All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2011 – Page 5
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NewsIndustry News in Brief
A further step in the privatisation of businesses owned by Polish railway holding company PKP SA has been taken with the 225m złoty sale of rail infrastructure contractor Przedsiebiorstwo Napraw Infrastruktury to road and infrastructure development company Budimex. Having installed overhead electrification on the Al Mashaaer Al Mugadassah metro in ...
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NewsEdmonton awards light rail design contract
CANADA: The City of Edmonton has appointed AECOM to undertake preliminary engineering design for the proposed but unfunded Southeast light rail line from the city centre to Mill Woods, and the West Line to Lewis Estates. The US$35·5m contract announced on September 1 covers a total of 27 route-km of ...
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NewsHow to sell train tickets online
UK: Consumer body Passenger Focus has published a study into how passengers buy rail tickets online, making recommendations to improve the process. The report was commissioned from Outlook and follows a study of ticket vending machine interfaces. Passenger Focus says online purchasing is becoming the default choice for long-distance travel. ...
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NewsADB approves loan for Indian Railways investment programme
INDIA: The Asian Development Bank board approved a multi-tranche financing facility of up to US$500m to support the Ministry of Railways' US$1·1bn Railway Sector Investment Programme on August 31. Due to be completed by December 2018, the programme includes double tracking, electrification and resignalling on busy freight and passenger routes ...
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NewsBrunswick Rail sees growth potential in Russian leasing market
RUSSIA: Wagon leasing firm Brunswick Rail announced the purchase of metals transportation specialist Proftrans on August 30, saying the acquisition widens the services Brunswick Rail is able to offer as well as increasing its fleet by 1 647 open wagons. 'This deal is interesting and unique because Brunswick Rail has ...
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NewsIarnród Éireann proposes 160 km/h investment programme
IRELAND: A €175m programme of infrastructure works to raise inter-city line speeds to 160 km/h has been put forward by Iarnród Éireann for possible inclusion in the 2012-16 national development plan which the government is to publish later this year. IÉ completed a major rolling stock renewal programme under the ...
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NewsBy rail from Buenos Aires to Montevideo
SOUTH AMERICA: President Cristina Fernández of Argentina met her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica in Salto on August 29, having travelled from Ayuí using the rail link between the two countries across the Salto Grande dam on the River Uruguay, briefly used by passenger trains between 1982 and 1985. The ceremony ...
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NewsAll change at Vigo
SPAIN: RENFE services began calling at a temporary station in Vigo in the northwestern region of Galicia on August 28, following the offical opening of the new facility by Development Minister José Blanco the day before. With three platforms 285 m, 165 m and 100 m long and a ...
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