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NewsRailway construction launched with a bang
IRAN: President Ahmadinejad attended a ceremony at Konarak in the southeastern province of Sistan va Baluchestan on December 6 where a groundbreaking blast in the colours of the national flag officially launched construction of the Chabahar - Zahedan railway. Work on the 600 km line linking the Gulf of Oman ...
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NewsUrban rail network to underpin Qatar World Cup
QATAR: The successful bid to host the football World Cup in 2022 includes plans to invest US$24bn in transport infrastructure, including high speed rail lines to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and construction of a 340 km public transport network serving Doha and its environs. The proposals are based ...
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NewsHammond puts reform back on the agenda
UK: Efficiency savings worth between £600m and £1bn are achievable by 2018-19 without reducing service quality or network size, according to an interim report examining the cost of operating and maintaining Britain’s railways. Its author, Sir Roy McNulty, is expected to submit his completed Value for Money Review to government ...
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NewsFS and Cube Infrastructure selected to buy Arriva Deutschland
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn's supervisory board formally selected a consortium of Italian state railway Ferrovie dello Stato and investment fund Cube Infrastructure to acquire Arriva's German activities on December 8. The price offered was a decisive factor, according to DB Chairman Dr Rüdiger Grube, but is not being disclosed. Completion ...
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NewsBuenos Aires Line H extended to Corrientes
ARGENTINA: A one-station extension of Buenos Aires metro Line H from Once to Corrientes entered service at 15.00 on December 6, following its inauguration by Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri. Construction took 4½ years. Corrientes is located 23 m below the surface and cost US$160m to build. Like the rest ...
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Isaías Táboas
Isaías Táboas has been appointed Spain’s Secretary of State for Transport. He previously held various posts at Renfe, and worked as an advisor to Iberrail and Comfersa.
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NewsBTS to operate SkyTrain extension
THAILAND: Bangkok Metropolitan Administration subsidiary Krungthep Thanakom has awarded SkyTrain operator BTS a 674m baht contract to operate and maintain the 5·3 km Sukhumvit Line extension from On Nut to Bearing which is due to open on August 12 2011. The contract is initially valid for one year from the ...
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NewsOpening of Shin-Aomori extension completes Tohoku Shinkansen
JAPAN: JR East launched revenue services on the final phase of the Tohoku Shinkansen on December 4. The 81·8 km extension runs from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori in mountainous northern Honshu, and includes the 26·5 km Hakkoda tunnel, the longest land bore on the Japanese rail network. The line features ...
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Janine Pilloud
Janine Pilloud has been named as the next head of Swiss Federal Railways’ Passenger division, succeeding Urs Schlegel who has been acting divisional manager; she will also join the SBB Board in the first quarter of 2011. The head of SBB’s long-distance passenger unit Vincent Ducrot will be leaving in ...
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NewsMetro projects approved in Hong Kong
CHINA: The Executive Council of Hong Kong approved two metro projects on November 30 that will extend the MTR network by almost 10 km when they open in 2015.The 7 km South Island Line (East) will run from Admiralty to South Horizons, in Aberdeen, with intermediate stations at Ocean Park, ...
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NewsEIB supports Ho Chi Minh metro Line 2
VIETNAM: Magdalena Álvarez Arza, Vice President of the European Investment Bank, signed a finance contract worth €150m with Vietnamese Deputy Finance Minister Tran Xuan Ha on December 6. The loan is part of a funding package for the first phase of metro Line 2 in Ho Chi Minh City. The ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief
The consortium of Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Infocomm and Canada’s SNC Lavalin has achieved financial closure for the Rs115bn PPP project to build the 32 km Mumbai metro Line 2 from Charkop to Mankhurd (RG 9.09 p17). The consortium, which is investing Rs70bn, has set up the Mumbai Metro Two SPV ...
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NewsDallas Green Line opens
USA: Two sections of the Dallas Green Line totalling 38·6 km opened on December 6, marking completion of the $1·8bn project. A special ‘Super Saturday’ event previewing six of the 15 new stations took place on December 4, with the entire 45 km Green Line open to the public during ...
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NewsTorun tramway upgrade
POLAND: A 1·9 km metre gauge tram extension with five stops is to be built in Torun by 2013 to serve the Collegium Humanisticum and IT Technology Centre being built at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Bielany district. The project will cost 84·8m złoty, to be financed with 42·1m złoty from ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Alstom Transport and Transmash Holding have launched a project to develop a new-generation 160 km/h EMU for use in Russia. The modular ED10 family will be available with up to 12 cars in high and low floor variants. A prototype is due to begin test running in ...
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NewsKing opens Citytunnel
SWEDEN: The Citytunnel in Malmö was officially opened by King Carl XVI Gustaf on December 4, with preview services starting the next day ahead of the full launch with the December 12 timetable change. The Citytunnel project has provided a 14 km double-track electrified direct route from new low-level platforms ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market December 2010
Australia: KBR is to provide engineering design services for the Liverpool Turnback project in Sydney, which includes a new platform and 1·8 km of track for completion in 2014. A Theiss-McConnell Dowell joint venture will build the A$291m 5·7 km extension of the TransAdelaide southern line from Noarlunga to ...
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NewsChina hits 486 km/h in high speed trials
CHINA: A new Chinese record speed of 486 km/h was established on December 3 during trial running on a section of the Beijing – Shanghai high speed line between Zaozhuang in Shandong province and Bengbu in Anhui. Xinhua News Agency claimed that this is the fastest speed recorded by an ...
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Andreas Schulz
Andreas Schulz has been named Head of Intermodal at DB Schenker Rail, a position held for the past year by Karsten Sachsenröder in addition to his role as Board Member, Sales.