All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 770
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NewsEIM elects Malm
EIM, the association of European Rail Infrastructure Managers, has elected Gunnar Malm as its President for a two-year term. The Director General of Swedish transport administrator Trafikverket succeeds former Réseau Ferré de France President Hubert du Mesnil.Three vice-presidents were also elected at EIM’s General Assembly on November 23: Paul Plummer, ...
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NewsTreviglio - Brescia E&M contract awarded
ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI has awarded a €176m contract to the Consorzio Saturno consortium of Alstom, Ansaldo STS, Balfour Beatty Rail and Sirti to provide electrical and mechanical systems for the Treviglio – Brescia section of the Milano – Venezia high speed line. Being built by Cepav Due as part ...
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NewsLima metro Line 2 PPP proposal
PERU: A team of consultants led by Geodata of Italy has proposed a PPP or concession model for Lima metro Line 2, a planned 27 km east-west route from Ate to Callao with 35 stations. The project has been costed at US$5·37bn, including US$2·94bn for infrastructure and US$871m for vehicles. ...
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NewsStuttgart 21 called into question again
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn’s controversial Stuttgart 21 project to replace its present terminus with a through underground station is under threat once more, because of a steep rise in costs. In a report handed to DB’s Supervisory Board on December 12, the official cost of the scheme is shown as increasing ...
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NewsNews in Brief - January 2013
EBRD is providing Romanian infrastructure manager CFR with a €175m loan to enable short-term liabilities to be paid off, support corporate reforms and assist with developing a detailed restructuring plan. French track renewals contractor Egénie is expecting to begin operations as an operateur ferroviaire de proximité or local freight operator ...
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NewsFeature articles in the January 2013 issue of Railway Gazette International
Articles in the January 2013 issue of Railway Gazette International magazine Comment UIC still seeking progress and unity Analysis Stuttgart 21 in question again Efficiency drive at Canadian Pacific Eurostar probes border constraints Europe Inching towards a single railway area As the European Commission prepares to ...
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NewsRailway Gazette International 2013 Digital Archive
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NewsBeijing adds a further 70 km of metro
CHINA: Five further sections of the Beijing metro, with a combined length of 69·8 km, were put into revenue service on December 30. Adding one new line and extending three more, these projects bring the 16-line network to 442 route-km and 261 stations, overtaking Shanghai as the longest metro in ...
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NewsStandard gauge ambition in Mozambique
MOZAMBIQUE: A local subsidiary of Kazakhstan-based based Eurasian Natural Resources Corp has commissioned Mott MacDonald to undertake studies and is seeking expressions of interest in building a 1200 km standard gauge line from Chiuta in Tete province to a new port at Nacala, bypassing Malawi. Operations could start in 2015. ...
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NewsWuhan metro crosses the Yangtse
CHINA: Phase 1 of Wuhan’s 27·7 km metro Line 2 opened at 10.00 on December 28, with the dispatch of the first revenue-earning metro trains to cross the Yangtse River. Line 2 runs on a broadly north-south alignment from Jinyintan in the northern Hankou district to Optics Valley Square in ...
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NewsWhat lies beneath
DESIGN: Correctly determining the layout of sub-surface utilities can be a major challenge to planners of tram and light rail lines. Bentley Systems aims to give civil and design engineers greater certainty about sub-surface utility modelling by extending its OpenRoads software suite to include a ‘conflict matrix’ which integrates pre-existing ...
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NewsWorld rail market December 2012
Brazil: EKE-Electronics is supplying an integrated ethernet-based TCMS, PIS, PA and CCTV system including a 16 GB crash-proof video recorder for the modernisation of 25 São Paulo metro Line 3 trainsets. It is also supplying 16 GB crash-proof video recorders for 54 new Line 15 monorail trains. India: Mumbai ...
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NewsRoad-railer range launched
CHINA: CSR Sifang and SRS Rail Systems International has launched a range of road-rail vehicles. The UK and Chinese companies have co-operated to develop standardised vehicles to which a range of units can be attached, starting with cranes or aerial work platforms. With a gross weight of 18 or ...
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NewsOpenings increase speeds and capacity
AUSTRIA: Services on the 60 km fast line between Wien Meidling and St Pölten began with the December 9 timetable change, cutting the Wien - St Pölten journey time by 15 min to 25 min, and reducing Wien - Salzburg journey times by 23 min. The double-track route means there ...
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NewsHS2 awards Phase II framework contracts
UK: A further step towards the development of the planned High Speed 2 north – south high speed rail network came on December 24, when the government’s development company HS2 Ltd announced the award of framework contracts covering engineering and environmental services for the second phase of the project, connecting ...
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NewsBeijing - Guangzhou high speed line completed
CHINA: Through high speed trains began operating between Beijing and Guangzhou on December 26, with the completion of the 663 km Beijing – Shijiazhuang – Zhengzhou Passenger-Dedicated Line. Coming exactly three years after the inauguration of the Wuhan – Guangzhou PDL on December 26 2009, and three months after ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market December 2012
Algeria: A consortium of Colas Rail and KOU.G.C has been awarded a €85m contract to extend Alger metro Line 1 by 4 km from Haï El Badr to El Harrach-Centre. Opening is scheduled for November 2014. Australia: Western Australia’s Public Transport Authority has awarded Ansaldo STS Australia an A$17·9m ...
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NewsCinova EMU to serve Pearl River Delta
CHINA: A new design of 200 km/h EMU designed for short-distance inter-city operations has been rolled out by CSR Sifang, and is expected to enter service on routes in the Pearl River Delta area of southern China during 2013. Officially designated as class CRH6, and branded ‘Cinova’, the new EMU ...
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NewsSecond China - Kazakhstan rail link inaugurated
ASIA: A second international rail connection between China and Kazakhstan was officially inaugurated on December 22, when two special trains were operated to the border crossing at Korgas in Xinjiang province. The break-of-gauge transfer facility forms part of a free trade zone at Korgas, known as the International Centre for ...
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NewsSTB approves RailAmerica acquisition
USA: Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced on December 20 that the Surface Transportation Board had approved its application to take control of the RailAmerica short line group. The change of control was expected to take effect on December 28, provided that no objections had been received by STB before December ...