All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 522
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NewsCivils contracts awarded for Paris Line 11 extension
FRANCE: Paris metro operator RATP and Ile-de-France transport authority STIF have signed two civil works contracts for the extension of Line 11 from Mairie des Lilas to Rosny-Bois-Perrier, enabling work to begin on the 6 km route with six new stations. Worth €267m, the first lot comprises 3 km, four ...
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NewsFirst funding for Brisbane’s Cross River Rail
AUSTRALIA: An initial A$800m tranche of funding to ‘kick-start’ Brisbane’s Cross River Rail project was announced by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Minister for Infrastructure Jackie Trad on June 27. The 10·2 km cross-city rail link would run from Bowen Hills to Dutton Park, tunnelling under the city centre and ...
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NewsMechan jacks up its InnoTrans presence
MECHAN: Heavy lifting equipment manufacturer Mechan will be exhibiting in the British Pavilion at InnoTrans 2016, where it will be displaying a full size working jack for the first time. This will be used to demonstrate the company’s Megalink control system, which allows a large number of jacks to work ...
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NewsJobin to head CN
Canadian National’s Chief Financial Officer, Luc Jobin (main photo), will succeed Claude Mongeau as President & CEO on July 1. Mongeau, who is stepping down for health reasons, has been with the operator for 22 years and is credited with driving its acquisition strategy forward from the late 1990s onward. ...
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NewsCAF awarded Maryland Purple Line LRV contract
USA: CAF has been awarded a contract to supply 26 five-section light rail vehicles for the Purple Line project in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC. The contract announced by CAF on June 28 is to be managed by its CAF USA subsidiary, which will manufacture the ...
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NewsIarnród Éireann tests longer freight trains
IRELAND: National railway Iarnród Éireann is undertaking trials with longer freight trains in an effort to boost the competitiveness of rail freight. Subject to the successful conclusion of the tests, the company hopes to commence the regular operation of longer freight trains from Q4 2016. A trial 440 m ...
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NewsCAF to supply Newcastle trams
AUSTRALIA: Transport for New South Wales has reached an agreement for CAF to supply six Urbos trams for the light rail line to be built in Newcastle. Delivery is planned for 2018. This builds on a previous order under which CAF supplied 12 trams to Sydney. Announcing the agreement on ...
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NewsCambodian railway study presented
CAMBODIA: A prefeasibility study has been completed for a proposed rail connection between Phnom Penh Autonomous Port and the existing metre-gauge Southern line from the capital to Sihanoukville. The study was presented to Minister of Public Works & Transport Sun Chanthol by China Railway 16th Bureau Group’s Cambodian representative Tang ...
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NewsN700S to launch next generation Shinkansen trainsets
JAPAN: JR Central is to build a 16-car pre-series trainset as a testbed for various technical changes to be incorporated in the next generation of trains for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen, the railway announced on June 24. The Series N700S is due to be completed in March 2018, while ...
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News100 test rigs in new Knorr-Bremse development centre
GERMANY: The Knorr-Bremse Group's Development Centre in München was officially opened with a ceremony on June 23. The €90m facility is ‘the biggest single investment in the history of Knorr-Bremse and as such is a clear statement of our belief in Bayern as a technology hub’, said Chairman Klaus Deller ...
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NewsMixed gauge contracts awarded
SPAIN: Infrastructure authority ADIF has awarded a further four contracts under the project to provide 1 435 mm gauge between the French border at Irún and Hernani, where services will be able to join the Y-shaped high speed network connecting Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria. The contracts are worth a ...
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NewsStadler signs Voralpen-Express contract
SWITZERLAND: Schweizerische Südostbahn Chairman Hans Altherr signed a SFr170m contract for preferred bidder Stadler to supply 11 Flirt electric multiple-units on June 27. The 160 km/h EMUs are scheduled to enter service on the St Gallen – Luzern Voralpen-Express route from the December 2019 timetable change, replacing vehicles up to ...
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NewsEcoTrain hybrid DMU demonstrator takes shape
GERMANY: The EcoTrain project to test electric energy storage on a DB Regio Class VT642 diesel multiple-unit reached a further step on June 27, when work began to install the key components on a demonstrator trainset for trials on the Erzgebirgsbahn in Sachsen. The occasion was marked by an event ...
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NewsPKP Cargo acquisitions off
POLAND: PKP Cargo has dropped plans to buy freight operators Orlen KolTrans and Euronaft Trzebinia after concerns were raised by the competion authorities. Takeover plans worth 250m złoty had been announced last November, and PKP Cargo envisaged this could bring substantial cost reductions. Discussions for the purchase of Pol-Miedź ...
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NewsDhaka metro construction officially launched again
BANGLADESH: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina officially inaugurated construction of the first metro line in Dhaka on June 26 at a ceremony also attended by Minister for Road Transport & Bridges Obaidul Quader and Japanese Ambassador Masato Watanabe. Hasina had previously laid the foundation stone for Line 6 on October ...
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NewsRail freight news in brief
A trial India – Russia freight service is being planned for late August, with a sea link from Mumbai to Banda Abbas in Iran, then by rail to Rasht, by road to Astara in Azerbaijan and thence by rail to Moscow. A memorandum of co-operation signed by Russian Railways, Gefco ...
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NewsSpeakers’ Corner at InnoTrans 2016
INNOTRANS: The programme of events at Speakers’ Corner will be ‘as wide-ranging as the international rail industry itself’, according to InnoTrans 2016 organiser Messe Berlin. Over 60 min periods trade visitors will be able to find out more about numerous topics from exhibitors, with the formats ranging from company ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market June 2016
Argentina: Buenos Aires metro authority Sbase has awarded Alstom a €60m contract to supply 10 six-car Metropolis trainsets for Line D. Australia: Public Transport Victoria has ordered five more six-car Alstom X’Trapolis EMUs for Melbourne. Belgium: Bombardier has awarded Faiveley contracts worth more than €60m to supply braking ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market June 2016
Australia: ARTC has awarded the technical and engineering advisory services contract for the Inland Rail project to a joint venture of SMEC and Arup. Six contracts for environmental surveys and engineering design have been awarded to GHD, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Aecom, Arup and Jacobs. Brazil: CPTM has awarded Pöyry a ...
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NewsEffiLiner 3000 locomotive unveiled
CZECH REPUBLIC: CZ Loko has unveiled its first EffiLiner 3000, produced by rebuilding a former SNCB Class 12 locomotive. CZ Loko says the locomotive which was originally built in Belgium in the 1980s is the first western European electric locomotive to have been completely modernised in the Czech Republic. ...