All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 821
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NewsNews in Brief
Electric services on the 38 km Kristinehamn – Nykroppa line in Sweden were officially launched on January 16, removing the need for freight trains to use diesel traction or make a significant detour. Saudi Railway Co has signed a memorandum of understanding to build a railway linking Sadara Chemical’s ...
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NewsVirginia Railway Express orders gallery cars
USA: Virginia Railway Express awarded Sumitomo Corp a $21m contract to supply eight gallery cars on February 15, with an option for up to 42 more which would take the total value of the order to $119m. The cars will be manufactured at Nippon Sharyo's plant in Rochelle, Illinois, with ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market February 2012
Australia: Macmahon Holdings has begun construction of Fortescue’s 81 km Solomon Rail Spur in the Pilbara under a A$330m contract which includes four major bridges. Completion is scheduled for this year. Austria: Niederösterreich transport authority Növog has awarded the Arge Bahnbau consortium of R&Z Bau and Leonhard Weiss a ...
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NewsContract signed for final section of new Djibouti - Ethiopia railway
DJIBOUTI: The government has awarded China Railway Construction Corp a contract to build its 100 km section of the new standard gauge railway which will replace the out-of-use metre-gauge line from the coast to Addis Abeba in Ethiopia. Announcing the US$505m contract covering the Djibouti section of the route on ...
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NewsPays de la Loire takes Régiolis option
FRANCE: Alstom Transport announced on February 16 that it had received an order from SNCF worth €25m for an additional five Régiolis low-floor EMUs. The option has been exercised on behalf of the Pays de la Loire region, which has already ordered 10 dual-voltage bi-mode trainsets as well as ...
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NewsFirst of 10 Zentralbahn rack trains rolls out
SWITZERLAND: The first of 10 electric multiple-units for the metre-gauge Zentralbahn was rolled out at Stadler Rail's Bussnang plant on February 15. The manufacture says the SFr141m contract signed in September 2009 is largest ever order for rack-and-pinion rail vehicles. The order covers two types of 120 km/h air-conditioned EMU. ...
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NewsNew line to Bamako
SENEGAL: Speaking in Thiès on January 5, President Abdoulaye Wade announced the construction of a standard gauge route between Dakar and Bamako in Mali that would enable Senegal 'to be at forefront of progress, with electric trains'. In the meantime, a major upgrading and construction programme would be launched ...
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NewsLondon Tramlink prepares to put new trams into service
UK: London Tramlink is preparing to put the first of its six new Stadler Rail Variobahn trams into service by the end of February, with the rest scheduled to arrive at a rate of around one a month ready for the launch of a new Line 4 service in June. ...
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Mangu Singh
Mangu Singh, who joined Delhi Metro Rail Corp in 1997 as Chief Engineer and worked his way up through the company, has been named Managing Director. He succeeds Dr Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, who stepped down on December 31 having served in the post since DMRC’s inception.
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NewsRío Colorado contract
ARGENTINA: This month a joint venture of Skanska and local companies Chediack and Milicic will start work on a 570m pesos railway construction contract awarded by the Potasio Río Colorado subisidiary of Brazilian mining company Vale. Responsible for civil works on 83 km of railway including 29 bridges, Skanksa ...
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NewsSatellite train location project launched
ROMANIA: A European project to demonstrate a satellite-based train control system suitable for low-traffic railways has been launched on the 27 km Brasov - Zarnesti branch line operated by RCCF-Trans. Although satellite positioning is common in the aviation and maritime sectors, the International Union of Railways says it has not ...
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NewsPresident outlines Brazilian rail spending plans
BRAZIL: Spending of R$46bn on 4600 km of railway by 2014 is envisaged by the federal government under the PAC 2 programme to accelerate economic growth, according to President Dilma Rousseff. Asked why the government was not investing in rail, Rousseff responded in her weekly newspaper column on January 3 ...
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NewsSmart moves in California
USA: Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit has awarded a joint venture of Stacy & Witbeck and Herzog a $103m contract to build the first stage of the Smart commuter line in the North Bay area of California. Smart will use a 110 km out of use Northwestern Pacific Railroad right ...
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NewsNews in Brief
The Rhein-Ruhr and Westfalen-Lippe transport authorities named DB Regio as the winner of the Haard-Achse operating contract on January 11. Covering routes from Münster to Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach, the contract will run for 15 years from December 2014, with annual train-km increasing from 3·02 million to 3·87 million. On December ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - February 2012
Mass Rapid Transit Authority has awarded CK Karnchane a 14bn baht contract for civil works on the 13 km elevated Bangkok Skytrain Green Line extension from Bearing to Samut Prakan which is scheduled to open in mid-2016. China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group has begun construction of a 37·4 km ...
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NewsDB Schenker to boost London - Poland service
EUROPE: DB Schenker Rail is to add a second weekly train between Barking and Wroclaw in September, and it hopes to expand the operation to a daily service by the end of 2013, according to CEO Dr Alexander Hedderich. Speaking at a reception at the Polish embassy in London on ...
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NewsContract awarded for Ethiopian electric railway
ETHIOPIA: The second of three major contracts covering the construction of a 656 km standard gauge railway to replace the out-of-use metre-gauge line linking Addis Abeba with Djibouti has been signed by the government's project promoter Ethiopian Railway Corp. Under the 1·18bn birr deal signed on on December 16, China ...
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NewsEsbjerg electrification approved in four-point Danish transport plan
DENMARK: Electrification of the main line from Lunderskov west to Esbjerg heads a four-point programme of rail investment approved by the government and opposition parties on February 7. The 56 km electrification project is to be completed in 2015 at a cost of DKr1·19bn. This will enable DSB to procure ...
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NewsFirst tenders by April under $35bn Qatar rail programme
QATAR: In April invitations to tender will be issued for four tunnelling packages worth US$2bn to US$3bn each for the first sections of a planned 213 route-km metro in greater Doha. These contracts launch a US$35bn programme to construct an integrated rail network across the Gulf state by the ...
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NewsAwards encourage European railway integration
EUROPE: ‘We must create a European railway area, where railway operators are able to provide their services across borders’, insisted European Commission Vice-President for Transport Siim Kallas, speaking at the 2012 European Railway Awards in Brussels on February 8. Kallas is concerned that ‘today, many of Europe's railways are not ...