Main line rail industry news – Page 877
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NewsLondon King's Cross western concourse opens
UK: Following an official ceremony on March 14 the 7500 m2 western concourse at London King's Cross opened to passengers on March 18, providing a significant increase in passenger capacity at the East Coast Main Line terminus. The main feature of the new concourse is a 20 m high semi-circular ...
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NewsConstruction starts in Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA: Shahril Mokhtar, Managing Director of government infrastructure body Prasarana, officially launched the 7bn ringgit LRT Extension Project on March 5. A 17 km elevated extension of the Kelana Jaya light metro with 12 stations will run from Kelana Jaya to Putra Heights, where there will be interchange with the ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market March 2012
Argentina: In the first half of this year GE Transportation’s Contagem plant in Brazil is to begin deliveries of nine 3000 hp diesel locos ordered by Vale to haul potash from Río Colorado to Bahía Blanca (RG 2.12 p12). Czech Republic: CD-Telematika is to install GSM-R equipment on 197 ...
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NewsNews in Brief - March 2012
A consortium led by OHL ŽS has begun construction of an an €18m intermodal terminal at Žilina in Slovakia, partly funded by the EU. It is scheduled to open in January 2015, and ŽSR expects to handle 500 000 tonnes in the first year. Taiwan Railway Administration moved its ...
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NewsWorld rail market March 2012
Austria: ÖBB has appointed DO&CO to provide onboard catering services from April. Denmark: TE Connectivity’s FlexWave Prism distributed antenna system has been deployed to provide mobile phone coverage on underground sections of the København metro; it does not require active elements in the tunnels, simplifying maintenance. New Zealand: ...
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NewsCAF signs Saudi North-South Railway passenger train contract
SAUDI ARABIA: On March 14 Saudi Railway Co Chairman Mansour Al-Maiman signed a 533m riyals contract for CAF to supply and maintain five diesel push-pull trainsets for the North-South Railway. The new trains are to be delivered within two years. Capable of operating at speeds up 200 km/h, they will ...
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NewsSupply associations demand market reciprocity
EUROPE: Responding to reports that Hitachi is planning to bid for a contract to supply 60 new EMUs for DB Regio’s Hamburg S-Bahn network, German railway suppliers’ association VDB and its French counterpart FIF issued a strongly-worded ‘declaration’ on March 15 demanding ‘a level playing field for international competition in ...
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NewsSBB steps up ETCS rollout
SWITZERLAND: SBB is on course to commission its first live installation of ETCS Level 1 Limited Supervision in July, as part of its national roll-out strategy which will see ETCS fitted to the entire network by the end of 2017. Last September SBB awarded a €125m contract to Siemens for ...
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Oscar Munoz
Oscar Munoz has been appointed Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer of CSX, following the departure of David Brown. Fredrik Eliasson takes over as Chief Financial Officer, a post held by Munoz since 2003.
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NewsUkrainian CityElefant handed over
UKRAINE: The first of two six-car double-deck electric multiple-units that Skoda Transportation is supplying to Ukrainian Railways under a €39·8m contract signed in February 2011 was formally handed over at the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic on March 13. Derived from the CityElefant EMUs supplied to Czech Railways, ...
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NewsSBB backs TransRUN new line plan
SWITZERLAND: The Swiss Federal Railways board has formally approved the TransRUN plan to build a new direct alignment between Neuchâtel and La Chaux-de-Fonds on the line to Morteau. Replacing the existing line which suffers from tight curves and high maintenance costs, the direct line would cut the Neuchâtel - La ...
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NewsTrivedi stands firm on fare increases
INDIA: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has rejected calls for his resignation following his decision to increase passenger fares for the first time in a decade. Presenting the Indian Railways budget for 2012-13 in Parliament on March 14, he announced graduated increases in all fare rates ranging from Rs0·02 per km ...
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NewsInter-city competition edges closer
GERMANY: Veolia-Transdev subsidiary Veolia Verkehr signed an agreement on March 12 to undertake contract operations for inter-city market entrant Hamburg-Köln Express. HKX is preparing to launch open-access services between Hamburg Altona and Köln Hauptbahnhof three times daily once its safety case has been approved by EBA, the national railway authority. ...
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NewsIrish government looks at rail restructuring as derogation ends
IRELAND: The government announced on March 13 that it would not be seeking an extension of its current derogation from EU legislation opening access to the rail market. National railway Iarnród Éireann's only international link is with the UK's Northern Ireland Railways, which has a similar derogation. The ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market March 2012
China: IHI Corp has awarded Thales a contract to resignal Hong Kong airport’s 25 km automated peoplemover with SelTrac CBTC. Denmark: On January 31 Banedanmark signed the two main line ETCS Level 2 contracts totalling DKr5·8bn with preferred bidders Thales/Balfour Beatty Rail and Alstom (p41). Alstom is also preferred ...
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NewsNew York subway CBTC test track contract awarded
USA: Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded Thales and Siemens a $60m four-year contract to provide a communications-based train control test facility on the New York subway's F Line. This will offer a controlled environment for CBTC trials and assessment, and will also support unequipped revenue service. Announcing the deal ...
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NewsTurkish-built SilkWorm tram on show
TURKEY: Bursa-based steel products supplier Durmazlar has completed production of a prototype 100% low-floor tram for its home city. A full-size mock-up of the SilkWorm tram was displayed at the Eurasiarail trade show in Istanbul on March 8-10 on the stand which Durmazlar shared with Siemens. The SilkWorm uses traction ...
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NewsRebuilt double-deckers enter service
NETHERLANDS: The first of 50 refurbished double-deck electric multiple-units began operating inter-city services between Amsterdam and Den Haag via Schiphol Airport on March 12, following an official handover ceremony at NedTrain’s Haarlem works on February 13. Designated NID, the units are being converted from DD-AR suburban EMUs which had been ...
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NewsSome like it hot
SAUDI ARABIA: CNR Dalian has supplied China Civil Engineering Construction Corp with two DF4DH diesel locomotives customised for use in high temperatures during work on Saudi construction projects. As well as dust filters, special features for use in the Middle East include 7 kW cab air-conditioning, a double-layer insulated roof ...
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Spanish authority chiefs named
Several new appointments have been made within the Spanish Ministry of Development, which has been led by Ana Maria Pastor Julián since December 22 (RG 2.12 p70). Carmen Librero Pintado (photo), who sits on the EU Permanent Representatives Committee as Spain’s Transport Counsellor, has been named General Secretary of Transport.Julio ...