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    China may be next Desiro customer

    30 November 2009

    CHINA: Working in partnership with a local company, Siemens Mobility is hoping to secure an order for around 50 suburban trainsets in Guangzhou, having tendered a version of its Desiro product platform. Of major interest to Siemens and rival bidders are options that could see up to 1500 further ...

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    Wagon works auction

    29 November 2009

    RZD: A further two wagon repair plants have been sold by Russian Railways as part of a privatisation programme which aims to increase competition in the rolling stock maintenance market. In an auction held on October 23 the Cheremkhovo wagon repair depot in the Irkutsk oblast was bought by ...

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    Factory grows

    28 November 2009

    HUNGARY: A bogie production hall was opened at Bombardier’s Mátranovák plant in northeastern Hungary on November 6. The investment in the former Ganz Steel Structure works cost €22m, with half the funding coming from the national government via its Economic Development Operations Programme. The extension of the factory has ...

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    VTG to fit stronger axles

    27 November 2009

    EUROPE: Hamburg-based wagon leasing group VTG announced on November 16 that it is to equip its fleet with new wheelsets suitable for heavier axleloads. Starting with all newly-built wagons, plus those registered in Germany and Austria, the programme will cover up to 20000 vehicles and is expected to take between ...

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    Infrastructure managers to merge

    27 November 2009

    EUROPE: Two of the Nordic region’s railway infrastructure authorities are to disappear in 2010, as their respective governments move to consolidate their transport administrations. First to disappear will be Finnish rail infrastructure manager RHK, which is to become part of a new Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency from January 1. Liikennevirasto ...

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    Solaris to supply low-floor trams to Poznan

    27 November 2009

    POLAND: Solaris has signed a 342m zloty contract to supply 40 low-floor trams to Poznan municipal transport operator MPK. They are to be delivered between June 2011 and March 2012, in time for the city hosting the 2012 UEFA European Championship. The 40 unidirectional Solaris Tramino LF 32 trams will ...

  • Lieutenant-Colonel John H Patterson and a dead lion (Photo: The Field Museum).
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    Man eating lions - not (as) many dead

    27 November 2009

    KENYA: Lieutenant-Colonel John H Patterson attributed the deaths of 135 people to the ‘man-eaters of Tsavo’, a pair of lions which terrorised railway construction workers in Kenya in 1898. The Uganda Railway hired Patterson to hunt down the lions, but thought the number of deaths was more like 28. Now ...

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    RFF to launch Perpignan – Montpellier study

    26 November 2009

    FRANCE: Following a public consultation between March and July 2009, infrastructure manager RFF announced on November 26 that it is to launch formal design studies for the high speed line between Montpellier and Perpignan. According to RFF, the public consultation led to the emergence of a ‘preferred corridor’ in terms ...

  • Siemens Avanto for Mulhouse (SNCF/Olivier Azema)
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    Alsatian Avanto goes on display

    26 November 2009

    FRANCE: The first Siemens Avanto tram-train for the Vallée de la Thur line is to be displayed to the public in the Place de la Gare in Mulhouse from December 3-6. The LRV is the first of 12 ordered to operate tram-trains between Mulhouse and Thann Saint-Jacques. Similar to the ...

  • Freightliner Group Ltd CEO Peter Maybury and GE Transportation CEO Lorenzo Simonelli at the naming of PowerHaul locomotive 70001.
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    PowerHaul brings Evolution technology to Europe

    26 November 2009

    UK: Capacity is the reason a new locomotive design was ordered from GE Transportation, Freightliner Ltd Managing Director Adam Cunliffe said as the first was named 'PowerHaul' in Leeds on November 24. The Class 70 PowerHaul locomotives will provide faster acceleration and higher running speeds than Freightliner's existing fleet. ...

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    Sydney Metro construction bids submitted

    26 November 2009

    AUSTRALIA: The three consortia shortlisted in August to bid for the Permanent Route Infrastructure contract to construct the tunnels and station boxes on Sydney Metro Stage 1 have submitted their tenders. Phase 1 will run from Central to Rozelle and will form the backbone of the future metro network. ...

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    Nomad to supply inter-city wi-fi

    26 November 2009

    NETHERLANDS: Train operator NS has awarded an initial five year contract to Nomad Digital and T-Mobile for the installation of 3G broadband services on its services. Under what the supplier describes as one of its largest transport awards, Nomad Digital will deploy its R3500 mobile broadband gateway on 187 inter-city ...

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    DB places firm order for DMUs

    26 November 2009

    GERMANY: DB Regio has placed the first firm order for Alstom Coradia Lint 41 diesel multiple-units within the terms of a 2008 framework agreement for up to 180 units. The €40m order announced on November 26 covers 16 two-car units, designated VT648.4 by DB, for use on regional services ...

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    New line option selected to boost capacity

    26 November 2009

    DENMARK: 'This is a milestone in Danish railway history, said Transport Minister Lars Barfoed after the main political parties approved the 'Modern Railway settlement on October 22, giving the go-ahead for a series of capacity enhancement projects including the construction of a new line from Ny Ellebjerg to Ringsted ...

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    Construction back on track

    25 November 2009

    NIGERIA: The federal government and China Civil Engineering Construction Corp signed a US$876m deal on October 26 for construction of the planned 200 km Abuja – Kaduna railway within three years. The Chinese government has granted a loan of US$500m for the project, the first phase of a national railway ...

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    Dobra gateway opens at last

    24 November 2009

    SLOVAKIA: Russian intermodal operator Transcontainer announced on November 23 that it had successfully operated its first complete block train through the container transhipment terminal at Dobra in southeast Slovakia two days earlier. Last year the RZD subsidiary agreed to lease the 18 ha Dobra facility from ZSSK Cargo for 15 ...

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    Hong Kong high speed approved

    24 November 2009

    CHINA: Construction of the Hong Kong section of the planned 142 km Express Rail Link from West Kowloon to the Shibi railway hub in New Guangzhou is set to get underway by the end of this year, after the Special Administrative Region’s Executive Council approved the XRL project on October ...

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    Perpignan - Figueres concession extended

    24 November 2009

    SPAIN: On November 6 the Ministry of Development announced a package of measures to compensate TP Ferro, the company building the new Perpignan – Figueres cross-border route, for delays in completing the connecting high speed line between Barcelona and Figueres. TP Ferro’s concession agreement is to be extended from ...

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    World Bank loan to improve urban transport

    24 November 2009

    ARGENTINA: On October 20 the World Bank approved the first part of a two-stage Adaptable Loan Programme to support plans to improve the quality of Argentina’s urban transport networks. The US$150m fixed-spread loan extends over the period 2010-16 and is payable in 30 years, including five years’ grace.The government’s Metropolitan ...

  • Manusa PSDs at San Nicasio station on L12 of Metro de Madrid
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    Metro de Madrid trials PSDs

    23 November 2009

    SPAIN: Overnight trials of platform screen doors commenced on four stations of Madrid metro Line 12 in November, which will last until early 2010. The PSDs will then be used during normal passenger service for two months before being dismantled and the platforms made good. Westinghouse Platform Screen Doors, Faiveley, ...