Main line rail industry news – Page 886
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NewsPraha metro extension receives EIB funding
CZECH REPUBLIC: The European Investment Bank confirmed on December 16 that it will lend up to €350m to part finance the 6∙1 km extension of the Praha metro Line A to Motol Hospital. With four new stations, the double-track extension starts from the current terminus at Dejvická in the northwest ...
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NewsDB orders more Twindexx coaches
GERMANY: DB has placed a firm order for a further 18 Twindexx Vario double-deck push-pull coaches, Bombardier Transportation announced on December 20. The €34m contract has been placed within a December 2008 framework agreement, and follows from an order for 135 coaches placed in January 2011. The 160 ...
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NewsValence - Moirans line to be electrified
FRANCE: Infrastructure manager RFF has awarded a consortium led by Alstom Transport an €80m design-build contract to upgrade and electrify the 80 km line linking Valence on the Paris - Marseille main line with Moirans on the Lyon - Grenoble route. Studies are now underway, and site work is ...
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NewsRussian Railways orders eight more Sapsan trains
RUSSIA: Russian Railways signed an order for a further eight Siemens Velaro RUS high speed trainsets on December 19. The contract is worth €600m, including a 30-year maintenance agreement. The 10-car trainsets will be manufactured at Siemens' Krefeld plant in Germany for delivery from January 2014. They will be used ...
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NewsBoxing road loads for rail
CANADA: Raildecks has developed a 53 ft collapsible open-framed container which enables beams, pipes and other industrial products which would normally travel on lorries or flat wagons to be moved on double-stack intermodal trains. The containers can be collapsed and stacked four high in the same space as a ...
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NewsMore TIGER grants awarded
USA: On December 15 the Department of Transportation announced the award of $511m of discretionary grants under the third round of the Transport Investment Generating Economic Recovery programme, supporting 46 capital construction projects in 33 states. TIGER III is being funded from the 2011 federal transport budget, and was heavily ...
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NewsCaen to switch to light rail
FRANCE: On December 14 Caen transport authority Viacités confirmed its intention to abandon its TVR rubber-tyred guided light transit route and replace it with conventional light rail by 2018. Viacités estimates it will take 18 months to replace the TVR guideway with tram track on the 15∙7 km Y-shaped ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market December 2011
Australia: Fortescue has awarded Brierty a A$60m contract to build a 25 km branch to the Solomon iron ore project by June 2012 and a A$10m contract for civil works on a refuelling facility on the Cloudbreak line. China: Vossloh has won a €35m contract to supply rail fasteners ...
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NewsWorld rail market December 2011
Brazil: TagMaster has won a SKr3·3m contract to supply Bombardier with RFID readers for the 24 km Expresso Tiradentes monorail being built in São Paulo. Canada: Toronto Transit Commission has awarded NEM Solutions a contract to supply a metro wheel flat detection system. China: IHI and Niigata Transys ...
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NewsNew Newag bogies
POLAND: Rolling stock supplier Newag presented a PKP Intercity Type 134Ab couchette car modernised as a Type 134Ac at the Trako 2011 fair in Gdansk. The car is the first to use Newag’s latest 70RSTb bogie which features air springs. This will enable its maximum operating speed to be increased ...
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NewsDanish ETCS programme preferred bidders named
DENMARK: Banedanmark announced on December 16 that Alstom and a Thales/Balfour Beatty Rail joint venture had been selected for final negotiations for two contracts to supply ETCS Level 2 equipment under the €3·2bn programme to resignal the entire national network. The infrastructure manager expects to sign final contracts in February. ...
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NewsWiener Linien orders five trainsets for U6
AUSTRIA: A Bombardier Transportation- Vossloh Kiepe consortium has won an order from transport authority Wiener Linien for five new T1 trainsets for light metro line U6. The €60m deal announced on December 16 is an option under a contract signed in 2004. Bombardier’s share is worth €46m. Delivery ...
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NewsMoscow plans orbital light rail network
RUSSIA: Proposals for an extensive network of light rail lines to serve the expanding suburbs south of Moscow and connect two of its three international airports were unveiled on December 13. To be built in four phases, the so-called South Chord network could eventually total 214 route-km.The plans have been ...
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NewsNottingham tram Phase Two contract signed
UK: Following the confirmation of government funding for the PFI deal, on December 15 Nottingham City Council and preferred bidder Tramlink Nottingham signed the £570m NET Phase Two contract to build two new tram lines and take over the operation of the existing line which opened in ...
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NewsBombardier awarded large Frankfurt LRV order
GERMANY: Frankfurt transport authority VGF announced contracts for Bombardier Transportation to supply an additional 78 high-floor light rail vehicles and 10 low-floor trams on December 15.Under a €169m contract Bombardier will supply 78 bi-directional 25 m long and 2 650 mm wide Flexity Swift LRVs for use on route ...
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NewsNTV unveils first Italo AGV
ITALY: Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori took the wraps off its first fully-fitted Italo AGV trainset on December 13. The 11-car dual-voltage trainset finished in deep red and lined with gold was unveiled to around 1 000 guests in NTV's workshop at Nola near Napoli. Among them was Guillaume Pepy, President of ...
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NewsRail welding robot on show
AUSTRIA: Plasser & Theurer presented its fully-automatic APT 1500 R rail welding robot at the 18th International Convention of the Austrian Society for Traffic & Transport Science in Salzburg. The welding robot performs an automated electric flash-butt welding sequence without manual interaction, ensuring high and reproducible geometric accuracy, fracture forces ...
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NewsBASF orders 22 Vossloh diesel locomotives
GERMANY: Vossloh has won a contract to supply chemical company BASF with 22 centre-cab locomotives for mainline and shunting operations at its sites at Ludwigshafen and Schwarzheide in Germany and Antwerpen in Belgium. The deal announced on December 14 is worth €40m, including maintenance and spares. The order comprises ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market December 2011
Canada: Ontario Northland has signed a C$8·7m contract to refurbish 24 coaches for Montréal’s AMT. China: SKF has won a SKR20m order to supply China Railway Materials Commercial Corp with bearings for 160 km/h coaches. Germany: Frankfurt operator VGF has ordered 10 more Type S low-floor trams from ...
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NewsCAF tests prototype Oaris high speed train
SPAIN: A four-car prototype of CAF's Oaris high speed train is undergoing trials on the Madrid - Sevilla route, where testing will include operation at up to 352 km/h. Numbered No 105 001 by RENFE, at the manufacturer's suggestion the prototype was delivered in place of the last of an ...