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NewsOpen-system train control study
RUSSIA: RZD, its signalling and telecoms research institute Niias and Italian signalling equipment supplier ECM intend to study jointly the prospects for development of an open-architecture based train control system for Russian Railways and the wider 1520 region. The three parties signed a memorandum of understanding at the Russian Railways ...
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NewsAlstom opens Canadian bogie plant
CANADA: A bogie assembly plant at Sorel-Tracy, northeast of Montréal, was officially opened by Alstom on July 5. It will produce bogies for 468 rubber-tyred metro cars which Montréal operator STM ordered from a consortium of Bombardier and Alstom in 2010. The contract requires 60% domestic content. Bogie and ...
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NewsWorld rail market July 2013
Germany: Scheidt & Bachmann is to supply 40 FareGo Sales OT|40 touch-screen ticket machines for installation on Chemnitz trams. Poland: KZ Bydgoszcz is to supply a real-time passenger information system for Grudziadz’s trams and stops. The city of Poznan has awarded Siemens an 83m złoty contract to supply ...
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NewsElectrification training centre opened
UK: Carillion has opened an electrification training centre at Crewe which includes a purpose-built overhead line span and associated components. Carillion is part of Network Rail’s electrification 'framework panel' and is undertaking enabling works on the Edinburgh - Glasgow Improvement Project in Scotland; it also has a partnership agreement with ...
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NewsLondon Underground deploys modular sleepers
UK: The Track Partnership collaboration of London Underground and Balfour Beatty Rail has installed its first novel sleeper design on the network in 30 years. Cemex Rail Solutions’ 1502 is preassembled incorporating a Pandrol FE1404 rail fastening. This allows track to be constructed more quickly and cheaply, Balfour Beatty ...
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NewsBratislava orders Škoda Transportation trams
SLOVAKIA: Škoda Transportation signed a €39m contract to supply 15 Type 30T trams to Bratislava on July 18. The deal includes maintenance support and an option for a further 15 trams, and is being supported by EU funding. Deliveries are scheduled to being in mid-2015. The 32·5 m long ...
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NewsFirst Grand Paris line to open in 2020
FRANCE: Société du Grand Paris announced on July 15 that its supervisory board had authorised the release of €5·3bn to fund construction of the first phase of the Grand Paris Express project. This covers the southern part of Line 15 from Pont-de-Sèvres to Noisy-Champs under the revised scheme announced by ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market July 2013
Africa: Transnet Engineering has delivered 10 Class 33 locomotives and 21 coaches to CDN and CEAR for use in Mozambique and Malawi. Argentina: CSR Qingdao Sifang was awarded a US$327m order in May to supply 300 EMU cars in 2014 to increase capacity on the Roca commuter network in ...
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NewsZSSK Cargo restructuring approved
SLOVAKIA: The government approved the Ministry of Transport's proposals for the restructuring and part-privatisation of ZSSK Cargo on July 10. The national freight operator has been hard hit by the economic downturn and the slump in Slovakia's steel industry, making a loss of €24m in 2012 compared to just €0·3m ...
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NewsEast Coast Main Line IEP train order confirmed
UK: A £1·2bn firm order for the Agility Trains consortium to design, build, finance and maintain 30 nine-car electric Hitachi Super Express Trains to replace the current Intercity 225 fleet on East Coast Main Line services from 2019 was confirmed by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin on July 18. The 27½-year ...
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NewsSouthern selects Bombardier to supply trains for Thameslink cascade
UK: On behalf of the Department for Transport, passenger operator Southern has selected Bombardier to supply 116 electric multiple-unit cars at cost of £180m. The order is intended to facilitate the cascade of EMUs between operators as part of the upgrade of the Thameslink route. Southern called for proposals in ...
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NewsDelhi regional rail link plans move ahead
INDIA: The national government has approved plans to develop regional express rail links connecting Delhi with three satellite towns in the National Capital Region. Meeting on July 11, the cabinet approved the setting up of the NCR Transport Corp to develop the Rapid Rail Transit System at ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
Madrid-based engineering consultancy Sener has acquired a 48% stake in Brazilian civil engineering group Setepla, with an option to buy the remainder at a later date. Setepla has undertaken construction work on São Paulo metro Line 4 and is currently working on Line 15, the Expresso Tiradentes monorail. ICT ...
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NewsGreece invites interest in privatisation of train operator Trainose
GREECE: Privatisation agency the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund has invited expressions of interest in the purchase of 100% of the share capital of national train operator Trainose. The process is to be undertaken in two phases, with Phase A being the submission of expressions of interest by September 16. ...
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NewsDovrebanen upgrading works reassigned
NORWAY: Celebrations were held on July 3 to mark the holing through of the 3·9 km Ulvin tunnel, which forms the centrepiece of a project to upgrade and realign a key section of Jernbaneverket's Dovrebanen main line between Oslo and Trondheim. The 17 km section between Minnesund and Kleverud is ...
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NewsUIC and ERA reach agreement over telematics documentation
EUROPE: An agreement providing for the future co-ordination of technical documentation covering Telematics Applications for Passengers was signed at the European Railway Agency headquarters in Valenciennes on July 1. It specifies how ERA and UIC will maintain their respective documents in order to ensure 'continuous synchronisation' between the relevant ERA ...
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NewsRhomberg Sersa Rail Group acquires Universale
EUROPE: The Bahnbau Wels subsidiary of infrastructure contractor Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group signed a contract to acquire the Universale-Bau track and construction business of the insolvent Alpine group on July 15. Alpine had filed for bankruptcy on June 28, after efforts to restructure the business failed. The purchase of Universale ...
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NewsPrivate plans in Nigeria
NIGERIA: The government has prepared a bill to amend the 1957 Railway Act with a view to permitting private sector involvement in the rail sector. Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corp Adeseyi Sijuade said he envisages that private companies may be granted access ‘to run some of the vital aspects ...
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NewsCincinnati Streetcar construction contract signed
USA: The main construction contract for the 5·8 km first phase of the Cincinnati Streetcar project was signed by the city council and the MPD joint venture of Messer, Prus and Delta Railroad on July 15, enabling the council to issue a notice to proceed. Utility relocation works for the ...
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NewsToshiba motors to upgrade Singapore metro cars
SINGAPORE: Toshiba Corp has announced a 'major order' to supply its high-efficiency Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors for the refurbishment of drive systems on 66 six-car C151 metro trainsets which SMRT Corp operates on Singapore's East-West and North-South lines. There are four motored cars in each trainset. Toshiba said this would ...