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NewsGE and CSR announce engine joint venture
CHINA: A joint venture to build and maintain Evolution Series locomotive engines was announced by GE Transportation and CSR Qishuyan Locomotive on November 17, the day after the US firm announced a deal to supply its Chinese partner with parts for a further 300 HXN5 China Mainline Locomotives. The ...
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NewsFirst Class 380 car on test
UK: Siemens Mobility's Krefeld-Uerdingen plant in Germany has begun testing the first vehicle from the fleet of 22 three-car and 16 four-car Desiro electric multiple-units being built for ScotRail. Developed from the Desiro UK family, Class 380 has lightweight aluminium bodyshells with a bolt-on steel structure at the front ...
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NewsFinnish Flirt enters service
FINLAND: The first of 32 Stadler Flirt electric multiple-units ordered for commuter services in Helsinki and southern Finland went into regular traffic on November 18. The previous week two units had been formally handed over to national railway VR after a year-long test phase. The second is currently being ...
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NewsGulf Railway could start next year
MIDDLE EAST: The Gulf Co-operation Council remains optimistic that a 1940 route-km regional network could be operational by 2017. Despite concerns that the ambitious railway network linking the six states in the Gulf Co-operation Council could be delayed by the global economic downturn, officials are insistent that ...
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NewsCasablanca chooses Citadis trams
MOROCCO: Casablanca tramway development company Casa Transports has selected Alstom Citadis trams for the 29 km Y-shaped network which is due to open in December 2012. The agreement announced on November 17 is worth €120m and covers the supply of 74 trams and 15 years of maintenance. Options for ...
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NewsMinneapolis commuter rail and LRT extension open
USA: Northstar commuter rail services between Big Lake and Target Field in downtown Minneapolis were launched on November 14, with celebrations at the six stations. Free rides were offered, with most of the tickets distributed by lottery. Revenue operations on the 64 km route began on November 16, with ...
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NewsAl Sufouh tram styling suits Dubai scene
UAE: Design is a key element of many projects in Dubai, not least the Al Sufouh tramway for which a mock-up car has been unveiled. The diamond-shaped front ends of the 11 Alstom Citadis 402 trams for Phase I will be dark in colour, providing a contrast to the ...
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NewsCrowds flock to ride extended Gold Line
USA: An estimated 75 000 people got free rides on November 15 during the opening celebration for a 9·7 km extension of the Gold Line from Union Station to East Los Angeles. The public launch followed a formal opening ceremony for the East Side extension on the previous day. No ...
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NewsPuy-de-Dôme rack railway trains ordered
FRANCE: Stadler Rail has announced a SFr25m order to supply four articulated electric multiple-units for the 5·3 km rack railway which SNC-Lavalin is building on the Puy-de-Dôme in the Massif Central. The vehicles will be based on units which the Swiss train builder has supplied for FGC’s ...
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NewsInvestigations continue at the critical interface
INTERNATIONAL: ‘We cannot ignore the management of the interface’, insisted Semih Kalay of TTCI. Addressing delegates at the Contact Mechanics 2009 conference in Firenze, he pointed out that a better understanding of the complex forces at play in the contact patch between wheel and rail translated directly into maintenance and ...
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NewsContracts November 2009
Germany: Siemens Mobility is to install its MSR32 control system to cover 88 tracks at DB Netz’s Maschen hump yard near Hamb urg by mid-2013. Norway: Thales has selected BelAir Networks to provide wi-fi infrastructure for the Bergen tram line which opens next year. Poland: A consortium led ...
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NewsDelhi Metro reaches Noida
INDIA: The 13·1 km 10-station branch of Delhi Metro Line 3 from Yamuna Bank to Noida City Centre was inaugurated on November 12, and entered commercial service at 06.00 the following day. Two ceremonies were held to mark the occasion, which extends the metro beyond Delhi’s borders for the first ...
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NewsBombardier hands over first ALP-46A
USA: The first of 36 type ALP-46A electric locomotives being built for New Jersey Transit was ceremonially handed over at Bombardier Transportation's Kassel plant in Germany on November 12. The ALP-46A locomotives were ordered at cost of US$317m as a follow-on from 29 ALP-46 locomotives which have been in ...
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NewsHuge train orders in China
CHINA: The Ministry of Railways has placed three orders for a total of 280 high speed trainsets and 400 freight locomotives. Knorr-Bremse is to supply subsystems worth €500m for one of the high speed contracts in the company's largest ever order. China Northern signed a 40·8bn yuan contract on ...
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NewsSouth Gobi coal line construction contract
MONGOLIA: Energy Resources LLC has awarded Leighton Asia a US$338m contract to design, build and maintain for four years a 225 km coal railway in the South Gobi region. The line will carry coking coal from Ukhaa Khudag, where Leighton Asia has a six -year mining contract, to the ...
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NewsWorld infrastructure market November 2009
Czech Republic: Viamont DSP and Subterra have completed a KC533m modernisation of the junction at Sokolov, now controlled by ESA 11 interlocking equipment supplied by AZD Praha. The final section of the Karlovy Vary – Cheb route will now be converted from left to SZDC’s standard right-hand running. ...
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NewsRight time for large wagon order
EUROPE: International Railway Systems has announced a contract to supply 'several hundred' 95m3 Zacns tank wagons to leasing firm GATX Rail Europe in 2009-10, with options for more. The exact number of vehicles is not being disclosed. Johannes Mansbart, CEO of GATX Rail Europe, said the time ...
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NewsKeolis confirmed for Virginia Railway Express contract
USA: The two transportation commissions which administer Virginia Railway Express gave final approval on November 5 to a $85·7m contract under which Keolis Rail Services America will operate VRE commuter rail services into Washington DC for five years from July 1 2010. A VRE spokesman said Keolis' bid ...
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NewsDaxing Line signalling contract awarded
CHINA: Beijing MTR Corp has awarded a consortium of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Beijing Hua-Tie Information Technology Development Co and Thales a turnkey contract to provide signalling for the Daxing Line. Scheduled to open on December 28 2010, the 11-station line will extend the recently-opened Beijing metro Line 4 south ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market November 2009
Bosnia: On September 30 ZRS signed an €32m agreement with Talgo for the delivery of four tilting trainsets within two years. They will be maintained at the Rajlovac depot of ZFBH, which is expecting to receive the first of nine Talgos on order by March 2010. Canada: On October ...