All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 779
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Jacques Damas
Jacques Damas takes up the role of SNCF Deputy Director-General, reporting to President Guillaume Pepy, following Jean-Pierre Farandou’s appointment as President of Keolis. Alain Krakovitch in turn becomes Director of Safety & Service Quality.
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News580 tonne bridge 'brings home the excitement of civil engineering'
UK: The first of two 580 tonne bridges that will carry the Manchester Metrolink light rail extension to Manchester Airport was moved into place over the weekend of November 3-4. The structure was designed to be installed during a single 24 h closure of the over the M60 motorway, but ...
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NewsGrudziadz tramway modernisation contract awarded
POLAND: A consortium of Przedsiebiorstwo Budowy Dróg i Mostów and Tor-Kar-Sson has won a contract to modernise the metre-gauge tram network in Grudziadz. The 54·8m zloty contract covers 7·6 km of track and overhead electrification renewals, doubling of single-track sections, replacement of power supply cables, drainage works and the ...
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NewsGenset locomotives to be manufactured in India
INDIA: The foundation stone for a locomotive factory on a 50 acre site at Sherpur in Sehore district was laid by the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh state, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, on October 27. The factory is being developed at a cost of Rs2bn by Daulat Ram NREC Locomotives, a ...
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NewsNizhny Novgorod metro extended over double-deck bridge
RUSSIA: An extension of the Nizhny Novgorod metro over a 1·3 km double-deck road and metro bridge opened to the public on November 5, after the regional governor and mayor attended inauguration ceremonies the previous day. The city's first metro line opened in November 1985, serving the main railway station ...
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NewsCentral Asian strategic transport plan agreed
ASIA: Meeting at Wuhan in China at the end of October, ministers from the 10 Central Asia Regional Economic Co-operation Program countries agreed an action plan to implement transport infrastructure projects costing more than US$23bn, together with energy and trade initiatives aimed at improving connectivity. The majority of the medium-term ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news in brief
Consultancy Canarail has opened a subsidiary in Ulaanbaatar, where it is working with Energy Resources Rail on new lines to serve mining developments. Polish firm Nasycalnia Podkadów has opened a 1·5m złoty production hall equipped with a modern CNC driller which will enable it to produce wooden turnout bearers with ...
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NewsCCTV adapts frame rate to reduce storage needs
BRAZIL: Rio de Janerio metro operator MetrôRio chose IndigoVision and its local partner Setha Prosegur to supply an IP-based video security system incorporating an activity controlled frame rate feature. This reduces data storage requirements by regulating image capture rates according to motion observed. When there is no activity, video is ...
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NewsLight rail plan included in Canberra agreement
AUSTRALIA: The development of a light rail network in Canberra is included in a parliamentary agreement by which the Green Party’s Shane Rattenbury has agreed to support the Labor Party’s Katy Gallagher in the formation of a government for the Australian Capital Territory. The agreement signed on ...
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NewsRussian Railways Logistics to cut two days from China - Europe timings
INTERNATIONAL: The YuXinOu (Chongqing) Logistics joint venture has despatched its first container train from China to Europe using the CIM/SMGS Common Consignment Note. Using documentation meeting the legal requirements of both OTIF's CIM and OSJD's SMGS rules reduces costs to shippers, as there is no need to issue new notes ...
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NewsAlstom to refit Boston fleets
USA: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has awarded Alstom Transport two rolling stock modernisation contracts with a total value of €170m. The work is to be undertaken at Alstom's plant in Hornell, New York, with at least 80% US content. The first of the contracts announced on November 1 covers the ...
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NewsChina Northern wins TasRail wagon contract
AUSTRALIA: TasRail has awarded China Northern's CNR Australia subsidiary a contract to supply 191 wagons from mid-2013. The order covers 36 ore wagons, 17 coal wagons, 18 for cement traffic and 120 for containerised freight on the 1067 mm gauge network. Announcing the deal on October 24, Tasmania's state owned ...
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NewsMorgan Sindall to build North West operating centre
UK: Construction company Morgan Sindall has been awarded a £15·9m contract to build Network Rail's North West regional operating centre. Scheduled for completion by December 2013, the facility at Gorton in Greater Manchester will be one of 14 controlling operations on the national network. The three-storey steel-framed building is to ...
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NewsBogie Technical Centre construction begins
GERMANY: The foundation stone for Bombardier Transportation's €10m Bogie Technical Centre was laid at the company's Siegen plant on October 30. Intended to foster co-operation between customers, suppliers and academics, the technical centre is scheduled to begin operations by mid-2014. The Siegen site is to be Bombardier's bogie headquarters, bringing ...
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NewsFeature articles in the November 2012 issue of Railway Gazette International
Articles in the November 2012 issue of Railway Gazette International magazine Comment A history lesson on closures Analysis UK: Franchising programme unravels France: SNIT review gets underway Indonesia: Four-tracking in West Java Rolling stock HEMU 430X heralds higher speeds: Running trials are in progress ...
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NewsRedesigned signalling power supply cuts copper costs
UK: Infrastructure manager Network Rail says it has reduced the amount of copper needed for signalling power supply projects by a third through a three-year project to enable two-core unarmoured class 2 cables to be used in place of armoured class 1 cables containing two live wires and an earth ...
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NewsMexico City's Gold metro line opens
MEXICO: President Felipe Calderón attended the opening of Mexico City metro Line 12, the Gold Line, on October 30, saying it 'rivals the best in the world'. Travel is free until November 4. Line 12 runs for 25 km from Mixcoac on Line 7 to Tláhuac in the southeast, an ...
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NewsAlger metro extension contract awarded
ALGERIA: A consortium of Colas Rail and local firm KOU.G.C has been awarded a contract to extend Alger metro Line 1 by 4 km. The extension from Haï El Badr to El Harrach-Centre with new stations is scheduled to open in November 2014. The 23-month construction contract announced on ...
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NewsFrench reforms will focus on streamlining infrastructure management
FRANCE: Speaking at celebrations in Paris on October 30 to mark the 75th anniversary of SNCF, Transport Minister Frédéric Cuvillier outlined his thinking on the forthcoming reform of the rail sector, following the ‘national debate’ held last year. Structural reforms to create ‘a French model’ are explored in a ...
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NewsChinese loan agreements revive trans-Laos project
LAOS: Vientiane has agreed to accept US$7bn of loans from China to restart construction of the stalled 420 km north-south railway linking the capital to China’s Yunnan province via Phônhông, Vangvieng, Luang Phabang, Oudomxay and Louang Namtha. The cross-border project dates back to 2009, when an agreement ...