All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2011 – Page 5
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NewsNews in Brief
The EU's TEN-T programme is to meet 10% of the €29·6m cost of upgrading the Boden - Kalix line in northern Sweden and building 42 km of new line to the Finnish border by 2012. On April 29 Norfolk Southern began construction of the $105m Memphis Regional Intermodal Facility in ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - June 2011
Under a programme to ‘improve’ public transport in Toshkent 26 km of tram track is being removed from the city centre and trams will be restricted to the inner ring road. Four new sections of track totalling 16 km are being built and 20 trams will be ...
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NewsSão Paulo Line 4 growth
BRAZIL: São Paulo metro opened Pinheiros station between Faria Lima and Butantã on the driverless Line 4 on May 16. It is expected to increase daily ridership from 50000 to 80000. Operating hours on the Paulista – Butantã section of the Yellow Line were extended on May 2. The ...
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NewsMore women in transport
USA: Federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was among the guests at the Women’s Transportation Seminar annual awards in San Francisco on May 18 where a national educational initiative was launched to encourage young women to choose a career in transport. Known as Transportation YOU, the programme will encourage girls to ...
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Franck Gervais
Franck Gervais has been named CEO of European passenger operator Thalys International. He succeeds Olivier Poitrenaud, who has moved on to become Director General of Toulouse public transport operator Tisséo.
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RATP reshuffle
Paris transport operator RATP has announced a major reshuffle of senior management. Cyril Condé (photo), who is currently in charge of metro Line 14, becomes Director of the RER network, succeeding Michel Henry who has been named Operational Managing Director of the department of transport equipment and systems (EST). Secretary-General ...
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NewsTransport planners merge to form SKM Colin Buchanan
INTERNATIONAL: A merger between UK-based transport planning, urban design and economics consultancy Colin Buchanan & Partners and Australian-headquartered international projects firm Sinclair Knight Merz was announced on June 2. The combined organisation will be 'a world leading transport planning consultancy with global reach and increased capacity and capability', branded as ...
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Radek Smerda
Radek Smerda has been named Czech Transport Minister following the resignation of his former superior, Vit Barta, who has been accused of corruption. The appointment is temporary while the allegations are being investgated.
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Milagros Caiña-Andrée
Milagros Caiña-Andrée has replaced Steffen Wurst as Personnel Director at DB Schenker.
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NewsEasing winter discontent
SWEDEN: The government has announced plans to increase spending on preventive maintenance of rail infrastructure by SKr800m this year, following winter disruptions which had 'clearly shown the consequences of neglecting the maintenance of the railway network for far too long'. Last year the government set out plans to invest SKr500bn ...
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NewsThird generation TGV Duplex handed over
FRANCE: Alstom Chief Executive Patrick Kron formally handed over the first of 55 'third generation' TGV Duplex high speed trainsets to SNCF President Guillaume Pepy by on May 30. Ordered in June 2007, the latest evolution of the TGV Duplex family incorporates changes arising from EU Technical Specifications for ...
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NewsDMU deliveries take IÉ from oldest to newest fleet
IRELAND: On May 30 Iarnród Éireann took delivery of the first 12 of 57 inter-city diesel multiple-unit cars which were ordered from Mitsui in 2009 and are being assembled by Hyundai Rotem of South Korea with components from Tokyu Car Corp of Japan. The rest will arrive from South Korea ...
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NewsDresden Messe tram extension opens
GERMANY: Music, dancing and vintage trams featured in opening celebrations for an extension of Dresden tram Line 10 to the exhibition centre on May 29. The 'Messelinie' extension runs for 1·3 km from the former terminus at Friedrichstadt, which has been renamed Vorwerkstraße, and has four stops. Studies for ...
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NewsSinara and Siemens announce Desiro production agreement
RUSSIA: Siemens and local manufacturer Sinara Group have launched Train Technologies, a joint venture to produce Desiro electric multiple-units for the Russian market in Yekaterinburg. ‘Preliminary contracts’ worth ‘around €2bn’ were signed at the 1520 Strategic Forum in Sochi on June 1 by Siemens Mobility CEO Dr Hans-Jörg Grundmann, Dimitry ...
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NewsParis to Clermont-Ferrand high speed line plans outlined
FRANCE: Four possible routes for a high speed line linking Paris with Orléans, Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon were unveiled by RFF on May 26, following four years of discussion. LGV POCL is part of the 2 500 km of new line included in the government's Grenelle d'Environnement strategy as a long-term ...
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NewsModernisation money allocated
MACEDONIA: In May Finance Minister Zoran Stavreski announced the allocation of a further €10m to fund projects to bring the rail network up to modern European standards for safety, automation and working conditions. The money will go towards the development of a control centre which will monitor the entire 700 ...
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