All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 544
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NewsLIRR triple-tracking design contract awarded
USA: A consortium of AECOM and Gannett Fleming has been awarded a $7m contract to undertake environmental assessments and community engagement as preparatory work begins to construct a third track over the 15·8 route-km Floral Park – Hicksville section of the Long Island Rail Road commuter rail network.The northerly LIRR ...
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NewsBangkok Red Line E&M contract awarded
THAILAND: State Railway of Thailand has awarded a 32·4bn baht contract for E&M works for Bangkok’s Red Line to a consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi and Sumitomo Corp, the consortium announced on March 30. Hitachi will supply rolling stock and MHI will be responsible for track, catenary, power ...
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NewsLiège tram PPP to be retendered
BELGIUM: The Wallonie regional government has announced that its transport agency Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport is to re-tender the DBFM concession to build and maintain the planned Liège light rail line. In December 2014 SWRT selected the MobiLiège consortium of Alstom, BAM PPP PGGM and DG Infra to finance ...
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NewsUnited Wagon Co takes 100% ownership of Titran Express
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co has acquired 100% ownership of the Titran Express plant, which has the capacity to repair and modernise more than 3 500 wagons per year at its plant in the northwestern city of Tikhvin, where UWC’s own wagon manufacturing business is based. The Titran Express plant will ...
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NewsEast West Rail preferred corridor selected
UK: Network Rail announced on March 29 that it had selected a Bedford – Sandy – Cambridge corridor as its preferred option for the Central Section of the East West Rail project to reinstate a rail link between Oxford, Cambridge and East Anglia. NR had studied 20 possible corridors before ...
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NewsAlstom awarded Trentino multiple-unit contract
ITALY: Trenitalia has awarded Alstom a contract to supply a further six Coradia Meridian electric multiple-units for use on regional services in Trentino. The firm order announced on March 25 has been placed under a 2012 framework agreement, and deliveries are scheduled to start at the end of 2016. ...
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NewsFirst Honolulu metro cars arrive
USA: The first two metro cars for the driverless light metro arrived in Honolulu on March 24 from Hitachi Rail Italy’s factory in Pittsburg, California. The bodies were assembled in Reggio Calabria in Italy, before the cars were fitted out in Pittsburg. Shipping was co-ordinated by Baggio, with Pasha ...
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NewsModernised trams enter service in St Petersburg
RUSSIA: St Petersburg tram operator Gorelektrotrans put two modernised LM-68M3 trams into service on March 26. The single-section trams run permanently coupled on Route 6. The trams were modernised by Transmashholding’s Oktyabrsky Electric Railway Car Repair Plant under a 162m rouble agreement signed with Gorelektrotrans in 2015 covering nine ...
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NewsHokkaido Shinkansen inaugurated
JAPAN: High speed services reached Japan’s third main island on March 26, with the inauguration of the first phase of the Hokkaido Shinkansen. Connecting Shin-Aomori in Honshu with Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto in the south of Hokkaido, the 149 km line uses mixed-gauge tracks in the 54 km Seikan Tunnel under the Tsugaru ...
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NewsWorld rail market March 2016
Argentina: Sofse has awarded Indra a €35m contract to supply ticketing equipment for more than 200 stations on the Buenos Aires commuter network. This includes 1400 ticket gates, 170 entrances suitable for wheelchairs, 200 smart card top-up machines, 150 on-board validators, 230 platform validators, 160 station ‘transaction hubs’ and 300 ...
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NewsVirtual ticket office on test in Essen
GERMANY: A ‘virtual walk-up ticket office’ which combines a self-service ticket machine with a video link to a call centre is being tested at Essen Hauptbahnhof by city transport operator EVAG and Cubic Transportation Systems. NextAgent offers the functionality of a staffed ticket office, according to Cubic. The video ...
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NewsLondon Underground concrete mixing plant delivered
UK: London Underground has taken delivery of a concrete mixing and distribution unit ordered from Italian company Blend Plants for use on a project to convert 6·4 km of the Baker Street to Finchley Road section of the Metropolitan Line from ballasted to slab track. The dismountable mixer is carried ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market March 2016
Algeria: Alstom is to supply kits for 26 Citadis trams which the Cital joint venture is to assemble in Annaba for use in Sétif. The €85m order forms part of a framework signed in 2012 by Cital and Entreprise du Métro d’Alger for the supply of Citadis trams to several ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market March 2016
Australia: Public Transport Authority of Western Australia has selected a joint venture of Salini Impregilo and NRW as preferred bidder for the main works contract to build the A$2bn Forrestfield-Airport Link in Perth. Signing is planned by May. Austria: ÖBB Infrastruktur has awarded SPL Powerlines a contract for the ...
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NewsWhale way to keep drains clear
UK: Infrastructure manager Network Rail has taken delivery of eight bespoke road-vehicles designed for drainage cleaning by specialist tank lorry supplier Whale Tankers and Hilton Rail Consulting. The vehicles will be deployed to clear leaves and other materials from trackside catch pits which are used to ensure large volumes of ...
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NewsTaipei ticketing upgrade
TAIWAN: Taipei Rapid Transit Corp has selected Thales to upgrade the metro fare collection system. Thales is to roll out its Transcity platform throughout 2016. This which will include the upgrade of more than 1 500 fare gates at 120 stations, replacing contactless smart card readers and providing a ...
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NewsMore tram-trains ordered for Karlsruhe
GERMANY: Karlsruhe tram-train operator AVG announced it had awarded a consortium of Stadler Rail Valencia and electrical equipment supplier Vossloh Kiepe a firm order for a further 25 Citylink NET 2012 low-floor vehicles on March 24. This is the second option on a contract signed in October 2011. The 25 ...
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NewsDB retains Hessen operating contract
GERMANY: Following a European tender, Nordhessen transport authority NVV in partnership with its Rhein-Main and Westfalen-Lippe counterparts has selected incumbent DB RegioNetz's Kurhessenbahn for the next contract to operate Nordwesthessennetz passenger services. The new contract runs for 15 years from December 10 2017 and covers the operation of 2·5 million ...
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NewsGenova metro trainset unveiled
ITALY: The first of seven new generation trainsets for the Genova metro was unveiled at Brignole station on March 24. Comune di Genova placed a €31m order in 2012 with a consortium of AnsaldoBreda (now Hitachi Rail Italy) and Ansaldo STS. The 39 m long four-car sets have three ...
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NewsSuccessful year for Arriva
ARRIVA: Deutsche Bahn’s non-German regional passenger transport business Arriva has reported a 7·8% increase in revenue to €4 843m for the year to December 31 2015, with EBITDA up 5·4% to €525m. More than 2·2 billion passenger-journeys were carried by the company. ‘Arriva’s proven strategy continues to be successful, as ...