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NewsWorld rolling stock market April 2011
Africa: Using Chinese financial support, Tazara has ordered six diesel locomotives with GE Transportation technology to be delivered from China later this year. Bulgaria: Sofia has acquired 20 Tatra T4D-C trams from Halle. Canada: On March 14 Bombardier announced a C$125m order to supply Toronto’s GO Transit with 50 ...
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NewsWorld rail market April 2011
India: Jaipur Metro Rail Corp has appointed Mott MacDonald to advise on tendering the Rs100bn project to build two metro lines totalling 35 km by mid-2013. Iraq: The Kurdistan regional government has awarded three contracts each worth around US$2·2m for tram feasibility studies. Italian firms ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Boring of the 10·8 km Shiziyang Tunnel under the Pearl River estuary in China’s Guangdong province was completed last month. According to the Xinhua News Agency trains will run at 350 km/h through the tunnel when the 140 km Guangzhou – Shenzhen line opens in 2012. Spanish infrastructure manager ADIF ...
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NewsNTV in alliance to take on Ferrovie dello Stato
ITALY: Budding high speed operator Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori has set up an alliance with other private sector and open access companies in a bid to increase their influence in the face of what they see as intransigence by state-owned Ferrovie dello Stato. Called the Forum del Trasporto Ferroviario, the alliance ...
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NewsArmenia looks to end rail isolation
ARMENIA: OTIF agreed to the accession of Armenia on April 11, with the result that the Bern-based body which provides a legal framework for international rail traffic will gain its 47th member with effect from July 1. OTIF said the accession is 'an important step in the process of linking ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Following Asturias and Zaragoza, RENFE has introduced contactless smart card ticketing to its Málaga suburban network, comprising 25 stations and carrying an average of 20655 weekday passengers. The programme has cost a total of €162000. The German Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has directly awarded ODEG a two-year contract extension to operate ...
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NewsCalifornia applies for federal high speed funding
USA: At a board meeting on March 30, California High-Speed Rail Authority voted unanimously to apply for federal high speed rail funding previously allocated to Florida. The $2·43bn grant was rejected by Florida Governor Rick Scott on February 16, effectively cancelling that state’s plan to build a 135 km line ...
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NewsVossloh reports record sales
EUROPE: Vossloh Group has reported full-year pre-tax profits of €152·1m in 2010, a 10·3% increase on the previous year. The company also recorded its highest-ever sales of €1·35bn, up by 15·1% on 2009. Vossloh attributed almost half of its revenue growth to its Rail Services business unit, formed following the ...
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NewsDB calls temporary halt to Stuttgart 21
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn announced on March 29 its intention to cease work temporarily on the Stuttgart 21 project to rebuild the city’s main station. DB Board Member, Technical, Dr Volker Kefer confirmed that no further contracts would be let and no more construction work undertaken until a new government has ...
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NewsEuropean Commission outlines 2050 transport vision
EUROPE: ‘Curbing mobility is not an option’. That is the one of the central tenets of the European Commission’s latest transport White Paper published on March 28. Building on the previous document issued in 2001, the Commission has entitled its White Paper a ‘Road Map to a Single European Transport ...
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NewsNorthern resignalling underway
VIETNAM: A ceremony at Hanoi’s Yen Vien station on March 24 marked the start of a Chinese-backed resignalling programme covering Vietnam Railways’ routes to the border crossings at Lao Cai and Dong Dang. Deputy Minister for Transport & Communications Le Manh Hung told assembled guests that the resignalling work would ...
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NewsSetting up a Saudi railway regulator
SAUDI ARABIA: Arcadis is currently supporting the Saudi government's Railways Commission as it moves from the set-up phase to full operation. According to Arcadis Safety & Risk Director Stef Scannali, the process involves an extensive transfer of skills and knowledge, which draws on Arcadis staff's global experience of safety-critical industries, ...
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NewsNTV brands RFI access changes 'illegal'
ITALY: In an exceptionally strongly-worded statement, private high speed operator Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori has urged the Italian government to intervene to resolve an increasingly bitter dispute with infrastructure manager RFI over paths. NTV convened an emergency board meeting on March 25 after receiving notification that RFI’s Network Statement had been ...
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NewsRail-Tech Europe takes to a new stage
NETHERLANDS: Encompassing a trade exhibition and conference, Rail-Tech Europe takes place in Amersfoort this month. Held every two years at the Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs since its launch in 1997, the Rail-Tech Europe exhibition is on the move. This year, the Dutch rail industry will gather on March 29-31 at De ...
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NewsSino-Thai construction agreement edges closer
THAILAND: A framework agreement for a Memorandum of Understanding covering the construction of two standard-gauge inter-city corridors was approved by Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on March 21. This marks the latest milestone in the Thai government’s efforts to agree its position ahead of ministerial negotiations with China to reach ...
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NewsFirst congress on rail training
EUROPE: The Technical University of Madrid's Railway Technology Research Centre (Citef) will host the first World Congress on Railway Training on April 6-8. Entitled 'From Strategy to Performance', the congress has been organised at the behest of UIC with the support of its network of regional rail training centres. The ...
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NewsWorld rail market March 2011
India: Indra and local partner Keltron have won a €6m contract to supply gates and contactless ticketing systems for Kolkata's North-South metro line. New Zealand: Consultancy GHD has been appointed to identify options for developing rail or bus transport to Auckland International Airport. Panama: Systra has been ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market March 2011
Australia: In February UGL Rail announced contracts totalling A$225m to supply nine GE Evolution locomotives to Rio Tinto, an additional 25 Oscar EMUs to RailCorp, and 10 C44Aci locomotives and wagon maintenance services to Freightliner. Belarus: BC has placed a 8·1bn ruble order for six 620M single-car DMUs to ...
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NewsJR East earthquake update
JAPAN: Thanking railwaymen and women from around the world for their messages of condolence and encouragement, on March 14 East Japan Railway Vice-Chairman Yoshio Ishida and President & CEO Satoshi Seino gave an update on the effects of the disastrous March 11 earthquake and tsunami. JR East understands that no ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Indian Railways is to establish four biodiesel plants of 30 tonne/day capacity at a cost of Rs1·2bn, and will also undertake trials with natural gas powered locomotives. TransNamib has launched a N$9·4m upgrading programme with the start of work to relay 13 km of the 240 km Windhoek – ...