All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2007 – Page 2
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Return of the mountain train
ARGENTINA's Transport Secretary Ricardo Jaime visited the city of Córdoba on August 12 to formally open the first stage of a project to restore passenger services over the 144 km metre-gauge route to Cruz del Eje. Aimed primarily at the tourist market, the Tren de las Sierras (Train of the ...
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NewsUfa tramway rehabilitation
RUSSIA: Inekon Group is to undertake track, level crossing and vehicle upgrades for the tram network in the Russian city of Ufa. Under a contract worth €2·2m, four Type T3M trams with Cegelec IGBT-based traction equipment are to be delivered to the city, the first of which left for Russia ...
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NewsBangkok Desiro deliveries begin
THE FIRST two of the nine Desiro electric multiple-units which are being built for Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport rail link left the German port of Bremerhaven for the five-week journey to Thailand on September 8. The trains sailed onboard the cargo ship MV Pegasus Leader and are expected to arrive at ...
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Canadian Pacific buys DM&E
A US$1·48bn deal for the purchase of Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp was announced by Canadian Pacific Railway on September 5. The acquisition of the 4 000 km DM&E came as a surprise to many in the industry, and financial analysts immediately questioned the price as being high given ...
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Pointers September 2007
On August 17 five state-owned Chinese transport, steel and construction companies signed an A$750m investment agreement with Yilgarn Infrastructure Ltd, an unlisted Australian company established to develop the A$3bn Oakajee Port & Rail Project. Work on the common-user route serving iron ore mines in Western Australia could begin in late ...
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Ghana revival starts as concessions are signed
RECONSTRUCTION and expansion of the rail network in Ghana is expected to get underway before the end of this year, following the award of two 35-year concessions covering the country's Western and Eastern corridors. Transport Minister Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi pledged that 'we will leave no stone unturned' to revive the rail ...
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Magnificent seven
MEETING on August 10, the board of Hungarian State Railways agreed to shortlist seven bidders for the second round of tenders in the privatisation of MÁV Cargo, rather than the five originally anticipated. Final offers are due on October 19. Launched on May 29, the first round which closed on ...
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NewsReturn of the inter-city train
Investment by individual states has brought a dramatic growth in inter-city rail travel on some US corridors, and may trigger the political breakthrough required for the development of true high speed lines
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World rail news in brief
An 8·3 MW gas turbine locomotive which is currently undergoing trials was displayed at the opening of Russian Railways' Innovation Development Centre at Moscow's Riga station last month. The 300 tonne twin-section GTI-001 loco built by the Voronezh Locomotive Factory has a NK-361 turbine developed by ...
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Chuo maglev priced
CENTRAL JAPAN Railway has stepped up its campaign to build the long-planned Chuo Shinkansen as a maglev link between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. In August the company issued its first detailed cost estimate, putting the first stage from Tokyo to Nagoya at ¥5 000bn. Three years ago the ...
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Metros September 2007
Belgium: STIB will begin putting the 15 six-car Boa metro trainsets supplied by CAF into service on Brussels Line 1B this month. Bulgaria: Having received no bids during two previous privatisation attempts, the city of Sofia has lowered to 25m leva the price it expects to obtain from the sale ...
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No concession at Ethio-Djibouti Railway
MID-2007 was expected to have seen the signing of a 25-year concession for the operation of the 781 km Ethio-Djibouti Railway. But it was not to be. Nine consortia had expressed interest in the concession when bidding began two years ago. Two groups led by Comazar of South Africa and ...
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Karelian Trains awards Pendolino contract
ON SEPTEMBER 5 Alstom announced it had been awarded a €120m contract by Karelian Trains to supply four 1520 mm gauge Pendolino tilting trains for use on 220 km/h services between Helsinki and St Petersburg. In May Alstom had been named as the sole bidder for the contract, which includes ...
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Midi-Pyrénées renewal plan
RFF President Hubert du Mesnil joined his SNCF counterpart Anne-Marie Idrac in Toulouse on July 25 to sign a rail plan for the Midi-Pyrénées region which will see €820m spent on track renewals and capacity enhancements for TER services in 2007-13. To assist the development of its local rail network, ...
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Shanghai Metro Line 2 to link the airports
WORK started on July 25 on the extension of Shanghai Metro's Line 2 from Long Yang Road to Pudong International Airport. Long Yang Road is at present the penultimate station on Line 2 at its eastern end, where an interchange already exists with the maglev service to the airport. The ...
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Inter-regional TGV line will have an international impact
Spectacular time savings will follow completion of France's first inter-regional TGV line over the 140 km between Dijon and Belfort in December 2011. Reporting from RFF's construction headquarters at Besançon, Murray Hughes finds that the line will change Europe's railway geography
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NewsWorld Speed Survey 2007: New lines boost rail's high speed performance
With Eurostar celebrating its first high speed run between Paris and London's St Pancras station on September 4, the latest biennial World Speed Survey published in the September 2007 issue of Railway Gazette International confirms that construction of new high speed lines is helping to make inter-city rail travel more ...
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Stuttgart 21 gets the green light
Stuttgart 21 gets the green light Construction of an underground through station in Stuttgart connecting with a new high speed line to Ulm is to go ahead, reports Ralf Roman Rossberg
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Zhibo wheelset venture formed
A JOINT venture to establish China's largest wheelset overhaul plant was agreed by Lucchini Sidermeccanica and Zhibo Transport Equipment on July 27. The Italian firm has a 25% stake in Zhibo Lucchini Railway Equipment (Zhiqi), with the 75% majority share in the venture owned by Zhibo, a subsidiary of Shanxi ...
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Stockholm invites tram bids
STORSTOCKHOLMS Localtrafik has called for expressions of interest in a concession to extend, operate and maintain the Djurgården tram line. The project will see part of the current heritage tramway to Djurgården expanded into a conventional light rail operation, and the construction of a new section from the present terminus ...
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