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NewsHuawei eyes European market
SPAIN: ADIF has signed a framework agreement with Huawei Technologies España to collaborate on research and development projects. The agreement announced on September 6 includes validation of Huawei GSM-R for the Spanish market by testing compatibility with equipment from other wireless digital communications and signalling suppliers. Running until December ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief
Preliminary designs have been approved for the 16·7 km second phase of Wuhan metro Line 4 with two elevated and 11 underground stations between Huangjinkou, Hanyang and Wuchang railway station. Opening is planned for December 2014 at cost of 104bn yuan. CSR Zhuzhou has won a 400m yuan order to ...
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NewsScottish Government takes over troubled tram project
UK: The Scottish Government's Transport Scotland agency is to provide experienced project managers to fill senior roles in a new governance structure for the Edinburgh tram project, which has been mired in political and contractual disputes and cost overruns. Transport Scotland announced on September 14 that Ministers 'will ...
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NewsArgentina close to completing Chinese deals
ARGENTINA: At the end of an official visit to Beijing at the head of a high-level trade mission, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman announced on September 9 that negotiations had been completed with China Machinery & Equipment Corp for a US$2·5bn upgrade of the Belgrano rail network. The contract 'will be ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief
The German Land of Schleswig-Holstein has agreed to fund a €2·5m study into extending Hamburg S-Bahn services to Ahrensburg as the first stage of a €350m plan for a route S4 to Bad Oldesloe. Work could begin in 2018. The Federal Transit Administration has released a $103bn Full Funding ...
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NewsPresident announces Panamá metro Line 2 tender
PANAMA: President Ricardo Martinelli has announced the start of tendering for Panamá City metro Line 2 saying 'we are going to transform the former transport chaos in Panamá into a safe, reliable system for all citizens'. The president was speaking during a visit to Herrenknecht's tunnel boring machine plant in ...
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NewsSustainable tram depot collects sunlight and rainwater
NETHERLANDS: Sustainability is central to the design of the Beverwaard tram depot which Rotterdam operator RET inaugurated with an open day for local residents on August 15. Solar panels contribute to the depot's electrical power needs, while low-energy lighting and glass walls make the maximum use of natural light. Heat ...
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NewsBusan-Gimhae Light Rail Transit opens
SOUTH KOREA: The Busan-Gimhae Light Rail Transit driverless metro opened to passengers on September 9, with free travel before the formal opening ceremony on September 16. Starting at Sasang station in Busan, the 23·5 km line runs entirely on viaduct via Gimhae International Airport to Kaya University in Gimhae, with ...
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NewsNews in Brief
A Chinese-led feasibility study has put the cost of building a 257 km line between Oudong in Cambodia and Loc Ninh in Vietnam at US$686m. China has offered to contribute up toUS$500m towards the project, which would fill one of the gaps in the Trans-Asean Railway linking ...
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NewsEtihad Rail orders CSR sulphur wagons
UAE: Etihad Rail has awarded China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp a contract to supply 240 covered wagons which will be used to carry granulated sulphur from Shah and Habshan for export through Ruwais. Announcing the contract on September 12, the railway authority said it was working with Abu ...
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NewsUkraine prepares the next generation
UKRAINE: The next generation of railwaymen and women are developing their industry knowledge through a series of initiatives based on hands-on training. Odessa Railway has recently provided 238 students from the State Academy of Railway Transport, Dnipropetrovs'k National University of Railway Transport and Odessa College of Railway Transport with practical ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft has awarded Gruppo FS subsidiary Netinera a contract to operate Teilnetze Waldbahn services for 10 years from December 2013 and Naabtal and Oberpfalzbahn services for nine years from December 2014. Russian Railways has unveiled a 193bn rouble investment programme for upgrading its main lines in the ...
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NewsStudents work on Sochi projects
RUSSIA: Students from across Russia, the CIS and Baltic States have been involved in Russian Railways' large-scale construction programme associated with the Olympic sites in Sochi. Over the summer 1100 students participated in construction of the rail and road route from Adler to the Alpika-Service mountain resort. RZD arranged three ...
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NewsDubai metro Green Line opens
UAE: On September 9 the Dubai metro's Green Line was officially opened by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, with passenger services scheduled to start the following day. The 23 km Green Line runs from a park and ride ...
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NewsSiemens awarded Swiss ETCS Level 1 roll-out contract
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railway has selected Siemens’ Rail Automation business unit to supply, install and maintain equipment for its network-wide roll-out of ETCS Level 1 Limited Supervision over the next six years. SBB is the pioneer for L1LS, which will be incorporated into the Baseline 3.0.0 system requirement specifications due ...
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NewsInternational innovation wanted
RUSSIA: 'Russian Railways is interested in seeing high-tech production brought to Russia, and in exchanging cutting-edge technologies', according to RZD President Vladimir Yakunin. Addressing the ‘Strong Russia 2011’ business summit in Moscow, Yakunin described industrial modernisation and the introduction of world-class technology as a ‘cornerstone’ of the railway’s investment policy. ...
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NewsFlexity 2 tram unveiled in Blackpool
UK: Bombardier Transportation launched the first of its Flexity 2 trams in the seaside town of Blackpool on September 8. It is the first of 16 ordered by Blackpool Council in 2009 as part of what Lancashire County Council’s Director of Transport & Strategic Highways, Mike ...
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NewsPresidential opening for LGV Rhin-Rhône
FRANCE: President Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurated the first 140 km section of LGV Rhin-Rhône between Villiers-les-Pots and Petit-Croix on September 8, cutting a ribbon at the new TGV station outside Besançon to mark the formal opening of the high speed line. He then travelled to Belfort-Montbéliard TGV, where a rolling stock ...
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NewsNew Orleans streetcar expansion drive
USA: New Orleans Regional Transit Authority has selected Parsons Brinckerhoff to provide construction management services for a three-phase expansion of the city’s streetcar network. Last year RTA was awarded a $45m grant from the federal Department of Transportation’s TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) programme to fund construction of a ...
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NewsRift Valley funding
AFRICA: A US$165m package of funding towards a US$287m five-year programme of capital investment in the railway linking the Kenyan port of Mombasa to the Ugandan capital Kampala was signed by Rift Valley Railways, the two governments, six development organisations and a local bank on August 4. Now owned by ...