All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 812
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NewsBombardier launches Saudi project management academy
SAUDI ARABIA: Bombardier Transportation has opened a Project Management Academy in Riyadh, offering a modular training programme to young Saudi nationals. Aimed at recent university leavers and engineering or business professionals, the postgraduate course combines classroom teaching with on-the-job training. Students will also have the opportunity to get involved ...
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NewsRail milling joint venture formed
AUSTRIA: Vossloh MFL Rail Milling GmbH has been established as a joint venture between Vossloh Rail Services and Maschinenfabrik Liezen und Giesserei. Based at Liezen in Austria and operating under the Vossloh Rail Services brand, VMRM will draw on VRS' experience of conventional rail milling and grinding, and MFL's expertise ...
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NewsCarare Railway PPP plan
COLOMBIA: Minister of Mines & Energy Mauricio Cárdenas expects the Carare Railway to be the first project to be implemented under new legislation facilitating public-private partnerships which became law in December. The project includes the construction of 330 km of new railway and upgrading 130 km of existing line ...
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NewsCorridor X in Macedonia to be upgraded
MACEDONIA: A joint venture of Austrian firm Alpine Construction and its German partner HF Wiebe has been awarded a track renewal contract under a €17·6m programme to modernise the section of Pan-European Corridor X which runs north-south through Macedonia. The contract is worth €7m and covers the 13·3 km between ...
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NewsWellington light rail cost estimate
NEW ZEALAND: A review by AECOM has estimated that the cost of building a light rail system in Wellington would range from NZ$12m to NZ$141m per km. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown made the introduction of light rail by 2020 a major part of her campaign platform, and says the NZ$400m cost ...
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NewsCSR Zhuzhou awarded Ampang Line train contract
MALAYSIA: Lowest bidder CSR Zhuzhou has won a 530m ringgit contract to supply 20 trainsets for the 27 km Ampang Line metro in Kuala Lumpur, which is being extended by 17·7 km to Putra Heights. The six-car trains will each have a capacity of 1 308 passengers and a maximum ...
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Professor Richard Parry-Jones
Professor Richard Parry-Jones has been nominated as Non-Executive Director & Chairman Designate of Network Rail; he will take over as Chairman when Rick Haythornthwaite steps down in July. Senior Independent Director Steve Russell will also be leaving in July and will be replaced by board member Keith Ludeman.
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NewsCAF wins Latvian train contract
LATVIA: National passenger operator Pasazieru Vilciens has ordered 34 electric and seven diesel-electric multiple-units from Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. The contract signed on April 2 is worth 144m lats, however a 30-year maintenance deal takes the total value to €400m, which according to CAF is the largest rolling ...
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NewsAlstom to resignal Amsterdam metro network
NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam municipality has awarded Alstom a €100m contract to resignal the 43 km four-line metro network and supply signalling for the North-South line which is currently under construction. The contract announced on April 5 covers signalling, train control and train supervision systems and associated communications. Alstom said its Urbalis ...
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NewsAdelaide upgrade underway
AUSTRALIA: Electrification of Adelaide's 1600 mm gauge suburban network is underway as part of the South Australia government's A$2·6bn Building a Better Adelaide Metro project. A seven-month shutdown of the Gawler line between Mawson Interchange and Gawler will allow a major revitalisation including track and level crossing upgrades, 25 kV ...
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NewsWorld rolling stock market April 2012
Australia: Western Australia PTA has awarded UK firm Volo TV a £1m contract to provide at-seat touchscreen entertainment on Perth – Kalgoorlie trains. Angola: CNR began shipping 120 coaches to Angola in late February. Canada: Export-Import Bank of the United States provided a C$83·1m loan guarantee to support ...
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NewsEU backs coach manufacturing revival
HUNGARY: The MÁV-Gépészet engineering business of national railway MÁV has restarted coach manufacturing at the Szolnok workshops, 18 years after production ceased. The EU is providing HF463m of support for the HF1·4bn project, which includes equipping the workshops with new tools. The plant will produce 200 km/h inter-city vehicles for ...
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NewsYard capacity increased by 20%
GERMANY: The Mayor of Mannheim officially reopened the city’s main marshalling yard on February 27, following a €100m project to increase throughput by up to 20% and cut maintenance costs. As well as renewal of the 170 km of track and 550 turnouts, modernisation has included full automation including remote-controlled ...
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NewsCoal line memorandum
INDONESIA: Having completed a feasibility study last year, Russian Railways has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Governor of East Kalimantan province to assist with the development of a proposed US$2·4bn coal railway on the island of Borneo. Construction could begin next year, with the 185 km first phase ...
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NewsWorld rail market April 2012
Australia: Transport for New South Wales has appointed Turner & Townsend to provide cost planning services for the Sydney light rail strategic plan. Arup, Hassell and Aurecon are engineering and design advisors. Zonegreen is to supply its Smart depot personnel protection system for the City Rail EMU maintenance centre ...
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Marcel Theis
Marcel Theis has been named Chief Operating Officer of Luxembourg’s CFL Cargo while Sven Mertes becomes Chief Commercial Officer.
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NewsWuxi metro Line 1 train order
CHINA: CSR Zhuzhou signed a contract to supply 23 six-car trains for the future Wuxi metro Line 1 on March 21. Deliveries are scheduled to run from March 2013 to June 2014, when trial running on the 30·5 km line is scheduled to start. The Type B ...
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NewsArad upgrading contract awarded
ROMANIA: Infrastructure manager CFR SA has awarded a €300m contract to upgrade the 41 km line from the Hungarian border to Curtici and Arad by June 2014. The EU-backed project includes installation of ETCS Level 2 and renewal of track and electrification equipment to enable passenger trains to run ...
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NewsRail road solution bypasses Stromeferry rock fall
UK: A rock fall which obstructed the A890 road near Stromeferry in the Scottish Highlands in December left communities isolated, with a 225 km round trip needed to bypass the blockage by road. A ferry service was introduced as a temporary alternative, but a better solution was needed until Highland ...
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NewsExpress tram service launched in Bremen
GERMANY: Limited-stop 'express' services are being operated during the morning peak on an 4·1 km extension of Bremen tram Route 1 which opened with start of city transport operator BSAG's new timetable on March 26. Route 1 has been extended from Züricher Straße, which has been renamed Schweizer Eck, via ...