India rail industry news – Page 17
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NewsWestern Dedicated Freight Corridor electrification contract awarded
INDIA: Dedicated Freight Corridor Corp of India has awarded a consortium of Japanese firm Sojitz Corp and local partner Larsen & Toubro a ¥50bn contract to supply and install 2 x 25 kV 50 Hz electrification equipment on the 915 km Rewari – Vadodara section of the Western Dedicated Freight ...
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NewsSMEC India acquires Leadrail Infra Solutions
INDIA: The SMEC India subsidiary of Australian infrastructure consultancy SMEC announced on November 14 that it had acquired Leadrail Infra Solutions, a Bangalore-based company providing railway engineering services including track, alignment, bridge and structure design. Leadrail has worked on metro projects in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmadabad and Monterrey, and rail ...
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NewsIndian Railways begins wi-fi roll-out
INDIA: Minister of Railways D V Sadananda Gowda has inaugurated Indian Railways’ first station wi-fi installation at Bangalore City, which has been equipped as the pilot for a programme to provide wi-fi at all category A and A1 stations. The RailWire wi-fi programme is being undertaken by the Ministry of ...
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NewsHigh speed line included in India-China railway action plan
INDIA: The Railway Board and China’s National Railway Administration signed a three-year memorandum of understanding and action plan for technical co-operation on September 18, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Potential areas of co-operation include training 100 Indian Railways staff in heavy ...
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NewsIndian-Czech railway co-operation agreement
INDIA: The Ministry of Railways, Czech national passenger operator ČD and Czech supply industry association ACRI signed a memorandum of understanding for technical co-operation on August 19. Potential areas of co-operation specified in the memorandum include the development of automotive traffic, raising the speeds of IR passenger trains to 200 ...
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NewsIndian Railways budget makes the case for change
INDIA: Presenting his first budget since the new government took office, Railways Minister D V Sadanand Gowda said on July 8 that he wanted to see Indian Railways become ‘the largest freight carrier in the world’, having recently ‘achieved the distinction of entering the select club’ carrying more than one ...
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NewsKatra line opens with pride of place on the railway map
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first train to inaugurate the Udhampur – Katra section of the rail link to Jammu & Kashmir on July 4, saying it represented ‘a triumph of every Indian spirit to overcome the arduous hurdles of nature for reaching the people in this ...
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NewsTunnel technique
INDIA: The first class of 10 engineers from Delhi Metro Rail Corp was due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur last month as part of a tunnelling training programme to support construction of Phase 3 of the Delhi metro network. Jointly operated by engineering groups MMC and Gamuda, the Kuala Lumpur ...
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NewsBombardier expands Rail Control Solutions business
BOMBARDIER: Bombardier Transportation announced its acquisition of Australian company Rail Signalling Services on May 1, saying the deal would strengthen its Rail Control Solutions business in a market where large investments are planned. Formed in 2003 when GE sold its Australian interests, RSS has more than a decade of ...
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NewsRecord coach production at RCF Kapurthala
INDIA: Rail Coach Factory Kapurthala has announced that it achieved its highest ever production of 1 701 coaches of 23 types during the year to March 31 2014, ahead of the plant’s design capacity of 1 500 coaches/year. To ‘bring world class railway technology to the common man’, 121 LHB ...
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NewsWorld Bank approves Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor loan
INDIA: On April 22 the World Bank agreed in principle to provide a US$1·1bn loan for the US$1·65bn second phase of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor. The agreement to fund the construction of 393 km of double track line between Mughal Sarai and Bhaupur is expected to be signed in ...
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NewsKolar coach factory approved
INDIA: Plans to establish a coach factory at Kolar in Karnataka were approved by the cabinet on February 28. The plant would produce 500 LHB type vehicles a year for Indian Railways. The state government is to provide the land for the factory and meet the half of the expected ...
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NewsFunding constrains ambitions in 2014 Indian Railways budget
INDIA: The parlous state of Indian Railways' finances was flagged up by Railways Minister Mallikarjun Kharge when he presented an interim budget to the lower house of parliament on February 12. With elections expected in May, the interim budget is intended to keep IR operational until the new government takes ...
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NewsCabinet backing for Indian locomotive factories
INDIA: Plans to establish two locomotive factories in Bihar through PPP contracts with international manufacturers took a step forward on January 20, when the cabinet gave its approval for bids to be invited within six months. The cabinet had previously backed the long-running project last May, when it had ...
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NewsChikmagalur line opened
INDIA: Minister of Railways Mallikarjun Kharge opened South Western Railway’s 45 km Kadur – Chikmagalur line on November 19. The broad gauge branch connects Chikmagalur, Kanivehalli, Sakarayapatna and Bisalehalli to the Hubli – Bangalore main line, and includes four major and 75 minor bridges. The project was first proposed in ...
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NewsKnorr-Bremse opens Indian production plants
INDIA: Knorr-Bremse officially opened a Rail Vehicle Systems production facility in Palwal on November 15, three days after inaugurating a Commercial Vehicles Systems plant in Pune along with a Development Centre shared by the two divisions. Knorr-Bremse said the new production plants offer greater capacity that the facilities they replace, ...
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NewsIndian Railways launches twin-cab diesel freight locomotive
INDIA: Minister of Railways Shri Mallikarjun Kharge visited the Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi on November 6 to formally flag off the prototype WDG4D locomotive Vijay, which Indian Railways says is the first twin-cab diesel-electric freight locomotive it has built. IR has traditionally used single cab designs, but as locomotives ...
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NewsHigh Speed Rail Corp of India launched
INDIA: Minister of Railways Mallikarjun Kharge officially launched High Speed Rail Corp of India on October 29. The subsidiary of state-owned railway project promoter Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd has been established to develop high speed corridors suitable for operation at speeds up to 350 km/h. HSRC will prepare studies and ...
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NewsICF rolls out Mumbai suburban EMU
INDIA: The first of 72 new 12-car electric multiple-units being procured by Mumbai Railway Vikas Corp for Central and Western Railway suburban services has been officially unveiled at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. Following the launch on October 1, the prototype unit is expected to undergo test running in ...
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NewsFeasibility study for Mumbai - Ahmedabad high speed line agreed
INDIA: A memorandum of understanding agreeing to undertake a joint feasibility study for a Mumbai - Ahmedabad high speed line was signed by the Ministry of Railways and Japan International Cooperation Agency on October 7. Expected to cost Rs630bn, the line would be around 540 km long and suitable for ...