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    London Underground deploys modular sleepers

    20 July 2013

    UK: The Track Partnership collaboration of London Underground and Balfour Beatty Rail has installed its first novel sleeper design on the network in 30 years. Cemex Rail Solutions’ 1502 is preassembled incorporating a Pandrol FE1404 rail fastening. This allows track to be constructed more quickly and cheaply, Balfour Beatty ...

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    Bratislava orders Škoda Transportation trams

    19 July 2013

    SLOVAKIA: Škoda Transportation signed a €39m contract to supply 15 Type 30T trams to Bratislava on July 18. The deal includes maintenance support and an option for a further 15 trams, and is being supported by EU funding. Deliveries are scheduled to being in mid-2015. The 32·5 m long ...

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    First Grand Paris line to open in 2020

    19 July 2013

    FRANCE: Société du Grand Paris announced on July 15 that its supervisory board had authorised the release of €5·3bn to fund construction of the first phase of the Grand Paris Express project. This covers the southern part of Line 15 from Pont-de-Sèvres to Noisy-Champs under the revised scheme announced by ...

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    World rolling stock market July 2013

    19 July 2013

    Africa: Transnet Engineering has delivered 10 Class 33 locomotives and 21 coaches to CDN and CEAR for use in Mozambique and Malawi. Argentina: CSR Qingdao Sifang was awarded a US$327m order in May to supply 300 EMU cars in 2014 to increase capacity on the Roca commuter network in ...

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    ZSSK Cargo restructuring approved

    18 July 2013

    SLOVAKIA: The government approved the Ministry of Transport's proposals for the restructuring and part-privatisation of ZSSK Cargo on July 10. The national freight operator has been hard hit by the economic downturn and the slump in Slovakia's steel industry, making a loss of €24m in 2012 compared to just €0·3m ...

  • A £1·2bn firm order for 30 nine-car electric Super Express Trains to replace the current Intercity 225 fleet on East Coast Main Line services was confirmed on July 18.
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    East Coast Main Line IEP train order confirmed

    18 July 2013

    UK: A £1·2bn firm order for the Agility Trains consortium to design, build, finance and maintain 30 nine-car electric Hitachi Super Express Trains to replace the current Intercity 225 fleet on East Coast Main Line services from 2019 was confirmed by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin on July 18. The 27½-year ...

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    Southern selects Bombardier to supply trains for Thameslink cascade

    18 July 2013

    UK: On behalf of the Department for Transport, passenger operator Southern has selected Bombardier to supply 116 electric multiple-unit cars at cost of £180m. The order is intended to facilitate the cascade of EMUs between operators as part of the upgrade of the Thameslink route. Southern called for proposals in ...

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    Delhi regional rail link plans move ahead

    18 July 2013

    INDIA: The national government has approved plans to develop regional express rail links connecting Delhi with three satellite towns in the National Capital Region. Meeting on July 11, the cabinet approved the setting up of the NCR Transport Corp to develop the Rapid Rail Transit System at ...

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    Railway supply industry news in brief

    18 July 2013

    Madrid-based engineering consultancy Sener has acquired a 48% stake in Brazilian civil engineering group Setepla, with an option to buy the remainder at a later date. Setepla has undertaken construction work on São Paulo metro Line 4 and is currently working on Line 15, the Expresso Tiradentes monorail. ICT ...

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    Greece invites interest in privatisation of train operator Trainose

    17 July 2013

    GREECE: Privatisation agency the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund has invited expressions of interest in the purchase of 100% of the share capital of national train operator Trainose. The process is to be undertaken in two phases, with Phase A being the submission of expressions of interest by September 16. ...

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    Dovrebanen upgrading works reassigned

    17 July 2013

    NORWAY: Celebrations were held on July 3 to mark the holing through of the 3·9 km Ulvin tunnel, which forms the centrepiece of a project to upgrade and realign a key section of Jernbaneverket's Dovrebanen main line between Oslo and Trondheim. The 17 km section between Minnesund and Kleverud is ...

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    UIC and ERA reach agreement over telematics documentation

    17 July 2013

    EUROPE: An agreement providing for the future co-ordination of technical documentation covering Telematics Applications for Passengers was signed at the European Railway Agency headquarters in Valenciennes on July 1. It specifies how ERA and UIC will maintain their respective documents in order to ensure 'continuous synchronisation' between the relevant ERA ...

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    Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group acquires Universale

    17 July 2013

    EUROPE: The Bahnbau Wels subsidiary of infrastructure contractor Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group signed a contract to acquire the Universale-Bau track and construction business of the insolvent Alpine group on July 15. Alpine had filed for bankruptcy on June 28, after efforts to restructure the business failed. The purchase of Universale ...

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    Private plans in Nigeria

    17 July 2013

    NIGERIA: The government has prepared a bill to amend the 1957 Railway Act with a view to permitting private sector involvement in the rail sector. Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corp Adeseyi Sijuade said he envisages that private companies may be granted access ‘to run some of the vital aspects ...

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    Cincinnati Streetcar construction contract signed

    16 July 2013

    USA: The main construction contract for the 5·8 km first phase of the Cincinnati Streetcar project was signed by the city council and the MPD joint venture of Messer, Prus and Delta Railroad on July 15, enabling the council to issue a notice to proceed. Utility relocation works for the ...

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    Toshiba motors to upgrade Singapore metro cars

    16 July 2013

    SINGAPORE: Toshiba Corp has announced a 'major order' to supply its high-efficiency Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors for the refurbishment of drive systems on 66 six-car C151 metro trainsets which SMRT Corp operates on Singapore's East-West and North-South lines. There are four motored cars in each trainset. Toshiba said this would ...

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    Loose fishplate identified following French inter-city derailment

    15 July 2013

    FRANCE: National railway operator SNCF and infrastructure manager RFF confirmed on July 14 that a loose fishplate was believed to have triggered the derailment of a Paris - Limoges Intercité express at Brétigny-sur-Orge on July 12, which killed six people and injured a further 62. The seven-coach loco-hauled train which ...

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    Kyiv metro orders 40 cars

    15 July 2013

    UKRAINE: Kyiv metro has signed a contract with Transmashholding subsidiary Metrowagonmash for eight five-car trainsets, it was announced on July 12. The contract value was not disclosed. The 81-717.5М and 81-714.5М cars will be delivered by the end of the year. The interior will feature fire-resistant materials ...

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    World rail infrastructure market July 2013

    15 July 2013

    Algeria: A consortium of Condotte d’Acqua and Rizzani de Eccher has awarded Ansaldo STS a €40m contract to supply ETCS Level 1 and 2 and conventional lineside signalling for the 130 km line under construction between Oued Tlélat and Tlemcen, along with a traffic control centre in Oran. Belgium: ...

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    News in Brief

    14 July 2013

    RZD International has signed a US$800m Russian-funded modernisation agreement with Serbian Railways. This includes upgrading 112 km of Corridor X and 200 km of the Beograd - Bar route, various track doubling and electrification projects and an US$100m order for a further 26 Metrowagonmash DMUs. Argentina’s government ...