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NewsMetrolinx orders more Bombardier BiLevels
CANADA: Bombardier Transportation announced a C$125m order to supply Greater Toronto transport authority Metrolinx with 50 BiLevel coaches on March 14. They are to be built at Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant for delivery to Metrolinx subsidiary GO Transit from November 2011, bringing the operator's double-deck fleet to 565 vehicles. ...
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NewsThe long arm of the saw
USA: Michigan-based Hougen Manufacturing has updated its Trak-Star HS16 hydraulic rail saw. The latest version is expected to provide faster cutting whilst being more comfortable to operate. The saw has a 1105 mm frame with an ergonomic grip handle designed to reduce vibration. An arbour bearing supports the axial load ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Modernisation of the 914 km railway between Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre and the port of Nacala in Mozambique to raise speeds from 20 km/h to 70 km/h would cost US$231m, according to a study financed by the European Union. Trains would take 38 h, compared with the ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - March 2011
Tendering for operating concessions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag, due to have been completed by January 2012, has been postponed for a year by Transport Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen. The Federation of Netherlands Mobility Companies, comprising Connexxion, Arriva, Syntus and Veolia, believes the deferral ...
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NewsSafer, simpler shunting
EUROPE: The movement of wagons around industrial premises and private sidings has been simplified by the development of the RVK shunting adaptor for use with a conventional front-end loader. The RVK has been developed by Austrian engineering group Fiegl Maschinenbau for use at a local steelworks. The steel company had ...
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NewsBrescia high speed line contract signed
ITALY: A €700m contract for construction of the Treviglio - Brescia second phase of the Milano - Verona high speed line was signed by RFI and the Cepav Due consortium on March 7. The contract is the first of two which are to be awarded for the section, which is ...
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NewsTlemcen - Akkid Abbas construction contract awarded
ALGERIA: Railway development agency ANESRIF has awarded a joint venture of ETRHB Haddad and Spanish construction company FCC a €1·23bn contract to build the 66 km Tlemcen - Akkid Abbas section of the route between Oued Tlélat and the Moroccan border. Work is due to take 48 months. The double-track ...
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NewsCD orders Skoda regional EMUs
CZECH REPUBLIC: Skoda Vagonka has been awarded two contracts to supply Czech Railways with a new generation of single-deck electric multiple-units for regional services around Ústí nad Labem, Pardubice and Hradec Králové. The contracts placed on February 16 cover 15 three-car EMUs costing a total of KC2·1bn and four two-car ...
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NewsTarragona bypass contracts
SPAIN: The Ministry of Development has awarded contracts totalling €205m for a connection between the Valencia - Barcelona route and the Madrid - Barcelona high speed line, replacing single track through built-up areas between Vandellós and Tarragona. A joint venture of FCC Construcción, Copasa and Coalvi has been awarded a ...
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NewsLachine maintenance centre to go ahead in Montréal
CANADA: Financing of up to C$119m has been approved for a new commuter rail rolling stock maintenance centre to be built by Agence Métropolitaine de Transport at Lachine, near Lucien-L’Allier station in Montréal (MR 9.10 p22). Calls for proposals will be issued later this year. Construction is due to start ...
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NewsTren Eléctrico concession awarded
PERU: State agency Proinversión has awarded the Tren Lima, Línea 1 consortium of Graña y Montero SA and Ferrovías a 30-year concession to operate and maintain metro Line 1 in Lima. GYM and Ferrovías have promised to invest US$290m in the network, US$200m of which will be spent on new ...
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NewsFlirts ordered for E-Netz Rosenheim
GERMANY: Stadler Pankow announced its largest ever rolling stock contract on March 7, a €200m order to supply Veolia Verkehr with 35 Flirt electric multiple-units for the E-Netz Rosenheim network in Bayern. The seven three-car and 28 six-car 160 km/h units will enter service from December 2013, operating on regional ...
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NewsTorino metro reaches Lingotto
ITALY: Torino metro operator GTT inaugurated the 3·6 km section of Line 1 between Porta Nuova and Lingotto on March 6, adding six more stations. Work on the extension started in September 2009. Testing and commissioning began in October last year and the route was handed over to GTT ...
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NewsSEPTA Silverliners enter service
USA: The first two locally-produced Silverliner V commuter EMU vehicles entered revenue service on February 22, approximately a year behind schedule. They were coupled to three prototype cars produced at Hyundai Rotem’s plant in South Korea. Five additional cars should join the fleet this month.The 120 cars, costing $330m, were ...
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NewsPassenger operating contract winners named
GERMANY: A 10-year contract to operate Weser-/Lammetalbahn passenger services was awarded to NordWestBahn by the Westfalen-Lippe and Niedersachsen transport authorities on February 3. NWB will take over from Keolis with the December timetable change, operating around 1·35 million train-km a year using 11 Lint 41 DMUs owned by Land transport ...
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NewsHigh Plateau construction contract
ALGERIA: Railway development agency Anesrif has awarded a €417m design and build contract for the Saida - Tiaret section of the High Plateau line to a joint venture in which Italian contracting firm Astaldi has a 60% stake. Work is set to begin shortly for completion within 36 months. The ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Indian Railways is to establish four biodiesel plants of 30 tonne/day capacity at a cost of Rs1·2bn, and will also undertake trials with natural gas powered locomotives. TransNamib has launched a N$9·4m upgrading programme with the start of work to relay 13 km of the 240 km Windhoek – ...
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NewsHouston buys Siemens Avantos
USA: Harris County Metropolitan Transit Authority on February 24 allocated up to $83m to purchase an additional 19 Siemens S70 Avanto light rail vehicles, supplementing its existing fleet of 18. The 29 m long 70% low-floor cars will be part of a 180-unit option on a base order of 77 ...
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NewsCommuter spin off
RUSSIA: RZD's ongoing structural reform programme will see its suburban passenger activities spun off into separate businesses this year, along with the end of cross-subsidy from freight. By the end the year RZD will have 27 commuter rail subsidiaries including Moscow airport train operator Aeroexpress, up from 22 ...
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NewsMRS Logística awards CBTC contract
BRAZIL: MRS Logística has awarded a US$165m contract for the design and installation of communications-based train control across its 1 674 route-km network by the end of 2013. Operating in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paulo, the railway handles substantial flows of iron ore, ...