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NewsReturn of the inter-city train
Investment by individual states has brought a dramatic growth in inter-city rail travel on some US corridors, and may trigger the political breakthrough required for the development of true high speed lines
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World rail news in brief
An 8·3 MW gas turbine locomotive which is currently undergoing trials was displayed at the opening of Russian Railways' Innovation Development Centre at Moscow's Riga station last month. The 300 tonne twin-section GTI-001 loco built by the Voronezh Locomotive Factory has a NK-361 turbine developed by ...
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Chuo maglev priced
CENTRAL JAPAN Railway has stepped up its campaign to build the long-planned Chuo Shinkansen as a maglev link between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. In August the company issued its first detailed cost estimate, putting the first stage from Tokyo to Nagoya at ¥5 000bn. Three years ago the ...
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Metros September 2007
Belgium: STIB will begin putting the 15 six-car Boa metro trainsets supplied by CAF into service on Brussels Line 1B this month. Bulgaria: Having received no bids during two previous privatisation attempts, the city of Sofia has lowered to 25m leva the price it expects to obtain from the sale ...
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No concession at Ethio-Djibouti Railway
MID-2007 was expected to have seen the signing of a 25-year concession for the operation of the 781 km Ethio-Djibouti Railway. But it was not to be. Nine consortia had expressed interest in the concession when bidding began two years ago. Two groups led by Comazar of South Africa and ...
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Karelian Trains awards Pendolino contract
ON SEPTEMBER 5 Alstom announced it had been awarded a €120m contract by Karelian Trains to supply four 1520 mm gauge Pendolino tilting trains for use on 220 km/h services between Helsinki and St Petersburg. In May Alstom had been named as the sole bidder for the contract, which includes ...
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Midi-Pyrénées renewal plan
RFF President Hubert du Mesnil joined his SNCF counterpart Anne-Marie Idrac in Toulouse on July 25 to sign a rail plan for the Midi-Pyrénées region which will see €820m spent on track renewals and capacity enhancements for TER services in 2007-13. To assist the development of its local rail network, ...
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Shanghai Metro Line 2 to link the airports
WORK started on July 25 on the extension of Shanghai Metro's Line 2 from Long Yang Road to Pudong International Airport. Long Yang Road is at present the penultimate station on Line 2 at its eastern end, where an interchange already exists with the maglev service to the airport. The ...
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Inter-regional TGV line will have an international impact
Spectacular time savings will follow completion of France's first inter-regional TGV line over the 140 km between Dijon and Belfort in December 2011. Reporting from RFF's construction headquarters at Besançon, Murray Hughes finds that the line will change Europe's railway geography
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NewsWorld Speed Survey 2007: New lines boost rail's high speed performance
With Eurostar celebrating its first high speed run between Paris and London's St Pancras station on September 4, the latest biennial World Speed Survey published in the September 2007 issue of Railway Gazette International confirms that construction of new high speed lines is helping to make inter-city rail travel more ...
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Stuttgart 21 gets the green light
Stuttgart 21 gets the green light Construction of an underground through station in Stuttgart connecting with a new high speed line to Ulm is to go ahead, reports Ralf Roman Rossberg
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Zhibo wheelset venture formed
A JOINT venture to establish China's largest wheelset overhaul plant was agreed by Lucchini Sidermeccanica and Zhibo Transport Equipment on July 27. The Italian firm has a 25% stake in Zhibo Lucchini Railway Equipment (Zhiqi), with the 75% majority share in the venture owned by Zhibo, a subsidiary of Shanxi ...
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Stockholm invites tram bids
STORSTOCKHOLMS Localtrafik has called for expressions of interest in a concession to extend, operate and maintain the Djurgården tram line. The project will see part of the current heritage tramway to Djurgården expanded into a conventional light rail operation, and the construction of a new section from the present terminus ...
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Intelligence September 2007
Africa: Railway authorities in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland have agreed the exchange and training of train crews and an operational partnership that calls for international standards for the repair of locos and rolling stock. Mozambican drivers have started work on Swazi and South African locos, and operating manuals are ...
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Restructured Transnet to spend
INVESTMENT totalling R78bn over the next five years was announced by Maria Ramos, CEO of South Africa's state-owned transport holding group Transnet, on July 23. The money is intended 'to expand the capacity of our ports, rail freight and pipeline assets', she said. Ramos was speaking at the launch of ...
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People in the News
On August 16 QR Chairman John Prescott announced the appointment of Lance Hockridge as the Queensland railway’s new CEO. He is currently President North American at BlueScope Steel, a position which includes responsibility for European and Middle East operations. His previous roles have included Group General Manager ...
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Leasing finance
BABCOCK & Brown announced on August 1 the establishment of a new company to develop CBRail, the European operating lease financing company it formed in September 2004 as a joint venture with Bank of Scotland Corporate Asset Finance. The new company has a €390m long-term financing platform to enable the ...
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AGV tailors capacity and performance to the market
Nearing completion at Alstom's factory in La Rochelle are the seven cars of the prototype Automotice à Grande Vitesse. Alstom's Technical Director François Lacôte briefed Murray Hughes on the train's design and target market