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Chile: Under a contract worth €16m, EFE is acquiring reconditioned traction and rolling stock from Renfe of Spain for daytime Santiago - Temuco services. This includes four Class 269 electric locomotives, 23 coaches and four car-transporter wagons.France:IER and Thales e-Transactions have been awarded a €20m contract to replace by late ...
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Metros
China:ABB has received an order worth US$7m to supply 152 gas insulated switchgear units for Shenzhen’s metro Line 1 by September this year, and 237 of the 33 kV devices worth US$11m to Guangzhou metro Line 3 next year.Arup has been appointed as engineering consultant and DesignCorp International as architect ...
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New York subway orders
MTA New York City Transit has awarded a $90m contract to Kawasaki Rail Car Inc for another 80 R142A subway cars. They will be similar to 520 cars now in service on the Lexington Avenue line, which have proved to be one of NYCT’s most reliable fleets, achieving an average ...
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NS station works
TWO NEW stations are to be built at Tilburg Reeshof and Almere Oostvaarder, following the approval by the Dutch cabinet of a €6m package of works, which also include lengthening of the platfoms at Driebergen-Zeist.In another station improvement scheme, the main hall at Amsterdam Amstel was formally reopened on April ...
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PEOPLE
On May 20, German Railway announced that its Board Member for Passenger services Dr Christoph Franz and Passenger Marketing Director Hans-Gustav Koch were leaving the company. Passenger services will pass to Board Member Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch, whose responsibility for technology will devolve to Stefan Garber, formerly Director of Purchasing. The ...
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Pointers
n Look for the European Union to put forward a revised list of priorities for the Trans-European Network projects, following the setting up of a high-level review group under former Transport Commissioner Karel van Miert. TEN projects will be split into five categories under new guidelines to be adopted later ...
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Restructuring progresses
SEPARATION of infrastructure company Rete Ferroviaria Italiana from the Ferrovie dello Stato group, previously planned for this year, has been postponed to 2004 as the government has yet to decide how to proceed. One option is a change of ownership of RFI through a sale of shares in FS. At ...
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A promise unfulfilled in Victoria
When National Express withdrew from its franchises in Melbourne last year, privatisation in the state of Victoria was called into question. John Kirk reviews what has happened and concludes that there are deep flaws in both state and federal policies
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Restyling TGV
SNCF has selected a consortium of MBD Design, seat manufacturer Compin and fashion house Christian Lacroix to develop new interiors for a refurbishment programme that will treat 183 TGV Atlantique and Réseau trainsets by 2008. Interiors proposed by three bidders had been installed in one TGV which visited 40 towns ...
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POSS to monitor 1000 ’most critical’ points
CONTINUOUS analysis of the current drawn by 150 point motors at key locations near Amsterdam (right) has reduced train delays by more than 60% during trials, and ProRail has now approved a plan to install the equipment at over 1000 sites across the Dutch rail network.POSS, which translates as Strukton ...
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Valencia opens Line 5
AT THE end of last month Valencia metro operator FGV was due to put into service the first section of Line 5, a 2·5 km branch running from Alameda on Line 3 to Parque Ayora in the east of the city (RG 6.02 p287). With intermediate stations at Aragón and ...
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GISA lets Line 9 civils
THE CATALUNYA regional government’s construction authority GISA has awarded 15 contracts for civil works on Line 9 of the Barcelona metro (RG 4.03 p184), worth a total of €1·16bn. Consortia including FCC have won work worth a total of €471m, while Dragados is a member of groupings that have netted ...
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AAR makes the case for rail
INTRO: Following deregulation, North America’s freight railways have continued to enjoy impressive market share, but challenges remain as the industry strives to make the best use of emerging technology and tap new sources of capital funding. Murray Hughes put the questions to Ed Hamberger, President & Chief Executive Officer of ...
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Ugandan affair
ENABLING legislation has been drafted for the privatisation of Uganda’s rail network, and the government hopes to issue an information memorandum in August. Minister of State for Privatisation Prof Peter Kasene told the Trans Africa 21 conference in London on March 31 that formal bids for a 25-year concession, renewable ...
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Heads roll after bridge closes
AT PRECISELY 18.37 on March 27, Director-General of Transport in New South Wales Michael Deegan ordered the indefinite closure to all traffic of the Menangle bridge. Several trains approaching the bridge on the main line between Sydney and Melbourne were halted. Freight operations have been severely disrupted, not assisted by ...
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Madrid - Lleida slips again
ACTING on the findings of a joint working group formed with Renfe to tackle the mounting delays to the opening of the Madrid - Lleida high speed line (RG 4.03 p179), on March 24 Spanish high speed construction authority GIF agreed a new commissioning programme with signalling contractors CSEE Transport ...
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EMU refurbishment agreed
GOVIA has signed a £20m contract with rolling stock leasing firm HSBC Rail for the refurbishment of 184 inner-suburban EMU vehicles operated on the South Central franchise. Work on the Class 455 four-car units will start this month, and will be completed within three years. Each train will be taken ...
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Amey recommends cash offer
SPANISH construction and services group Ferrovial Servicios has made a cash offer of £0·32 per share for Amey plc. The directors of Amey have unanimously recommended acceptance of the ’fair and reasonable’ offer, and Ferrovial has received irrevocable undertakings to accept the offer in respect of 32·6% of Amey’s shares. ...
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Applying proactive maintenance on CTRL
INTRO: The Channel Tunnel Rail Link will need maintenance standards ’an order of magnitude higher’ than on the rest of the UK network. Chris Jago, Managing Director of Union Railways South, briefs Murray Hughes on plans to maintain Britain’s first 300 km/h railway’IF THE NAKED EYE can see an irregularity ...
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Steady growth at Arup
CONTNUED steady growth in turnover was seen at Arup during 2002. Overall turnover for the period to March 31 this year exceeded £400m, with profits of over £20m. There was a 17% increase in global turnover, 3% increase in profit, and a stable profit margin of 5%, despite an 11% ...