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Finance
Africa: The African Development Fund has approved a US$3·3m regional railway feasibility study for the Economic Community of West African States.Cameroon: The French government has awarded Camrail a US$12·5m loan to rehabilitate the 263 km Ka’a - Belabo - Pangar line and acquire six locomotives and additional rolling stock.Czech Republic: ...
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SBB picks Flirt
SWISS Federal Railways announced on September 26 that it has ordered 42 low-floor EMUs from Stadler Bussnang AG for €330m. First deliveries are scheduled for autumn 2004, beginning with 12 sets for S-Bahn services around Zug. The other 30 for the Basel S-Bahn will start to arrive in mid-2005. The ...
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Tehran plans four more lines
PROPOSALS for expansion of the Tehran metro were unveiled last month by the Chairman & Managing Director of Tehran Urban & Suburban Railway Co Hashemi Bahramani. He confirmed that TUSRC expects to complete its initial five-line network by March 2005.Two urban metro lines and the suburban route to Karaj are ...
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Lahore may get LRT
A consortium led by Interglobe and Nonolite International is offering to build a 25 km elevated light rail line connecting Shahdara in Lahore to the new airport on a build-operate-transfer basis. A Memorandum of Understanding enabling project development to proceed was signed by the Punjab government on August 24.The line ...
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IR zones go live
INDIAN Railways Minister Nitish Kumar joined ceremonies at Hajipur in Bihar on October 1 to mark the formal inauguration of the East Central Railway. IR Board Secretary R R Jaruhar handed over a commemorative authorisation to General Manager S C Gupta.Indian Railways is pressing ahead with the creation of seven ...
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Highliner renewal
MEETING on October 11, the board of Chicago commuter rail operator Metra approved plans to buy new double-deck EMUs, to start the replacement of the former Illinois Central Highliner gallery car EMUs on the electrified line from Randolph Street to University Park.The 26 stainless-steel cars will be assembled by Super ...
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Westward ho!
REVERED father of Britain’s Great Western Railway and broad gauge proponent Isambard Kingdom Brunel would surely have applauded. But when on October 17 First Great Western announced a six-month study to assess the prospects of a dedicated high speed line between London and the west of England, the Strategic Rail ...
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Industry News
Canada: Global Railways Industries has competed its acquisition of door and replacement part maker Prime Steel Inc for C$3·3m cash and taking over C$155000 of debt.Czech Republic: Siemens is to move steel bodyshell and VAL mini-metro car production to the Siemens Kolejova Vozidla plant in Praha over the next ...
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Inside Industry
Angel targets railcar marketUK-BASED rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains International announced on September 24 that it is to launch a new subsidiary for the local passenger multiple-unit sector. From January 2003 the Angel Trains Europa GmbH office in K
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INTELLIGENCE
Argentina: On September 26 Metropolitano inaugurated 10·4 km of 25 kV 50Hz AC electrification between Glew and Alejandro Korn south of Buenos Aires (RG 5.02 p238), undertaken at a cost of US$3·45m. Work to electrify the Temperley - Florencio Varela route was due to begin last month.Czech Republic: On October ...
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RailNetEurope launched
JOINT MARKETING of international freight train paths across Europe was initiated on September 24, when representatives from 18 infrastructure managers signed a co-operation agreement at InnoTrans in Berlin. The symbolic launch of RailNetEurope foreshadows the start of open access on the Trans-European Rail Freight Network in March 2003. Role models ...
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Russian private line opens
SIBERIAN-Urals Aluminium Company held a ceremony on September 20 to open its 158 km railway linking the Middle Timan bauxite deposits with the RZD network. The line is the first privately-owned railway in Russia since the 1917 revolution. Over 3000 people were involved in construction works on the route, which ...
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LIRR and MNCR to merge
A FAR-REACHING restructuring of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority was announced on October 9 by MTA Chairman Peter S Kalikow. Subject to approval by the state legislature, the changes will be phased in over two years. Establishment of five subsidiary companies is the start of a campaign to make ...
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Madrid - Lleida opens next year
THE FIRST 450 km of the Madrid - Barcelona high speed line is due to open to traffic on January 1 2003, following an official opening ceremony that the Ministry of Development is planning to hold on December 20 or 21. Pending the arrival of its new Siemens and Talgo ...
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SLR looks north
THESRILANKA Ministry of Transport and Sri Lanka Railways have commissioned a detailed study for reconstruction of lines in the north of the country, following the presentation of a feasibility study last month. This concluded that many bridges and stations needed to be rebuilt, and signalling and communications should be replaced ...
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Market
Australia: NSW passenger operator City Rail has selected Goninan to supply 13 DMUs for its Hunter Valley services.France: The first Z-TER EMU was formally handed over to SNCF by Alstom Transport at its Bellevue test track in La Rochelle on October 4. Alstom has awarded Bombardier a €6m contract to ...
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Metros
China: Shanghai Metro has awarded Bombardier a €11m contract to overhaul 96 Line 1 cars by 2005.The government has approved the start of work on the 22 km Shenyang metro Line 1, which will begin in June 2003 for completion in 2006.France: Ile-de-France transport authority STIF has given its approval ...
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Network Rail takes over
OCTOBER 1 saw the formal lifting of the Railway Administration Order served on Railtrack plc last year, following a 6h hearing in the High Court in London. This cleared the way for the sale of the infrastructure company to the government-backed ’not-for-dividend’ company Network Rail, which was completed at 07.00 ...
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Tram networks to reintegrate
AS FORECAST last month (RG 10.02 p605), Melbourne is about to turn the clock back and put a single operator in charge of the world’s third-largest tram network. National Express Group Australia, operator of M>Tram, revealed on October 17 that it was negotiating to sell M>Tram to Yarra Trams, a ...