All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 879
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NewsFaiveley Transport to buy Graham-White
USA: Faiveley Transport has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in compressed air drying technology and brake component manufacturer Graham-White. The US firm employs 300 people at six locations, with a central manufacturing site in Salem, Virginia. It is expecting to record sales of $70m in 2011, with 90% in ...
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NewsProducts & Technology in Brief
Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona has developed TMB Maps, an iPad app which enables users to plan metro and bus trips, locate stops and check the next departure using a tablet computer. Metro stations and bus stops are superimposed on a map of the user’s location, with details of services. An ...
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NewsMünchen transport gets €135m investment
GERMANY: München transport operator MVG has announced plans to invest €135m in its metro and tram networks during the coming year. Around €70m will go on metro improvements, including the modernisation of Hauptbahnhof and Marienplatz U-bahn stations and signalling at Scheidplatz. Other projects will include upgrading the power supplies to ...
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NewsTrial services begin on Lima metro
PERU: More than a quarter of a century after work began on Lima’s first metro, trial services on the full 22 km Tren Eléctrico line between Villa El Salvador and Miguel Grau began on January 9. There was a limited free service for the first month, with revenue operation expected ...
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Dr Omar Davies
Dr Omar Davies took up office as Jamaica’s Transport Minister on January 9. Further appointments within the Transport, Works & Housing Ministry include Richard Azan as Minister of State and Dr Morais Guy as Minister without Portfolio.
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NewsShenyang metro opens second line
CHINA: Revenue services on Shenyang metro Line 2 between Santaizi and Quanyunlu began on January 9, serving business facilities being developed along the city’s ‘Golden Corridor’. Work on the 21∙8 km north-south route with 19 stations began in 2006. Line 1 had opened in September 2009. The capital expenditure on ...
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NewsLondon Tramlink takes delivery of Stadler cars
UK: The Tramlink light rail network in south London has begun taking delivery of six Stadler Rail Variotrams which Transport for London ordered in August 2011 at cost of £16∙3m.The first of the 32 m long five-section 100% low-floor air-conditioned trams underwent trial running in the German city of Chemnitz ...
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NewsTaipei Xinzhuang Line extension opens
TAIWAN: The 8∙2 km southern branch of Taipei’s Xinzhuang Line from Daqiaotou to Fu Jen University in New Taipei City was opened by Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin and New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu on January 5. Full revenue services are expected to begin in February, after a month of ...
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NewsOlsztyn chooses Newag trams for new line
POLAND: A consortium of Newag and Modertrans has been selected as preferred bidder to supply cars for the tramway being developed in Olsztyn, beating bids from Solaris and Pesa Bydgoszcz. Newag and Modertrans are to supply city transport operator MPK Olsztyn with 15 trams at a cost of 113·6m z?oty, ...
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NewsBuenos Aires city government takes control of metro
ARGENTINA: The Buenos Aires city government has taken over control of the Subte metro network from the national government after an agreement was signed by Mayor Mauricio Macri and Minister of Planning Julio De Vido on January 3. Daily operations are managed by operator Metrovías, but the city will now ...
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NewsHelsinki metro automation ambitions are scaled back
FINLAND: Helsinki metro operator HKL announced last month that the contract for Siemens to automate the city’s metro line could not be fulfilled due to cost and technical factors. Following two days of discussions, the scope has been scaled back and Siemens has offered a discount on the €100m ...
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NewsAnsaldo STS awarded Turkish ETCS contracts
TURKEY: Ansaldo STS has won a contract to supply ETCS Level 1 signalling, telecommunications and automation systems to the Salini Costruttori/GCF/Kolin joint venture which is upgrading the line between Gebze and Köseköy as part of the Istanbul - Ankara high speed project. Completion is scheduled for 2014. Under a separate ...
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NewsEtihad Rail signalling and telecoms contract awarded
UAE: Ansaldo STS is to supply ERTMS equipment including ETCS Level 2 signalling, automation and telecoms systems for the first phase of the UAE's national railway project. The contract announced on January 23 covers the 266 km route from the Shah industrial complex to Habshan and the port of Ruwais, ...
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NewsTesting underway on first section of Salvador metro
BRAZIL: Test running on the first 6∙5 km section of Salvador metro Line 1 between Lapa and Acesso Norte began on December 22. Testing is scheduled to continue until April, when a free passenger service will be introduced until the start of commercial services in June. The line will serve ...
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NewsHo Chi Minh City metro design and supervision contract
VIETNAM: Ho Chi Minh City's Management Authority for Urban Railways has awarded the design, tender documentation and site supervision services contract for metro Line 2 to a consortium of Pöyry, ILF Beratende Ingenieure, Obermeyer Planen + Beraten and local partner Tedi South. The design and documentation phase is scheduled to ...
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NewsFirst C Stock trains enter service in Hong Kong
CHINA: Hong Kong MTR put its first C Stock trains into passenger services on the Kwun Tong Line on December 7. MTR awarded CNR Changchun a HK$1·1bn contract to supply 10 eight-car trainsets in December 2008, the first time it had ordered metro trains from a manufacturer on the Chinese ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The Ministry of Transport & Communications in Kazakhstan has appointed Aecom and Strategy Partners Group to to develop a national freight and passenger transport strategy, with recommendations on energy efficiency, institutional reforms and the potential for transit freight between China and Europe. EIB signed the first €40m instalment of a ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Delhi Metro Rail Corp Managing Director E Sreedharan has written to the Ministry of Human Resource Development to urge the introduction of post-graduate courses in 'metro technology' across the country. DMRC believes that specialist technical schools such as the Indian Institutes of Technology should provide courses in urban rail design ...
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NewsSharing BIM to cut whole-life costs
UK: Crossrail Ltd has decided to use the latest Building Information Management software throughout its construction supply chain, in order to ensure consistent data and share design information across the £15bn project to build a new east-west rail route under London. Addressing a briefing for Tier 1 contractors at the ...