Main line rail industry news – Page 665
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NewsMassachusetts buys CSX line
USA: Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced on June 17 that it had completed the acquisition of the 34 km Framingham Secondary Rail Line from CSX Corp for $23m. This is intended to support current freight services and protect the corridor for potential passenger use. The line carries a limited passenger ...
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NewsDoha Gold Line station design contract
QATAR: Arcadis announced on June 23 that it is to provide architectural, branding, design and construction consultancy services for the Gold Line of the Doha metro under a €20m contract. Arcadis is already providing similar services for the Red Line South. The scope takes in design and co-ordination of ...
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NewsNational Steel Car to supply 700 potash wagons
CANADA: National Steel Car has been awarded a C$70m contract to supply 700 wagons to Canpotex, a marketing and export company which is jointly owned by three potash producers. The wagons will be used to transport potash from Saskatchewan to ports in Canada and the USA. National Steel Car has ...
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NewsCSX agrees Louisville & Indiana enhancement
USA: A $100m agreement for CSX to upgrade and operate over the Louisville & Indiana Railroad’s 170 km corridor between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky, was finalised on June 19. CSX will purchase the easement for $10m, and the operating agreement provides for $90m in infrastructure improvements on the former ...
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NewsPakistan Railways orders GE locomotives
PAKISTAN: An agreement for Pakistan Railways to purchase 55 GE Transportation diesel locomotives was signed by PR’s Director of Procurement Ziauddin Ahmed Qureshi and GE Regional Sales Director Ashfaque Nainar in Lahore on June 20. The 1 676 mm gauge 4 500 hp locomotives are to be supplied from ...
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NewsTampere selects tram contractor
FINLAND: The City of Tampere announced on June 22 that it had selected the Tralli consortium of Pöyry, VR Track and YIT to build the city’s planned €250m light rail line. The contract will be signed after a three-week standstill period. Tralli beat bids from Lemminkäinen with Ramboll, Alstom ...
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NewsOlsztyn tram handover
POLAND: Solaris officially handed over the first tram for Olsztyn on June 19 at the depot on ul Kołobrzeska. The tram and bus manufacturer signed a €30m contract in September 2012 for the supply of 15 Tramino vehicles, and has completed the first two. Testing started on May 28 ...
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NewsSamara tests Metelica tram
RUSSIA: Stadler’s Metelica tram has started six months of testing in Samara. The city is planning to buy 30 trams ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in which it will be a host city. Testing of the Metelica tram in Moscow ended in June. The tram has covered ...
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NewsDoha metro BIM contract awarded
QATAR: Hochtief ViCon has won a contract to provide building information modelling services for a section of the Doha metro Red Line. The scope covers a 6·7 km stretch of the Red Line between Lusail and Msheireb, which includes elevated and at-grade sections. ViCon is to prepare initial BIM ...
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NewsKyiv and Pesa sign tram memorandum
UKRAINE: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has signed a memorandum with Pesa for the supply of trams to the Ukrainian capital and the possible opening of a factory in the city. The memorandum was signed with Pesa President Tomasz Zaboklicki when Klitschko visited Pesa’s factory at Bydgoszcz in Poland on ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market June 2015
Argentina: CNR has dispatched the first three of 27 three-car DMUs that it is supplying for the Belgrano Sur commuter network in Buenos Aires (RG 11.13 p19). The final batch is expected to be shipped in August. Australia: Nomad Digital is to provide a proof-of-concept remote condition monitoring system ...
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NewsRigid overhead installed in UK tunnel
UK: Furrer+Frey’s Rigid Overhead Conductor Rail System has been installed in UK for the first time, to support the testing of Hitachi IEP trainsets through the 1·2 km Stanton tunnel which forms part of the Old Dalby test track. ROCS uses a rigid bar rather than tensioned overhead line, which ...
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NewsWorld rail market June 2015
France: A consortium of Sopra Steria Consulting, HaCon and Cereza/Groupe Talan is to supply HaCon’s train planning software for use by 650 train planners at SNCF Réseau. Russia: Siemens is to build a €60m maintenance centre on the Metallostroy depot site in St Petersburg to service Sapsan and Lastochka ...
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NewsSheffield – Rotherham tram-train service to start in 2017
UK: The first of seven vehicles ordered in 2013 for the Sheffield – Rotherham tram-train pilot project is now nearing completion at Vossloh España’s plant near Valencia, and is due to arrive in the UK in November. South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive says the Vossloh vehicles will initially be ...
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NewsFederal funding for Toronto RER
CANADA: Federal funding is to be made available for Toronto’s proposed SmartTrack Regional Express Rail project, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on June 18, when he set out details of a Public Transit Fund which is being established to support transport infrastructure investment. The RER is included in Mayor ...
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NewsShanghai peoplemover contract
CHINA: Shanghai Shentong Metro Co has awarded a joint venture of Bombardier Transportation and CSR Nanjing Puzhen an 808m yuan turnkey contract to supply a 6·6 km automated peoplemover for Shanghai. The elevated alignment would run south from the terminus of metro Line 8 at Shendu Gonglu to the ...
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NewsBombardier wins London Overground EMU contract
UK: Transport for London announced on June 19 that it had selected Bombardier Transportation to supply 45 four-car electric multiple-units to operate London Overground services. The order includes an option for up to 96 additional cars, to be used for train lengthening and possible future extensions of the Overground network. ...
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NewsEU to revise ERTMS deployment plan
EUROPE: Speaking at Unife's 2015 General Assembly in Bucuresti on June 18, European Co-ordinator Karel Vinck announced an update of the ERTMS deployment plan. Conceding that insufficient information had been available when the plan was adopted on July 22 2009, he reported that the European Commission had now agreed to ...
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NewsFaiveley Transport sets out three-year business plan
FAIVELEY TRANSPORT: A three-year strategic plan unveiled by Faiveley Transport aims to make the company ‘one of the three leaders in the rail equipment market’ for its target geographical and product sectors. ‘This major corporate project will bring together all teams and create value for everyone’, said Chairman & ...
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News33 Kisses in Stockholm
SWEDEN: Leasing company AB Transitio announced on June 17 that it has ordered a build of 33 Kiss double-deck EMUs from Stadler at a cost of SKr3·5bn to operate regional services around Stockholm from 2018. The order has been placed by Transitio on behalf of the MÄLAB joint venture bringing ...