All Railway Gazette International articles in November 2010 – Page 3
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NewsARRA stimulus boosts Philadelphia
USA: More than two-thirds of the federal stimulus funding allocated to improve rail infrastructure in Philadelphia had been spent by early November, according to SEPTA Chief Engineer Jeffrey Knueppel. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has provided the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority with $191m for badly-needed infrastructure upgrades and repairs. ...
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NewsLos Angeles MTA seeks LRV bids
USA: Los Angeles County MTA has released a request for proposals for 74 light rail vehicles costing $335·4m; delivery would start in late 2013. The purchase under contract P3010 is described as a ‘best value LRV procurement’ that will include options for additional vehicles as required when future light rail ...
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NewsConnecticut orders more M-8 commuter cars
USA: The state of Connecticut has exercised an option for another 42 M-8 commuter EMU cars from Kawasaki Rail Car Inc, bringing the total order to 342 vehicles costing $860m. The announcement was made by outgoing Governor Jodi Rell on November 15, when she and a group of Department of ...
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NewsUK's first ETCS Level 2 signalling goes live
UK: Arriva Train Wales began operating the UK's first regular passenger services controlled by ETCS Level 2 signalling on October 29. ETCS has been installed on the Cambrian lines in Wales under infrastructure manager Network Rail's Early Deployment Scheme, which is intended to allow operating procedures and other issues to ...
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NewsHajj pilgrims take the metro to Makkah
SAUDI ARABIA: Phase I of the Al Mashaaer Al Mugadassah Southern metro line has entered revenue service, following an inspection by Abdul Rahman Al-Shahwab, Director General of Projects at the Ministry of Municipal & Rural Affairs, on November 13. However, the service is initially limited to pilgrims from Saudi Arabia ...
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NewsTracklaying complete on Beijing - Shanghai high speed line
CHINA: Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun attended a ceremony at Bengbu in Anhui Province on November 15 where a machine laid the final rails to complete tracklaying on the 1 318 km Beijing - Shanghai high speed line. The People's Daily Online reports that the scheduled 2012 opening has been ...
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NewsCasablanca tram contracts awarded
MOROCCO: Casablanca tramway development company Casa Transports has awarded Alstom two contracts to provide signalling and power supply equipment for the 30 km Y-shaped network which is due to open on December 12 2012. The contracts announced on November 12 are worth €11m. One covers the design and supply of ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market November 2010
Australia: Downer EDI has won orders totalling A$300m to supply Pacific National with 13 locomotives in 2011-12 and undertake infrastructure renewals projects for ARTC. Brazil: CPTM has awarded Alstom a €80m contract to supply nine eight-car metropolis trainsets for São Paulo Line 11 by mid-2012 (p16). Croatia: TZV ...
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NewsUrban Rail News in Brief
Secretary of Transport Juan Pablo Schiavi and Mayor of Córdoba Daniel Giacomino ratified an agreement on October 5 to build an 18·5 km metro network with 29 stations in Argentina’s second-largest city, which has 1·5 million inhabitants. The project would be implemented by China Railway International and work would take ...
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NewsNews in Brief
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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NewsLathe profiles Zürich tram wheels
WHEEL PROFILING: Emotec has retrofitted a lathing capability to a tram wheel profiling machine, which along with a modern computer control system has reduced the time taken to reprofile the four wheels on a bogie from a day to 2 h. Zürich transport operator VBZ called in Swiss engineering firm ...
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NewsTalgo to renew Kazakh inter-city train fleet
KAZAKHSTAN: Talgo announced an order to supply KTZ with 420 coaches on November 11, part of an agreement signed the previous week which could see the national railway's fleet of 3 000 inter-city vehicles replaced. The initial contract is worth more than €300m for the Spanish firm, with further revenue ...
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Al Engel takes on high speed
Al Engel, currently Vice-President & High Speed Rail Director at Aecom, is to join Amtrak as Vice-President. He will head a new department with the aim of growing and developing Amtrak’s role in high speed rail.
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NewsTatravagonka buys Bratstvo wagon plant
SERBIA: Slovak wagon builder Tatravagónka Poprad has paid €5·4m for the Bratstvo wagon factory in Subotica, which has been privatised again after the government took control in mid-2009 to protect jobs and pay wages. The agreement was signed in Bratislava on November 5 in the presence of Serbian Minister of ...
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NewsMoscow - St Petersburg high speed study to be submitted next year
RUSSIA: A report setting out the functional requirements for a Moscow - St Petersburg high speed line is to be completed by the start of 2011, Denis Muratov, Director-General of RZD's high speed rail subsidiary Skorostnye Magistrali, told the High Speed World 2010 conference in Madrid on November 9. The ...
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NewsDublin Metro North project wins approval
IRELAND: The Railway Procurement Agency's application to build the proposed 18 km Metro North light rail line from St Stephen’s Green in Dublin city centre to Estuary, north of Swords, has been approved. The PPP project is part of the Transport 21 plan. The Railway Order granted by the ...
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NewsAliaga – Izmir suburban services launched
TURKEY: The start of trial services on the 58 km suburban line from Alsançak to Aliaga on October 29 marked the completion of a project to develop the 80 km Aliaga–Menderes commuter network in Izmir. The project involves reconstructing two existing railway lines and launching suburban services to connect urban ...
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NewsNews in Brief
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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NewsGuangzhou peoplemover enters service
CHINA: Guangzhou Metro launched trial operation of its automated peoplemover on November 8. The line will serve key venues for the Asian Games taking place in the city from November 12 – 27. The 4 km double-track underground route connects the Zhujiang Xincheng central business district to the Tianhe commercial ...
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NewsSystra and Studi to manage Tunis suburban construction
TUNISIA: The Tunis Rapid Rail Network Co has awarded Systra and Tunisian group Studi a 43-month contract to manage construction of the first phase of the RFR suburban rail network. Phase I envisages a 17·9 km, two-line Y-shaped network with 14 stations. The two lines would share a tunnel between ...