Main line rail industry news – Page 1089
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RATP orders more MF2000 cars
PARIS transport operator RATP announced on November 20 that it had placed an order for 49 more MF2000 metro trainsets with a consortium of Alstom Transport, Bombardier Transportation and AREVA TA. Valued at €189m, the order is the second to be placed under a framework agreement covering up to 161 ...
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Metro and light rail news
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey announced on October 17 that it will spend $500m to install communications-based train control on the PATH metro network. Replacing a fixed-block signalling system installed in 1969, the CBTC will reduce headways to give an estimated 20% increase in capacity. Work is ...
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CAF cars to Santiago
SANTIAGO Metro has selected CAF of Spain as preferred bidder to supply 18 eight-car trainsets. Under a deal worth €175m, the new trains are due to be delivered to the Chilean capital within 24 months of contract signature. Alstom and Bombardier also submitted bids. Increasing the size of the ...
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News in Brief
Algerian state railway SNTF has shortlisted eight bidders to purchase its infrastructure engineering business unit Infrafer. Reported bidders include Russian railway RZD, OHL of Spain, Sateba and Seco Rail of France, Alstom, Orascom of Egypt plus Yapi Merkezi of Turkey and Mota Engil of Portugal. Technical and financial bids will ...
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CVRD to run Norte-Sul
BRAZILIAN mining company and metals producer Companhia Vale do Rio Doce has won a 30-year concession to operate a 720 km section of Ferrovia Norte-Sul between Açailândia in Maranhão state and Palmas in Tocantins state. The R$1·48bn deal was announced to the São Paulo stock exchange on October 3. ...
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NewsECP brakes go live
USA: Norfolk Southern has operated the first revenue service freight train in the USA to be fitted with electronically-controlled pneumatic brakes. Hauled by a trio of new General Electric locomotives, the train of 115 loaded gondola wagons ran on October 11 from coal mines in southwestern Pennsylvania to Keystone ...
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Busy railways need faster and smarter equipment
THIS SUMMER, lineside residents around the Austrian city of Linz could have been woken by the strange sight of a blue and silver inspection vehicle trundling by, festooned with floodlights and cameras, as well as a host of advanced measurement systems. The twin-unit Track Geometry Car 4 spent a week ...
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Finance News November 2007
Canada: The federal and Manitoba governments are to provide C$40m for track upgrades on the Hudson Bay Railway between The Pas and Churchill, and C$8m on port improvements. Line owner OmniTRAX will spend a further C$20m. Cuba: Venezuela's state-owned development bank Bandes is to provide US$100m to finance a five-year ...
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Metros and light rail around the world
Argentina: Metro Line H in Buenos Aires (RG 7.07 p407) carried its first passengers on October 18 following a second official opening by head of the city government Jorge Telerman. A legal challenge which had delayed the opening saw three of the trainsets provided from Line C withdrawn for being ...
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C5 to Navalcarnero
THE MADRID regional government has given its approval for contracts to be let for the construction of a new 15 km suburban line in the southwestern outskirts of the Spanish capital, connecting Móstoles Central on Renfe's Line C5 and metro Line 12 with Navalcarnero. Construction is expected to take 30 ...
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Intelligence November 2007
Argentina: Following an inaugural run on October 6, Ecotren is to operate a monthly tourist service between Salta and the viaduct at La Polvorilla, increasing to thrice-weekly from March 2008. Ecotren is investing 45m pesos on rolling stock refurbishment and two new diesel locos, while the provincial government has spent ...
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NewsRailjet to take off next year
Austrian Federal Railways is preparing to take delivery of the first of 67 push-pull railjet trainsets able to run at 230 km/h
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Big plans for loco modernisation
UKRAINE'S Poltava Locomotive Repair Plant has rolled out the first Class CME3P diesel-electric locomotive to be refurbished for Ukrainian Railways in collaboration with Czech rolling stock firm CZ Loko. A Czech-Ukrainian joint venture was established earlier this year to refurbish locomotives from the CME3 family, which ran to 7 459 ...
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Product News in Brief
A contract to supply 126 'fit and forget' Lightning switchgear panels incorporating NDC circuit-breakers for use on the second phase of the Dubai metro project has been awarded to FKI Switchgear. The company is also supplying more than 200 panels for the first phase.FKI Switchgear, UKThe renovation of London St ...
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Indian wagon deal
FOLLOWING its acquisition of a 15% stake in Titagarh Wagons (RG 9.07 p576), GE Equipment Services is providing financing to ETA Engineering Pvt Ltd for the purchase of more than 200 container wagons from the manufacturer. ETA has entered into a concession agreement with Indian Railways to operate the ...
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Railway Security in Brief
Videalart has developed 'bolt-on' technology for CCTV networks which the London-based company says can convert cameras 'from passive observers to intelligent overseers'. Pre-programmed threat-specific rules enable the automatic detection of unauthorised movement and abandoned objects at stations and other locations.Videalert, UK ...
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East African rail master plan
CONSULTANTS have been commissioned by the East African Community to study plans to build up to 15 new lines as part of a railway development master plan. Many of the proposals are extremely ambitious, and here we would single out a line running west from Kasese in Uganda across the ...
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UK calls bids for Intercity Express
BRITAIN'S Department for Transport issued three shortlisted bidders with invitations to tender for the supply of a fleet of high speed trains under the government's Intercity Express Programme on November 16. The trains are required to be 'lighter, greener and carry up to 70% more passengers' than the IC125 diesel-powered ...
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Industry News in Brief
The Polish government is planning a stock market floatation of a 49% stake in state-owned H Cegielski Poznan SA for 2008. The nine subsidiaries of the Poznan-based firm include manufacturers of rolling stock and diesel engines. The Serbian privatisation agency has sold a 70% stake in Novi Sad-based railway construction ...