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NewsKlang Valley rolling stock and signalling contracts awarded
MALAYSIA: Mass Rapid Transit Corp announced the award of four contracts for the Klang Valley MRT Line 2 project on May 12. The 52·2 km line, also known as the SSP Line, will link Sungai Buloh, Serdang and Putrajaya. The 1·62bn ringgit package SY203 covering the supply of 58 four-car ...
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NewsMTA Metro-North orders Ensco track geometry vehicle
USA: New York commuter operator MTA Metro-North is to order ‘one of the most advanced track inspection vehicles in the world’ from Ensco for entry into service in early 2018. The diesel-powered vehicle would combine laser, optical and inertial sensors to measure track gauge, alignment and rail surfaces at 300 ...
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NewsBeacon Rail Leasing to acquire Ascendos
EUROPE: Beacon Rail Leasing announced on May 13 that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Ascendos Rail Leasing from Everest Babcock & Brown Opportunities Fund, BOSSAF Rail and the BBSFF EU Rail Lessor subsidiary of Singapore-listed Global Investments. Completion of the deal is subject to customary ...
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NewsCrossrail Aventra commissioning facility inaugurated
UK: A new four-track test and commissioning shed at Bombardier Transportation's Derby plant was officially opened by Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin on May 13. He described the opening of the 'cutting-edge facility' as a 'huge event for the UK rail industry', which was 'so important for the ...
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NewsCoradia Lint approved for Poland and the Czech Republic
EUROPE: Alstom announced on May 13 that it had obtained approval for the operation of Coradia Lint 41 diesel multiple-units on the Polish rail network. This follows certification for the Czech Republic, and past approval for operation in Germany, Denmark, France, Canada and the Netherlands. In 2013 Alstom was ...
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NewsTransnet names CEO
The South African Cabinet has approved the appointment of Siyabonga Gama as Chief Executive of Transnet, a post he has held in an acting capacity for a year since predecessor Brian Molefe was transferred to the electricity supply company Eskom. Gama was previously CEO of Transnet Freight Rail and has ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube has told Wirtschafts Woche that DB is planning to set up a fund to invest in start-ups. This would aim to circumvent the bureaucracy of the national railway, while being able to retain added value from new developments and mitigate the risk that a third ...
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NewsDenver starts Southeast light rail extension
USA: Construction of Denver’s Southeast Rail Extension is to start on May 16, following a groundbreaking ceremony on May 10. Held at the site of the future Sky Ridge station, the ceremony was attended by RTD General Manager & CEO Dave Genova, local mayors and the Federal Transit Administration’s Regional ...
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NewsNJ Transit to open Wesmont station
USA: Located between Rutherford and Garfield stations in the Wood Ridge district of New Jersey, Wesmont commuter rail station is to open on May 15, commuter rail operator NJ Transit says.The station will be served by NJ Transit’s Bergen County Line which has through trains to Secaucus Junction and Hoboken ...
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NewsHaramain High Speed Rail opening delayed
SAUDI ARABIA: The completion date for the Haramain High Speed Rail line has been put back by a further 14 months from January 2017 to the first quarter of 2018, Spain’s Development Minister Ana Pastor said on May 10. Pastor also said Saudi Arabia had agreed to bring its payments ...
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NewsGangway fire doors
INNOTRANS: Finnish company PMC Polarteknik will be featuring the gangway fire doors that it has supplied for DB’s ICx trainsets being built by Siemens. As a specialist in hydraulic and pneumatic systems, PMC Polarteknik has designed and supplied fire barrier gangway door systems for most European high speed and inter-city ...
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NewsBelgrano Norte upgrade announced
ARGENTINA: On May 11 the Ministry of Transport announced a 1⋅64bn pesos investment package for the 1 000 mm gauge Belgrano Norte commuter route in Buenos Aires, where operations have recently been hampered by rolling stock shortages. In order to improve journey times, service frequencies and the travelling environment for ...
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NewsVTEC and FirstGroup granted East Coast Main Line access
UK: The Office of Rail & Road announced on May 12 that it had approved applications from Virgin Trains East Coast and FirstGroup for the operation of new passenger services on the East Coast Main Line, but had not approved those from Alliance Rail’s Great North Eastern Railway Company Ltd. ...
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NewsOrange and SNCF sign optic fibre deal
FRANCE: SNCF Réseau has announced the signature of a 10-year agreement with Orange that will see the company market spare capacity on the railway optic fibre network to telecommunications operators. Under the deal announced on May 3, Orange will also be able to make use of this capacity to complement ...
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NewsAlstom announces ‘sound results’ for 2015-16
ALSTOM: ‘Successes across all regions and product lines’ made 2015-16 ‘the second record commercial year in a row for Alstom’, Chairman & CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge said on May 11 when presenting the company’s results for the year to March 31 2016. Orders worth €10·64bn were booked, up 6% on the ...
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NewsOttensmeyer to lead KCS
Patrick J Ottensmeyer is to become Chief Executive Officer of Kansas City Southern with effect from July 1, succeeding David L Starling who will become Senior Advisor until his retirement at the end of this year. Ottensmeyer joined KCS in 2006 as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, ...
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NewsRocky Mountaineer orders luxury dome cars from Stadler
CANADA: Luxury tourist train operator Rocky Mountaineer has awarded Stadler a contract to supply 10 new double-deck dome cars from 2018. ‘We are constantly looking for ways to improve our guest experience which is the core of our business’, said Rocky Mountaineer President Steve Sammut on May 11. ‘The ...
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NewsHeliopolis tramway revival memorandum signed
EGYPT: The Ministry of International Co-operation and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development have signed a memorandum of understanding which could lead to EBRD contributing US$250m to a planned US$500m rehabilitation of the out-of-use Heliopolis tramway between Ramses station and the Almaza district of Cairo. The memorandum is an ...
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NewsStrukton awarded Stockholm track maintenance contracts
SWEDEN: Trafikverket has awarded Strukton Rail contracts to undertake track maintenance on the existing and future routes through central Stockholm. The contracts cover preventive and corrective maintenance of the track, electrical systems and signalling, as well as round-the-clock fault repairs. The five-year contract covering the new Citybanan tunnel link starts ...
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NewsAbellio DMU financing in place
GERMANY: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp and KfW IPEX-Bank announced on May 11 that they had concluded the financing of 52 Alstom Coradia Lint 41 diesel multiple-units which Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland has ordered for use on Dieselnetz Sachsen-Anhalt services. When it announced the €170m rolling stock contract on April 1, ...