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NewsNetwork Rail opens The Quadrant:MK
UK: After five years of planning and construction, on June 11 Network Rail's new national centre known as The Quadrant:MK welcomed the first of more than 3 000 employees who are due to relocate to the site in Milton Keynes. Activities being moved to the national centre during the coming ...
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NewsUniversity launches rail course
AUSTRIA: St Pölten University of Applied Sciences has extended its range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. A Masters course on Railway Infrastructure Technology is offered over four semesters to provide ‘more detailed knowledge of railway building, track maintenance and installations’. However, the course treats the railway as a single entity ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market June 2012
Argentina: Following delivery by Emfer, a sixth EMU comprising four refurbished vehicles and four new double-deck cars (RG 4.11 p9) has entered service on the Sarmiento commuter route in Buenos Aires. Australia: On May 1 Wabtec announced an order for its MotivePower subsidiary to deliver 10 standard ...
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NewsWorld rail market June 2012
Australia: NSW RailCorp has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems a three-year contract worth A$63m to support its ticket sales equipment. Brazil: Digicon has won a R$15m contract to supply ticket gates and passenger-counting systems for São Paulo metro Line 4. Switzerland: SBB has awarded Scheidt & Bachmann a SFr40m ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has introduced an Alstom Chair at its Industrial Engineering School. The collaboration between the two parties is intended to foster research in the areas of electricity transmission, smart grid technology and railway signalling. On May 8 the University of Rhode Island and Deutsche Bahn signed ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market May 2012
Argentina: Last month 15 ex-NS DH1 single-car DMUs were shipped from the Netherlands to Buenos Aires suburban concessionaire TBA. Ferrosur Roca has taken delivery of two more EMD G26 locomotives rebuilt by TŽV Gredelj. Bangladesh: Using Indian government credit, BR has awarded Texmaco a 600m taka contract to ...
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NewsNews in Brief - May 2012
Last month Saudi Arabia's Council of Ministers approved the creation of a railway authority to issue operating licences and supervise development of new lines. Plans have been announced for a sixth station on the future Haramain High Speed Rail line, serving Abyar Al west of Madinah. On May 1 Georgia ...
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NewsWorld rail market May 2012
Belgium: SNCB has ordered Almex.Station ticket machines from Höft & Wessel. Germany: Funkwerk is to migrate DB Netz’s control centre software to a new platform. Intergraph is to supply its GeoTrAMS asset management system to help Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr log every stop, turnout and expansion joint on its light rail ...
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NewsNews in Brief - May 2012
The French government has created the €40m EMEF modernisation fund to take minority stakes in suppliers to encourage consolidation within the rail sector and create companies large enough to innovate and compete more effectively at home and abroad (RG 2.12 p25). Alstom, Bombardier, RATP and SNCF are all expected to ...
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NewsRail Industry Training & Recruitment in Brief
Russian Railways is encouraging eligible staff to join the Young Professionals programme, a joint initiative with Deutsche Bahn. The aim of the scheme is to encourage young managers and professionals from the two companies to learn from each other through internships, joint training sessions and round table discussions. Employees with ...
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NewsTrain ferry to rescue stranded rolling stock
DENMARK: Four IC3 and six MR diesel multiple-units were left stranded when a container ship collided with the Limfjorden railway bridge at Aalborg on the night of March 28, severing the railway to the far north of Denmark. To retrieve the rolling stock, DSB, infrastructure manager Banedanmark and Stena Line ...
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NewsMoynihan station contract awarded
USA: On May 9 the Moynihan Station Development Corp subsidiary of Port Authority of New York & New Jersey ratified the award of a $147·7m contract to begin conversion of Manhattan’s Farley Post Office building to relieve congestion at the adjacent Penn Station. The award of the ...
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NewsKTZ pledges to improve knowledge
KAZAKHSTAN: State railway Kazakhstan Temir Zholy has announced plans to offer additional training to 10000 employees over the next eight years. The focus will be on effective management skills, key to bringing extensive modernisation of the country’s railways to completion. Modular courses, led by rail industry experts and tutors from ...
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NewsInfrarail show highlights infrastructure spend
UK: More than 180 companies from the UK and Europe are converging on the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on May 1-3 for the ninth Infrarail exhibition organised by Mack Brooks. The event is due to be opened by Transport Minister Theresa Villiers, who will also be giving a ...
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NewsEtihad Rail studies best practice in rail safety and security
UAE: A delegation from Etihad Rail and the Supreme Committee for Safety & Security has visited several European countries to examine best practice in rail safety and security. The extensive trip lasted two months and included stops in Germany, Spain, France and the UK. In the UK and Spain the ...
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NewsSBB invests SFr40m in ticket vending machines
SWITZERLAND: Reflecting a growing trend towards automated retail, Swiss Federal Railways has ordered 1 000 ticket vending machines from German supplier Scheidt & Bachmann. Worth around SFr40m, the order will see the first machines installed at Swiss stations in September this year, with deliveries continuing for approximately ...
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NewsTenders called for US passenger cars
USA: US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on April 20 that manufacturers had been invited to bid for a contract worth $551m to supply 130 double-deck cars for Amtrak services, under ‘a groundbreaking multi-state effort to jointly purchase standardised rail equipment’. With funding from the Federal Railroad Administration’s High Speed ...
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NewsChinese locos prepare for service
AUSTRALIA: Following successful testing that has included operation at up to 130 km/h and hauling ‘one of the biggest iron ore trains’ between Port Augusta and Adelaide last month, SCT Logistics expects its full fleet of CSR Ziyang diesel locomotives to be ‘up and running’ by June. SCT says that ...
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NewsJakarta - Bandung fast line study
INDONESIA: A Japanese consortium is to undertake a pre-feasibility study into a proposed 144 route-km fast passenger line between Jakarta and Bandung for opening by 2018. Following a co-operation agreement between the Indonesian government and the Japanese Ministry of Land, Transportation & Tourism, the study will be ...
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NewsNews in Brief - April 2012
In the light of the March 11 2011 earthquake, East Japan Railway has allocated ¥100bn to improving the earthquake resistance of its infrastructure over the next five years. China’s Exim Bank has approved a US$270m loan to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Transport for construction of the 27 km Matara ...