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China: Nextiva IP video networking from Verint Systems is to be deployed on the Beijing - Tianjin high speed line. Similar technology has also been ordered by DB for use on the Hamburg S-Bahn. Germany: Next month Railion Deutschland will transport the first of 60 000 pipes destined for the ...
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Urban rail news in brief - April 2008
China Northern was awarded a contract on March 4 to supply 24 six-car Type B trainsets with stainless steel bodies for Shenzhen metro Line 3. Deliveries will run for a year from the end of August 2009. A previous contract signed on January 12 covered 60 Type A cars for ...
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Polymers provide adaptability
CABLING: Mita UK used the Infrarail 2008 exhibition in Birmingham to showcase its range of glass-reinforced polymer products, aimed primarily at offering a more rapid and more adaptable alternative to concrete for lineside cable management. GRP has particular benefits for sites where the cabling cannot be buried alongside the track, ...
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Piezoelectric floor not such a bright idea
JAPAN: East Japan Railway has announced the results of its experiments with a 6 m² piezoelectric floor covering, which was fitted at the ticket gates of a Tokyo station where it used the movement of passengers to generate electricity. It worked, but only just. Production peaked at 10 kW-sec ...
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London Overground calling
GSM-R: The UK division of Siemens Mobility has won a contract to supply cab radios for the fleet of 44 Electrostar suburban EMUs for London Overground services currently under construction at Bombardier's Derby facility. The units are to be equipped with radios to operate on both the current analogue cab-to-shore ...
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FS enters the logistics market
ITALY: Italian Railways has set up a joint venture with the Italian post office aimed at securing a share of the market for transporting high-value goods and packages. Italia Logistica was launched on February 28 when FS and Gruppo Poste Italiane announced that they were merging the activities of their ...
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NewsVariobahn arrives in Bochum
GERMANY: Bochum-Gelsenkirchen tram operator Bogestra has taken delivery of the first of 30 Stadler Variobahn low-floor trams. These were ordered in 2004 under a €80m contract which included six Tango high-floor cars (RG 10.07 p602). The metre-gauge trams are 29·62 m long and 2 300 mm wide, ...
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Indian Railways moves towards Vision 2025
Presenting his 2008-09 budget to parliament on February 26, India’s Railway Minister Lalu Prasad outlined a picture of continuing investment in modernisation and upgrading. Raghu Dayal reports
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Lucchini invests €80m in wheels
ITALY: German firm SMS Meer has won a contract to equip an expanded wheel plant at Lucchini Sidermeccanica's Lovere steelworks. The expansion aims to increase capacity at the site in northern Italy's Bergamo province from 140 000 to 240 000 wheels per year by the end of 2009. ELTI ...
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Córdoba private metro proposed
ARGENTINA: The federal Transport Secretariat is considering a proposal from a consortium of Iecsa, Ghello and Alstom to build a 15·8 km metro network in the city of Córdoba with private finance. Comprising two routes with tunnels 9 m in diameter excavated with TBMs and running at a depth of ...
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Metrorail revitalisation
SOUTH AFRICA: SARCC Chief Executive Lucky Montana has unveiled a three-stage investment strategy costing R18bn. This is aimed at providing additional services for the 2010 football World Cup, and creating a sustainable commuter network to serve the major cities after the tournament. Montana hopes that 96% of Sarcc's 4 600 ...
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Tram-trains to serve Alacant airport
SPAIN: The Valencia regional government hopes to begin tendering next year for an 11·5 km extension of the Alacant light rail network to the city's airport, with the aim of opening the route in 2011. As well as conventional LRVs, operator FGV is planning to use tram-train vehicles with a ...
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NewsSlow starter is close to high speed launch
The political and environmental climate is right for further expansion of high speed rail
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Trinidad rapid rail consortium confirmed
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: The Trinitrain consortium of Bouygues Construction, Alstom Transport and RATP Développement announced on April 11 that it had been selected by the government and its National Infrastructure Development Co to design, build, operate and maintain a two-line passenger rail system on Trinidad. The 'express' rail lines will ...
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News in Brief
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has approved plans to build the 300 km/h Makkah - Jeddah - Madinah rail link using local financing, Transport Minister Dr Jabara Al-Suraisry announced in February. The minister said this would speed up the implementation of the project, which will begin this year and is ...
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Vossloh shunters in service
France: Fret SNCF is putting into service 160 Class 460 000 locomotives ordered to replace Class 63000 locos on shunting and local freight duties. The diesel-electrics were designed by Alstom, but are being built by Vossloh at its Valencia plant. Rated at 1 000 kW, they have Caterpillar 3508B engines, ...
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Irish reopenings cleared
IRELAND: The government has approved the Railway Order permitting the reinstatement of the 7·5 km Clonsilla - Dunboyne route. Closed in 1963, the line is scheduled to reopen in 2010 as the first phase of the Navan line reopening project under the Transport 21 investment programme. The country's largest park ...
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Not so hot
NETHERLANDS:?National operator NS and infrastructure manager ProRail have been conducting trials with a patio heater on the platforms at Amsterdam Amstel station. Passengers standing on the platforms in the open air and feeling the cold can obtain 4 min of free warmth at the press of a button. The trials ...
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Dual listing
CRCC: China Railway Construction Corp raised 22·25bn yuan through an IPO on the Shanghai stock exchange at the end of February, with demand for shares running at 140 times the offering. After reducing the number of shares initially planned to be listed, 2·45 billion A shares were sold for 9·08 ...