All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 786
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NewsTrain crew go where it glows
AUSTRALIA: Following positive feedback from train crew using a trial installation, QR National is installing 80 km of trackside walkway panels supplied by Envirowalk Grating to provide a safer working environment at 98 stabling and crew changeover locations. The walkways are assembled from 3·6 m long and 1·2 m wide ...
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NewsRapidKL welcomes external students
MALAYSIA: Urban rail operator RapidKL has welcomed the first external students to its Subang Jaya training facility in Kuala Lumpur. Although RapidKL had used the centre for internal training since 1997, it has been developing a series of external courses since 2009 under a government-led initiative to create accredited institutions ...
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NewsWorld rail market September 2012
Colombia: Indra has been awarded a contract to integrate the Da Vinci metro operations management system used in Medellín with its bus rapid transit counterpart. Ethiopia: Supported by a US$300m Indian government credit, India’s Overseas Infrastructure Alliance has been awarded a US$78m contract to survey the planned Mek’ele – ...
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NewsLast section of Noord/Zuidlijn nears completion
NETHERLANDS: The first of three sections forming the immersed tunnel that will carry Amsterdam’s north-south metro line under the River IJ is due to be moved into position on September 25. Weighing 12 000 tonnes, the 140 m long tunnel section will be moved into position at Sixhaven on the ...
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NewsPPP for new GO Transit maintenance facility
CANADA: On September 20 the federal government and the province of Ontario announced their support for a public-private partnership to build a new rolling maintenance facility for commuter operator GO Transit in Whitby. The federal government is to provide up to C$94⋅8m and Ontario 75% of the final project cost. ...
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NewsFirst Tango for Stuttgart
GERMANY: The first of 20 high-floor DT8.12 LRVs that Stadler Pankow is supplying to Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen was unveiled at InnoTrans on September 20. Once the manufacturer has completed testing, the cars are to be handed over to the operator for acceptance trials. ‘Stuttgart has an interesting, demanding topography from the ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market September 2012
Austria: Following the end of the warranty, Innsbruck tram operator IVB has awarded Bombardier a €44m contract to maintain its fleet of 32 Flexity Outlook cars until December 2028, with an option for eight years. Czech Republic: D has awarded Pesa Bydgoszcz a KC191m contract to refurbish 15 Bdt ...
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NewsVossloh to supply Tours – Bordeaux track components
FRANCE: Vossloh AG announced on September 20 that it had been awarded a contract worth €60m to supply fully-equipped switch systems and rail fastenings for the Tours – Bordeaux high speed line. Awarded by TSO and Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires, responsible for tracklaying on the 340 km project, the deal will ...
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NewsRZD to acquire 75% of Gefco
EUROPE: Car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën announced on September 20 that it had entered into exclusive negotiations to sell a 75% interest in its logistics subsidiary Gefco to Russian Railways for €800m. According to RZD, the acquisition would enable it to ‘increase the attractiveness of transit cargo flows along the ...
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NewsLarvik – Porsgrunn construction begins
NORWAY: Minister of Transport and Communications Marit Arnstad fired the first salvo on September 19 to mark the start of upgrading work on the Larvik - Porsgrunn section of the Vestfold line between Oslo and Skien. The NKr6·1bn project will see the construction of a 22 km double-track suitable for ...
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NewsHuawei wins Ashgabat – Turkmenbashi GSM-R contract
TURKMENISTAN: Huawei announced on September 18 that it had been awarded a contract to supply GSM-R, SDH, data communications and telephone systems for an upgrade of the Ashgabat – Bereket – Turkmenbashi route. The contract has been awarded by Jiangsu Guotai, general contractor for the telecommunications upgrade. To provide voice ...
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NewsSiemens opens the Crystal
UK: Siemens opened its first centre for sustainable urban development in London on September 19, built at a cost of €35m to provide ‘a conference centre, urban dialogue platform and technology and innovation centre all in one’. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and named ‘the Crystal’ after its distinctive shape, ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market September 2012
Australia: With KBR as designer, John Holland is to grade-separate rail and road access to the Port of Esperance, with the railway to be put into a tunnel. Fortescue Metals Group has awarded Norfolk Group and GE Transportation an A$56m contract to supply radio-based signalling for the track-doubling project ...
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MTU to supply diesel powerpacks for Intercity Express Programme
UK: Hitachi Rail Europe has named MTU as preferred bidder for the supply of 250 underfloor powerpacks for its Super Express fleet of 200 km/h inter-city trains, which are expected to enter traffic from 2017 under the UK government’s Intercity Express Programme. Having provided an engine for test bench ...
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NewsNetinera orders 63 regional trains from Alstom
GERMANY: Regional rail operator Netinera signed an order for 63 Alstom Coradia Lint diesel multiple-units at InnoTrans on September 19. The contract is worth almost €300m and includes 45 Lint 54 DMUs with 160 seats, and 18 Lint 81 units offering 270 seats. The DMUs will enter traffic from December ...
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NewsSNCF takes Eurailscout stake
EUROPE: French national operator SNCF is to take a 50% stake in Europool, the parent company of infrastructure inspection contractor Eurailscout, it was announced on September 18. Subject to approval from the European Commission, SNCF will acquire the stake currently held by GSG Knape of Germany. The remaining 50% of ...
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NewsBombardier to assemble EMD locomotives for southeast Asia
INDIA: An agreement for Bombardier Transportation’s Savli rolling stock factory in Vadodara to assemble diesel locomotives for Electro-Motive Diesel customers in southeast Asia and the Pacific region was announced at InnoTrans on September 19. Bombardier will produce components including underframes and bogies as well as assembling the locomotives. However, Bombardier ...
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NewsQR National becomes Aurizon
AUSTRALIA: Shareholders in freight operator QR National Ltd will be asked to approve changing the name of the company to Aurizon Ltd at its annual general meeting in Brisbane on November 7. Combining ‘Australia’ and ‘horizon’, the new name ‘conveys the geographical scope of our expanding operations, as well as ...
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NewsDB signs DMU framework deals with Pesa
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has signed two framework contracts with Polish manufacturer Pesa to build up to 470 DMUs for regional and local services. The deals were inked at the InnoTrans exhibition on September 19 by Dr Volker Kefer, DB’s Board Member for Technology & Infrastructure, Ulrich Homburg, Board Member ...