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NewsCoach plant is milestone in Kazakhstan's industrial history
KAZAKHSTAN: National railway KTZ and Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Patentes Talgo have opened their joint production facility in Astana. On December 8 the plant was visited by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who inspected the first completed cars for KTZ. Talgo and KTZ agreed in 2010 to set up the Tulpar Talgo ...
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NewsEssen orders 27 Flexity Classic trams
GERMANY: Essen transport authority EVAG signed a €72m contract for Bombardier Transportation to supply 27 Flexity Classic trams on December 21. Two pre-series vehicles are scheduled to be delivered in August 2013, with series vehicles following from March 2014. The three-module bi-directional and air-conditioned vehicles will be 30 m long ...
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NewsOurense - A Coruña broad gauge high speed line opens
SPAIN: Development Minister José Blanco officially opened the 149 km high speed line between Ourense and A Coruña on December 10, built at a cost of €3·3bn. The route includes 87·1 km of new construction between Ourense and Santiago de Compostela, built at a cost of €2·55bn. More than 57% ...
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NewsMelbourne Regional Rail Link contracts awarded
AUSTRALIA: Contracts for construction of the Regional Rail Link project in Melbourne with a total value of more than A$1·6bn were announced on December 21. Scheduled for completion by 2016, the Regional Rail Link will provide dedicated tracks for long-distance regional passenger services, which will be separated from suburban services ...
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NewsBEML wins Jaipur metro train contract
INDIA: BEML Ltd has won a Rs3·18bn contract to supply 10 four-car trains for the Jaipur Metro, and anticipates a follow-on order worth Rs600m. Construction of Jaipur Metro Rail Corp’s 9·2 km east-west line from Mansarovar to Chandpole is being managed by Delhi Metro Rail Corp. A ...
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NewsFTA backs Houston and Seattle light rail growth
USA: Representatives of the Federal Transit Administration and the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County signed full funding grant agreements worth $900m on November 28 which will support two extensions to Houston’s light rail network totalling 19 km. Already under construction, the North and Southeast corridors are scheduled to open ...
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NewsUkrainian inter-city train unveiled
UKRAINE: The first of 10 inter-city electric multiple-units being built for Ukrainian Railways by South Korean firm Hyundai Rotem was unveiled in Changwon in the presence of government and railway officials on December 20 Two of the nine-car trainsets are expected to be delivered to Odessa during February, and will ...
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NewsNS concession renewal
NETHERLANDS: Discussions between Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Infrastructure Minister Schultz van Haegen have led to an agreement for the national operator to retain its monopoly concession covering passenger services on the designated core network for a further 10 years from 2015. The concession will be merged with that covering the HSL-Zuid ...
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NewsQueensland's Northern Missing Link coal railway opens
AUSTRALIA: Acting Premier of Queensland Andrew Fraser opened the 69 km Northern Missing Link connecting QR National's Goonyella and Newlands coal railway networks on December 19. Providing a route from mines in the Bowen Basin to the Abbot Point export terminal, the link is the central component of QR National's ...
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NewsPesa wins its first German contract
GERMANY: Pesa Bydgoszcz signed deal to supply 12 two-car articulated diesel multiple-units to Netinera subsidiary Regentalbahn on December 20, the Polish company's first contract win in Germany. The units are scheduled to be delivered between June and December 2014 for use on the Regensburg - Marktredwitz - Schirnding line which ...
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NewsPraha metro extension receives EIB funding
CZECH REPUBLIC: The European Investment Bank confirmed on December 16 that it will lend up to €350m to part finance the 6∙1 km extension of the Praha metro Line A to Motol Hospital. With four new stations, the double-track extension starts from the current terminus at Dejvická in the northwest ...
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NewsDB orders more Twindexx coaches
GERMANY: DB has placed a firm order for a further 18 Twindexx Vario double-deck push-pull coaches, Bombardier Transportation announced on December 20. The €34m contract has been placed within a December 2008 framework agreement, and follows from an order for 135 coaches placed in January 2011. The 160 ...
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NewsValence - Moirans line to be electrified
FRANCE: Infrastructure manager RFF has awarded a consortium led by Alstom Transport an €80m design-build contract to upgrade and electrify the 80 km line linking Valence on the Paris - Marseille main line with Moirans on the Lyon - Grenoble route. Studies are now underway, and site work is ...
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NewsRussian Railways orders eight more Sapsan trains
RUSSIA: Russian Railways signed an order for a further eight Siemens Velaro RUS high speed trainsets on December 19. The contract is worth €600m, including a 30-year maintenance agreement. The 10-car trainsets will be manufactured at Siemens' Krefeld plant in Germany for delivery from January 2014. They will be used ...
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NewsBoxing road loads for rail
CANADA: Raildecks has developed a 53 ft collapsible open-framed container which enables beams, pipes and other industrial products which would normally travel on lorries or flat wagons to be moved on double-stack intermodal trains. The containers can be collapsed and stacked four high in the same space as a ...
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NewsMore TIGER grants awarded
USA: On December 15 the Department of Transportation announced the award of $511m of discretionary grants under the third round of the Transport Investment Generating Economic Recovery programme, supporting 46 capital construction projects in 33 states. TIGER III is being funded from the 2011 federal transport budget, and was heavily ...
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NewsCaen to switch to light rail
FRANCE: On December 14 Caen transport authority Viacités confirmed its intention to abandon its TVR rubber-tyred guided light transit route and replace it with conventional light rail by 2018. Viacités estimates it will take 18 months to replace the TVR guideway with tram track on the 15∙7 km Y-shaped ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market December 2011
Australia: Fortescue has awarded Brierty a A$60m contract to build a 25 km branch to the Solomon iron ore project by June 2012 and a A$10m contract for civil works on a refuelling facility on the Cloudbreak line. China: Vossloh has won a €35m contract to supply rail fasteners ...
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NewsWorld rail market December 2011
Brazil: TagMaster has won a SKr3·3m contract to supply Bombardier with RFID readers for the 24 km Expresso Tiradentes monorail being built in São Paulo. Canada: Toronto Transit Commission has awarded NEM Solutions a contract to supply a metro wheel flat detection system. China: IHI and Niigata Transys ...
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NewsNew Newag bogies
POLAND: Rolling stock supplier Newag presented a PKP Intercity Type 134Ab couchette car modernised as a Type 134Ac at the Trako 2011 fair in Gdansk. The car is the first to use Newag’s latest 70RSTb bogie which features air springs. This will enable its maximum operating speed to be increased ...