All News articles – Page 38
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The Slovenian government is introducing legislation to restructure the national railway as a holding company, Holding Slovenske Zeleznice, with passenger, freight and infrastructure divisions. Construction projects will be undertaken by either state-owned engineering company DDC or a new organisation. Ghana is to use US$4bn of a US$10·4bn infrastructure development loan ...
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Work has started on the construction of a rail link between the port of Kyaukpyu in western Myanmar and Kunming in China via Ruili. It is being built with Chinese assistance, as China plans to use the new deep-water port on Maday Island as an oil import terminal. The transport ...
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NewsHigh Speed 1 concession awarded to Canadian pension consortium
UK: A consortium of Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has been selected for a 30-year concession to manage High Speed 1, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond announced on November 5. The deal will be completed by the end of November, and will see the consortium pay a total of ...
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NewsRENFE tightens belt
SPAIN:Presenting the national operator’s 2011 budget to parliament on October 7, RENFE President Teófilo Serrano said income was expected to be €2·18bn, with passenger operations providing 87·7% of this. Freight would provide 12·3% or €269m, up from €233m in 2009 and the forecast of €241m for 2010. RENFE expects to ...
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NewsEurotunnel buys more rescue locomotives
EUROPE: A further two diesel rescue locomotives able to haul failed passenger trains out of the Channel Tunnel and on High Speed 1 are to be acquired, Eurotunnel announced on November 3. The €1·3m cost is being co-financed by Eurostar. To be delivered 'soon', the ex-DB Schenker Rail Nederland MaK ...
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NewsRussian Railways looks to increase energy efficiency
RUSSIA: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and Russian Railways have signed a memorandum of understanding for co-operation in the development of long-term energy efficiency policies and mitigation of the carbon footprint of RZD, which is one of Russia's largest energy users. A joint working group is planned to ...
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NewsMidi-Pyrénées regional rail investment
FRANCE: The European Investment Bank has signed a financing agreement for the Midi-Pyrénées region’s 2008-13 Rail Plan, which will see TER regional express routes modernised to provide an ‘upgraded and permanent’ 500 km network. The project is the first of its size in France to be mainly devoted to ...
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NewsChinese wagons in Europe
INTERNATIONAL: A ceremony on September 13 launched the CNR Cargo Wagon joint venture of Polish national freight operator PKP Cargo and China CNR Corp which was agreed on June 29. Market studies are underway with a view to beginning assembly of wagons next year in the Baltic port of Szczecin ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The OFP La Rochelle joint venture of EuroCargo Rail and the Port of La Rochelle became the first of the new French port railway companies to begin operations on October 8. CSX opened the Liberty Corridor Freightway on October 8, providing a route for double-stack trains from the port of ...
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NewsRail revival to replace Cambodia's bamboo trains
CAMBODIA: Rehabilitation of the run-down and war-damaged railway network reached a milestone when the initial section was officially reopened on October 22. The first cement traffic was carried in early October on a 117 km stretch between Phnom Penh and Touk Meas, and passenger services are planned for the ...
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NewsCo-operation renewed
MOROCCO: As part of a bilateral forum between Italy and Morocco, national railway authority ONCF signed a new co-operation agreement with Italy's FS Group in Rabat on October 11. The event was attended by Italy's Vice-Minister of Economic Development Adolpho Urso. The agreement continues a railway co-operation accord signed by ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market October 2010
Africa: Tazara is to repair the 865 defective wagons out of the fleet of 1853 that are currently out of use. US$500000m has been allocated to repair an initial 500 wagons by the end of 2010. Australia: On September 1 CSR Ziyang signed a 100m yuan contract to ...
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NewsGauge changer trial
SPAIN: Infrastructure authority ADIF is testing the TCSR03 gauge-changer which has been built at Roda de Bará near Tarragona, using facilities made redundant by completion of the Madrid - Barcelona high speed line. Developed as part of the Unichanger research programme (RG 9.09 p55), the TCSR03 is designed to accept ...
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NewsWorld rail market October 2010
Denmark: DSB has ordered 188 Hoeft & Wessel almex.station ticket machines. All will accept payments by coins and cards, and some will take banknotes and give notes as change. Germany: DB has selected Syncron International's Global Inventory Management software to control its spare parts supply chain across 100 stock ...
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NewsPointers October 2010
Last month the national railways of Russia and Ukraine established a joint working group to investigate high speed passenger services on three routes from Moscow to Kyiv, Adler and Feodosiya. Moscow - Kyiv is the priority, but RZD says 'it is still too early to estimate the time and cost ...
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News320 km/h train order as Eurostar sets sights on expansion
EUROPE: Cross-Channel high speed train operator Eurostar announced details on October 7 of a £700m investment programme to expand the business and 'compete in an open access market' across Europe. The first major development since the former joint venture operator became an incorporated stand-alone company on September 1 includes an ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The German Land of Thüringen has awarded Erfurter Bahn a contract to operate Dieselnetz Ostthüringen services totalling 4·6 million train-km a year for 12½ years from June 10 2012. Pakistan Railways suffered Rs3bn worth of damage during the recent flooding, with large areas of track were inundated and numerous ...
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During the President of Ukraine's visit to China in September a framework agreement was signed under which China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corp could provide up to US$1bn to finance construction of a rail link to Kyiv Borispol airport. An 8 km spur ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2010 expects record visitor numbers
INNOTRANS: Even before the final day of the trade fair, InnoTrans Exhibition Director Matthias Steckmann told InnoTrans Daily that his conclusions were extremely positive: ‘We expect to have received more than 100 000 trade visitors from more than 100 countries, which would constitute an increase of roughly 20% in comparison ...
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NewsDesiro RUS goes local
RUSSIA: Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin and Siemens Mobility CEO Hans-Jörg Grundmann signed a contract on September 21 for the German supplier to build a further 16 Desiro RUS electric multiple-units. Worth €170m, the deal follows an earlier contract for 38 trainsets valued at €410m. Whereas the first batch of ...