All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2012 – Page 5
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NewsHo Chi Minh City metro line 1 construction contract signed
VIETNAM: A contract for the construction of the first stage of Ho Chi Minh City metro line 1 was signed on May 16, paving the way for main works to begin in September. The 17·1 km elevated section between Ben Thanh Market and Suoi Tien Park with 11 stations is ...
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NewsThales awarded ETCS contract in Hungary
HUNGARY: Infrastructure development agency NIF has awarded Thales Austria a contract to design and supply ETCS Level 2 for the 101 km Boba - Bajánsenye section of Pan-European Corridor V, and adapt existing Level 1 equipment. The EU is meeting 85% of the €18m cost of the project, which will ...
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NewsIndian wagon component joint venture agreed
INDIA: Steel Authority of India Ltd and wagon manufacturer Burn Standard Co Ltd have agreed to form a Rs2bn joint venture to produce wagon components at BSCL's Jellingham plant in West Bengal. The venture will have the capacity to produce 10 000 bogies and 10 000 couplers a year ...
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NewsSochi’s swallow starts to fly
RUSSIA: Trial running has started in Sochi with the first of 38 Lastochka EMUs being supplied by Siemens in time for the 2014 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games. The multiple-unit was due to be presented to RZD Vice-President Valentin Gapanovich and Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov by the ...
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NewsColas buys Pullman Rail
UK: Colas Rail Ltd announced on May 21 that it had acquired Pullman Rail Ltd, the rolling stock maintenance and refurbishment contractor based at Canton depot in Cardiff. As well as significantly increasing its own fleet maintenance capability, Colas says that the acquistion will enable it to ‘further expand’ into ...
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NewsTatravagónka acquires bogie manufacturer
GERMANY: Slovak wagon builder Tatravagónka has completed the acquisition of bogie manufacturer ELH Eisenbahnlaufwerke Halle. Tatravagónka has bought the 70% stake in ELH which was held by Andreas Goer, the majority shareholder in wagon leasing firm AAE Holding, and the 30% which was held by another business partner. The participants ...
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NewsGE Transportation to move headquarters to Chicago
USA: GE Transportation announced on May 30 that it had selected Chicago as the location for its global headquarters. The company's plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, will remain the headquarters of its locomotive business, and it will still be the 'key manufacturing and engineering site'. 'We have transformed GE Transportation from ...
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NewsChiltern Railways puts refurbished Mk III coaches into service
UK: On May 28 Chiltern Railways put into service the first of four rakes of Mk III coaches that are being heavily refurbished and equipped with sliding plug doors. Deployed on London Marylebone - Birmingham Moor Street services, the Mk IIIs are marshalled between a Class 67 locomotive and a ...
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NewsEuroAirport station proposed in cross-border passenger plan
EUROPE: Plans for a direct rail connection to EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg and the extension of Swiss regional services across the border to Mulhouse in France are included a memorandum of understanding which was signed by SBB, SNCF, the region of Alsace and the cantons of Aargau, Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt ...
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