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NewsSteel railway partnership
GERMANY: SNCF’s international rail freight subsidiary Captrain Deutschland has formed a joint venture with ArcelorMittal to take over the maintenance and operation of the industrial railway network serving the steel group’s 7 km2 steelworks complex in Bremen, which dates from 1957. Launched on May 10, Hansebahn Bremen GmbH is 51% ...
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NewsTube Lines purchase brings London Underground PPP to a close
UK: Transport for London announced on May 7 that it had reached an agreement to buy London Underground infrastructure PPP contractor Tube Lines from its shareholders. The £310m deal is set to be completed by June 30, with Tube Lines becoming a subsidiary of the transport authority. Ferrovial subsidiary Amey ...
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NewsAlstom EMUs ordered for Stockholm commuter services
SWEDEN: On May 11 Alstom Transport announced a €102m order to supply Stockholm public transport authority Storstockholms Lokaltrafik with 12 Coradia Nordic electric multiple-units for use on Stockholm - Uppsala services from 2012. The articulated six-car 15 kV 16·7 Hz units will have space for 374 passengers, asynchronous traction ...
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NewsIcer Rail braking venture formed
SPAIN: Knorr-Bremse subsidiary Sociedad Española de Frenos and Berkelium Group's road and rail friction products business Icer Brakes have established Icer Rail as a producer of organic brake pads and brake shoes for rolling stock. The joint venture will expand Knorr-Bremse's portfolio to include organic pads and shoes for vehicles ...
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NewsJR Freight launches battery hybrid locomotive
JAPAN: Toshiba delivered a prototype diesel-battery hybrid shunting locomotive to JR Freight on March 25. The HD300 uses lithium ion batteries which are charged by the engine and used to store energy regenerated during braking. The design has been under joint development since 2008 with backing from the Ministry of ...
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NewsHigh Plateau railway construction contract
ALGERIA: Railway development agency ANESRIF has awarded a joint venture of Spanish firm FCC and local company ETRHB Haddad a contract worth almost €1bn to built a 185 km section of the High Plateau line between Relizane, Tiaret and Tissemsilt. The single track route is to be built for 160 ...
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NewsConsortium appointed to monitor GSM-R implementation
FRANCE: A consortium of Systra, Bureau Veritas and Algoe has been awarded a five-year contract to provide Réseau Ferré de France with expertise to ensure the technical compliance of the GSM-R network being rolled out under the €1bn PPP contract signed by the infrastructure manager and Synerail in February. RFF ...
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NewsSpeed probe agreement
CHINA: Nanche Electric Equipment Co is to manufacture Hall-effect speed probes under licence from Rowe Hankins using kits supplied by the UK firm, and will also provide technical support in the Chinese rail market. 'Most of the major rail engineering companies that we work with in the rest of the ...
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NewsCNR eyes urban market
CHINA: Locomotive and rolling stock manufacture CNR has bought a 45% stake in Shanghai Rail Traffic Equipment Development Co from Shanghai Electric Group for 365m yuan. The purchase is part of a plan by CNR to accelerate its growth in the urban rail sector, which currently accounts for less than ...
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News600-train framework agreements announced
GERMANY: BeNEX has announced framework agreements under which three rolling stock manufacturers could each supply up to 200 multi-section electric multiple-units. The tendering process began in 2008 and ended on May 5 with the announcement of agreements for Bombardier Transportation to supply Talent 2 units, Alstom Transport its Coradia Continental ...
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NewsNîmes – Montpellier bids go in
FRANCE: Three groups led by Bouygues TP, Eiffage and Vinci Concessions submitted their initial offers for the PPP concession to build, manage and maintain the Nîmes – Montpellier bypass route to Réseau Ferré de France on May 5. This is the first step in a three-stage bidding process launched on ...
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NewsJoint venture to set up Turkish turnout plant
TURKEY: An agreement was signed on May 4 under which Voestalpine's VAE Group and local partners will establish a modern turnout factory close to state railway TCDD's existing plant in Cankiri province, central Turkey. Minister of Transport & Communication Binali Yildirim attended the signing of the joint venture agreement between ...
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NewsLucchini RS opens high technology wheel plant
ITALY: Lucchini RS officially inaugurated a €90m wheel production line at its Lovere site in northern Italy with a ceremony on May 1. The rolling mill puts the company at the forefront of wheel manufacturing technology, as part of its strategy to dominate the niche market for ...
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NewsVeolia and Transdev sign definitive merger agreements
EUROPE: On May 5 Caisse des Dépôts and Veolia Environnement announced the signing of definitive agreements for the merger of Transdev and Veolia Transport, having completed consultation with employee representatives. The deal is subject to authorisation by the French government and regulatory authorities, who will be formally notified 'in ...
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NewsHigh speed project manager appointed
MOROCCO: National railway ONCF has appointed a consortium led by French consultancy Systra and including a number of local firms as civil engineering project manager for the southern section of the 200 km Tanger - Kénitra line, which is to be built as part of the Tanger - Casablanca high ...
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NewsCBTC trials on New York’s Flushing Line
USA: New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has awarded Kawasaki Rail Car an $87·1m contract for 23 new R188 subway cars equipped with communications-based train control; delivery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2012. The R188 is designed for use on Division A of the New York City Transit network, ...
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NewsMore metro stations opened in Dubai
UAE: A further seven stations entered service on Dubai’s driverless metro network on April 30, taking the total number in operation to 18.The newly-opened Red Line stations are Emirates, Airport Terminal 1, Al Karama, Emirates Towers, Dubai Internet City, Dubai Marina and Ibn Battuta. A further three – GGICO, ...
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NewsWork starts on Praha metro extension
CZECH REPUBLIC: Praha Mayor Pavel Bém, city councillor Radovan Šteiner, Praha Public Transport Co Director General Martin Dvorák and other officials launched work on a 6 km western extension of Praha metro Line A on April 12, by laying a foundation stone at the site of Červený Vrch station. The ...
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NewsShanghai now the world's longest metro
CHINA: The departure of the first train on Shanghai metro Line 10 at 09.00 on April 10 signalled several significant achievements. The start of trial operation on Line 10, exactly 15 years to the day after the inauguration of the first section of Line 1, makes Shanghai's metro network the ...
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NewsEMUs arrive in Izmir
TURKEY: CAF has delivered the first two of 22 three-car air-conditioned EMUs which will work the reconstructed suburban lines from Izmir to Menderes and Aliaga - an 80 km network with 32 stations. The €123m order was placed by Izban, a joint venture of state railway TCDD and Izmir Metropolitan ...