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    Figueres - Girona to go dual gauge

    2009-02-10T14:12:00Z

    SPAIN: Infrastructure manager ADIF has awarded a joint venture of Alstom, Acciona and Comsa a €93·8m contract to upgrade the double-track 41 km Girona - Figueres route and convert one line to dual gauge. Alstom's €40·4m share of the 16 month contract includes supplying Atlas 1000 ETCS Level 1 ...

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    Sarmiento tunnel funded

    2009-02-10T13:00:00Z

    ARGENTINA: Work to place the Sarmiento commuter route in Buenos Aires underground is expected to start in mid-2009, following the signature on December 23 of a contract between the federal government and the consortium of Iecsa, Odebrecht, Comsa and Ghella named as preferred bidder on January 23 2008. Costing 4·07bn ...

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    Freight development plan

    2009-02-10T06:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Development Minister Magdalena Álvarez has presented the cabinet with a €4·72bn development plan to make rail freight more competitive. The plan’s key objective is to create a basic freight network to improve service reliabilty, linking terminals that will be open to traffic 24 h a day, 365 days a ...

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    Al Rajhi wins Makkah - Madinah civils contract

    2009-02-09T12:04:00Z

    SAUDI ARABIA: The Al Rajhi Alliance has won the 6·79bn riyal design and build contract for civil works on the Haramain High Speed Rail project. Work is scheduled to begin in March on the 444 km high speed line linking the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah ...

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    Freight maglev on test

    2009-02-09T06:00:00Z

    USA: We reported last year that Union Pacific had commissioned a study into an 8 km maglev conveyor to shuttle containers between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and its Intermodal Container Transfer Facility. Suitable technology is now under development in San Diego, where General Atomics has built ...

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    People in the News - February 2009

    2009-02-08T06:00:00Z

    In a decision made at a shareholders meeting on January 9 Czeslaw Warsewicz has been replaced as President of PKP Intercity by former PKP PLK President Krzysztof Celinski, while Technical Director Krzysztof Sopa has been succeeded by Krzysztof Kolodziejski. PKP PLK board members Miroslaw Pawlowski and Józef Jezewicz have ...

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    Kochi metro funding approved

    2009-02-07T14:13:00Z

    INDIA: The government approved the funding model for the proposed Rs30·5bn Kochi Metro on January 20. This will be a joint venture between the central government and the state of Kerala. The 26 km elevated metro connecting Tripunithura and Aluva is expected to take three years to ...

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    Pointers February 2009

    2009-02-07T07:00:00Z

    The project to build a high speed line between Buenos Aires and Córdoba is ‘on stand-by’ due to the current financial crisis according to Patrick Kron, Chairman & CEO of Alstom. ‘When conditions return to normal, I hope the project can be realised and that is a decision for the ...

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    GE to supply Hangzhou metro supervision systems

    2009-02-06T16:36:00Z

    CHINA: Hangzhou Metro has awarded GE Transportation a contract to supply its RailEdge integrated supervision and control systems for the 54 km Line 1 which is scheduled to open at the end of 2011. RailEdge brings together applications for traffic control, scheduling & planning, supervisory control, passenger information, security ...

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    Melbourne orders 20 more X'Trapolis EMUs

    2009-02-06T15:30:00Z

    AUSTRALIA: Premier of Victoria John Brumby announced on February 6 that the state government had exercised an option for a further 20 six-car Alstom X'Trapolis suburban EMUs. The €170m order is an option on a €160m January 2008 contract for 18 units. They will be used in Melbourne, where 58 ...

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    Alstom wins Downtown Line track contract

    2009-02-06T14:57:00Z

    SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority has awarded Alstom Transport an S$238·5m contract for track work on the Downtown Line now under construction. The contract awarded on January 30 covers the design, supply and installation of 70 km of track with a 750 V DC third rail power supply on ...

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    Thalys metamorphosis

    2009-02-06T06:00:00Z

    REFURBISHMENT: With a dramatic laser show and wreaths of smoke, the first refurbished Thalys trainset was presented to a select group of VIPs and invited guests at the Forest TGV depot in Brussels last month.

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    Mayor of Angers visits first tram

    2009-02-05T12:00:00Z

    FRANCE: Mayor Jean-Claude Antonini led a delegation of city officials to Alstom's La Rochelle plant on January 30 to view the first of 17 Citadis 302 trams ordered for Angers. The 32·4m long and 2·4 m wide trams have a strong visual identity which was developed by Angers ...

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    Locomotive with local technology

    2009-02-05T10:00:00Z

    INDIA: The first diesel-electric locomotive fitted with Indian-designed IGBT traction converters and microprocessor controls has entered service following a month of intensive trials. The Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi originally began production under a 1961 technology transfer agreement with Alco. A further agreement with EMD in 1995 led to increased ...

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    Brigam buys Oleo International

    2009-02-05T09:59:00Z

    UK: Brigam Ltd has bought Oleo International from the administrators of Wagon plc, which went into administration at the end of last year. The deal includes Oleo Buffers Shanghai Co Ltd in China and Oleo Inc in the USA. 'We have been interested in acquiring Oleo for many years' ...

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    Alstom ATC for Santiago Line 1 extension

    2009-02-05T08:00:00Z

    CHILE: Metro de Santiago has awarded Alstom Transport a €5·3m contract to supply, install and commission Sacem automatic train control on the Escuela Militar - Los Dominicos extension which is now under construction. The 3·8 km addition to Line 1 is expected to open by December. Sacem will allow ...

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    Bahn 2030 vision emerges

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    SWITZERLAND: Further expansion of the national rail network is envisaged in ambitious plans outlined in December by the transport ministry. Following completion of the successful Bahn 2000 investment project, attention switched to a more limited programme of improvements to the rail network known as Zukünftigen Entwicklung der Bahninfrastruktur (RG ...

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    Cisalpino problems continue

    2009-02-05T05:58:00Z

    SWITZERLAND: SBB continues to wrestle with the problems caused by late delivery from Alstom of Class 610 tilting trainsets ordered in 2004 for Cisalpino services to and from Milano. The difficulties have been made worse by frequent faults with the ETR470 sets currently diagrammed for this service, and SBB has ...

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    Uncertainty clouds a record year

    2009-02-04T15:00:00Z

    EUROPE: Announcing its 2008 results on January 13, Eurostar reported that it had carried a record 9·11 million passengers in the 12 months, up 10·3% on the year before. Revenue from ticket sales rose by 10·9% to £664m. The leap in traffic followed the switch from Waterloo to St Pancras ...

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    Maribor plant to close

    2009-02-04T13:57:00Z

    SLOVENIA: Siemens' rolling stock plant in Maribor is to close by the end of September, the government said on January 20. Siemens had been negotiating to sell the plant to Heung Il, but the Korean firm pulled out because of the global financial crisis. Subsequent discussions for a sale ...