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NewsMake your own information display
USA: San Francisco metro operator BART is encouraging local retailers, offices and coffee shops to use spare computer screens to provide their customers and staff with real-time train running information. A simple file available to download from www.bart.gov enables almost any internet-linked computer to display departure information for a chosen ...
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NewsFortescue opens the world's heaviest haul railway
AUSTRALIA: A remarkable iron ore railway has been built across the Pilbara region in record time. John Kirk reports.
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Madrid - Valencia contracts awarded
SPAIN: Infrastructure authority ADIF has awarded 14 contracts worth a total of €430m for construction of the high speed line that will connect Madrid with Valencia, Alacant and Cartagena. On the branch to Cartagena, two civil works contracts worth a total of €83·3m have been awarded to Pavasal, Obrum and ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The Czech government has reached an agreement with the Praha city and regional authorities for the construction of a KC28bn rail link to Praha Ruzyne airport by December 2013. A PPP model is proposed, with funding to upgrade the existing line to Kladno to come from the privatisation of the ...
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NewsArriva chosen in Sweden
SWEDEN: Arriva Skandinavien has been awarded a contract to run Kinnekulletåget passenger services between Göteborg and Örebro from June 14 next year. The agreement with transport authority Västtrafik runs for seven years, with an option for a two-year extension. Services have been run by Veolia since 2003, with eight DMUs ...
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Wabtec wins Class 321 upgrade
UK: Wabtec Corp announced on July 10 that its UK subsidiary Wabtec Rail, based in Doncaster, had been awarded a £26·3m contract to refurbish 308 Class 321 EMU cars for HSBC Rail. Work on the National Express East Anglia fleet is due to take three years to complete, and will ...
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CAF signs Izmir commuter train order
TURKEY: On July 10 Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF signed a €123m contract to supply 22 three-car EMUs which will enter service on suburban routes in Izmir from early 2010. The order was placed by IZBAN, a joint venture of state railway TCDD and Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. The ...
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NewsScotland orders Desiro fleet
UK: An order for 38 Siemens Desiro EMUs was announced on July 11 by John Swinney, the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Finance & Sustainable Growth. Passenger franchisee First ScotRail led the procurement of the 16 four-car and 22 three-car units, and is expected to sign the contract later ...
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NewsRijnGouwe design award
NETHERLANDS: Movares has been awarded a contract by ProRail to design the project to convert the Gouda – Alphen aan den Rijn – Lammenschans line to light rail standards. The section from Gouda to Alphen is expected to be completed in 2010, the remainder by 2015. The move follows the ...
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World infrastructure market July 2008
Australia: QR has begun a A$550m upgrade of its Goonyella coal network to increase the annual capa-city of the Jilalan yard from 92 million to 130 million tonnes by 2010. Bulgaria: Sofia Metro has appointed Systra to supervise the construction of Line 2 in partnership with local firms Infra Project ...
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NewsThe power wrench evolves
WRENCH: An updated version of Robel Bahnbaumaschinen's 30.82 RKS universal power wrench for track fastenings was launched on the track maintenance market last month. An evolution of the widely-used 30.82 machine, the detailed design has been improved with ergonomic changes and more components placed within a protective housing. The centre ...
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NewsThameslink shortlist announced
UK: On July 10 the Department for Transport named Alstom, Bombardier, Hitachi and Siemens as the shortlisted bidders for a contract worth an estimated £1·4bn to supply trains for Thameslink services. Bidders will be asked to produce 1 100 EMU cars for north-south commuter services through London, increasing the ...
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NewsParis - Le Havre goes regular interval
FRANCE: SNCF and the Haute-Normandie region have agreed a package of measures to improve passenger services on the Paris - Rouen - Le Havre main line. A regular-interval timetable is to be introduced to the route in December, increasing the number of services by 15%. SNCF has also committed to ...
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NewsMadrid tunnel opens
SPAIN: Suburban services began using the 8·5 km Atocha - Chamartín tunnel under the centre of Madrid on July 9. Testing of the new route, which has cost €550m to build, had begun on May 23. The route has two intermediate stations, of which Nuevos Ministerios is due to open ...
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NewsPrima goes modular to tap new markets
LOCOMOTIVES: As well as Europe's changing freight market, Alstom has China, India and Russia in its sights as targets for the latest addition to its product range. Laurent Charlier reports from Belfort.
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Rail rehabilitation complete
MOZAMBIQUE: Work to reconstruct the 80 km branch of the Sena line from Inhamitanga, 175 km north of the port of Beira, to Marromeu on the Zambezi River has been completed. The main traffic on the re-opened line will be sugar for export. Limestone is already being moved 100 km ...
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NewsCities must learn to 'love their trams'
AUSTRALIA: Yarra Trams Chief Executive Dennis Cliche wore this simple message on his lapel at a recent light rail conference, where he outlined how the Melbourne operator is taking positive measures to manage increasing congestion and surging ridership.
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NewsIndustry News in Brief
Knorr-Bremse has selected Budapest as the site of a new factory which will produce braking and air supply systems for rolling stock and other applications from the end of 2009. Production at the company's existing plant in the city will also be moved to the new site. Faiveley is negotiating ...