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NewsRZD to acquire 75% of Gefco
EUROPE: Car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën announced on September 20 that it had entered into exclusive negotiations to sell a 75% interest in its logistics subsidiary Gefco to Russian Railways for €800m. According to RZD, the acquisition would enable it to ‘increase the attractiveness of transit cargo flows along the ...
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NewsLarvik – Porsgrunn construction begins
NORWAY: Minister of Transport and Communications Marit Arnstad fired the first salvo on September 19 to mark the start of upgrading work on the Larvik - Porsgrunn section of the Vestfold line between Oslo and Skien. The NKr6·1bn project will see the construction of a 22 km double-track suitable for ...
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NewsHuawei wins Ashgabat – Turkmenbashi GSM-R contract
TURKMENISTAN: Huawei announced on September 18 that it had been awarded a contract to supply GSM-R, SDH, data communications and telephone systems for an upgrade of the Ashgabat – Bereket – Turkmenbashi route. The contract has been awarded by Jiangsu Guotai, general contractor for the telecommunications upgrade. To provide voice ...
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NewsSiemens opens the Crystal
UK: Siemens opened its first centre for sustainable urban development in London on September 19, built at a cost of €35m to provide ‘a conference centre, urban dialogue platform and technology and innovation centre all in one’. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and named ‘the Crystal’ after its distinctive shape, ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market September 2012
Australia: With KBR as designer, John Holland is to grade-separate rail and road access to the Port of Esperance, with the railway to be put into a tunnel. Fortescue Metals Group has awarded Norfolk Group and GE Transportation an A$56m contract to supply radio-based signalling for the track-doubling project ...
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MTU to supply diesel powerpacks for Intercity Express Programme
UK: Hitachi Rail Europe has named MTU as preferred bidder for the supply of 250 underfloor powerpacks for its Super Express fleet of 200 km/h inter-city trains, which are expected to enter traffic from 2017 under the UK government’s Intercity Express Programme. Having provided an engine for test bench ...
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NewsNetinera orders 63 regional trains from Alstom
GERMANY: Regional rail operator Netinera signed an order for 63 Alstom Coradia Lint diesel multiple-units at InnoTrans on September 19. The contract is worth almost €300m and includes 45 Lint 54 DMUs with 160 seats, and 18 Lint 81 units offering 270 seats. The DMUs will enter traffic from December ...
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NewsSNCF takes Eurailscout stake
EUROPE: French national operator SNCF is to take a 50% stake in Europool, the parent company of infrastructure inspection contractor Eurailscout, it was announced on September 18. Subject to approval from the European Commission, SNCF will acquire the stake currently held by GSG Knape of Germany. The remaining 50% of ...
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NewsBombardier to assemble EMD locomotives for southeast Asia
INDIA: An agreement for Bombardier Transportation’s Savli rolling stock factory in Vadodara to assemble diesel locomotives for Electro-Motive Diesel customers in southeast Asia and the Pacific region was announced at InnoTrans on September 19. Bombardier will produce components including underframes and bogies as well as assembling the locomotives. However, Bombardier ...
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NewsQR National becomes Aurizon
AUSTRALIA: Shareholders in freight operator QR National Ltd will be asked to approve changing the name of the company to Aurizon Ltd at its annual general meeting in Brisbane on November 7. Combining ‘Australia’ and ‘horizon’, the new name ‘conveys the geographical scope of our expanding operations, as well as ...
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NewsDB signs DMU framework deals with Pesa
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has signed two framework contracts with Polish manufacturer Pesa to build up to 470 DMUs for regional and local services. The deals were inked at the InnoTrans exhibition on September 19 by Dr Volker Kefer, DB’s Board Member for Technology & Infrastructure, Ulrich Homburg, Board Member ...
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NewsGE Transportation enters the 1520 passenger market
KAZAKHSTAN: National railway KTZ and GE Transportation signed a contract for 110 Evolution series passenger locomotives at InnoTrans on September 19. The diesel locomotives are to be based on the successful TE33A freight locomotives used in Kazakhstan. Modifications for passenger service will include raising the maximum speed to 160 km/h. ...
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NewsSNCF launches Global Mobility Index
INNOTRANS: ‘Our role as a business has changed dramatically', said SNCF President Guillaume Pepy, speaking at InnoTrans 2012 on September 18. Noting that the state-owned railway was becoming ‘a major player for global mobility services’, he revealed that direct train operations now accounted for just 50% of SNCF’s turnover, alongside ...
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NewsNorthland granted Malmbanan paths
EUROPE: Northland Resources plans to begin shipments of iron ore concentrate from its Kaunisvaara plant in Sweden to the Norwegian port of Narvik in the first quarter of 2013, having been allocated train paths on the Malmbanan by Swedish transport authority Transportstyrelsen. Four paths per day will be available from ...
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NewsGmunden metre-gauge extension backed
AUSTRIA: Gmunden council has given its backing to a proposal to divert the Traunseebahn local railway from its current terminus at Seebahnhof to Klosterplatz closer to the town centre. The 14·9 km metre gauge electrified line from Vorchdorf to Gmunden is operated by Stern & Hafferl and recently celebrated its ...
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NewsTendering starts for Brasilia – Goiâna studies
BRAZIL: Federal transport agency ANTT has begun tendering for studies to build a new passenger and freight railway from Brasilia to Anápolis and Goiâna. Interested parties have been invited to submit expressions of interest by October 22. As well as preliminary technical and economic studies, consultancy work now out to ...
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News20-year vision for transport
AUSTRALIA: The New South Wales government released a draft Long Term Transport Master Plan on September 4, setting out over 200 actions and recommendations which could deliver ‘world-class’ public transport and freight networks over a period of 20 years. Existing and proposed rail schemes that feature in plan include the ...
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NewsWatch a bridge being built
USA: The first of four underbridges has been built in 51 h as part of a $25·7m project to enable pedestrians to cross legally and safely the San Diego - Los Angeles - San Luis Obispo rail corridor in Encinitas, California. The LOSSAN corridor carries more than 50 passenger and ...
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NewsBombardier to supply components for Haramain High Speed Rail trains
SAUDI ARABIA: Bombardier Transportation has announced contracts worth €281m to provide Mitrac 3000 traction and control packages and Flexx Power 350 power car bogies for the 36 Talgo 350 trainsets which Talgo is to supply for the 444 km Haramain High Speed Rail project. Announcing the contracts on September 18, ...
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NewsNews in Brief - September 2012
The government of Ghana has proposed a US$303m public-private partnership to rehabilitate the 977 km rail network. Amtrak, HOK, Parsons Brinckerhoff and developer Akridge have produced a 20-year master plan for a $7bn redevelopment of Washington Union station, which would triple passenger capacity. The governments of Tanzania and Zambia ...