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NewsTIFIA loan to fund Chicago L cars
USA: Federal Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on March 30 that the Federal Transit Administration had agreed a $255m low-interest loan to Chicago Transit Authority under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act. This will partially fund the operator’s next generation of metro trainsets. Earlier in the month CTA awarded ...
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NewsSiemens and Huawei successfully test CBTC over LTE
SIGNALLING: Huawei announced on March 29 that it had completed interoperability testing of communication-based train control over LTE with Siemens France, and an on-site dynamic test would take place in April. The laboratory tests saw CBTC, passenger information and CCTV streams carried over an LTE network. Huawei and Siemens ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
NS subsidiary NedTrain is to build a €30m wheelset maintenance and refurbishment hall at its Haarlem site. The current hall with life-expired machinery will become a wheelset storage site. The new facility will employ about 100 people, have the capacity to handle 3 000 bogies/year and be responsible for inspection ...
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NewsOperators and infrastructure managers at InnoTrans 2016
INNOTRANS: Train operators and infrastructure managers are the main customers for the vast array of suppliers who exhibit at InnoTrans, and these railway companies are increasingly taking the opportunity to exhibit in their own right, highlighting their capabilities and promoting their image. A total of 18 German and international transport ...
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NewsNewag signs Małopolska EMU contract
POLAND: Małopolskie voivodship signed a 300m złoty contract with Newag for the supply of 12 electric multiple-units on March 30. The Nowy Sącz based supplier beat Pesa to win the contract, which includes options for up to four more trainsets. The first six EMUs from Newag’s Impuls family are ...
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NewsHitachi awarded TransPennine Express multiple-unit contract
UK: First TransPennine Express Ltd has awarded Hitachi Rail Europe and leasing company Angel Trains a contract to supply 19 five-car AT300 electro-diesel multiple units for use on the TransPennine Express franchise in northern England from December 2019. The contract was announced on March 31, the day before the new ...
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NewsAlstom sets out strategy for 2020
ALSTOM: Chairman & CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge and CFO Marie-José Donsion presented Alstom’s strategic, operational and financial priorities for 2020 at a meeting with investors and financial analysts at its signalling site at Villeurbanne in France on March 30. Following the divestment of its energy activities to GE, Alstom is now ...
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NewsBotswana Railways coaches delivered
BOTSWANA: The first 22 of 37 coaches which Botswana Railways ordered from South Africa’s Transnet Engineering were delivered to Gaborone by rail in late March, and the rest are scheduled to arrive by May. The coaches are being produced at Transnet’s Koedoespoort and Salt River plants, with Transnet outsourcing ‘a ...
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NewsRDC strengthens German business ahead of Sylt launch
GERMANY: US-based international railway group Railroad Development Corp has announced a restructuring and management appointments at its German subsidiary RDC Deutschland GmbH with effect from April 1, ahead of the planned launch of the Autozug Sylt service car-carrying service. RDC’s German activities will comprise holding company RDC Deutschland GmbH ...
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NewsIdeagen to replace UK rail safety reporting system
UK: Railway safety and standards authority RSSB has awarded Ideagen a £4·9m contract to replace the industry-wide safety reporting system using its Gael Enlighten cloud-based application. The new SMIS+ safety management information system will replace RSSB’s current database, which dates from 2002 and acts as a central reporting facility for ...
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NewsSiemens shows first complete Charger locomotive
USA: Siemens displayed its first completed Charger diesel-electric locomotive when Federal Railroad Administrator Sarah E Feinberg visited its Sacramento manufacturing plant on March 26. The states of Illinois, California, Michigan, Missouri, Washington and Maryland have ordered a total of 66 Charger locomotives which will be powered by Cummins QSK95 diesel ...
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NewsToshkent tram network to close
UZBEKISTAN: Toshkent Mayor Rakhmonbek Usmonov announced on March 29 that the city’s 87·8 route-km tram network is to close by the end of the year. The former tracks will be used to provide additional road space, which the city authorities hope will reduce traffic congestion. Tram services are to be ...
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NewsKapsch CarrierCom wins Luxembourg GSM-R contract
LUXEMBOURG: National railway CFL has awarded Kapsch CarrierCom a contract to implement GSM-R across the 271 route-km network by early 2017, and provide service support for three years. Kapsch CarrierCom is to install an IP-based Release 4 core network and a future-proof access network with the latest RDN.base station. ...
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NewsLIRR triple-tracking design contract awarded
USA: A consortium of AECOM and Gannett Fleming has been awarded a $7m contract to undertake environmental assessments and community engagement as preparatory work begins to construct a third track over the 15·8 route-km Floral Park – Hicksville section of the Long Island Rail Road commuter rail network.The northerly LIRR ...
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NewsBangkok Red Line E&M contract awarded
THAILAND: State Railway of Thailand has awarded a 32·4bn baht contract for E&M works for Bangkok’s Red Line to a consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi and Sumitomo Corp, the consortium announced on March 30. Hitachi will supply rolling stock and MHI will be responsible for track, catenary, power ...
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NewsLiège tram PPP to be retendered
BELGIUM: The Wallonie regional government has announced that its transport agency Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport is to re-tender the DBFM concession to build and maintain the planned Liège light rail line. In December 2014 SWRT selected the MobiLiège consortium of Alstom, BAM PPP PGGM and DG Infra to finance ...
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NewsUnited Wagon Co takes 100% ownership of Titran Express
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co has acquired 100% ownership of the Titran Express plant, which has the capacity to repair and modernise more than 3 500 wagons per year at its plant in the northwestern city of Tikhvin, where UWC’s own wagon manufacturing business is based. The Titran Express plant will ...
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NewsEast West Rail preferred corridor selected
UK: Network Rail announced on March 29 that it had selected a Bedford – Sandy – Cambridge corridor as its preferred option for the Central Section of the East West Rail project to reinstate a rail link between Oxford, Cambridge and East Anglia. NR had studied 20 possible corridors before ...
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NewsAlstom awarded Trentino multiple-unit contract
ITALY: Trenitalia has awarded Alstom a contract to supply a further six Coradia Meridian electric multiple-units for use on regional services in Trentino. The firm order announced on March 25 has been placed under a 2012 framework agreement, and deliveries are scheduled to start at the end of 2016. ...
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NewsFirst Honolulu metro cars arrive
USA: The first two metro cars for the driverless light metro arrived in Honolulu on March 24 from Hitachi Rail Italy’s factory in Pittsburg, California. The bodies were assembled in Reggio Calabria in Italy, before the cars were fitted out in Pittsburg. Shipping was co-ordinated by Baggio, with Pasha ...