Main line rail industry news – Page 1411
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Argentina: Buenos Aires suburban concessionaire Metropolitano is to invest 38m pesos in upgrading the Pereyra - La Plata and Avellaneda - Ezpeleta sections of the Roca network. As well as track renewal, the work will include renovation of nine level crossings.Australia: Victrack is to call tenders for resleepering the 50 ...
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Speedrail wins Sydney - Canberra
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard announced on August 4 that the federal and New South Wales state governments had selected the Speedrail consortium as preferred bidder for a 30-year concession to build and operate a 270 km high-speed line between Sydney and Canberra. The project is costed at around A$3·5bn. ...
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Acses to speed NE Corridor
THE US Federal Railroad Administration has instructed Amtrak to install a transponder-based system to enforce adherence to permanent speed restrictions on its Northeast Corridor between New Haven and Boston. The work forms part of Amtrak’s programme to upgrade and electrify the route to accommodate 240 km/h American Flyer trainsets from ...
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Taiwan HSR deal signed
TAIWAN’S Minister of Transport & Communications Lin Feng Cheng and Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp President Nita Ing signed the concession contract for construction of the 340 km Taipei - Kaohsiung high speed line on July 23. The signing had been delayed by four weeks after negotiations over land purchase ...
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PKP picks Pendolini
POLISH State Railways is due to sign a contract with Fiat Ferroviaria this month for the supply of 16 tilting trainsets at a cost of 380bn lire. Fiat was selected as preferred bidder at the end of July, ahead of shortlisted proposals from Siemens and Adtranz, which lodged a protest ...
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Conrail handover moves ahead
FORMAL control of the Consolidated Rail Corp passed to CSX and Norfolk Southern on August 22, a statutory 30 days after the Surface Transportation Board issued its written approval of the merger on July 23. With effect from this ’Control Date’, Conrail’s stock was removed from its holding trust, allowing ...
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Line sales off
THE PROPOSED break-up and sale of parts of the Czech Railways network has been cancelled following election of a Social Democratic government and the appointment of Antonin Peltr
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Shortlist to run Aqaba Railway
FOURCONSORTIA have been shortlisted for a 25-year concession to operate Jordan’s 283 km 1050mm gauge Aqaba Railway, extendable by five year options. The winner will also finance the construction of extensions to El Shidiya and Wadi II under a build-transfer-operate arrangement. The government of Jordan is being advised on the ...
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Central Asian group formed
TURKMENISTAN President S Niyazov has set up an international project group to push ahead with development of two corridors linking the Central Asian states and the Persian Gulf. His intention is to make Turkmenistan the centre of the region’s rail network.The north-south corridor will integrate the Tedjen - Sarakhs line ...
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V/Line Freight sale starts
EXPRESSIONS of interest were due to be submitted by August 14 for the sale of Australian operator V/Line Freight Corp. Bids were called on July 31 by Victoria’s Transport Minister Robin Cooper and Treasurer Alan Stockdale, who said privatisation would give Victoria ’a vibrant, competitive railfreight industry so that farmers ...
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Øresund ATP
ON AUGUST 6, Ansaldo Signal announced that its Swedish subsidiary ATSS had been selected to design and supply an interoperable automatic train protection system for the cross-Øresund EMU fleet. Under a joint contract from Swedish and Danish State Railways worth SKr30m, the equipment will be designed in conjunction with Siemens ...
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Multi-gauge freight
SPANISH National Railways and Patentes Talgo unveiled a freight derivative of the Talgo gauge-convertible wheelsets at a presentation in Sevilla on July 30. Renfe has formed a partnership with French National Railways and German Railway to develop the technique for cross-border applications throughout Europe.The Talgo concept, where individual wheelsets are ...
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Diesel strategy study
THIS MONTH will see the start of negotiations for a contract to renew the Austrian Federal Railways diesel locomotive fleet. Bids were called in February, with submissions due by the middle of August. ÖBB’s current diesel fleet comprises eight different types, most of which are more than 30 years old. ...
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AVE progress
WORK IS expected to get under way this month on further sections of the Madrid - Barcelona high-speed line. Infrastructure authority GIF awarded eight contracts totalling Pts77·5bn on July 30, having selected contractors on May 22 for 124·4 km of route between Chiloeches and Calatayud (RG 4.98 p253).One contract has ...
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Flumitrens to transfer on November 1
CONTROL of the Rio de Janeiro suburban rail network will pass to the private sector Bolsa 2000 consortium on November 1 under the terms of a 25 year operating concession awarded on July 15. Compañía Fluminense de Trenes Urbanos was auctioned by the Rio state government.The Bolsa 2000 consortium is ...
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NYCT to build A division control
MTA New York City Transit has selected a consortium headed by Union Switch & Signal with Syseca of Great Britain to equip a new control centre for the A division of its subway network. The work forms part of a programme to install automatic train supervision throughout the 1150 track-km ...
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Roi Baudoin opens
BRUSSELS metro Line 1A services were due to be extended from Heysel to Roi Baudoin with effect from the end of August. A formal ceremony inaugurating the short extension to the northwestern branch was scheduled for August 25.Trains on the line began running regularly to the new terminus on July ...
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BA ring study
THE city government of Buenos Aires has commissioned a study into a proposal for a 54 km elevated ring line around the boundary of the municipality. First proposed three years ago, the line is backed by the city’s Secretary of Public Works Nicol
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Second cross-Nile line design begins
CONSTRUCTION of a third metro line in Cairo has moved a step closer with the launch of detailed design studies. Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels has awarded a US$2·5m contract for the two-year study to a consortium of Systra and Arab Consulting Engineers, which were also involved with Lines 1 ...
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Mah awards LRT contracts
CONTRACTS for design and construction of two more ’LRT’ peoplemovers to feed the Singapore metro network were awarded by the island’s Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan in mid-July. The Sengkang and Punggol feeders will be built by a consortium of Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at ...