All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 666
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NewsLight rail reaches Dallas-Fort Worth Airport
USA: Dallas Area Rapid Transit inaugurated an extension of the Orange Line to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on August 15, with revenue services starting three days later. The first stage of the Orange Line opened in July 2012, with a 6·5 km extension to Belt Line Road opening in ...
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NewsMitsubishi wins São Paulo metro turnkey contract
BRAZIL: PPP concessionaire Move São Paulo has awarded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsui & Co a turnkey contract for construction of metro Line 6. In what MHI says is its first railway contract in Latin America, the Japanese company will design, supply and commission the signalling, communications, power supply, ...
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NewsGreenTech shunter on show at InnoTrans
VOLLERT: The new GreenTech automated shunter is designed for use at industrial terminals. Its 180 kW diesel-electric drive continually adapts to the power required to minimise fuel consumption and emissions. It features a water-cooled, six-cylinder in-line engine with turbocharger, charge-air cooling and external exhaust gas recirculation, compliant with EU Stage ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market August 2014
Argentina: Rioro SA has been awarded a 166m pesos contract to repair 28 type CT16A wagons for Belgrano Cargas y Logística. This and a 60m pesos contract to repair 10 CT54 wagons are being undetaken by the Rioro workshops at Pérez. Brazil: Porto Alegre metro operator Trensurb has awarded ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market August 2014
Australia: Laing O’Rourke Construction Australia has been appointed managing contractor for A$45m of preliminary works for Sydney’s A$1·6bn CBD & South East Light Rail project. Ethiopia: Huawei is to provide its Mass Transit eLTE communications for the Addis Abeba light rail project. France: RFF has signed a 12-year ...
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NewsToronto airport rail link DMU delivered
CANADA: The first two of 18 diesel multiple-unit cars being supplied by Sumitomo for Toronto’s Union-Pearson Express airport rail link has been delivered to regional transport agency Metrolinx. The US$75m order placed in 2011 covers 12 Type A driving cars and six Type B intermediate cars with toilets, which will ...
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NewsTibet railway opens to Xigaze
CHINA: A 253 km line from Lhasa west to Xigaze was formally opened on August 15, with the first passenger train scheduled to run the following day. The new line will reduce the journey time between Tibet’s capital and second largest city from 4 h by road to around 2 ...
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NewsTrams ordered for Bydgoszcz extension
POLAND: The Tramwaj Fordon subsidiary of Bydgoszcz city council has ordered 12 Swing 100% low-floor trams from Pesa for 109m złoty. The metre-gauge trams are to be used on the 9·5 km line to the Fordon district that is due to open next year. The five-section vehicles will ...
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NewsSiemens Rail Automation expands to meet PTC demand
USA: Siemens Rail Automation is to expand its manufacturing and engineering capabilities in Pittsburgh by bringing its current East Pittsburgh and 18th Street facilities together on a new site in Munhall. Siemens is to invest $1m in the facility, with the state providing a $0·2m grant plus tax incentives ...
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NewsGuilherme Mello
MRS Logística has appointed Guilherme Mello as President, succeeding Carlos Waack. The former GE Transportation Latin America President becomes the third person to head the Brazilian freight operator since January.
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NewsGhislain Bartholomé
Ghislain Bartholomé has been named Chief Operations Officer of CFL Cargo, while Andreas Friedl becomes CEO of subsidiary CFL Cargo Deutschland.
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NewsMuhammad Isom Azis
Kuala Lumpur metro operator Prasarana has appointed Muhammad Isom Azis as Chief Operating Officer of the Sungai Buloh – Kajang Line, which is scheduled to open in 2017.
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NewsDyan Crowther
Govia has appointed Dyan Crowther as Chief Operating Officer of the UK’s Thameslink, Southern & Great Northern passenger franchise, which starts in September.
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NewsPaulo Sérgio Passos
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has appointed Paulo Sérgio Passos as Minister for Transport, a post he has held on three previous occasions. He is succeeded as CEO of transport planning and logistics agency EPL by Josias Sampaio Cavalcante Júnior.
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NewsCramer heads Transport & Tourism Committee
German Green MEP Michael Cramer was elected as Chairman of the Transport & Tourism Committee of the new European Parliament on July 7. Dominique Riquet of France remains Vice-Chairman, being joined in this role by Dieter-Lebrecht Koch of Germany, Tomasz Piotr Poreba from Poland and István Ujhelyi from Hungary.
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NewsWorld rail market August 2014
Belgium: Following trials, Ingeteam is to supply five energy recovery systems for the Brussels metro which it says will make it possible to recover 10% to 30% of traction energy. France: Ateïs is to supply a public address system for RATP’s Châtelet Les Halles station. Panama: Transports Metropolitans ...
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NewsBorders Railway tracklaying begins
UK: A ‘major construction milestone’ in the £294m Borders Railway project to reinstate the Edinburgh – Tweedbank route was announced on August 13, after the first section of track was laid in Bowshank Tunnel near Galashiels. Slab track is being installed through the 200 m long 19th century tunnel ...
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NewsGroundbreaking starts trans-Sulawesi railway construction
INDONESIA: Minister of Transportation Evert Erenst Mangindaa attended a groundbreaking ceremony in Siawung on August 12 to formally launch construction of the 145 km Makassar – Pare Pare first phase of the planned trans-Sulawesi railway network The line is to be built under the MP3EI national infrastructure programme. It ...
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NewsSolar powered level crossing for remote locations
AUSTRALIA: V/Line has installed its first solar powered level crossing, at Huntly on the Bendigo – Echuca line in northern Victoria. The site is 1·2 km from the nearest power source, and digging trenches for underground power cables would be expensive and risk disturbing local flora. The 18 solar ...
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NewsNippon Sharyo expands US rolling stock plant
USA: Nippon Sharyo USA has opened a third production hall at its plant in Rochelle, Illinois. ‘We will now be able to fabricate, weld, and assemble parts for our car bodyshells right here, making Nippon Sharyo a 100% Buy America compliant rail car builder’, said Nippon Sharyo Chairman ...