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NewsRedlands Passenger Rail Project preliminary engineering and environmental services contract awarded
USA: San Bernardino Associated Governments has awarded HDR an 18-month contract to provide preliminary engineering and environmental services for the Redlands Passenger Rail Project in California. The proposed commuter service between San Bernardino Intermodal Transit Center and the University of Redlands would use a 14 km former ...
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NewsWork set to begin on Rio de Janeiro Line 3
BRAZIL: Construction of Rio de Janeiro metro Line 3 is set to begin by the end of the year for opening in 2014, the Brazilian Ministry of Works has announced. An existing 23 km suburban rail alignment between Niterói, São Gonçalo and Itaboraí will be converted to metro standards, and ...
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NewsCalifornian high speed plans revised
USA: The California High Speed Rail Authority launched a revised ‘draft business plan’ for its proposed 832 km Phase I of a 400 km/h network connecting San Francisco with Anaheim and Los Angeles. In announcing what it described as a ‘foundation for an economically-viable high speed rail system’, CHSRA has ...
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NewsFEVE electrification plan
SPAIN: As part of the programme to electrify the Infiesto – Cabezón de Sal section of its Oviedo – Santander route, FEVE announced on October 6 that work had been completed on the 21·2 km between Infiesto and Arriondas at a cost of €7·1m. The 17·4 km Arriondas – Ribadesella ...
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NewsJR East to acquire Tokyu Car
JAPAN: Tokyu Corp announced an agreement to sell its Tokyu Car rolling stock manufacturing business to East Japan Railway on October 27. Tokyu said it had reviewed its activities in the light of intensifiying competion, shrinking markets and a recent decline in demand. Tokyu Car will be spun off ...
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NewsLondon Bridge rebuild contracts awarded
UK: Network Rail announced the award of two major contracts for the rebuilding of London Bridge station on November 1. The project forms the second phase of the Thameslink Programme to upgrade the north-south commuter route through central London. Costain has been awarded a £400m contract for detailed design and ...
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NewsSin Bundang Line opens
SOUTH KOREA: Revenue services on the Sin Bundang Line between Jeongja and Gangnam near Seoul began on October 28, after flooding in July had delayed the opening of the route, branded as the DX Line. Work on the largely underground route with six stations began towards the end of 2005. ...
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NewsStation counter-terrorism guideline study launched
EUROPE: The EU-backed Secure Station project has been launched with the aim of producing guidelines to assist station managers, designers and the construction industry in making transport hubs safer and more resilient to terrorist attacks. The three-year project is being undertaken by a group of organisations led by Spanish defence ...
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NewsAlger metro inaugurated
ALGERIA: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika officially inaugurated the country’s first metro line on October 31, paving the way for the start of revenue operation. Under construction for almost three decades, the first phase of Alger metro Line 1 links Haï el Badr in the southeast to Tafourah Grande Poste in the ...
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NewsIndependent Transport Co wins Freight One auction
RUSSIA: Independent Transport Co was the winning bidder for the 75% minus two shares stake in Russian Railways' First Freight Company subsidiary which was sold by auction on October 28. ITC is owned by Vladimir Lisin, Chairman of Novolipetsk Steel and reported by Forbes to be Russia's richest ...
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NewsJeolla upgrade completed
SOUTH KOREA: President Lee Myung-bak joined the celebrations in Yeosu on October 5 to mark the completion of double-tracking and electrification work on KR’s Jeolla line between Iksan and Yeosu. Upgrading of the 180 km route for 180 km/h operation has been brought forward to enable Korail to run ...
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NewsBorders bidder drops out
UK: Transport Scotland was forced to abandon plans to award a 30-year concession to design, build, finance and maintain a reinstated 56 km line from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, after the second of three prequalified bidders dropped out in the face of uncertain construction risks. This meant the hoped-for element of ...
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NewsSKM buys Mouchel's rail business
UK: Mouchel Group announced an agreement to sell its rail engineering business to Sinclair Knight Merz for £3·4m in cash on October 19. Mouchel Rail has 107 staff in London and Manchester providing design, consultancy and project management services for civil and structural engineering, signalling and permanent way. It reported ...
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NewsSurveying in focus
GERMANY: VDEI’s Academy for Railway Systems held a conference on geo-surveying in Nürnberg on September 28. Entitled ‘Geodesy: a partnership for railway infrastructure’, the conference attracted speakers from a number of universities, research institutions and rail suppliers, who addressed questions surrounding the accurate recording of geospatial data, how this data ...
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NewsValenciennes tram extension
FRANCE: Ceremonies on September 16 launched construction of the €105m third phase of the Valenciennes tramway. Due for completion in 2013, the 15·5 km single track Anzin - Vieux-Condé Line 2 will have 22 stops. Colas Rail is undertaking railway works, Spie electrification and Ineo Rail signalling and telecoms. It ...
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NewsMedics meet
SPAIN: Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya hosted this year’s UIMC conference in Barcelona. UIMC is the medical division of UIC, and it holds an annual event gathering together medical professionals working in the railway industry globally. UIMC 2011 took place on October 5-7 and saw around 50 delegates attend ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Graduate student Naveen Venkataraman has undertaken a three-month placement with US freight railroad CSX during which he helped the company to identify $1·2m in cost savings and reduce emissions by up to 3 000 tonnes per year. Venkataraman is a member of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps, and he ...
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NewsSlaskie goes it alone
POLAND: A new passenger operator was launched on October 1 when Koleje Slaskie began Czestochowa - Katowice - Gliwice local services, plus a weekend train to Wisla. KS is owned by Slaskie voivodship, which was unhappy at its share of the subsidy for Polish regional train operator PR increasing from ...
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Tim Shoveller
Tim Shoveller has been named as the next Managing Director of Stagecoach Group’s South West Trains franchise in the UK, suceeding Andy Pitt who will retire at the end of the year. Shoveller will join SWT on December 1, being succeeded as Managing Director of East Midlands Trains by EMT Commercial ...
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Kyrill Androsov
Kyrill Androsov has been elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Russian Railways. A former Deputy Minister of Economic Development & Trade, he has been Chief of Staff at the Russian government since 2008, and is also a board member at Aeroflot.