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NewsNews in Brief
Bangladesh has signed loan agreements for the planned 6·2 km Padma Multi-purpose Bridge, which is intended to cut Dhaka – Khulna road journeys from 12 h to 3 h and will include provision for a rail line. The World Bank is providing US$1·2bn, JICA US$425m and IDB US$140m towards the ...
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NewsFEVE assists Ecuador Railways revival
ECUADOR: On July 8 Ecuador Railways General Manager Jorge Eduardo Carrera signed two contracts worth a total of US$30m with FEVE President Ángel Villalba, as the Spanish metre-gauge operator continues to participate in the revival of the Ecuadorian network under an existing co-operation agreement (RG 5.10 p30). A US$25m contract ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market July 2011
Argentina: Trenes de Buenos Aires has acquired 10 ex-Netherlands Railways Class 3200 two-car DMUs, which will be regauged to 1676 mm for use between Merlo and Lobos on TBA’s Sarmiento route and on the Victoria – Capilla del Señor section of the Mitre network. Australia: WPG Resources has ordered ...
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NewsWorld rail market July 2011
Africa: Mott MacDonald is to study implementation and finance options for the Cotonou – Niamey – Ouagadougou – Abidjan project under an African Union Commission contract (RG 6.11 p30). China: Tagmaster, Richor and FTRD are to trial an RFID tag system providing onboard warnings of temporary speed restrictions. ...
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NewsDual-voltage rebuild
CZECH REPUBLIC:The first two of 30 Class 163 electric locomotives being rebuilt by Škoda's Pars Nova Sumperk subsidiary were returned to CD Cargo at the end of May. The KC1·8bn rebuilding programme was launched in 2009 and runs to 2014, with the aim of extending the life of the 26-year ...
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NewsWorld rail market June 2011
Belgium: SNCB Logistics has selected Quintiq and Ab Ovo to supply a resource and operations decision-support system. It will go live this year, with real-time operations management by early 2012. China: Nice Systems is supplying its NiceVision IP video security system for Tianjin metro Line 2, providing unauthorised ...
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NewsChina starts work on line to Myanmar
ASIA: A foundation laying ceremony in the border town of Ruili on May 30 marked the official launch of construction on a railway from Kunming in China to Myanmar. The 330 km double-track line will join the CR network at Dali in Yunnan province. Construction is being undertaken in two ...
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NewsNoise-damping track to be installed on Thameslink core
UK: SilentTrack noise dampers are to be installed at London Blackfriars station under the Thameslink Programme to mitigate the acoustic effects of running up to 24 trains/h along the core north-south cross-city route from 2018. Already installed by DB Netz on its main lines through the Rhein valley and on ...
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NewsA ‘wonderful spectacle’ at Railtex 2011
UK: Revealing that no fewer than 424 exhibitors from 17 countries were participating in the Railtex 2011 exhibition at London's Earls Court Two centre, the Chairman of Mack Brooks Exhibitions Simon Brooks said the event presented ‘a wonderful spectacle’, which demonstrated ‘the very latest that the industry has to offer’. ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market June 2011
Australia: Genesee & Wyoming has ordered seven locos from Downer EDI for use on its Tarcoola – Darwin line from December. The government of Western Australia has selected an EDI Rail-Bombardier joint venture for a A$317m contract to maintain and clean its 239 narrow gauge DMUs and EMUs for ...
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NewsRailtex: Exploring opportunities in UK investment projects
RAILTEX: With more than 350 exhibitors gathering at London's Earls Court exhibition centre, the 10th Railtex trade fair taking place on June 14-16 is set to be bigger than the 2009 event, which attracted more than 11 000 attendees. Among leading companies taking part at Railtex 2011 will be ...
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NewsJR East gets back on track
JAPAN: Little more than six weeks after the earthquake and tsunami struck northeast of Honshu on March 11, East Japan Railway was able to resume services on the whole of the Tohoku Shinkansen on April 29. Although a number of ground facilities had been damaged by the earthquake, these were ...
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NewsNews in Brief
An integrated transport authority is to be formed to co-ordinate policy in New South Wales, leaving RailCorp, Sydney Buses and other transport agencies to focus on service delivery. On May 14 passenger services began stopping at the reopened station at Sösdala in southern Sweden after a gap ...
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NewsShaping the debate on high speed rail
UK: Reflecting our goal to encourage knowledge transfer across the global rail industry, and expanding our portfolio of business information media, Railway Gazette held its first interactive webinar on June 8. Moderated by Editor Chris Jackson, the debate 'High Speed Rail in the UK: Making the Case' was broadcast live ...
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NewsBeware of the road/rail interface
LEVEL CROSSINGS: The second International Level Crossing Awareness Day on June 9 is intended to raise public awareness, explains Isabelle Fonverne, Projects Officer, Safety & Interoperability at the International Union of Railways.
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NewsNews in Brief
The EU's TEN-T programme is to meet 10% of the €29·6m cost of upgrading the Boden - Kalix line in northern Sweden and building 42 km of new line to the Finnish border by 2012. On April 29 Norfolk Southern began construction of the $105m Memphis Regional Intermodal Facility in ...
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NewsSinara and Siemens announce Desiro production agreement
RUSSIA: Siemens and local manufacturer Sinara Group have launched Train Technologies, a joint venture to produce Desiro electric multiple-units for the Russian market in Yekaterinburg. ‘Preliminary contracts’ worth ‘around €2bn’ were signed at the 1520 Strategic Forum in Sochi on June 1 by Siemens Mobility CEO Dr Hans-Jörg Grundmann, Dimitry ...
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NewsSumatra coal railway on course for 2014 opening
INDONESIA: Joint venture company Bukit Asam Transpacific Railway has launched the land acquisition process for its 307 km coal railway in southern Sumatra, Special Advisor to the Board Dr Julison Arifin told the Modern Railways conference in Bangkok on May 24. Intended as a heavy haul railway to move coal ...
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NewsNews in Brief
RZD is studying the introduction of piggyback services between St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad and Moscow. An experimental Helsinki – Moscow service will be trialled later this year. African Development Bank signed a €300m loan to finance upgrading of ONCF's Tanger – Marrakech corridor on ...
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NewsBusiness leaders push for faster liberalisation
FRANCE: Business leaders in Nord-Pas de Calais have expressed frustration at the slow rate of progress in expanding the European high speed rail network. Speaking to Railway Gazette International on May 3, Thierry Mabille de Poncheville, Managing Director of the Lille business promotion agency APIM, said that he was ‘very ...