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NewsCasablanca tram contracts awarded
MOROCCO: Casablanca tramway development company Casa Transports has awarded Alstom two contracts to provide signalling and power supply equipment for the 30 km Y-shaped network which is due to open on December 12 2012. The contracts announced on November 12 are worth €11m. One covers the design and supply of ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market November 2010
Australia: Downer EDI has won orders totalling A$300m to supply Pacific National with 13 locomotives in 2011-12 and undertake infrastructure renewals projects for ARTC. Brazil: CPTM has awarded Alstom a €80m contract to supply nine eight-car metropolis trainsets for São Paulo Line 11 by mid-2012 (p16). Croatia: TZV ...
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NewsUrban Rail News in Brief
Secretary of Transport Juan Pablo Schiavi and Mayor of Córdoba Daniel Giacomino ratified an agreement on October 5 to build an 18·5 km metro network with 29 stations in Argentina’s second-largest city, which has 1·5 million inhabitants. The project would be implemented by China Railway International and work would take ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The Slovenian government is introducing legislation to restructure the national railway as a holding company, Holding Slovenske Zeleznice, with passenger, freight and infrastructure divisions. Construction projects will be undertaken by either state-owned engineering company DDC or a new organisation. Ghana is to use US$4bn of a US$10·4bn infrastructure development loan ...
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NewsLathe profiles Zürich tram wheels
WHEEL PROFILING: Emotec has retrofitted a lathing capability to a tram wheel profiling machine, which along with a modern computer control system has reduced the time taken to reprofile the four wheels on a bogie from a day to 2 h. Zürich transport operator VBZ called in Swiss engineering firm ...
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NewsTalgo to renew Kazakh inter-city train fleet
KAZAKHSTAN: Talgo announced an order to supply KTZ with 420 coaches on November 11, part of an agreement signed the previous week which could see the national railway's fleet of 3 000 inter-city vehicles replaced. The initial contract is worth more than €300m for the Spanish firm, with further revenue ...
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Al Engel takes on high speed
Al Engel, currently Vice-President & High Speed Rail Director at Aecom, is to join Amtrak as Vice-President. He will head a new department with the aim of growing and developing Amtrak’s role in high speed rail.
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NewsTatravagonka buys Bratstvo wagon plant
SERBIA: Slovak wagon builder Tatravagónka Poprad has paid €5·4m for the Bratstvo wagon factory in Subotica, which has been privatised again after the government took control in mid-2009 to protect jobs and pay wages. The agreement was signed in Bratislava on November 5 in the presence of Serbian Minister of ...
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NewsMoscow - St Petersburg high speed study to be submitted next year
RUSSIA: A report setting out the functional requirements for a Moscow - St Petersburg high speed line is to be completed by the start of 2011, Denis Muratov, Director-General of RZD's high speed rail subsidiary Skorostnye Magistrali, told the High Speed World 2010 conference in Madrid on November 9. The ...
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NewsDublin Metro North project wins approval
IRELAND: The Railway Procurement Agency's application to build the proposed 18 km Metro North light rail line from St Stephen’s Green in Dublin city centre to Estuary, north of Swords, has been approved. The PPP project is part of the Transport 21 plan. The Railway Order granted by the ...
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NewsAliaga – Izmir suburban services launched
TURKEY: The start of trial services on the 58 km suburban line from Alsançak to Aliaga on October 29 marked the completion of a project to develop the 80 km Aliaga–Menderes commuter network in Izmir. The project involves reconstructing two existing railway lines and launching suburban services to connect urban ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Work has started on the construction of a rail link between the port of Kyaukpyu in western Myanmar and Kunming in China via Ruili. It is being built with Chinese assistance, as China plans to use the new deep-water port on Maday Island as an oil import terminal. The transport ...
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NewsGuangzhou peoplemover enters service
CHINA: Guangzhou Metro launched trial operation of its automated peoplemover on November 8. The line will serve key venues for the Asian Games taking place in the city from November 12 – 27. The 4 km double-track underground route connects the Zhujiang Xincheng central business district to the Tianhe commercial ...
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NewsSystra and Studi to manage Tunis suburban construction
TUNISIA: The Tunis Rapid Rail Network Co has awarded Systra and Tunisian group Studi a 43-month contract to manage construction of the first phase of the RFR suburban rail network. Phase I envisages a 17·9 km, two-line Y-shaped network with 14 stations. The two lines would share a tunnel between ...
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NewsAnsaldo STS selected to upgrade Stockholm Red Line signalling
SWEDEN: Stockholm public transport authority Storstockholms Lokaltrafik has awarded Ansaldo STS an €80m contract to replace the existing signalling on the metro’s Red Line with communications-based train control in order to increase capacity on the route.The Red Line is operated as two routes, T13 from Norsborg to Ropsten and T14 ...
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NewsWabtec buys Swiger Coil Systems
USA: Wabtec Corp has acquired Swiger Coil Systems, which manufactures and services traction motors and electric coils for the rail and power generation markets. Founded in 1975 and based in Cleveland, Ohio, Swiger Coil has annual sales of $35m in the USA and internationally. 'Swiger Coil expands our product ...
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NewsPantograph spots faults
UK: Two Alstom Pendolino trainsets operated by Virgin Trains on the UK’s West Coast Main Line have been fitted with monitoring equipment designed by Serco which can identify faults in the overhead electrification while running in regular service. Accelerometers on the pantograph frame detect unusual impacts from defects such as ...
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NewsProducts & Technology in Brief
Ab Ovo and Quintiq have implemented a scheduling system covering Swedish freight operator Green Cargo’s 433 locomotives and 1700 staff. It takes into account factors including working time rules, route knowledge, certification and salaries. Four US Class I railways and Amtrak have approved the use of Standard Strength rails ...
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NewsSolar power on the roof
FRANCE: A photovoltaic module has been integrated into the roof of an SNCF train to demonstrate lightweight and flexible thin-film modules developed by Ascent Solar Technologies. They can be integrated into standard construction materials to provide portable and off-grid power. During October the US firm signed a distribution deal for ...
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NewsHigh Speed 1 concession awarded to Canadian pension consortium
UK: A consortium of Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has been selected for a 30-year concession to manage High Speed 1, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond announced on November 5. The deal will be completed by the end of November, and will see the consortium pay a total of ...