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Beijing signal contracts signed
BEIJUNG metro operator BMOC has awarded a €28m contract to Alstom for resignalling Line 2 in time for the 2008 Olympic Games. Working with its joint venture subsidiary Casco and Electrification Engineering Bureau, Alstom will equip 23 route-km with its Urbalis radio-based CBTC and Eurobalises to provide intermittent back-up. The ...
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Bombardier wins Chicago race
ON MAY 10 the Board of Chicago Transit Authority approved the purchase of 406 metro cars from Bombardier Transit Corp in a deal valued at $577m. They will be CTA's first cars to have AC propulsion and regenerative braking. The contract covers a base order of 206 vehicles ...
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Master Plan will transform Nord-Pas de Calais network
AT LEAST €1535m is to be spent on improvements and modernisation of the rail network in Nord-Pas de Calais.Projects include a €650m regional high speed line stretching for around 70 km between Lille, Valenciennes and Aulnoye, for which a pre-feasibility study is currently in hand. Other short sections of new ...
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NewsI-Trans spearheads rail investment push in Nord-Pas de Calais
Revival of railway research, construction of a major testing centre and a 20-year investment programme in track and trains are on a shopping list of railway development activities in Nord-Pas de Calais. Murray Hughes reports from Lille and Valenciennes
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WCRR debates capacity and sustainability
INTRO: Taking place in Montréal on June 4 - 8, the 2006 World Congress on Railway Research will promote international co-operation in the fields of operational, environmental and safety management, as well as discussing more traditional engineering topicsBYLINE: Roy Allen and Mike Lowenger*BYLINE: *Roy Allen is President of Transportation Technology ...
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Re-regulation threat to capacity investment
CAPITAL INVESTMENT by the Class I railroads in North America continues to rise. We have reported before that the operators are moving rapidly to add extra capacity on key corridors in the face of unprecedented levels of demand.Rolling back decades of downsizing is not cheap. According to the Association of ...
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Industrial muscle concentrated in the north
Both Alstom and Bombardier have large assembly plants in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, and both are currently busy with large orders.The Bombardier plant at Crespin is turning out AGC sets for regional services on the French network under a framework contract with SNCF for 500 units; these are being ...
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Threats fly in Estonian conflict
THE ROW between Baltic Rail Services and the Estonian government looks likely to boil over this summer.Last month the Ministry of Economic Affairs sent a letter to BRS, which holds 66% of shares in Eesti Raudtee, accusing the company of breach of contract. Unless BRS made good within 60 days ...
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Contracts placed
DELHI Metro Rail Corp confirmed on May 1 that it had awarded contracts for all six projects in Phase II of the Indian capital’s metro network, and said work was expected to get underway on all of them shortly.Construction has already started on the 6·4 km northern extension of Line ...
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Spoornet focuses on improving its core freight operations
South Africa's state-owned railway Spoornet has embarked on a five-year programme to improve performance and profitability, which will help to support the government's Accelerated & Shared Growth Initiative. Chris Jackson asked Vice-President Molotwane Likhethe how this will be achieved
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ETCS is really rolling out, but the costs are still too high
MORE MILESTONES are passing in the development and deployment of ETCS/ERTMS. From May 19 trains began running at 250 km/h on the Madrid - Lleida section of the Madrid - Barcelona AVE line using Level 1, while from July 2 Swiss Federal Railways goes live with Level 2 on the ...
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Czech private inter-city plan
SOKOLOV-based open access operator Railtrans has announced plans to run its own passenger trains between Praha and Ostrava in northern Moravia from the December 10 timetable change. There will be a single stop at Olomouc on the 358 km trip. Paths have been requested from SZDC, and Railtrans expects to ...
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Eritrea using local resources to revitalise its railway
Like the train's steep and winding climb up the escarpment from sea level to 2394m, progress on rehabilitation of the Eritrean Railway is slow but steady
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Ressano Garcia line ready this year
REHABILITATION of the 90 km line from Maputo to the South African border at Ressano Garcia is to be completed by the end of this year, according to Mozambique’s Minister of Transport & Communications Antonio Munguambe. Addressing a conference to promote the ’Maputo Corridor’ at the beginning of May, Munguambe ...
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Huancavelica upgrade
PERU’s MINISTRY of Transport & Communications has selected Ferrocarril Central Andino to undertake an upgrade of the 914mm gauge Huancayo - Huancavelica Railway that will include conversion to 1435mm gauge. To be completed within 480 days, the US$18·1m project is to be funded by the government, with US$14·9m provided by ...
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NewsInterconnector study starts
IARNRóD éIREANN announced on May 12 that it was starting work on the ambitious plan to build a cross-city suburban rail tunnel under the heart of Dublin. Bids have been invited from consultants to assist with detailed design of the 5·2 km Interconnector, which will run from the ...
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Moscow ring line
CONSTRUCTION of the first stage of an outer metro ring line around the Russian capital will get underway in mid-2007, according to Moscow Metro President Dmitri Gayev. He said on May 12 that a second ring line was needed urgently to relieve overcrowding on the existing lines. He envisages that ...
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Port link upgrade
AUSTRALIA’s Federal Transport Minister Warren Truss and his Victoria counterpart Peter Batchelor inaugurated work on the A$120m Dynon Port Rail Link on April 21.The project includes replacement of the existing single-track mixed-gauge line into Melbourne docks by a double-track line further west, with overbridges to replace the Footscray Road level ...
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Stress at Metronet
SOME London Underground services were badly disrupted on several days last month by the sudden imposition of 32 km/h speed restrictions around lunchtime. It happened for the first time on May 4, a rare day of unbroken sunshine over the city which saw air temperatures reach 25íC, and even 27íC ...
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Tomorrow’s mini-metro takes shape
NEOVAL is the name of France’s future mini-metro. Nominated on April 27 as one of six headline research projects to be funded by the Agence de l’Innovation Industrielle, NeoVal will be the successor to the rubber-tyred VAL system first developed in Lille in the late 1970s and early 1980s.AII was ...