All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2014 – Page 2
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NewsFour Parramatta light rail routes shortlisted
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian and Parramatta MP Geoff Lee announced the shortlist for the Parramatta light rail route in western Sydney on October 27. The NSW government announced 10 corridors in June, and has now shortlisted four of these for detailed engineering, transport planning ...
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NewsKochi places metro car order
INDIA: Kochi metro project manager Delhi Metro Rail Corp has awarded Alstom an €85m contract to supply 25 three-car Metropolis trainsets to Kochi Metro Rail Limited, with an option to supply an additional 25 trainsets. The first trainsets are due to be delivered in early 2016 from ...
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NewsWashington announces streetcar shortlist
USA: The District of Columbia Department of Transportation has shortlisted three consortia for an estimated $800m contract to construct further tram lines and operate an ‘Integrated Premium Transit’ network of trams and buses in Washington. The shortlisted bidders are: DC Transit Partners (Clark Construction, Shirley Contracting, Herzog Transit ...
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NewsShunting locos designed for Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: Grindrod Locomotives has launched the GS7 shunting locomotive, which is being offered to African operators by the GPR leasing joint venture of Grindrod Freight Services and Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund through dry leasing packages. Two models have been developed. The 1067 mm gauge two-axle GS7S2C weighs 40 tonnes ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market October 2014
Argentina: The first an initial batch of 30 six-car 830 V DC third rail EMU cars being supplied by CSR for the Mitre commuter route arrived in Buenos Aires on September 6. Coal mining company YCRT has acquired 12 diesel locomotives from the Czech Republic for its 750 mm ...
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NewsKuala Lumpur orders CSR Zhuzhou metro trainsets
MALAYSIA: Greater Kuala Lumpur transport agency Prasarana signed a firm contract for CSR Zhuzhou to supply 30 more six-car metro trainsets for the Ampang Line on October 21. Scheduled to be delivered between May and July 2015, these 30 trainsets worth 1·13bn yuan are in addition to 20 which ...
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News10 expressions of interest in California high speed fleet
USA: By the ‘soft deadline’ of October 22, California High Speed Rail Authority had received 10 responses to its request for expressions of interest in a contract to supply trainsets and a maintenance facility. Responses were submitted by: Alstom Transportation;AnsaldoBreda;Bombardier Transit Corp;CSR Corp;Hyundai Rotem;Marnell Transportation;Kawasaki Rail Car;Siemens Industry;SunGroup USA & ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market October 2014
Australia: GHD and RPS Manidis Roberts are to prepare environmental impact assessments for the Newcastle light rail project (RG 6.14 p17). Golder Associates has been awarded a A$5·7m contract to undertake geotechnical studies for Perth’s Forrestfield – Airport Link. Construction is planned to run from 2016 to ...
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NewsSydney CBD & South East light rail preferred bidder named
AUSTRALIA: The New South Wales government named the Connecting Sydney consortium as preferred bidder for a PPP contract to build and operate Sydney’s CBD & South East Light Rail line on October 23. The consortium comprises Transdev Sydney, Alstom Transport Australia, Acciona Infrastructure Australia and Capella Capital. The SydneyConnect consortium ...
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NewsChina Northern wins Boston metro car order
USA: Massachusetts Department of Transportation board voted to award the CNR MA joint venture of China CNR Corp and CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles a $430·2m contract to supply 284 metro cars for Boston’s Red and Orange lines on October 22. An option for 58 cars would take the value to ...
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NewsInfrabel commissions longest ETCS Level 1 project
BELGIUM: Recently-appointed Transport Minister Jacqueline Galant joined Infrabel CEO Luc Lallemand and his SNCB counterpart Jo Cornu at Dinant on October 20 to inaugurate ETCS 1 on 160 km of TEN Corridor 2 between Namur and Athus, near the border with Luxembourg. The work included installing 1 900 balises and ...
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NewsJoint venture to audit Borneo coal railway project
INDONESIA: Russian Railways and Austrian-Swiss contractor Rhomberg-Sersa have agreed to undertake a technical audit for the eastern Kalimantan coal railway project, for which RZD is providing technical support. Construction of the coal railway on the island of Borneo could begin in 2016, RZD says. According to a memorandum signed by ...
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NewsTramRus tram coming to St Petersburg
RUSSIA: The TramRus joint venture of Alstom and Transmashholding is to supply a tram to St Petersburg by December 1. This would be the first 100% low-floor tram to run in the city, according to the manufacturer. The tram is currently undergoing testing at TramRus’s Oktyabrsky Electric Railway Car ...
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NewsFunding agreed for Lyon - Torino test bore
FRANCE: Construction of a 9 km trial bore for the Alpine base tunnel that will eventually form part of the new line between Lyon and Torino in Italy is expected to start in January 2015, following the signature of a funding agreement worth €105∙78m. The agreement was signed in Paris ...
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NewsSouth Island Line tunnel broken through
CHINA: Excavation of the Nam Fung Tunnel on Hong Kong metro’s South Island Line (East) was completed on October 17. Drill-and-blast works for the 3·2 km tunnel between Admiralty and Ocean Park stations started in August 2012. Around 500 tonnes of explosives were used for 750 blasts, producing approximately ...
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NewsKarlsruhe welcomes new light rail vehicle
GERMANY: The first two Vossloh Citylink NET 2012 light rail vehicles entered passenger service in Karlsruhe on October 18, with a day of free travel after the ceremonial roll-out the previous day. Karlsruhe transport operators VBK and AVG ordered an initial build of 25 vehicles in October 2011 for ...
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NewsGauge-changing Free Gauge Train on test in Kyushu
JAPAN: JR Kyushu and the Japan Railway Construction Transport & Technology Agency officially launched test running with the gauge-changing Free Gauge Train prototype in a ceremony at Yatsushiro on October 19. Designated Series 9000 by JR Kyushu, the four-car trainset is being tested between Kagoshima-Chuo and Shin-Yatsushiro on the 1 ...
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NewsRZDstroy and Alstom to co-operate
RUSSIA: On October 17 Russian Railways subsidiary RZDstroy and Alstom signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration on ‘innovative development in rail transportation in Russia and other countries’. RZD said the main areas of co-operation would include technical consultation, infrastructure engineering, assessment of design documentation and the management of ...
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NewsCP ends CSX merger talks
NORTH AMERICA: Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd announced on October 20 that an ‘exploratory conversation’ about a possible merger with CSX Corp had ended, and that no further talks were planned. CP confirmed that it had proposed a merger which it envisaged would create ‘an integrated coast-to-coast combination that would ...
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NewsStrasbourg orders Citadis trams
FRANCE: Alstom has signed a framework agreement for the supply of 50 Citadis trams to Strasbourg. An initial 12 trams, worth €41m, are expected to enter service by the end of 2016. The trams will be put into service on Line A and Line D, both of which are ...