All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2011 – Page 3
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NewsBangkok to complete Blue Line loop
THAILAND: Mass Rapid Transit Authority has awarded a further package of civil works valued at 46·6bn baht covering construction of extensions to the Bangkok Blue Line heavy metro (table below). These works would see the completion of a loop connecting the existing termini at Bang Sue and Hua Lamphong via ...
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NewsRFF backs Line E extension
FRANCE: Meeting on March 17, the board of Réseau Ferré de France confirmed its intention to press ahead with its plans for a western extension of Paris RER Line E, with a view to seeking a Declaration of Public Utility giving powers to build the line. Following public consultation between ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market March 2011
Australia: In February UGL Rail announced contracts totalling A$225m to supply nine GE Evolution locomotives to Rio Tinto, an additional 25 Oscar EMUs to RailCorp, and 10 C44Aci locomotives and wagon maintenance services to Freightliner. Belarus: BC has placed a 8·1bn ruble order for six 620M single-car DMUs to ...
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NewsNTV launch delayed until 'late autumn'
ITALY: Open access high speed train operator Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori has decided to delay its planned launch of commercial services from September 'until late autumn', with November now seen as the earliest likely date. Speaking at the Future of European Rail conference in Brusssels on March 16, Giuseppe Bonollo, NTV’s ...
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NewsFaiveley Transport acquires suppliers
EUROPE: Faiveley Transport has purchased the remaining 25% of Czech pantograph and electro-mechanical equipment supplier Lekov, having owned a 75% stake since December 2002. Faiveley Transport Lekov is now Faiveley's centre of competence for pantographs and related electromechanical equipment, with 270 employees and sales of €24m. Announcing the purchase ...
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NewsSiemens to energise Kolkata's east-west line
INDIA: Third rail electrification and power supplies for Kolkata’s east-west metro line are to be supplied by Siemens Mobility under a contract from Kolkata Metro Rail Corp announced on March 17. Siemens is to provide the 750 V DC traction power supply, with nine substations and the depot to be ...
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NewsTenders called for railway construction
ISRAEL: Tendering for the construction of two new railway lines in northern Israel got underway this month. On March 17 tenders were called for the initial section of a 23 km line from ’Akko to Karmi’el, with one intermediate station at Ahihud. The project is expected to ...
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NewsSouthend Airport ready for take off
UK: Transport group Stobart has built a station to serve Southend Airport on the line from Southend to London Liverpool Street. Stobart acquired the airport in December 2008 and launched a development programme which should see the start of scheduled passenger flights this month, with the aim of handling a ...
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NewsNortheast Corridor to get high speed funding
USA: Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has officially designated the Northeast Corridor between Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC as the country’s 11th high speed rail corridor, making it eligible for federal funding under the Passenger Rail Improvement & Investment Act 2008. LaHood recently invited applications from states interested ...
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NewsTrinity Industries and GATX announce five-year wagon deal
USA: Leasing firm GATX Corp has agreed to order 12 500 tank and other wagons from Trinity Industries over the next five years, the companies announced on March 15. TrinityRail Group President D Stephen Menzies said the long-term deal would provide the manufacturer with 'production continuity', while GATX President & ...
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NewsJR East earthquake update
JAPAN: Thanking railwaymen and women from around the world for their messages of condolence and encouragement, on March 14 East Japan Railway Vice-Chairman Yoshio Ishida and President & CEO Satoshi Seino gave an update on the effects of the disastrous March 11 earthquake and tsunami. JR East understands that no ...
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NewsDoors instead of curtains
AUSTRALIA: Intended as an improvement on curtain-sided designs, the Supalite container has been developed by Adelaide-based SCF Group. The container has moulded plastic bi-folded doors that are intended to save weight whilst retaining structural strength. Freight forwarder Toll Group expects to trial Supalite on an intermodal flow in August. The ...
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NewsFirst CAF Class 4000 DMU arrives in Belfast
UK: The first of 20 three-car diesel multiple-units for Translink NI Railways was delivered to Belfast docks on March 14, two years after the order was placed with Spanish manufacturer CAF under a £114m project funded by the Department for Regional Development. Testing at up 145 km/h is set to ...
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NewsMetrolinx orders more Bombardier BiLevels
CANADA: Bombardier Transportation announced a C$125m order to supply Greater Toronto transport authority Metrolinx with 50 BiLevel coaches on March 14. They are to be built at Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant for delivery to Metrolinx subsidiary GO Transit from November 2011, bringing the operator's double-deck fleet to 565 vehicles. ...
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NewsThe long arm of the saw
USA: Michigan-based Hougen Manufacturing has updated its Trak-Star HS16 hydraulic rail saw. The latest version is expected to provide faster cutting whilst being more comfortable to operate. The saw has a 1105 mm frame with an ergonomic grip handle designed to reduce vibration. An arbour bearing supports the axial load ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Modernisation of the 914 km railway between Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre and the port of Nacala in Mozambique to raise speeds from 20 km/h to 70 km/h would cost US$231m, according to a study financed by the European Union. Trains would take 38 h, compared with the ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - March 2011
Tendering for operating concessions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag, due to have been completed by January 2012, has been postponed for a year by Transport Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen. The Federation of Netherlands Mobility Companies, comprising Connexxion, Arriva, Syntus and Veolia, believes the deferral ...
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NewsSafer, simpler shunting
EUROPE: The movement of wagons around industrial premises and private sidings has been simplified by the development of the RVK shunting adaptor for use with a conventional front-end loader. The RVK has been developed by Austrian engineering group Fiegl Maschinenbau for use at a local steelworks. The steel company had ...
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NewsBrescia high speed line contract signed
ITALY: A €700m contract for construction of the Treviglio - Brescia second phase of the Milano - Verona high speed line was signed by RFI and the Cepav Due consortium on March 7. The contract is the first of two which are to be awarded for the section, which is ...
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NewsTlemcen - Akkid Abbas construction contract awarded
ALGERIA: Railway development agency ANESRIF has awarded a joint venture of ETRHB Haddad and Spanish construction company FCC a €1·23bn contract to build the 66 km Tlemcen - Akkid Abbas section of the route between Oued Tlélat and the Moroccan border. Work is due to take 48 months. The double-track ...