All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2008 – Page 2
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Madrid places €1bn order
SPAIN: On August 28 the Madrid regional government announced that it will invest €993·7m in new rolling stock for Metro de Madrid. The acquisition will be financed by the region (52%) and the city administration (48%). The metro will initially lease the trains for 17 years, with an option to ...
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NewsModular shunter launch
INNOTRANS: Making its debut at InnoTrans, the G6 diesel-hydraulic shunting loco is the first model in a new range of modular designs being developed by Vossloh Locomotives. Powered by a 650 kW engine, the three-axle centre-cab G6 has a tractive effort of around 194 kN, making it one of ...
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NewsFreightliner PowerHaul loco design on show
INNOTRANS: Freightliner and GE Transportation have unveiled a model of the new PH37ACmi PowerHaul diesel locomotives being developed for the UK market. PowerHaul is based on the Evolution Series locomotive platform which GE Transportation introduced in 2005. Freightliner ordered 30 locomotives in November 2007, and the first are due ...
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NewsSeoul metro cable order
INNOTRANS: Nexans has announced a €3m order to supply South Korean rolling stock manufacturer Hyundai Rotem with specialised power and control cables for the 300 metro cars which will be delivered to Seoul metro Line 3 from 2009. The cables will comply with the French NFF standards, and ...
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NewsTentative steps towards the private sector
PRIVATISATION: After much debate and two false starts, the partial flotation of DB is now moving ahead.
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NewsDB announces €250m Voith loco order
INNOTRANS: Deutsche Bahn has placed a contract with Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik for 130 Gravita 10 BB diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives worth around €250m. To be designated Class 260, the locomotives will replace Class 291 and 295 locos when they enter service with DB Schenker Rail in 2010-12. The ...
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News£60m Airdrie - Bathgate contract placed
UK: Network Rail announced on September 23 that it had awarded Balfour Beatty Rail Projects a £60m contract for work on the £300m Airdrie - Bathgate project to reinstate an additional route between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The contract covers doubling the 2 km line between Airdrie and Drumgelloch, reinstating ...
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NewsHeavy freight roll-out
RUSSIA: Transmash Holding's Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Works has rolled out the first series-built Class 2ES4K Donchak 3 kV DC electric heavy freight locomotive for Russian Railways. The order for 30 Class 2ES4K locos in March 2008 followed trials with a prototype rolled out in 2006. They are the first ...
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Approval for 2030 strategy
RUSSIA: The federal government has approved a long-term strategy setting priorities for the development of the national rail network to 2030. The strategy is to be implemented in two phases. The main objective of the first period covering 2008-15 is to modernise the infrastructure and renew life-expired motive power and ...
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Rouen bypass completed
FRANCE: RFF has completed a €50m project to upgrade and electrify the 36 km route between Motteville and Montérolier-Buchy, enabling freight trains from the port of Le Havre to reach Amiens, northeastern France, the Benelux countries and Germany without negotiating the rail bottlenecks of Rouen and the Paris region. ...
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News'Peregrine falcon' to be fastest trains in Russia
INNOTRANS: The Velaro RUS high speed fleet for Russia is to be known as 'Sapsan' (peregrine falcon), RZD President Vladimir Yakunin and Chief Executive of Siemens Industry Heinrich Hiesinger announced at the unveiling of three cars from the first train. The Siemens factory at Krefeld is producing eight 10-car ...
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NewsSNCB dual-system loco to be unveiled
INNOTRANS: The Class 18 dual-system electric loco for Belgium will be unveiled by Siemens at InnoTrans. SNCB has ordered 60 locos, with options for a further 60, and the first is due to be delivered at the beginning of 2009. The latest development of the Eurosprinter family, the Class ...
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NewsNürnberg Talent 2 commuter train on display
INNOTRANS: In the first of many product launches lined up for InnoTrans 2008, Bombardier Transportation unveiled a Talent 2 EMU for Nürnberg commuter services shortly after the opening of the show on September 23. Deutsche Bahn and Bombardier signed a €1·2bn framework agreement covering up to 321 of the ...
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NewsVoith Turbo adds Gravitas
INNOTRANS: Following the high-profile debut of its Maxima 40CC freight locomotive at InnoTrans 2006, Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik of Kiel will be showing the smaller members of its growing diesel-hydraulic family. The Voith locomotive display will feature a 2750 kW Maxima 30CC, which shares many components with the more powerful ...
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NewsWorld-leading trade fair keeps expanding
INNOTRANS: Companies from 41 countries will be represented at this year’s exhibition.
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NewsRailpool places €192m order for 58 Traxx locos
EUROPE: The Railpool joint venture of HSH Nordbank and KfW-IPEX Bank has placed its first order for locomotives. On September 22 Bombardier announced that it had signed two contracts to supply the leasing firm with a total of 58 Traxx locomotives worth €192m. Deliveries will begin in August 2009, ...
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NewsKaohsiung Orange Line revenue service starts
TAIWAN: Revenue services on Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp's 14·4 km Orange Line began on September 22. Eight days of free rides had begun on September 14. During October the MRT Bureau will submit proposals to the Ministry of Transport & Communications for extensions to the Red and Orange lines. ...
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NewsLausanne metro line M2 inaugurated
SWITZERLAND: Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger formally inaugurated Lausanne's automatic metro line M2 on September 18 by cutting a ribbon at Riponne-M Béjart station. More than 60 000 people rode on the rubber-tyred metro trains on September 18 and 19. The public are able to use the line until September ...
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Madrid resignals two lines
SPAIN: Under a programme costing €104m, Madrid Metro is resignalling lines 1 and 6 with communications-based train control to increase capacity by 50% and 31·8% respectively. So far, 94 km of radiating cable has been laid, as well as over 200 km of optic fibre, with CBTC equipment being fitted ...
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Urban rail news in brief - September 2008
Discussions are underway between the Department of Transportation & Communications and Metro Rail Transit Corp regarding the purchase of 73 additional cars for Line 3 of the Manila metro. The talks are separate from those taking place over the government's plans to buy out Metrostar Express, the consortium that built ...