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NewsSBB to buy 32 FLIRT trains
SWITZERLAND: The board of Swiss Federal Railways has exercised options with Stadler for a further 32 FLIRT trainsets, to be used on services in Vaud, Ticino and Basel from 2010. The SFr418·6m order includes 19 FLIRT units for RER Vaudois services from Lausanne, and two trainsets for Regio S-Bahn ...
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NewsNTV targets 20% market share by 2015
'Congratulations on your initiative!' Endorsing the public launch of Europe's first private-sector high speed train operator at a press conference in Roma on July 15, newly-appointed European Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani welcomed the arrival on the scene of Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori. 'We cannot but be happy with the development ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market August 2008
Benin: Rites has placed an order with India’s Golden Rock workshop for the refurbishment of three metre-gauge diesel locos for use in Benin. They will be shipped in October. Bosnia: BHZJK has awarded Croatian firm TZV Gredelj a €4·1m contract to modernise three ex-DB Class 212 diesel-hydraulic locomotives and one ...
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NewsWorld infrastructure market August 2008
Algeria: Railway agency Anesrif has awarded Nortel a contract to supply GSM -R equipment on the Tabia – Mecheria and Bordj Bou – Arreridj M’Sila routes currently under construction (RG 4.07 p205). Argentina: TBA has taken delivery of an 08-16 split-head levelling and lining tamper as well as a PBR ...
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NewsContracts August 2008
France: Finnish technology group Teleste has won a €1m extension to a previous contract to supply SNCF with CCTV equipment. India: Under a €4m contract Bombardier is to supply traffic management and passenger information systems covering 53 km of Central Railway’s suburban network in Mumbai (p496). Nigeria: German firm ...
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NewsDB to develop Qatar rail plan
QATAR: National development agency Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co has signed a memorandum of understanding with Deutsche Bahn for the planning of a rail network. The German national railway will prepare concepts for passenger and freight transport, and undertake a feasibility study for a fast rail link to ...
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NewsAsia's missing links discussed
ASIA: The Singapore - Kunming Rail Link was on the agenda of the 10th ASEAN-Mekong Basin Development Co-operation ministerial meeting, which was held in Singapore and concluded on August 29. Around 550 km of new line is planned under the SKRL project, completing a 7 000 km metre-gauge ...
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NewsSNCF takes up the TER 2030 challenge
FRANCE: Setting an ambitious target of quadrupling local passenger traffic, SNCF has brought stakeholders together to examine the future of its regional networks.
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NewsJamaica rail revival plan completed
JAMAICA: A report detailing plans for reviving the disused national rail network has been finalised, Transport & Works Minister Michael Henry announced last week. ‘As soon as I have the response of the Ministry of Finance, it will be going to cabinet for them to accept my ...
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NewsCalifornia high speed vote to go ahead
USA: On August 26 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill adding financial protections to the High-Speed Train Bond Act which will Californians will vote on in the November 4 ballot. Replacing Proposition 1 on the ballot, Proposition 1A requires a peer-reviewed financial plan before the $9·95bn of bond money ...
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NewsFirst wagons completed at Tikhvin
RUSSIA: The first two wagons have been completed at Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant, which has been established on part of a former Transmash site in Leningrad oblast, 200 km east of St Petersburg. The 220 000 m² factory is being developed by ICT Group at a cost of ...
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NewsUP genset shunters begin work
USA: Union Pacific has begun testing four RP20SD 2000 hp genset loconmotives built by Railpower for the Roseville hump yard 30 km northeast of Sacramento. The locos use the frames and bogies of scrapped six-axle EMD road switchers, and have three gensets onboard with room for a fourth to ...
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NewsItalian crossing upgrade
ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI and track maintenance contractors Salcef and Ar.Fer have awarded three contracts for the first applications of Holdfast rubber level crossing panels in the country, after seeing the technology on display at Expo Ferroviaria in Torino earlier this year. RFI will use the panels to renew ...
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NewsTalking in tunnels
SWEDEN: Axell Wireless is to begin installing a comprehensive radio communications system from the start of next year in the 6 km Citytunnel beneath Malmö. The Anglo-Swedish company, which was created in July 2007 through the merger of AFL and Avitec, is to install the communications network under a ...
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NewsNews in Brief
India's Northeast Frontier Railway will this month begin regular services to Agartala, the capital of Tripura. Work on the 119 km line from Kumarghat began in 1996, and the first train arrived in Agartala on June 29. Construction of a further 110 km to Sabroom is scheduled to start next ...
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NewsRail loader deliveries
SWITZERLAND: Next month Swiss Federal Railways will take delivery of the last of a batch of 22 rail loaders ordered from Robel. The two six-wagon and 20 two-wagon rail loaders are equipped with a total of 80 electric and 24 mechanical cranes. They enable rapid loading and transport of ...
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NewsPort projects progress
AUSTRALIA: The Western Australia government confirmed on July 29 that it had selected the Oakajee Port & Rail joint venture of Murchison Metals and Mitsubishi for the concession to develop an A$3bn port and rail network serving eight iron ore reserves in the mid-West region east of Geraldton. The partnership ...
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NewsSplit follows Angel Trains sale
ANGEL TRAINS: Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains will be split into stand-alone UK and continental European businesses, the new owners announced following the completion of their £3·6bn acquisition on August 6. Following regulatory approval, Royal Bank of Scotland sold Angel Trains to a consortium including Babcock & Brown ...
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NewsGE ships first CML diesel locomotive to China
CHINA: The first of 300 Evolution Series diesel locomotives being supplied to Chinese Railways by GE Transportation and Qishuyan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works is due to arrive at Tianjin at the end of August, under a US$450m contract awarded in October 2005. Rated at 6250 hp, the six-axle ...
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NewsGreat Wall train launched in Beijing
CHINA: To coincide with the Olympic Games an upgraded passenger service has been introduced between Beijing and the popular tourist destination of Badaling, the nearest section of the Great Wall to the capital. Launched on August 7, the 16 daily Line S2 services takes around 1 h 20 min ...