All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 946
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NewsMelbourne tram supplier selected
AUSTRALIA: The government of Victoria has selected Bombardier to supply 50 low-floor trams for Melbourne. The Flexity Melbourne vehicles will be 33 m long with capacity for 210 passengers. The contract also involves a major redevelopment of the East Preston tram depot and maintenance until 2017.According to Industry & Trade ...
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NewsSignalling upgrade plan
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority has announced plans to upgrade the signalling on the North-South and East-West lines by May 2011 to achieve 100 sec headways at peak times and increase capacity by 15% to 20%. The existing signalling has been in operation since 1987. Around 120 trains will need ...
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NewsGuangzhou Metro expands as Line 2 splits
CHINA: The metro network in Guangzhou was reconfigured on September 25, when the existing Line 2 between Sanyuanli to Wangshenwei was split into two sections. The north-south route from Sanyuanli to Jiangnanxi remains as Line 2 while the east-west section from Xiaogang to Wanshengwei has been redesignated as Line ...
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NewsSan Diego Trolley upgrade underway
USA: A $600m, five-year renovation programme has begun to modernise the San Diego Trolley Blue Line between the city centre and San Ysidro. The project will be funded by federal and state grants and local sales tax revenue. The improvements include replacing 18·5 km of rail as well as sleepers, ...
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NewsSão Paulo awards monorail metro contract
BRAZIL: São Paulo metro authority CMSP has selected a consortium including Bombardier to design, supply and install an automated monorail line in the city’s eastern suburbs at a total cost of US$1·44bn. Phase I of the project is due to be opened for passenger services by 2014, ...
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NewsAuckland suburban network expands
NEW ZEALAND: Regular passenger services have resumed on the Onehunga branch in the southern suburbs of Auckland, with the reopening of the branch following a gap of 37 years. The line was officially reopened on September 18 by transport minister Steven Joyce and the Chairman of Auckland Regional Council Michael ...
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NewsDevelopment projects get the go-ahead
BANGLADESH: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved 10 rail development projects worth a total of 19·9bn taka on September 9. The government is to provide 12·6bn taka, with the rest coming from international aid. Rolling stock procurement will include 10 broad gauge diesel-electric locomotives at a cost ...
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NewsNews in Brief
During the President of Ukraine's visit to China in September a framework agreement was signed under which China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corp could provide up to US$1bn to finance construction of a rail link to Kyiv Borispol airport. An 8 km spur ...
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NewsAirport maglev demonstration line
SOUTH KOREA: A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Incheon International Airport on August 3 to mark the start of work on a 6·1 km maglev demonstration line (RG 5.08 p296). The line will have six stations and a maintenance depot. Maximum operating speed will be 110 km/h. ...
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NewsMoscow – Nice sleeper service launched
EUROPE: Mikhail Akulov, Director General of RZD’s Federal Passenger Company, was at Moscow Belorussky station on September 23 for the first departure at 16.17 of Train 17, due to arrive in the French city of Nice at 19.12 on September 25. The new service operates once a week in each ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2010 expects record visitor numbers
INNOTRANS: Even before the final day of the trade fair, InnoTrans Exhibition Director Matthias Steckmann told InnoTrans Daily that his conclusions were extremely positive: ‘We expect to have received more than 100 000 trade visitors from more than 100 countries, which would constitute an increase of roughly 20% in comparison ...
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NewsDesiro RUS goes local
RUSSIA: Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin and Siemens Mobility CEO Hans-Jörg Grundmann signed a contract on September 21 for the German supplier to build a further 16 Desiro RUS electric multiple-units. Worth €170m, the deal follows an earlier contract for 38 trainsets valued at €410m. Whereas the first batch of ...
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NewsAgreement signed for north-south corridor
AFGHANISTAN: An agreement to undertake detailed surveys for a railway linking Kabul with Uzbekistan and Pakistan was signed by Afghanistan’s Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani and China Metallurgical Group Corp (MCC) on September 22. The contract specifies that MCC will construct a railway, if feasible, from northern Pakistan to Hayratan ...
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NewsGE announces Brazil’s largest locomotive order
BRAZIL: President & CEO of GE Transportation Lorenzo Simonelli announced the signing of the ’largest locomotive purchase agreement in the history of Brazil’ at InnoTrans on September 23. The agreement worth ’in excess of 600m reais’ had been signed with MRS Logística the previous day. It covers an initial 115 ...
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NewsTMK 2200 low-floor tram
INNOTRANS: Designed and produced by the Croatian industrial company Končar and the Croatian rail manufacturer TŽV Gredelj, the TMK 2200 low-floor tram is fully air-conditioned, and is equipped with a video-surveillance system. The traction package includes asynchronous motors, IGBT converters, and microprocessor controls, giving a maximum speed of 70 km/h. ...
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NewsALP-45DP electro-diesel locomotive debut
NORTH AMERICA: Attracting interest at the InnoTrans fair in Berlin is the first of 46 electro-diesel locomotives being supplied by Bombardier to New Jersey Transit and Montréal commuter operator AMT. The ALP-45DP is derived from the ALP-46 electric locos already supplied to NJ Transit, and will be used to ...
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NewsSiemens unveils diesel surprise at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: Siemens Mobility marked the launch of its new Vectron interoperable locomotive family with a short ceremony on September 22 to name the first multi-system electric loco after the company’s founder Werner von Siemens. Chief Executive of the Siemens Industry Sector Siegfried Russwurm noted that it was highly appropriate that ...
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NewsCoal railway project approved
INDONESIA: Another rail and port project has been approved to reach coal reserves in southern Sumatra, with an agreement between the regional government of Sumatra Selatan, state-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam and India's Adani Enterprises group covering a US$165bn project to build a 250 km railway to transport 35 ...
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NewsMaintenance in a changing market
INNOTRANS: SNCF launched its Masteris brand on the international market in Berlin on September 22. Masteris has been created partly in response to the opening up of the European rail market, as open access operators – especially freight operators – have a growing need for third-party maintenance services.Currently employing 15 ...
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NewsThales signs Chinese JV agreement
CHINA: Thales announced on September 22 that it had signed an agreement with Shanghai Electric Corp and SEC subsidiary Shanghai Automation Instrumentation Co to create a signalling joint venture to target the urban rail sector in China. This agreement supersedes Thales’ former arrangement with Alcatel Shanghai Bell and will enable ...