All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 969
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NewsRailway to south Sudan reopens
SUDAN: Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and First Vice-President and President of the Government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit reopened the railway to Wau on March 11, a month before elections are due to be held. A train had run on the Babanousa - Aweil section on September 25. The ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Seven years and five months after Great Britain’s privatised infrastructure manager was placed into liquidation, Railtrack Group’s final general meeting was held in London on March 15. A final payment will be made to shareholders ‘in the region of 2p per share’. To date, the joint liquidators have made four ...
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NewsSmaller and simpler
DERAILER: Zonegreen has spent two years improving its derailer design to offer easier installation and lower maintenance requirements. The electronics and mechanical components have been simplified, according to R& D Manager Dr Szer Ming Lee, and the electric actuator can be wound manually if there is a loss of power. ...
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NewsCutting delay impact
PLANNING: Atos Origin claims a 2% cut in train delays can expected from the roll-out of its Integrale software, which predicts the outcome of action which could be taken in response to incidents disrupting services. Integrale links information from train operators with real-time train running data to supply fact-based decision ...
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NewsRZD launches Moscow - St Petersburg high speed line project
RUSSIA: Proposals for the construction of a 660 km high speed line linking Moscow and St Petersburg were unveiled by Russian Railways at a high-level conference in St Petersburg on April 1. The event was attended by representatives from various state bodies, the Russian scientific and business sectors. According to ...
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NewsDriver training tram
SLOVAKIA: DP Bratislava has taken delivery of the last of 35 Tatra K2S two-car articulated trams to be heavily rebuilt by Skoda subsidiary Pars Nova Sumperk to extend their lives by 10 to 15 years. The steel-bodied metre-gauge trams, originally built as Type K2 by CKD Tatra in 1975-83, have ...
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NewsGold Coast light rail attracts six bidders
AUSTRALIA: Six consortia have expressed interest in the PPP contract to design, build, operate and maintain phase I of the Gold Coast rapid transit project. The 13 km corridor from Griffith University to Broadbeach is due to open in 2014.The bidders are: GCSmartmove comprising Ansaldo STS, SMRT ...
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NewsThree consortia shortlisted for Panamá City metro
PANAMA: Three international consortia have prequalified to bid for the contract to build Panamá City’s first metro line. They are: CIMA, comprising Acciona Infraestructuras, Misubishi Corp, MHI, CAF and Constructoras ICA of Mexico; Línea Uno, comprising Construtora Norberto Odebrecht and Fomento de Construcciones ...
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NewsDB takes over Tyne & Wear Metro
UK: DB Regio Tyne & Wear Ltd formally took over responsibility for operating the local electric network around Newcastle and Sunderland on April 1. The concession agreement runs for seven years with an optional two-year extension, with regional transport authority Nexus paying the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary a fee based on ...
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NewsMiskolc selects Sirio trams
HUNGARY: Miskolc city council has chosen AnsaldoBreda to supply 31 Sirio low-floor trams for the city’s tram network, following the evaluation of four bids submitted in February. Offers were also received from Skoda, CAF and Siemens.AnsaldoBreda will supply two prototypes by January 31 2012. The Italian manufacturer will then deliver ...
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NewsAmtrak returns to Metrolink in June
USA: Amtrak is to succeed Veolia as the operator of Metrolink commuter services in Los Angeles from June 26 2010. The contract finalised with Southern California Regional Rail Authority on March 26 runs for four years with options for two three-year extensions. Amtrak was the original operator of the network ...
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NewsCAF's rolling stock exports grow
SPAIN: Rolling stock manufacturer CAF has announced profits of €124·3m for the 2009 calendar year, up 17·5% on 2008. Export orders accounted for 42% of the net turnover, which at €1¡¤25bn was up 25% on the previous year. Ebitda was up 32% to €162·6m. CAF’s order backlog as of December ...
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NewsMTR West Island Line progresses
CHINA: Hong Kong's MTR Corp has awarded the Gammon-Nishimatsu WIL Joint Venture a HK$4·75bn contract to build 2·2 km of running tunnel for the West Island Line project along with two intermediate stations at Sai Ying Pin and Hong Kong University.Gammon had already won a HK$1·3bn contract to build Kennedy ...
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NewsWestern reopening to encourage regional development
IRELAND: Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey formally launched Ireland's first revival of an inter-city route on March 29. The following day a regular service of five daily return trains ran between Limerick and Galway for the first time since 1976. The €106·5m Phase 1 of the project to reopen the ...
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NewsChina plans heavy haul coal line
CHINA: The Ministry of Railways has started planning for a third heavy haul railway corridor to carry coal from mines in Inner Mongolia to a new port on the Bohai Sea. Work has already started on a coal export terminal at the port of Huludao in Laioning province, around 150 ...
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NewsKorail orders electric freight locomotives
SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai Rotem is to supply national railway Korail with 56 six-axle electric freight locomotives with Toshiba electrical equipment. The Japanese sub-supplier will provide traction and auxiliary power systems worth ¥10bn for the 6·6 MW 8300 series locomotives, which are due to be delivered between May 2011 and ...
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NewsStalin's Polar line revived
RUSSIA: Construction of a 355 km railway to link existing railheads at Salekhard and Nadym in northwest Siberia began in March, following the allocation of state funding and the award of construction contracts. The 243bn rouble railway is part of the Ural Industrial - Ural Polar regional development project. The ...
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NewsAtos Origin buys Shere
EUROPE: IT services company Atos Origin announced on March 30 the acquisition of Shere of the UK, which supplies self-service and desktop ticket sales systems. Paris-based Atos Origin said the deal forms part of a strategy to increase revenue from transaction-based services. Founded in 1992, Shere recorded revenues of £11m ...
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NewsBLS buys double-deckers for Bern S-Bahn
SWITZERLAND: BLS has placed its largest ever rolling stock order, awarding Stadler Rail a SFr493·7m contract to supply 28 four-car double-deck electric multiple-units to increase capacity on Bern S-Bahn services. The 160 km/h units will be delivered from Stadler's Bussnang plant between autumn 2012 and the end of 2014. They ...
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NewsRFF selects Vinci to build Tours – Bordeaux LGV
FRANCE: Infrastructure manager RFF has announced its intention to start exclusive negotiations with a Vinci-led consortium to build and maintain the 340 km Tours – Bordeaux high speed line under a PPP concession. The consortium, led by Vinci and including Caisse des Dépôts and Axa, was selected from a shortlist ...