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NewsWabtec to buy Standard Car Truck
SCT: Wabtec Corp announced on September 15 that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire wagon bogie and locomotive component manufacturer Standard Car Truck for $300m in cash. Based at Park Ridge in Illinois, Standard Car Truck has annual sales of about $225m, including the Barber range of ...
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NewsDancing partner
ITALY: Just days after the private-sector NTV consortium unveiled its plans to compete with Trenitalia in the domestic high speed market from 2011, potential partners started beating a path to its door. According to Chief Executive Guiseppe Sciarrone, NTV recognises that it does not have practical experience of 300 ...
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NewsRDC sells Central East African Railway stake
AFRICA: Railroad Development Corp has completed the sale of its stake in Nacala Corridor concessionaire Central East African Railway to Mozambican investment group Insitec, the Pittsburgh-based rail management and investment company announced on September 15. 'The sale of our economic interests to local investors represents a major development in ...
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NewsKorail sets out its 2015 vision
SOUTH KOREA: With traffic climbing steeply in recent years, Korail is focusing on further expansion of its passenger business and seeking ways to strengthen its freight operations in a competitive global market.
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Moscow ring agreed
RUSSIA: On September 11 Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin and Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov signed an agreement establishing Moscow Railway Ring as an equally-owned joint venture of RZD and the city. The special purpose vehicle will be responsible for the development and funding of the 5bn rouble ring railway ...
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NewsDesign your own railway
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: WSP International confirmed on August 12 that it had been appointed as technical adviser to the national infrastructure agency Nidco during the design and construction of planned Trinidad rail network. The consultant says it will 'provide technical advice to the government as project manager’ for the ...
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NewsPointers September 2008
The Ministry of Transport in Jordan unveiled its railway development plan at the end of July which would see two lines totalling 1 018 km built by 2013. A north-south route would run from the Syrian border to Aqaba via Mafraq, Amman and Ma’an, whilst an east-west route would run ...
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NewsCommission looking into DSB funding
DENMARK: The European Commission is to determine whether public service contracts concluded between the Ministry of Transport and national railway DSB for the periods 2000-04 and 2005-14 amount to state aid. Many DSB services are operated on the basis of public service contracts agreed without tendering. DSB is required ...
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NewsFrancilien launches wide-body family
FRANCE: Bombardier rolled out the first Francilien trainset in July. Murray Hughes reports from the company's Crespin factory near Valenciennes in northern France.
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NewsIntercity Express design unveiled
UK: The Express Rail Alliance consortium has released computer-generated impressions of the designs it has put forward under the Intercity Express Programme to develop the UK's next generation of inter-city trains. The Department for Transport is seeking to replace the existing fleet of IC125 diesel and IC225 electric trains ...
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NewsGrant funds freight brake research
AUSTRALIA: Queensland's Smart State Research Partnerships programme has approved a A$670 000 grant towards the development of a Train Health Advisory System at CQ University's Centre for Railway Engineering. The university had previously been awarded A$869 500 to develop OzECP electronically controlled pneumatic braking in partnerships with QR and ...
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NewsMalt trains mark Rail4chem integration
EUROPE: Veolia Cargo has announced the launch of its first new freight service using resources from the Rail4chem business which it acquired earlier this year. On August 4 Veolia began transporting loose malt to Antwerpen from Malteurop's main production site at Vitry-le-François in France. Within France the trains are ...
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NewsMega-trucks are not the answer
FREIGHT: The European Commission is considering a report recommending the EU-wide acceptance of longer and heavier lorries, but environmentally and economically this would be a monumental step in the wrong direction, argues Michael Clausecker.
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NewsEC approves rolling motorway aid
EUROPE: On September 10 the European Commission approved an extension to state support being provided during the experimental phase of Modalohr rolling motorway services on the Lyon - Torino route. Trial services on the 175 km Fréjus corridor between Aiton-Bourganeuf in France and Orbassano in Italy are being operated ...
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NewsERTMS contract in Croatia
CROATIA: The Central Finance & Contracting Agency has awarded a consortium of Bombardier and Italian firm Site SpA a €16m contract to install Interflo 250 ETCS Level 1 equipment between Vinkovci and Tovarnik. The 33·5 km line to the Serbian border forms part of Pan-European Corridor X between ...
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Punta Colonet tenders called
MEXICO: President Felipe Calderon announced the start of tendering for a 45-year build and operate concession covering the planned US$5bn Punta Colonet port and railway project on August 28. The centrepiece will be a container port for trans-Pacific cargo which is to be built on the lightly ...
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NewsSNCB orders Alstom TBL1+ train protection
BELGIUM: SNCB has placed an order with Alstom for the supply of a further 956 sets of TBL1+ onboard train protection equipment. Installation will be undertaken by SNCB. The contract follows an order for 866 sets placed in 2007, and includes a 10 -year maintenance agreement bringing the total ...
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News in Brief
Delivery of 25 locomotives from India has allowed freight services to be restarted on the line north from Dar-es-Salaam to Tanga and Moshi in Tanzania. A third weekly passenger service between Dar-es-Salaam and Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika is now running, and Tanzania Railways has ordered 23 third class sleeping cars ...
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NewsSBB seeks freight partner
SWITZERLAND: Potential partners have until September 22 to submit expressions of interest in forming a partnership with SBB Cargo to develop Swiss Federal Railways' freight business. SBB said on September 3 that it is aiming to improve rail's competitive position against road in the international market, provide better ...
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NewsSouth Korea's growing network
INFRASTRUCTURE: Electrification, double-tracking and new line construction feature strongly in an expansion programme that will see South Korea’s rail network expand by 12% over the next eight years