named the winner of a tender to acquire a 50% less two shares stake in Russian Railways' signalling supply subsidiary United Electrical Engineering Plants, known as Elteza. The share purchase deal is to be completed by the end of the year. Established ...
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NewsMitsubishi and Hitachi to co-operate in urban rail sector
JAPAN: An agreement to co-operate in the international urban rail supply market was announced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi on June 22. The companies aim to leverage each other's expertise to strengthen their competitiveness in what they see as a growing world market, and will 'work together as ...
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NewsAfghan rail strategy takes shape
AFGHANISTAN: As work progresses rapidly on Afghanistan's first substantial railway, plans are firming up for a 1000 km standard gauge corridor running across the north of the country. This would give Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and potentially China access to world markets via the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas without requiring transit ...
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NewsRFF control centre open
FRANCE: Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau opened RFF’s Integrated Control Centre for the Rhône-Alpes region in Lyon on June 14. The control centre is one of 15 that RFF is planning to build under a €500m programme of signalling upgrades that is expected to involve replacement of up to 1500 signalboxes ...
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NewsSupervising Swiss tracks
SWITZERLAND: The first integrated control centre on the Swiss Federal Railways network was formally opened in Lausanne on May 21. It will assume supervision of the whole SBB network in the French-speaking part of the country by 2015, with the exception of the immediate area around Lausanne, which will not ...
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NewsPilbara iron ore line approved
AUSTRALIA: Plans to build another 300 km rail link to serve the Pilbara iron ore mining region in Western Australia were approved by the state government on June 24. Premier Colin Barnett said the signing of an agreement with Roy Hill Infrastructure Pty Ltd was ‘a major step forward for ...
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NewsCoupling up
CHINA: The Wabtec Golden Bridge Transportation Technology Co joint venture formed by Wabtec Corp and Hangzhou Golden Bridge Railway Equipment Co to manufacture metro couplings in China has won its first contract. The US$7m order announced on June 22 covers the supply of couplers for Hangzhou Metro cars. 'With this ...
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NewsLowering the bar to London
EUROPE: On June 17 the European Commission cleared the transformation of Eurostar from a co-operative arrangement between SNCF, SNCB and London & Continental Railways into a stand-alone joint venture controlled by SNCF and LCR with SNCB holding a non-controlling stake. Approval was subject to conditions which are intended to lower ...
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NewsFuel cell tram trial
SPAIN: Metre-gauge operator FEVE is planning to start trials with fuel cell traction between Ribadesella and Llovio on its non-electrified Santander - Oviedo route by the end of this year. A hydrogen fuel cell is to be installed in a 1970s tramcar to power four traction motors, capable of ...
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NewsGood business case for Dublin interconnector
IRELAND: With responses to the prequalification tender for the public-private partnership to build Dublin’s cross-city rail link due by July 20, Iarnród Éireann announced on June 22 that a new business assessment had confirmed a ‘strong’ economic case for the Interconnector project, now officially known as DART Underground. The 7·6 ...