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NewsAlpha Trains acquires RBS rolling stock assets
EUROPE: The Alpha Trains Luxembourg No 2 subsidiary of leasing company Alpha Trains acquired 202 locomotive and passenger rolling stock assets from The Royal Bank of Scotland plc at the end of 2013. The mixed asset and shares transaction was financed by a commercial-secured debt facility provided by a consortium ...
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NewsEgis wins Salvador metro contract
BRAZIL: Build-operate concessionaire CCR has awarded Egis a €12m contract for systems management and integration for the construction of the Salvador metro, as well as interface management between subsystems and civil engineering. Egis will work with Brazilian subcontractor MCA on project management. The project comprises the completion of the ...
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NewsFirst 7000 Series metro cars arrive in Washington
USA: The first 7000 Series trainset for the Washington metro was unveiled at Greenbelt station on January 6. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ordered 428 cars from Kawasaki Rail Car for $886m in May 2010 and a further 100 in May 2013. The initial cars are about to ...
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NewsThales wins East Japan Railway CBTC contract
JAPAN: East Japan Railway has selected Thales as preferred bidder for a contract to design a communications-based train control system for Joban Local Line in the greater Tokyo area. The scope includes 14 stations on the 29·7 km Ayase - Toride route, along with 70 trainsets. Subject to a final ...
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NewsBombardier awarded French regional train order
FRANCE: SNCF has exercised an option for Bombardier Transportation to supply a further 30 Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units. Deliveries are scheduled to run from June 2016 to April 2017. The €227m order announced on December 23 is being financed by the regions where the trains will be used: Picardie, ...
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NewsRadim Novak
Radim Novak, formerly Chief Executive of Veolia Transport Central Europe, has been appointed Managing Director of Arriva’s Central & Eastern European region.
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NewsEMD locomotives to be tested in Russia
RUSSIA: Electro-Motive Diesel is to supply demonstration SD42AC-R diesel locomotives to Russia this year for performance testing and certification. The 3 000 hp locomotives powered by 12-710 engines are being built at EMD's plant in Muncie, Indiana. In December EMD and Russian rolling stock supplier UralVagonZavod signed a memorandum of ...
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NewsAlstom wins metro contracts in Chengdu and Xi’an
CHINA: Alstom and its local joint venture Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment Co Ltd have been awarded two contracts to supply Optonix traction equipment for metro cars that are scheduled to enter service in Chengdu and Xi’an from 2015. A €33m order placed in November will see Optonix supplied ...
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NewsHusa Transportation to cease rail operations
NETHERLANDS: Husa Transportation Group has announced that it is to close down its Husa Transportation Railway Service rail freight activities, with the loss of around 75 jobs, disposal of 20 locomotives and planned sale of the HTRS Süd business in Germany. The group's other logistics activities are not affected. HTRS ...
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NewsSkopje calls tenders for tram line
MACEDONIA: The City of Skopje has launched a new tendering process for a public-private partnership concession to design, finance, build, operate and maintain a light rail line in the capital. The planned 12·1 km double-track Line 1 from Novo Lisice to Gjorce Petrov would require a minimum of 22 ...
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NewsL'viv tramway extension funded
UKRAINE: Funding has been agreed for a package of urban transport improvements in L'viv including an extension of tram route 4 south to the Sykhiv district. This would improve links to the city centre for the suburb’s population of almost 150 000 people, and is predicted to increase public transport ...
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NewsZhengzhou metro opens
CHINA: The Zhengzhou metro opened for revenue service on December 28. The first phase of Line 1 runs from Xiliuhu in the west to Sports Centre in the east with 18 intermediate stations. The line serves both Zhengzhou railway station and Zhengzhou East station, where interchange will ...
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NewsMacau orders more automated light metro cars
CHINA: Macau’s Transport Infrastructure Office has ordered an additional 48 Crystal Mover rubber-tyre light metro cars and associated maintenance equipment from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Itochu Corp for use on the future Macau Light Rapid Transit line. The 21 km MLRT driverless light metro is under construction ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2014
Poland’s Małopolskie voivodship created its own regional passenger operator Koleje Małopolskie with effect from January 1, with a view to a phased takeover of services from PR around a year later. The voivodship owns four DMUs and 11 EMUs and has 17 EMUs on order, but estimates that it ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - January 2014
The city of Olsztyn has selected a Progreg-led consortium to finish design work on its planned tram line and gain building permits following the termination of FCC Construcción’s contract (RG 9.13 p15). The work must be completed within 20 weeks of the signing of the 7·5m złoty contract. ...
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NewsVossloh delivers a train of locomotives
GERMANY: The first six of 16 Vossloh G6 three-axle diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives ordered in December 2011 were delivered to chemicals company BASF in Ludwigshafen during December. Delivery of rest of the Kiel-built 671 kW shunters and four 1·2 MW DE12 Bo-Bo locomotives is scheduled for completion in February.
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NewsCanadian Pacific to sell part of Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern network to GWI
USA: An agreement for Canadian Pacific to sell the west end of its Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern line to short line group Genesee & Wyoming Inc was announced on January 2. Subject to Surface Transportation Board approval the sale is expected to close by mid-2014. The lines would be operated ...
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NewsTesting underway on Ankara – Istanbul fast line
TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined newly-appointed transport minister Lütfi Elvan in the cab of a CAF trainset to travel over the Arifiye – Köseköy section of the Ankara – Istanbul high speed corridor on December 27. Elvan has replaced Binali Yıldırım, who has stood down after 11 years ...
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NewsIsrael Railways opens Sderot station
ISRAEL: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the official opening of a railway extension from Ashkelon south to Sderot on December 24. Public services began at 16.00, and to encourage ridership local residents are able to apply for up to three months of free travel. The building at the US$56m Sderot ...
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NewsBombardier to operate Vancouver commuter service
CANADA: Vancouver regional transport authority TransLink has awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract to operate West Coast Express commuter rail services from May 2014. The C$17m contract runs for five years, with options for three additional five-year periods. West Coast Express was launched in 1995 and now carries more than 2·8 ...