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NewsIndependent Transport Company selected for Freight One privatisation
RUSSIA: On October 16 Russian Railways announced the completion of competitive negotiations with potential buyers of the 25% plus one share stake in Freight One which was retained by RZD when this subsidiary was privatised last year. RZD said the best offer of 50bn roubles was received from Independent Transport ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market October 2012
Australia: Within a 2010 framework, Ansaldo STS has been awarded an A$80·2m contract to supply signalling, communications and train control equipment for the doubling of Rio Tinto’s 70 km single-track line from Emu Siding to Cape Lambert. Algeria: Anesrif has awarded the Estel joint venture of SNTF and Siemens ...
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NewsSalta - Antofagasta freight agreement
SOUTH AMERICA: Plans to resume regular freight services over the 700 km between Salta in Argentina and the Chilean port of Antofagasta took a major step forward on October 15 when an agreement was signed by Argentina's Minister of the Interior & Transport Florencio Randazzo, Governor of Salta province Juan ...
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NewsSpain announces €4·7bn rail spend
SPAIN: With total planned spending of €4·7bn, rail forms 47% of the Ministry of Development's proposed investment budget for 2013, unveiled by Development Minister Ana Pastor on October 1. Of this total, €3·3bn or 71% is to be spent on high speed projects, with €332m allocated to the conventional ...
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NewsBengbu - Hefei high speed line opens
CHINA: The 132 km Bengbu - Hefei high speed line entered service on October 16, with the departure at 08.10 of trains G263 from Beijing South and G262 from Hefei. The north-south line links Bengbu on the Beijing - Shanghai Passenger-Dedicated Line with Hefei and the east-west high speed line ...
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NewsUpdate on new Eurostar trains
EUROPE: Eurostar provided an update on its £700m fleet investment programme on October 18, saying production of the 10 new Siemens Velaro e320 trainsets at Krefeld which began last year was progressing well. The first of its existing fleet of high speed trainsets is now undergoing a ...
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NewsTurkish PowerHaul order expected as demonstrator arrives in UK
INTERNATIONAL: Turkish company Tülomsas is hoping to sign a contract by the end of this year to supply state railway TCDD with 20 European-profile GE Transportation PowerHaul locomotives. The first European-profile PH37ACai PowerHaul was the highlight of GE Transportation's presence at InnoTrans last month. It was assembled by Tülomsas from ...
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NewsTGV reaches 780 mm/min
FRANCE: SNCF's Technicentre de Lyon-Gerland high speed train maintenance depot features custom-made lifting jacks able to lift a complete 200 m long TGV trainset by 4·4 m. Pfaff-silberblau has supplied 26 jacks, plus two spares. Each one is 6 m high, with a jacking height of between 1000 and 4400 ...
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NewsCAF selected for Helsinki metro train contract
FINLAND: Meeting on October 16, the board of Helsinki transport operator HKL selected CAF as preferred bidder to supply 20 four-car metro trainsets. The air-conditioned trainsets will be 90 m long, with through gangways and capacity for 576 passengers. They are to be equipped with temporary driving cabs, which would ...
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Rail minister named
Following the resignation of Antonio Luna, Raúl Baridó (photo) was named Undersecretary for Rail Transport by Argentina’s Transport & Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo on September 5.Baridó had previously been supervising technical, administrative and operational affairs on the suburban lines formerly operated under the Trenes de Buenos Aires concession. The federal ...
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NewsAzarshahr electrification inaugurated
IRAN: Electrification equipment on the 46 km route between Tabriz and Azarshahr was formally inaugurated with a ceremony on October 13. Guests included Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways which undertook the €8·85m project in partnership with local subcontractor Sazeh Novin Tabriz. The primary aim of electrifying the five-station single-track ...
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NewsCharlotte light rail extension funded
USA: A full-funding grant agreement providing $580m towards the cost of extending Charlotte’s LYNX Blue line was announced by Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff on October 16. Running northeast from 7th Street in Center City through North Davidson to the University of North Carolina campus, the 15 km extension with ...
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NewsNew trams have dragons on their seats
POLAND: The first of a batch of 24 Flexity Classic trams ordered by MPK Kraków was officially handed over by Bombardier Transportation on October 4. 'We are delighted with the design of this state-of-the art tram inspired by the spirit of the city of Kraków', said Julian Pilszczek, CEO of ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market October 2012
Australia: CAF has won a A$20m contract to supply six new and four leased trams for Sydney’s 5·6 km Inner West Extension which is scheduled to open in 2014 (RG 7.12 p16). A separate three-year contract worth A$1·8m covers maintenance of the new vehicles and the existing fleet of seven ...
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NewsJapan to fund four-tracking in West Java
INDONESIA: Work is expected to begin by the end of the month to increase capacity on a congested mixed-traffic corridor in the suburbs of Jakarta. Central to the project is the four tracking and resignalling of the current 32 route-km double-track alignment between Manggarai and Cikarang. State ...
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NewsBombardier delivers first Downtown Line train
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority has taken delivery of the first of 73 Bombardier Transportation driverless Movia metro trains ordered for the 42 km Downtown Line, which is under construction for opening in stages from 2013. The trainset was delivered two weeks ahead of schedule, Bombardier announced on October 12. A ...
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NewsDfT plans interim West Coast franchise
UK: The Department for Transport announced on October 15 that it intended to launch a competition for an interim franchise to operate the Inter-City West Coast franchise, following Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin’s decision on October 3 to cancel the previous refranchising round due to ‘significant technical flaws’. Open to ‘all ...
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NewsEngineering work from the passenger perspective
UK: The results of research published by Passenger Focus last month include the finding that 55% of respondents claimed that they would not make a journey by rail if part of it was by replacement bus. However, if the train were to be diverted around engineering work, 75% of respondents ...
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NewsProducts & Technology in Brief
Following a request from a train operator, Nexans has developed an aluminium cable coated with fibreglass ribbon and sheathed in silicone rubber which meets fire safety resistance requirements for use in rolling stock while being lighter than copper cables, potentially saving 200 kg per passenger vehicle. DSB S-tog is installing ...
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NewsNews in Brief - October 2012
Under its Integrated European Signalling System project, UIC has commissioned Berner & Mattner Systemtechnick to define standardised signalling functions, including interface specifications according to ISO/IEC 19505. ‘International standardisation of technical institutions and practices is not only UIC’s most important task, it’s also one of the toughest’, said Berner & Mattner ...