All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 939
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NewsWorld infrastructure market November 2010
Australia: Seymour Whyte Constructions and Baulderstone have been awarded contracts worth A$68m for enabling works on the 13 km Gold Coast light rail corridor. Egypt: National Authority for Tunnels has appointed Systra to lead design work for Phase IV of Cairo metro Line 3. France: ...
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NewsTalent 2 to work Leipzig S-Bahn
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation confirmed on November 19 that DB Regio had placed a further order for Class 442 Talent EMUs valued at around €200m. The 36 three-car and 15 four-car EMUs will be used on the new Mitteldeutsche S-Bahn network radiating from Leipzig, which is due to open in ...
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NewsWork starts on LGV Est Phase 2
FRANCE: Construction work for the second section of LGV Est Européen was officially inaugurated on November 18, when RFF President Hubert du Mesnil hosted a ceremony at Steinbourg in the département of Bas-Rhin. Among the VIPs attending the event was Philippe Richert, the former President of the Alsace regional council ...
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NewsBDZ becomes holding company
BULGARIA: Plans to restructure state rail operator BDZ on a holding company model were signed-off by Minister of Transport, Communications & Information Technology Alexander Tsvetko on October 22. National Railway Infrastructure Company is already responsible for infrastructure. The latest plans will see BDZ EAD established as a holding company with ...
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NewsMünchen U-Bahn orders more trains
GERMANY: City utility company Stadtwerke München has placed an €185m order with Siemens Mobility for 21 six-car U-Bahn trains, with delivery scheduled for 2013-15. Two-thirds of the new rolling stock, designated Type C2.11, will replace some of the existing Type A vehicles which are now 40 years old. A total ...
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NewsItalian open access passenger operator launches
ITALY: Privately owned open access operator Arenaways launched its first passenger service on November 15, competing with state-owned passenger operator Trenitalia between Milano and Torino. Arenaways received confirmation of its two daily paths in each direction on November 12, however it did not obtain approval to call at intermediate stations ...
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NewsWork begins on high speed line through Qinling mountains
CHINA: Construction of the Xi'an - Chengdu railway is set to be start by the end of the year, after the National Development & Reform Commission approved First Survey & Design Institute's alignment during November. Work is scheduled to take four years at a cost of 70·8bn yuan. The 511 ...
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NewsUkrainian Railways to order Korean trainsets
UKRAINE: Visiting South Korea on November 2, Deputy Prime Minister Borys Kolesnikov announced a provisional agreement for UZ to buy 160 km/h inter-city trainsets from Hyundai-Rotem, as the first step in a programme to renew the national railway’s rolling stock fleet. A protocol signed in Changwon covers ...
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NewsWorld rail market November 2010
Australia: Funkwerk is to supply 685 GSM-R cab digital radio sets for the Sydney suburban network by the end of 2012. The contract with RailCorp NSW includes an option for a further 230 sets. Denmark: Banedanmark has awarded Eltel Networks a five-year contract to manage and maintain its ...
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NewsSiemens selected for Rennes metro Line B
FRANCE: Mayor of Rennes Daniel Delaveau announced on November 16 that Siemens has been selected as preferred bidder by transport authority Rennes Métropole to build the city’s second driverless metro line. The €200m contract will be submitted to the city council for ratification on November 18.Siemens Mobility France will be ...
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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 ...