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NewsAsia's missing links discussed
ASIA: The Singapore - Kunming Rail Link was on the agenda of the 10th ASEAN-Mekong Basin Development Co-operation ministerial meeting, which was held in Singapore and concluded on August 29. Around 550 km of new line is planned under the SKRL project, completing a 7 000 km metre-gauge ...
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NewsBursa orders Bombardier light rail cars
TURKEY: Bombardier Transportation has won a €94m order to supply 30 Flexity Swift high-floor light rail vehicles to Bursa Metropolitan Municipality. The contract announced on August 29 includes the supply of spare parts, and Bombardier said an option for up to 28 additional vehicles is 'foreseen'. The bidirectional air-conditioned ...
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NewsSNCF takes up the TER 2030 challenge
FRANCE: Setting an ambitious target of quadrupling local passenger traffic, SNCF has brought stakeholders together to examine the future of its regional networks.
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NewsJamaica rail revival plan completed
JAMAICA: A report detailing plans for reviving the disused national rail network has been finalised, Transport & Works Minister Michael Henry announced last week. ‘As soon as I have the response of the Ministry of Finance, it will be going to cabinet for them to accept my ...
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NewsDubai Palm monorail trains handed over
UAE: Four three-car trains for the Palm monorail in Dubai were handed over to developer Nakheel in a ceremony at Hitachi's Kasado plant in Tokuyama on August 21. Construction of the 5·45 km straddle monorail was completed last month, and members of Nakheel's operations and maintenance team are now ...
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NewsCalifornia high speed vote to go ahead
USA: On August 26 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill adding financial protections to the High-Speed Train Bond Act which will Californians will vote on in the November 4 ballot. Replacing Proposition 1 on the ballot, Proposition 1A requires a peer-reviewed financial plan before the $9·95bn of bond money ...
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NewsFirst wagons completed at Tikhvin
RUSSIA: The first two wagons have been completed at Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant, which has been established on part of a former Transmash site in Leningrad oblast, 200 km east of St Petersburg. The 220 000 m² factory is being developed by ICT Group at a cost of ...
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NewsGold Coast study recommends light rail
AUSTRALIA: The preliminary business case for the Gold Coast Rapid Transit project has recommended light rail in preference to bus rapid transit, John Mickel, Queensland's Minister for Transport, Trade, Employment & Industrial Relations, announced on August 22. Light rail offers 'greater capacity, reliability, and a longer lifespan than buses ...
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NewsPolish high speed rail plan
POLAND: The government’s high speed rail committee has approved a draft programme and environmental impact study for the development of high speed rail services. The proposals envisage the construction of a Y-shaped network totalling 500 km. A line would run from Warszawa though Łódź to Kalisz, where ...
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NewsUP genset shunters begin work
USA: Union Pacific has begun testing four RP20SD 2000 hp genset loconmotives built by Railpower for the Roseville hump yard 30 km northeast of Sacramento. The locos use the frames and bogies of scrapped six-axle EMD road switchers, and have three gensets onboard with room for a fourth to ...
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NewsItalian crossing upgrade
ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI and track maintenance contractors Salcef and Ar.Fer have awarded three contracts for the first applications of Holdfast rubber level crossing panels in the country, after seeing the technology on display at Expo Ferroviaria in Torino earlier this year. RFI will use the panels to renew ...
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NewsTalking in tunnels
SWEDEN: Axell Wireless is to begin installing a comprehensive radio communications system from the start of next year in the 6 km Citytunnel beneath Malmö. The Anglo-Swedish company, which was created in July 2007 through the merger of AFL and Avitec, is to install the communications network under a ...
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NewsNews in Brief
India's Northeast Frontier Railway will this month begin regular services to Agartala, the capital of Tripura. Work on the 119 km line from Kumarghat began in 1996, and the first train arrived in Agartala on June 29. Construction of a further 110 km to Sabroom is scheduled to start next ...
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NewsOyster contract to end early
UK: Transport for London announced on August 8 that it has given the required two years' notice of termination of its £100m a year contract with TranSys for the operation and maintenance of the Oyster smartcard ticketing system. TranSys shareholders are Cubic Systems, IT suppliers EDS and Fujitsu Services, plus ...
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Two from three shortlisted
AUSTRALIA: Victoria's Department of Transport has shortlisted the Keolis/EDI Downer joint venture and incumbent operator Yarra Trams as the process to re-let Melbourne's tram franchise progresses (RG 6.08 p352). Yarra Trams, itself a joint venture of Transdev and Transfield Services, has been the sole operator of the city's extensive ...
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NewsRail loader deliveries
SWITZERLAND: Next month Swiss Federal Railways will take delivery of the last of a batch of 22 rail loaders ordered from Robel. The two six-wagon and 20 two-wagon rail loaders are equipped with a total of 80 electric and 24 mechanical cranes. They enable rapid loading and transport of ...
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NewsPort projects progress
AUSTRALIA: The Western Australia government confirmed on July 29 that it had selected the Oakajee Port & Rail joint venture of Murchison Metals and Mitsubishi for the concession to develop an A$3bn port and rail network serving eight iron ore reserves in the mid-West region east of Geraldton. The partnership ...
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NewsSplit follows Angel Trains sale
ANGEL TRAINS: Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains will be split into stand-alone UK and continental European businesses, the new owners announced following the completion of their £3·6bn acquisition on August 6. Following regulatory approval, Royal Bank of Scotland sold Angel Trains to a consortium including Babcock & Brown ...
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NewsGE ships first CML diesel locomotive to China
CHINA: The first of 300 Evolution Series diesel locomotives being supplied to Chinese Railways by GE Transportation and Qishuyan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works is due to arrive at Tianjin at the end of August, under a US$450m contract awarded in October 2005. Rated at 6250 hp, the six-axle ...