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NewsRail Automation Business Unit opens
SLOVAKIA: Siemens Mobility officially opened a dedicated Rail Automation Business Unit at its Zilina Engineering Centre in northwest Slovakia on October 20. The company expects to increase the number of signalling and control specialists at the site to 130 over the next five years, in response to 'encouraging market trends' ...
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NewsMontréal metro car order placed at last
CANADA: Société de transport de Montréal confirmed on October 22 that it had signed a C$1·2bn contract with a consortium of Bombardier and Alstom for the supply of 468 rubber-tyred metro cars. The 52 nine-car trainsets will allow STM to replace its MR-63 fleet, which has been in service since ...
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NewsRail revival to replace Cambodia's bamboo trains
CAMBODIA: Rehabilitation of the run-down and war-damaged railway network reached a milestone when the initial section was officially reopened on October 22. The first cement traffic was carried in early October on a 117 km stretch between Phnom Penh and Touk Meas, and passenger services are planned for the ...
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NewsBusiness confidence grows
INTERNATIONAL: Business confidence in the rail sector has improved significantly, and is close to the levels recorded before the economic downturn, according to the latest quarterly results in the Global Rail Index survey undertaken by SCI Verkehr. None of the companies surveyed were unhappy about the current business market, ...
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NewsSão Paulo orders Alstom suburban trains
BRAZIL: São Paulo suburban train operator CPTM has awarded Alstom Transport a €80m contract to supply nine electric multiple-units for Line 11 Expresso Leste services, the manufacturer announced on October 19. Part of Alstom's Metropolis range, the eight-car 1 600 mm gauge 3 kV DC units will be produced at ...
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NewsGATX to manage wagon fleet
USA: Asset leasing company GATX Corp has purchased a 12·5% stake in Adler Funding LLC, a newly-created entity which has acquired a fleet of 5 350 wagons. GATX will manage the portfolio on behalf of the financial institutions which own the remainder of the firm. 'This opportunity demonstrates GATX's ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market October 2010
Algeria: General contractor Astaldi has awarded a consortium of Bombardier and Site SpA a €19m order to supply Interflo 250 ETCS Level 1 equipment for the 120 km line under construction between Saida and Moulay Slissen. Telvent is to supply Isolux-Corsan with its Smartmobility light rail system to ...
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NewsHigh temperature locomotives ordered from EMD
MAURITANIA: Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière has awarded Electro-Motive Diesel a contract to supply six SD70ACS heavy haul diesel locomotives with AC traction motors, the manufacturer announced on October 20. To be delivered from late 2011 they will allow the operation of heavier mineral trains through the ...
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NewsCo-operation renewed
MOROCCO: As part of a bilateral forum between Italy and Morocco, national railway authority ONCF signed a new co-operation agreement with Italy's FS Group in Rabat on October 11. The event was attended by Italy's Vice-Minister of Economic Development Adolpho Urso. The agreement continues a railway co-operation accord signed by ...
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NewsDB ready to link London with Amsterdam and Frankfurt
EUROPE: Deutsche Bahn expects to launch regular services from London to Frankfurt and Amsterdam in 2013, DB Chairman Rüdiger Grube confirmed on October 19, presenting an ICE3 trainset at St Pancras station for the first time. Grube was joined for the announcement by UK Minister of State for Transport ...
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NewsKolkata metro reaches New Garia
INDIA: A 2·8 km extension of Kolkata's north-south metro line from Kavi Nazrul to Kavi Subhash was officially inaugurated by Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee on October 7. Named after Indian poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay, the terminus at Kavi Subhash serves the New Garia district to the southeast of the city. Opening ...
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NewsLuas opens to Cherrywood
IRELAND: The 7·5 km Cherrywood extension of Dublin’s Luas light rail Green Line from Sandymount to Brides Glen was officially inaugurated by Taoiseach Brian Cowen on October 16, in a ceremony at the new Central Park stop. The event was also attended by the Chair of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market October 2010
Africa: Tazara is to repair the 865 defective wagons out of the fleet of 1853 that are currently out of use. US$500000m has been allocated to repair an initial 500 wagons by the end of 2010. Australia: On September 1 CSR Ziyang signed a 100m yuan contract to ...
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NewsTrans-Hudson Tunnel rethink
USA: Having unilaterally terminated construction of the new trans-Hudson commuter rail tunnel on October 7, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie subsequently agreed to postpone his decision for two weeks. Christie acted to scrap the project after its executive committee found that the cost of the $8·7bn 'Access to the Region's ...
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NewsGauge changer trial
SPAIN: Infrastructure authority ADIF is testing the TCSR03 gauge-changer which has been built at Roda de Bará near Tarragona, using facilities made redundant by completion of the Madrid - Barcelona high speed line. Developed as part of the Unichanger research programme (RG 9.09 p55), the TCSR03 is designed to accept ...
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NewsWorld rail market October 2010
Denmark: DSB has ordered 188 Hoeft & Wessel almex.station ticket machines. All will accept payments by coins and cards, and some will take banknotes and give notes as change. Germany: DB has selected Syncron International's Global Inventory Management software to control its spare parts supply chain across 100 stock ...
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NewsWiener Linien opens U2 extension
AUSTRIA: Wiener Linien inaugurated the eastern extension of metro line U2 from Stadion to Aspernstrasse on October 2, after four years of construction work. The event was attended by the Mayor of Wien, Michael Häupl, and Deputy Mayor Renate Brauner. The new section has six stations and crosses over the ...
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NewsMadrid metro Line 11 extended to La Fortuna
SPAIN: Esperanza Aguirre, President of the Madrid regional government, inaugurated the extension of metro Line 11 from La Peseta, in Carabanchel, to La Fortuna in Leganés on October 5.The project cost €201·5m and involved boring a 3·2 km tunnel and construction of La Fortuna station beneath Serafín Díez Antón park. ...
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NewsTrial run on Dubai metro Green Line
UAE: On October 13 the Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, launched trial running on Dubai metro Green Line when he travelled from Dubai Healthcare City to the eastern terminus at Etisalat. He was accompanied by Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, RTA ...