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Urban rail news in brief
With the aim of opening the second light rail line in Santa Cruz de Tenerife towards the end of 2008, the island council hopes to award construction contracts for the €45m project before the end of this year. Services will run from Tíncer to the existing route at Taco, leaving ...
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Electronically-controlled sand in Wien
WIENER Linien is to fit its fleet of Siemens ULF trams and all future vehicles with an electronically-controlled sanding system. Manufacturer Knorr-Bremse says field tests have demonstrated a 50% saving in the volume of sand used in braking, cutting dust pollution as well as lowering costs. The controls deliver ...
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Polish freight progress
A NEW open-access freight operator began revenue services in Poland on September 1, when Freightliner Poland Ltd began moving coal from Bogdanka mine to Kozienice power station. FPL has assembled a fleet of seven Class 66 locomotives and 432 wagons, and signed a track access agreement with infrastructure manager PLK ...
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DB sale weathers more storms
THE GERMAN government's bill to privatise Deutsche Bahn AG was presented to the Bundestag for its first reading on September 21. Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee had to defend the bill against forceful opposition that had been building up during the preceding weeks. Leading the charge against the legislation were the ...
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Metros October 2007
Brazil: São Paulo state government is negotiating with IBRD and JBIC for loans to fund the acquisition of 17 six-car trains for the city's metro network, and the modernisation of signalling and telecoms. China: Andrew Corp has won a contract to modify Hong Kong MTR's communications infrastructure to enable migration ...
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NewsERTMS moves on: 'there is no way back'
Chris Jackson reports from the UIC ERTMS World Conference in Bern
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Competitors force SNCF to act
OLIVIER Marembaud, SNCF's Deputy Director-General, Freight, was stung into calling a press conference on September 5 after La Vie du Rail revealed that wagonload service was to be withdrawn from 262 terminals in western France from November 30, and that another working document suggested wagonload would cease at a further ...
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UK study rejects double-deckers
BRITAIN'S rail network carried what is believed to be an all-time record of 46·5 billion passenger-km in the year to the end of March, up 7·6% on 2005-06. With passenger-journeys expected to grow by a further 22·5% in the next seven years (RG 9.07 p540), the Department for Transport asked ...
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Market October 2007
Croatia: National Railway Equipment Corp has awarded TZV Gredelj a US$12·5m contract to repair and modernise six diesel-electric locos by June 2008. The contract will be followed by another for a further six. Europe: On September 24 Angel Trains ordered another 60 Traxx electric locos from Bombardier for €225m. Bringing ...
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Bulgaria places upgrade contracts
FIVE CONTRACTS have been awarded by the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport for upgrading work on the rail network. Astaldi of Italy has been selected for a €163m project to reconstruct and electrify the 143 km international corridor between Plovdiv and the Turkish border at Svilengrad. This work is expected to ...
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Urban Rail News in Brief
Hong Kong-based Gammon Construction has won a £55m contract for construction of Chinatown station on Singapore's Downtown Line, which will provide interchange to the North East Line when Stage 1 of the DTL opens in 2013 (RG 6.07 p332). On September 12 Chicago Transit Authority awarded a US$91·2m contract to ...
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Timken announces restructuring
BEARING and power transmission maker Timken announced a restructuring of its business during August, which the company expects to produce savings of up to US$20m through streamlining and the elimination of duplication. Two business groups have been formed, a Steel group which will continue to be headed by Salvatore J ...
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Intelligence October 2007
Argentina: President Néstor Kirchner has announced that 7m pesos is to be spent on rehabilitating the 284·8 km Puerto Deseado — Colonia Las Heras route in the province of Santa Cruz. A 6·9m pesos investment package has also been announced for the 750 mm gauge Ingeniero Jacobacci — Esquel route ...
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Through-running begins in Kassel
GERMANY'S third tram-train network following those in Karlsruhe and Saarbrücken has been completed in Kassel with the integration of on-street and local main line running on DB Netz. Although light rail vehicles began sharing tracks with main line freight trains on the line from Kassel to Baunatal in 1995, ...
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NewsIndustry News in Brief
Croatian electrical firm Koncar has reported a net profit of 26·3m kuna on income of 1·39bn kuna for the first half of the year. Orders from Zagreb Electric Tramway accounted for 29% of the company's domestic sales. A management buyout has been completed at Mechan, the Sheffield-based manufacturer of specialist ...
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Major investment for Berlin region
MOSTLY funded by the federal government, a €3·5bn package to upgrade the Berlin S-Bahn, renew several lines in Brandenburg and build a link to the expanded Schönefeld airport was unveiled by DB Netz on August 23. Berlin will receive the majority of the money, with €2bn destined to be spent ...
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NewsHector Rail's growth strategy
A focused business plan and solid financial backing are enabling traction provider Hector Rail to target specific needs in Scandinavia and beyond
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More trams in southern Spain
THE ANDALUCÍA regional government has awarded a joint venture of Cosfesa, Modecar and Ortiz a €28·6m contract to undertake civil works on the first section of a 12 km light rail route serving Alcalá de Guadaíra on the southeastern outskirts of Sevilla. Work is due to begin during the last ...
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NewsSkåne springboard as Arriva expands
Arriva's experience of working with local governments helped the company win a nine-year concession to run the Pågatåg network in Sweden