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NewsElectro-diesel Talgo unveiled
SPAIN: Patentes Talgo is converting 15 RENFE Class 130 gauge-changing high speed trainsets to the Class 730 hybrid by replacing the end seating cars with two new trailers each housing an MTU 12V4000R43L engine and traction alternator. With a continuous rating of 3600 kW, the Class 730 has a top ...
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NewsCertain progress at KiwiRail
NEW ZEALAND: KiwiRail CEO Jim Quinn believes his business has a 'certainty' about its future that has not been seen for many years as it enters the second year of a 10-year turnaround plan which aims to make operations financially independent. 'The investment going into rail in the next two ...
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NewsPolymer strengthens tunnel roof
UK: What is said to be the UK’s largest application of ultra-high modulus composite reinforcement has been used to strengthen 90 cast iron beams supporting a covered way where London Underground’s District Line runs under Victoria Embankment Gardens. LU was concerned that the 7500 mm x 500 mm cast iron ...
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Carol Coune
Carol Coune took over as Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum with effect from August 1, succeeding Jack Short who has retired. She was formerly part of the Management Board at Belgium’s Ministry of Transport.
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Heather Allen
Heather Allen has joined the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) as Programme Director, Sustainable Transport, having been responsible for the Sustainable Development programme at the International Union of Public Transport. She is also a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Transport in Developing Countries.
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Miguel Valero
Miguel Valero has been appointed President of Canarail, succeeding Jim D Spielman who will remain as a Special Advisor to the President.
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Pierre Tonon
Pierre Tonon will take over as Secretary-General of the European Rail Freight Alliance on October 1, succeeding Monika Heiming who is moving to infrastructure managers’ association EIM. Tonon is currently Head of Safety for Belgian rail freight operator SNCB Logistics.
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Vinay Mittal
Vinay Mittal has taken over as Chairman of Indian Railways and Principal Secretary at the Ministry of Railways following the retirement of Vivek Sabai. He was formerly General Manager of the South Eastern Railway, having held a variety of posts in IR’s Traffic Service since 1975, including Chief Operations ...
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NewsDelhi orders more Movia metro cars
INDIA: Delhi Metro Rail Corp has placed a €84m order for a further 76 metro cars for delivery from the third quarter of 2012, Bombardier Transportation announced on September 5. The contract is a follow-on to orders for 114 vehicles announced in mid-2010, and brings DMRC's total order to ...
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NewsLusail light rail contracts awarded
QATAR: Civil works contracts have been awarded for construction of a light rail network to serve the new city of Lusail which is being developed on a 37 km2 waterfront site 15 km north of Doha. Lusail is expected to accommodate 200 000 residents, with an equivalent number of daily ...
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NewsIndustry News in Brief
A further step in the privatisation of businesses owned by Polish railway holding company PKP SA has been taken with the 225m złoty sale of rail infrastructure contractor Przedsiebiorstwo Napraw Infrastruktury to road and infrastructure development company Budimex. Having installed overhead electrification on the Al Mashaaer Al Mugadassah metro in ...
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NewsEdmonton awards light rail design contract
CANADA: The City of Edmonton has appointed AECOM to undertake preliminary engineering design for the proposed but unfunded Southeast light rail line from the city centre to Mill Woods, and the West Line to Lewis Estates. The US$35·5m contract announced on September 1 covers a total of 27 route-km of ...
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NewsHow to sell train tickets online
UK: Consumer body Passenger Focus has published a study into how passengers buy rail tickets online, making recommendations to improve the process. The report was commissioned from Outlook and follows a study of ticket vending machine interfaces. Passenger Focus says online purchasing is becoming the default choice for long-distance travel. ...
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NewsADB approves loan for Indian Railways investment programme
INDIA: The Asian Development Bank board approved a multi-tranche financing facility of up to US$500m to support the Ministry of Railways' US$1·1bn Railway Sector Investment Programme on August 31. Due to be completed by December 2018, the programme includes double tracking, electrification and resignalling on busy freight and passenger routes ...
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NewsBrunswick Rail sees growth potential in Russian leasing market
RUSSIA: Wagon leasing firm Brunswick Rail announced the purchase of metals transportation specialist Proftrans on August 30, saying the acquisition widens the services Brunswick Rail is able to offer as well as increasing its fleet by 1 647 open wagons. 'This deal is interesting and unique because Brunswick Rail has ...
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NewsIarnród Éireann proposes 160 km/h investment programme
IRELAND: A €175m programme of infrastructure works to raise inter-city line speeds to 160 km/h has been put forward by Iarnród Éireann for possible inclusion in the 2012-16 national development plan which the government is to publish later this year. IÉ completed a major rolling stock renewal programme under the ...
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NewsBy rail from Buenos Aires to Montevideo
SOUTH AMERICA: President Cristina Fernández of Argentina met her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica in Salto on August 29, having travelled from Ayuí using the rail link between the two countries across the Salto Grande dam on the River Uruguay, briefly used by passenger trains between 1982 and 1985. The ceremony ...
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NewsAll change at Vigo
SPAIN: RENFE services began calling at a temporary station in Vigo in the northwestern region of Galicia on August 28, following the offical opening of the new facility by Development Minister José Blanco the day before. With three platforms 285 m, 165 m and 100 m long and a ...