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NewsRolling stock cable brand launched
CABLES: Nexans has launched Flamex as the brand for its range of cables for rolling stock applications, including on-train power, control, data, high voltage and optic fibre products. Conforming to a range of national and international standards, the cables resist the propagation of fire and produce low smoke emissions ...
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NewsOptimism in München
GERMANY: Despite the woes affecting the global freight market, more than 47 500 visitors attended the Transport Logistic trade fair in München. The show attracted 1 760 exhibitors from 55 countries, across the rail, road, maritime and air sectors. Amongst the rail exhibits was the first of 65 Traxx ...
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NewsPath bidding hots up
FRANCE: While private-sector entrepreneurs planning a foray into Europe’s international rail passenger business remain understandably coy about their plans once the liberalisation of international services becomes a reality next year, it is clear that activity is taking place behind the scenes. Les Echos reported last month that before RFF ...
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NewsStadler signs Texas A-Train contract
USA: Having received funding from the Texas Department of Transportation, on May 19 Denton County Transportation Authority placed a $73·8m order with Stadler for 11 GTW 2/6 diesel multiple-units for the future A-Train service between Carrollton and Denton. The DMUs will be delivered from August 2011 to April 2012, ...
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NewsKnorr-Bremse's Budapest plant topped out
HUNGARY: Minister of National Development & Economy István Varga attended the topping-out ceremony for Knorr-Bremse's expanded rail brake factory in Budapest on May 26. Construction of the building began in March, and production is due to start in spring next year. Replacing an existing plant nearby, the 30 000 ...
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NewsSpecialist orders boost Mechan turnover
UK: VolkerFitzpatrick has become the first UK customer for a sand box filling system marketed by workshop equipment supplier Mechan, which recently reached a UK and Ireland sales agreement with Italian manufacturer Bertolotti. The £250 000 order for a depot VolkerFitzpatrick is building in Liverpool for Pendolino trains includes ...
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NewsGE unveils ES44C4 locomotive
USA: GE Transportation formally unveiled its ES44C4 locomotive design with a roll-out ceremony on May 18. Part of the Evolution family, the ES44C4 is derived from the ES44AC, but with the centre axles on each bogie unpowered. The aim is to offer a replacement option for DC-motored locomotives which have ...
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NewsMamata Banerjee returns as Minister of Railways
INDIA: Following the recent general election, Mamata Banerjee took over as Minister of Railways on May 26. She succeeds Lalu Prasad. Re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Kolkata south constituency in West Bengal, Banerjee is President of the All India Trinamool Congress, which she founded in 1997. She ...
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NewsLargest Hanze Line contract signed
NETHERLANDS: The largest contract to be awarded under the €1bn Hanze Line project was signed by infrastructure manager ProRail and the HanzaRailTeam consortium on May 12. The €164m agreement covers track, 1·5 kV DC electrification, signalling and sound mitigation measures on the 50 km line now under construction between Lelystad ...
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NewsGetting a grip with plastic sleepers
SLEEPERS: A small number of plastic bearers have been installed on some turnouts in the Netherlands since creosoted timber was banned, but a different approach to sleeper design is now being taken by Lankhorst Mouldings, which has looked beyond the straight replacement of wood. The company specialises in the production ...
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NewsDeveloping railways must fight for their interests
Freight Railways in the emerging economies of southeast Asia have for too long allowed their market share to be eroded by the road haulage sector. Dr Julison Arifin argues that the industry has often underestimated its role in the logistics mix, and the time has come to fight back.
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NewsActing on IMpulse
SAFETY: IMpulse 3000 has been developed by Dual Inventive to provide track workers with visual confirmation that a track circuit operating device is shorting out the track circuits to indicate to the signalling systems that the track is occupied while maintenance takes place. IMpulse 3000 sends coded signals through the ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The New Zealand government has scrapped the previous administration’s plans for regional car fuel taxes to fund transport investment. Suburban electrification in Auckland will now be funded through capital appropriation or additional debt. The government has decided the nationalised KiwiRail should own the new passenger trains for Auckland and Wellington, ...
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NewsWagon fleet split aims to attract private finance
RUSSIA: The board of Russian Railways has approved the formation of a second freight business comparable to the existing OJSC First Freight Company. RZD's wagon fleet will split between the two companies in a strategy to improve services, increase utilisation and attract private investment. 'All the documents should be ...
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NewsWestinghouse to provide Sydney freight line signalling
AUSTRALIA: Invensys Rail Group announced on May 21 that Australian Rail Track Corp had awarded its Westinghouse Rail Systems Australia subsidiary a A$14m turnkey contract for signalling on the Southern Sydney Freight Line. The SSFL project will provide a 36 km dedicated freight line between Macarthur and Sefton, ...
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NewsDSB reaches IC4 settlement with AnsaldoBreda
DENMARK: A year after issuing an ultimatum to AnsaldoBreda over the protracted delays to the delivery of its IC4 diesel multiple-units, on May 20 state railway DSB announced an agreement to restructure the troubled procurement contract. The delivery timescale for the 83 IC4 trainsets and 23 IC2 derivatives for regional ...
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NewsCSR to offer Pacemaker EMU in Britain
UK: Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Co announced on May 21 that it plans to offer electric multiple-units from its Pacemaker family in response to a call for tenders to supply London Midland with between 40 and 120 vehicles. The train operator issued an OJEU ...
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NewsLoan for Serbian Railways train order
SERBIA: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development signed a €100m loan agreement with state railway Zeleznice Srbije on May 8. The money will part-fund the purchase of a fleet of around 30 two or three-car electric multiple-units for regional and inter-city services. Tendering is expected to begin in the ...
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NewsCommissioning of Egyptian JT42CWRM begins
EGYPT: Commissioning has begun in Cairo of the first 15 of 40 Electro-Motive Diesel JT42CWRM locomotives being supplied to Egyptian National Railways. They are the first locomotives from the Class 66 family to be delivered to a customer outside Europe. The JT42CWRM locomotives will be deployed on passenger routes, ...
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NewsSiemens to install static frequency converters
SWEDEN: Infrastructure manager Banverket has awarded Siemens Mobility a €33m contract to install six Sitras SFC Plus compact and low-noise modular static frequency converters. The 17 MW converters change the three-phase 50 Hz supply into single-phase 16·7 Hz for traction power. One will be installed in Eskilstuna and five ...