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Investing in Talgo
ON DECEMBER 22 Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking and MCH Private Equity announced investment in a capital increase in Patentes Talgo SA.Purchase of shares from the Oriol family and corporate restructuring will give LBMB a direct and indirect voting equity stake of 49·9%. The transaction is expected to close in the ...
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Spanish projects make progress
SPANISH INFRASTRUCTURE authority ADIF has awarded the last civil works contract for the Córdoba - M
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Metros
Australia: The first of 11 Bombardier Flexity trams entered service in Adelaide last month. Six will be running by April, and the rest of the A$58m fleet at the end of the year.Brazil: São Paulo has called international tenders for a 30-year PPP concession covering metro Line 4. The first ...
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Transmission modelling promises a quieter railway
INTRO: Selection of the right trackform for an underground railway has been simplified by the development of a simulation model that accurately predicts the transmission of ground-borne sound and vibration from the rail surface to nearby buildingsBYLINE: Ulrik Danneskiold-Samsøe, Uffe Degn and José Luis Eguiguren*BYLINE: * Ulrik Danneskiold-Samsøe is Marketing ...
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Montréal spends
A THREE-YEAR programme of renewals and upgrading for the Montréal metro was announced by Société de Transport de Montréal on December 12. Total value of the capital programme is put at C$1·1bn, of which 57·4% will go on the metro.According to STM Chairman Claude Dauphin, ’in 2006 customers will see ...
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Order revised
RUSSIAN Railways President Vladimir Yakunin confirmed on December 12 that terms had been agreed for a revised contract with Siemens for the supply of high speed trainsets, which is expected to be signed in March.Several agreements were signed last year for RZD to buy around 60 trainsets from Siemens, with ...
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People
The appointment of Peter Hendy as Commissioner of Transport for London with effect from February 1 was announced on January 17. Norfolk Southern President & CEO Charles W Moorman has been elected Chairman of the Association of American Railroads for 2006. He succeeds CSX Corp's Chairman, President & ...
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Pointers
Setting its budget for 2006-11, the Austrian government has allocated record development funding to ÖBB Infrastruktur Bau AG. €1·55bn will be invested in 2006, with €1·3 to €1·5bn in later years. An allocation of €100m for special projects this year includes €20m for planning the Semmering base tunnel.Feasibility studies have ...
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Police reinforced
IT IS hard to say for sure what happened on board TER train 17430 from Nice to Lyon on New Year’s day, but numerous offences, including theft and sexual assault, seem to have been committed.The 10-coach train left Nice at 06.00, conveying among its 600 passengers a number of inebriated ...
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Spending programme unveiled
MUCH-HERALDED plans to modernise and develop Argentina’s run-down railways are finally taking shape. The proposals are contained in a Presidential decree that came into force on January 4, setting out an ambitious programme to upgrade the commuter and metro networks in Buenos Aires, and to restore inter-city passenger services to ...
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Waverley redevelopment
SCOTTISH Minister for Transport Tavish Scott and the Chief Executive of Transport Scotland Dr Malcolm Reed visited Edinburgh Waverley station on January 9 to launch a £150m redevelopment scheme.Phase 1 will increase movements through the throat at the west end of the station from 24 to 28 passenger trains/h in ...
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Siemens scoops Saudi signalling
A CONSORTIUM of Siemens and Nour Communications Co has been selected to undertake a €91m renewal of signalling and communications on the Saudi Railways Organisation network.Under a contract announced on December 21, the consortium will provide a Simis computer-based interlocking, Vicos control system, and Trainguard 100 ETCS Level 1 equipment, ...
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Sidetrack
Commuter Dave Askwith tried to brighten up his daily journey by putting up official-looking signs providing spoof instructions, warnings and information. He subsequently branched out into road, warning and council signs around Britain’s trains, shops and hotels. ’Some lasted several weeks before being pinched, or taken down by disgruntled staff’, ...
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Suburban spring
MUMBAI’S suburban trains are subject to high passenger loadings during the peaks, and coil springs in the primary suspension of the city’s EMU cars have proved unreliable with a short life expectancy.Indian Railways approached Trelleborg and requested a revised suspension design for new-build trains, which could also be retrofitted to ...
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T1 to meet Line 13
A PUBLIC enquiry began on December 12 for the planned extension of Paris tram route T1 from Saint-Denis to Asnières-sur-Seine, as part of the process leading to the Declaration of Public Utility. Due to enter service in 2010, the 4·9 km orbital extension running west from Saint-Denis will serve the ...
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Metros January 2006
Argentina: Buenos Aires metro operator Metrovías has put into service on Line D the first of four six-car trains purchased from Nagoya Subway. Arriving in Argentina during the 2001 financial crisis, they were stored in bond pending payment of import duties. Austria: Ascom Security Solutions has won a SFr3m contract ...
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Intelligence January 2006
Australia: QR's pre-tax profit for the year to June was up from A$191m to A$287m. Freight traffic was up 8·4% to 175 million tonnes, with QR winning all the coal contracts it bid for in Queensland, and taking 13% of the market in NSW. Brazil: A pre-feasibility study by the ...
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Railway Directory 2006
WITH the addition of maps of the networks in Madagascar, the Philippines and Venezuela, we are pleased to announce that Railway Directory now offers a complete suite of four-colour geographical maps of the world’s main line railways.Compiled and edited by Chris Bushell, with maps drawn by Andy Hellawell, the 111th ...