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    Moscow metro maintenance contract

    2013-08-26T11:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has awarded Metrowagonmash a 30-year contract to maintain 248 Type 81-760/761 metro cars which were supplied in 2012. The Transmashholding subsidiary will take over the metro’s Novogireyevo depot under the contract, which requires 232 cars to be available for service. In a separate development, ...

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    World rail infrastructure market August 2013

    2013-08-26T06:00:00Z

    Canada: Track Tec’s KolTram business is to deliver turnouts and other track components for the construction of Vancouver’s Evergreen Line. China: CNR has received orders to supply 16 ‘rail ambulance’ 160 km/h catenary repair vehicles. Denmark: Banedanmark has appointed Systra and COWI to develop a delivery strategy for ...

  • RegioJet has awarded Astra Vagoane Calatori Arad a contract to supply 73 coaches.
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    World rolling stock market August 2013

    2013-08-25T06:00:00Z

    Australia: National Railway Equipment Co is to supply seven N-ViroMotive genset locomotives to Pacific National for use at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks from mid-2014. Austria: Wiener Linien has ordered four more battery locos from Vossloh Kiepe and Schalker Eisenhütte for delivery in 2015. Brazil: São Paulo suburban ...

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    Blast and paint shop built

    2013-08-24T06:00:00Z

    USA: The Airblast AFC joint venture of UK-based blast booth supplier Airblast Ltd and US spray booth and painting equipment company AFC Finishing Systems has recently supplied a US$1·4m wagon painting facility to a customer in Ohio. This includes blast, paint and drying booths 27 m long and 9 m ...

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    Helsinki starts automated metro tests

    2013-08-23T12:59:00Z

    FINLAND: Three Helsinki metro M100 trainsets equipped for automatic operation by Siemens started test running on August 21. Final approval was given by TÜV Rheinland. The trains will initially retain a driver on board, before drivers are phased out between late 2015 and the end of 2016. The first ...

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    Making TRAX for Draper

    2013-08-23T08:51:00Z

    USA: The final stage of Utah Transit Authority’s FrontLines 2015 light rail expansion project has opened. Regular service on the 6·1 km Blue Line extension to Draper Town Center started on August 18, following the official inauguration two days earlier. The three-stop extension runs south from Sandy Civic Center, ...

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    News in Brief

    2013-08-23T06:00:00Z

    The government of Oman has formally established National Rail Co to manage the development of the planned 1 000 km rail network, and selected Italferr for a 13·6m rial contract to provide preliminary design services. The European Commission has appointed the All Ways Travelling consortium of Amadeus, BeNe Rail IATA, ...

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    High axleload bogie partnership for the 1520 region

    2013-08-22T14:28:00Z

    RUSSIA: Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant operator United Wagon Co has signed a deal to gain full intellectual property rights to the Motion Control 18-9836 bogie which Amsted Rail developed for 1 520 mm gauge wagons. Under the agreement announced on August 22 Amsted Rail will continue its direct licensing ...

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    Buenos Aires commuter routes return to state control

    2013-08-22T13:57:00Z

    ARGENTINA: By means of a government resolution published on August 21, operation of the Roca, San Martín and Belgrano Sur commuter networks in Buenos Aires is to be transferred to federal railway operating company SOFSE. A new operating agreement is to be concluded within 90 days. Federal railway infrastructure company ...

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    Michael Logue

    2013-08-22T13:02:00Z

    Michael Logue, Associate Administrator for Administration at the US Federal Railroad Administration, has been appointed Chief Safety Officer at Amtrak.

  • Nordco supplies new, used and rebuilt track maintenance equipment, ultrasonic rail flaw detection tools and wagon movers.
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    Greenbriar Equity Group acquires Nordco

    2013-08-22T12:58:00Z

    USA: Track maintenance equipment supplier Nordco Inc announced on August 19 that it had been acquired by private equity investor Greenbriar Equity Group. Terms were not disclosed. Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP acted as legal counsel to Greenbriar Equity Group. Nordco has its headquarters in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and supplies ...

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    Waterloo signs light rail vehicle contract

    2013-08-22T10:20:00Z

    CANADA: Bombardier Transportation announced on August 21 that it had signed a C$66m contract to supply 14 Flexity Freedom light rail vehicles to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The trams will be used on the 19 km Stage 1 of the ION light rail line that is scheduled to open ...

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    Rail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief

    2013-08-22T06:00:00Z

    A delegation from Indian Railways and the Ministry of Urban Development has visited UK infrastructure manager Network Rail’s Anglia route offices at Stratford to look at the technical and operational challenges of suburban services and at integration of rail with other modes. The visit was organised by Network Rail Consulting. ...

  • CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive has rolled out the first of 95 electric freight locomotives for Transnet.
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    CSR Zhuzhou rolls out first Transnet electric locomotive

    2013-08-21T12:19:00Z

    SOUTH AFRICA: The first of 95 electric freight locomotives ordered by Transnet was rolled out at CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive's factory in China on August 20. The initial two locomotives are scheduled to be shipped by the end of September, with eight months of testing planned. The US$400m contract for ...

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    Lebanese railway revival to be studied

    2013-08-21T10:00:00Z

    LEBANON: Tenders for a study into the feasibility of rebuilding the disused railway from Beirut north along the coast to Tripoli are to be invited by the European Investment Bank during September. The standard gauge line linking Haifa, Beirut and Tripoli was built by Allied forces during World War II. ...

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    London Tramlink orders more Stadler trams

    2013-08-21T09:03:00Z

    UK: London Tramlink has awarded Stadler Pankow a firm order to supply a further four Variobahn trams for the light rail network centred on Croydon. The additional Variobahn cars trams are to be built at Stadler's plants in Berlin and are scheduled to enter service from 2015. The £10·2m contract ...

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    Largest lathe order

    2013-08-21T06:00:00Z

    INDIA: HYT Engineering has won its largest ever order for wheel lathes, a US$45m contract to supply Indian Railways with 36 CNC surface/above floor lathes for use with locomotive, coach and wagon wheels. Delivery is scheduled to be completed within two years, with a two-year warranty and five years of ...

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    French loan to support Bandung upgrading

    2013-08-20T10:29:00Z

    INDONESIA: The government has agreed to support plans to enhance capacity on suburban services around Bandung in West Java under a project that would be partly funded through a US$157m French overseas development loan. The capacity enhancement works cover the 42 route-km corridor between Padalarang to the west of the ...

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    Oslo tunnel plans to be studied

    2013-08-20T09:15:00Z

    NORWAY: Proposals for a second cross-city tunnel to relieve the busy rail link through the centre of Oslo are to be examined as part of a study commissioned by the Ministry of Transport & Communications on August 14. Infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket, national road agency Statens Vegvesen and the greater Oslo ...

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    Train inspection portals to be installed

    2013-08-20T06:00:00Z

    ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI plans to install train inspection portals at around 100 key locations on its network, including border crossings and tunnel entrances. Each portal will subject passing trains to a thermal scan using photovoltaic sensors as well as a clearance check. During a clearance check the portal ...