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NewsEtihad Rail signalling and telecoms contract awarded
UAE: Ansaldo STS is to supply ERTMS equipment including ETCS Level 2 signalling, automation and telecoms systems for the first phase of the UAE's national railway project. The contract announced on January 23 covers the 266 km route from the Shah industrial complex to Habshan and the port of Ruwais, ...
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NewsTesting underway on first section of Salvador metro
BRAZIL: Test running on the first 6∙5 km section of Salvador metro Line 1 between Lapa and Acesso Norte began on December 22. Testing is scheduled to continue until April, when a free passenger service will be introduced until the start of commercial services in June. The line will serve ...
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NewsHo Chi Minh City metro design and supervision contract
VIETNAM: Ho Chi Minh City's Management Authority for Urban Railways has awarded the design, tender documentation and site supervision services contract for metro Line 2 to a consortium of Pöyry, ILF Beratende Ingenieure, Obermeyer Planen + Beraten and local partner Tedi South. The design and documentation phase is scheduled to ...
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NewsFirst C Stock trains enter service in Hong Kong
CHINA: Hong Kong MTR put its first C Stock trains into passenger services on the Kwun Tong Line on December 7. MTR awarded CNR Changchun a HK$1·1bn contract to supply 10 eight-car trainsets in December 2008, the first time it had ordered metro trains from a manufacturer on the Chinese ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The Ministry of Transport & Communications in Kazakhstan has appointed Aecom and Strategy Partners Group to to develop a national freight and passenger transport strategy, with recommendations on energy efficiency, institutional reforms and the potential for transit freight between China and Europe. EIB signed the first €40m instalment of a ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Delhi Metro Rail Corp Managing Director E Sreedharan has written to the Ministry of Human Resource Development to urge the introduction of post-graduate courses in 'metro technology' across the country. DMRC believes that specialist technical schools such as the Indian Institutes of Technology should provide courses in urban rail design ...
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NewsSharing BIM to cut whole-life costs
UK: Crossrail Ltd has decided to use the latest Building Information Management software throughout its construction supply chain, in order to ensure consistent data and share design information across the £15bn project to build a new east-west rail route under London. Addressing a briefing for Tier 1 contractors at the ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - January 2012
Metro Bilbao has completed a programme to add a fifth trailer car to 13 Series 500 and all nine Series 600 trainsets, using vehicles ordered at a cost of €32m. Infrastructure work costing €26m included depot lifting equipment and changes to signalling software. The first of 60 MI09 double-deck ...
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NewsNational University Rail research centre established
USA: The Department of Transportation has awarded a multi-university consortium led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a $3·5m grant to establish a rail transportation and engineering research centre. Headquartered within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Illinois, National University Rail will focus on education and research ...
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NewsRFF to upgrade Blanc-Argent metre gauge line
FRANCE: Infrastructure manager RFF and the Centre region have signed an agreement to fund upgrading of the metre gauge Blanc-Argent line to ensure its long-term future. Passenger services on the 56 km Salbris - Valençay line are operated for SNCF by Keolis subsidiary Compagnie du Blanc Argent. The December 2 ...
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NewsMoscow metro expansion plans announced
RUSSIA: The Moscow city government has announced plans to build a further 98 km of metro over the next nine years, taking the total network to 400 km and adding 44 stations at an estimated cost of 344bn roubles. Of this, 75 km and 36 stations would be completed by ...
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NewsResurgent wagon market boosts Knorr-Bremse sales
KNORR-BREMSE: Sales grew by 14% to reach €4·24bn in the 2011 calendar year, Knorr-Bremse Group reported on January 12. The Rail Vehicle Systems Division recorded an 8% year-on-year increase in sales in 2011, reaching a total of €2·19bn. This growth was driven by a resurgent North American wagon market and ...
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NewsNorth-South Railway contracts worth 2·34bn riyals signed
SAUDI ARABIA: The Ministry of Finance and Saudi Railway Co signed contracts totalling 2·34bn riyals for works on the North-South Railway on January 7. Al Rashid Trading signed a 1·57bn riyal contract to build stations at Majma'a, Qasim (Buraydah), Ha'il, Al Jawf and Al Qurayyat. Yapi Merkezi was awarded a ...
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NewsHöft & Wessel check them all
DENMARK: As part of a national multi-modal e-ticketing project, national passenger operator DSB has commissioned Höft & Wessel to develop an external unit which will enable a variety of hand-held devices to read a wide range of electronic ticket formats. The module will be able to use RFID, OCR and ...
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NewsCanadian Pacific Railway announces C$1·2bn investment plan
CANADA: Plans to invest between C$1·1bn and C$1·2bn in renewal, enhancement and expansion projects during 2012 were announced by Canadian Pacific Railway on January 17. CP's 2012 Capital Plan focuses on strategic and targeted investments to improve service and increase network capacity, as well as funding projects offering a rapid ...
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NewsLow-profile lighting film shows the way out
USA: Grote Industries has launched LightForm Emergency Egress Lighting Film, which uses low-profile LED lighting technology to highlight escape routes from rolling stock. The company said that while standard reflective and glow-in-the-dark tapes are easy to install, they may not attract the attention of passengers when most needed. ...
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NewsReflective markers highlight shunting limits
USA: Davidson Traffic Control Products has introduced reflective clearance markers which can be fixed to sleepers to allow train drivers to identify shunting limits within sidings, even at night. The 300 mm long durable plastic markers are installed at the furthest point towards which a wagon can be propelled before ...
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NewsLow-cost level crossing warning system goes into service
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has put into service a low-cost warning system designed for deployment at unprotected level crossings which are lightly used but cannot be closed. Supplied by Swiss firm Verkehrs- und Industrietechnik AG, the 'micro' system is costed at SFr180000, less than half the cost of conventional crossing ...
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NewsChiang Mai line included in infrastructure package
THAILAND: Construction of a 750 km standard gauge line from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is the largest single project included in a 400bn baht programme of infrastructure investment announced by the government on January 10. Comprising 128 different work packages for completion by 2016, the programme includes a range of ...