All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2011 – Page 2
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NewsCo-operation agreement
CHINA: CSR Zhuzhou has signed a Framework Agreement on Strategic Co-operation with the electrical engineering department of Tsinghua University. The agreement covers a commitment to create a joint 'innovation platform' to undertake research and development of electrical control equipment, traction drives, power systems and transmission components. The joint venture ...
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NewsWorld rail market September 2011
Austria: VeriFone Systems is to supply its PAYware mobile ticketing validation and payment technology to Westbahn. Bosnia: Italferr and IRD Engineering have completed an EU-funded project to assist the Ministry of Transport with bringing rail regulation in line with EU interoperability and safety directives. Europe: ERA has awarded ...
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NewsSenate vote puts US inter-city rail vision in doubt
USA: The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on September 21 to provide $110m in funding for inter-city passenger rail enhancements in the next financial year, a fraction of the $8bn President Obama had requested under his long-term plan to provide inter-city passenger rail services to 80% of the population by 2036. ...
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NewsMadrid Barajas airport rail link opens
SPAIN: RENFE suburban services began running to a new station beneath Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas airport on September 23. An official opening ceremony had been performed the day before by Development Minister José Blanco, President of the Madrid regional government Esperanza Aguirre and Mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón. Trains ...
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NewsStadler opens Berlin assembly plant
GERMANY: The Stadler Pankow GmbH subsidiary of Stadler Rail officially opened a new rolling stock final plant in a former concrete factory in the Hohenschönhausen area of Berlin on September 5. Stadler has 830 staff in Germany, 70 at Hohenschönhausen. The company is investing €10m expanding capacity in Berlin, ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market September 2011
Australia: NSW Department of Transport has appointed Turner & Townsend to provide cost planning services for the 23 km North West Rail Link project in Sydney. ARTC has awarded an alliance including Leighton Contractors a A$150m contract for the final stage of the 36 km South Sydney Freight ...
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NewsTier 3 emissions standards drive locomotive evolution
USA: The introduction of EPA Tier 3 emissions standards for main line locomotives in January 2012 was clearly reflected in the variety of motive power on show at the Railway Interchange 2011 outdoor exhibition at CP's Humbolt Yard in Minneapolis on September 18-20. Progress Rail Services was showing a purpose-built ...
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NewsPoint machines joint venture
KAZAKHSTAN: Alstom and the Kamkor subsidiary of national railway KTZ signed a memorandum of understanding on September 19 setting out plans to establish an equally-owned joint venture to produce point machines for Kazakhstan and the wider 1520 mm gauge market. Alstom says its designs offer reduced maintenance costs and improved ...
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NewsPKP PLK awards signalling contracts
POLAND: Thales announced the signing of eight signalling contracts worth a total of €87m with infrastructure manager PKP PLK on September 19. The agreements cover the supply of electronic interlockings and centralised traffic control to increase capacity on sections of the E30 corridor between the German and Ukrainian borders by ...
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NewsSofia joins the European container network
BULGARIA: Sofia joined the list of locations served by block intermodal trains with the arrival of a pilot service from Ljubljana on September 17. Block container trains have previously only transited Bulgaria, as the country lacked terminals with sufficient capacity to handle them. The arrival of the train carrying 24 ...
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NewsDB Schenker opens covered transhipment facility
ITALY: DB Schenker has opened a logistics centre and covered road-rail transhipment facility adjacent to Schenker Italiana's existing site at Dinazzano near Bologna and Modena in northern Italy. The new facility includes hard standing and a 600 m siding serving a 250 m shed where valuable or sensitive goods can ...
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NewsAlstom to supply trains for O-Train capacity expansion
CANADA: Operator OC Transpo has awarded Alstom Transport a C$34m contract to supply six Coradia Lint diesel multiple-units to increase capacity on the O-Train service in Ottawa. The 8 km line currently carries around 12 000 daily riders, double the initial target when the service was launched in 2001, and ...
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NewsSão Paulo metro Line 5 signalling contract awarded
BRAZIL: Bombardier Transportation announced it had won a €70m turnkey contract to supply CBTC equipment for São Paulo metro Line 5 on September 21. Teams in Brazil, Spain and the USA will design, install and commission Cityflo 650 on the 8·4 km existing section of the line and the ...
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NewsReview of UK light rail costs published
UK: A Department for Transport report into the high costs of light rail projects in the UK was published on September 20. 'Green Light for Light Rail' was commissioned by Transport Minister Norman Baker with the aim of identifying the key cost drivers and what can be done to make ...
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NewsClass 730 high speed electro-diesel trainset on test
SPAIN: During a test run on the high speed line between Ourense and A Coruña on September 20, Development Minister José Blanco announced that RENFE would introduce Class 730 gauge-changing electro-diesel trainsets on services between Madrid and the northwestern region of Galicia in mid-2012. The trainsets would enable Madrid - ...
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Vernon Barker
Vernon Barker has been named as Managing Director, UK Rail at FirstGroup, having served as Managing Director of First TransPennine Express since the start of the franchise in 2004. Nick Chevis becomes Acting Finance Director in place of Jeff Carr, who has announced his intention to leave FirstGroup on ...
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Oliver Sellnick
Oliver Sellnick has joined DB Netze as Vice-President of Business Development with effect from September 1; he was previously Director, Freight, at the International Union of Railways.
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Bart Schmeink
Bart Schmeink has been named as the new Director-General of Amsterdam’s urban transport operator GVB, taking over on December 1. He is currently Managing Director of Merseyrail in the UK, which is run by a joint venture of Netherlands Railways subsidiary Abellio and Serco Group. At GVB he will ...
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Kuldeep Chaturvedi
Kuldeep Chaturvedi has been appointed to oversee India’s South Central Railway in Secunderabad; he is currently General Manager of the South Western Railway in Hubli, but had previously served at South Central in 2009.
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Luc Vansteenkiste
Luc Vansteenkiste has been named Director-General of Infrastructure at Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel, succeeding Jean-Marie Raviart who retires with effect from October 1; since 2004 he has been Director-General of Network Access.