All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 848
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NewsDB Netz awards €200m ballastless track contract
GERMANY: Infrastructure manager DB Netz has awarded PORR a €200m contract to supply ballastless track for the 90 km Erfurt - Gröbers section of the 123 km Erfurt - Leipzig/Halle high speed line. The contract includes construction of 22 km of noise and wind protection walls. Completion is scheduled for ...
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NewsSão Paulo Line 5 expansion gets underway
BRAZIL: São Paulo state governor Geraldo Alckmin officially launched work on an 11·5 km extension of Metrô de São Paulo's 8·4 km Line 5 on July 23. An initial one-station extension from Largo 13 to Adolfo Pinheiro has been under construction using NATM since September 2009, and is scheduled for ...
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NewsRussian Railways to sell Freight One stake
RUSSIA: The government is to auction 75% minus two shares in Russian Railways' First Freight Company as a single lot, RZD announced on August 1. Freight One is Russia's largest rail freight operator, created in July 2007 with RZD holding 100% minus a single share which is owned by Baminvest. ...
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NewsRATP buys Manchester Metrolink operator
UK: The RATP Dev UK Ltd subsidiary of Groupe RATP bought Manchester light rail operator Stagecoach Metrolink Ltd from Stagecoach Group on August 1. SML operates and maintains the Metrolink network under a 10-year contract with Transport for Greater Manchester which runs to July 2017. There are currently four Metrolink ...
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NewsFoothill Extension contract awarded
USA: Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority announced on July 27 that it had awarded the Foothill Transit Constructors joint venture of Kiewit and Parsons a US$485m contract to design and build the 18·3 km extension of the Los Angeles light rail Gold Line from East Pasadena to Azusa, ...
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NewsLegios buys ZOS Nymburk
CZECH REPUBLIC: Rolling stock supplier Legios has expanded its production capacity with the purchase of the ZOS Nymburk repair and maintenance workshops from ZOS Vrútky for an undisclosed price. Legios now has a workforce of 1 200, and expects to double the current 150 staff at Nymburk by the end ...
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NewsDB Netz awards GSM-R upgrading contract
GERMANY: Kapsch CarrierCom is to migrate what it says is 'the world's largest GSM-R network' to the IP-based 3GPP release 4 technology by mid-2014 under a €15m contract awarded by infrastructure manager DB Netz at the end of July. Kapsch CarrierCom already provides support for DB's GSM-R, and says ...
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NewsEtihad Rail orders EMD locomotives
UAE: Etihad Rail has awarded Electro-Motive Diesel a contract to supply seven SD70ACS heavy-haul freight locomotives for the first phase of its national railway programme. The locomotives are to be delivered in 2012, with the first trains scheduled to run in 2013. EMD has previously won orders ...
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NewsZürich West tram extension nears completion
SWITZERLAND: Zürich transport operator VBZ has begun test running on the 3 km Zürich West extension of tram Route 4 from Escher-Wyss-Platz to Altstetten Nord, scheduled to open on December 11. Seven stops will serve the Zürich West area where redevelopment is expected to increase the number of local ...
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NewsFreiburg begins work on tram extension
GERMANY: A groundbreaking ceremony in Freiburg on July 26 launched work on the 1·8 km Zähringen tram extension north from Reutebachgasse to Dorfbach, where it will serve a park and ride site on the city boundary. The three-stop extension of the metre-gauge network along a mostly segregated and grassed alignment ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Construction of Namibia’s N$80m Ondangwa – Oshikango railway has restarted after a delay of more than a year, which the transport ministry blamed on non-delivery of rails. Earthworks are now complete, and 5000 tonnes of rail have been delivered from Austria. Westfalen-Lippe transport authority NWL ...
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NewsFortaleza metro South Line test running underway
BRAZIL: Test running began on June 17 on a 2·5 km section between Rachel Queiroz and Virgilio Tavora on the South Line of the Fortaleza metro (RG 1.11 p54). ‘Today is a victory’, announced Ceará State Infrastructure Minister Adail Fontenele, confirming that civil works for the rest of the 24 ...
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NewsLGV Bretagne PPP contract signed
FRANCE: The €3·3bn PPP contract for construction and maintenance of LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire was signed in Paris on July 28, by RFF President Hubert du Mesniland and Pierre Berger, Managing Director of Eiffage. This follows the signing of a final agreement on the funding package in Rennes on ...
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NewsSiemens awarded Hungarian ETCS contract
HUNGARY: Infrastructure agency NIF has awarded Siemens a €53m contract to supply ETCS Level 2 equipment for the 65 km route running southwest from Budapest-Kelenföld to Székesfehérvar. Commissioning is scheduled for 2013. Siemens said on July 26 that its plants in Budapest, Wallisellen and Braunschweig would provide two Simis electronic ...
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NewsNew Starts funding
USA: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a funding package worth $1·58bn on June 27 for 27 urban transport projects across the country under the New Starts initiative. While some of this total includes Full Funding Grant Agreements which are already in place, $345m has been allocated to rail projects as ...
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NewsSignal failure suspected in Wenzhou crash
CHINA: ‘Design flaws’ in the signalling on the Ningbo – Wenzhou high speed line led to the fatal rear-end collision near Wenzhou on July 22, according to the recently-appointed head of the Shanghai Railway Bureau An Lusheng. The accident is now reported to have killed 39 people and injured 192. ...
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New team in place at DSB
DENMARK: Two new board members will take up their posts at DSB this month as the national passenger operator restructures its management team following the recent financial problems at its DSBFirst joint venture. DSB announced last month that Christian Roslev (pictured) would be joining the board on August and ...
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Fiona Tordoff
Fiona Tordoff is to become Chief Executive of the Institution of Railway Operators next month, following the retirement of Chris Daughton who has led the IRO for 10 of its 11 years in existence.
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Dinesh Trivedi
Dinesh Trivedi has been appointed as Minister of Railways in India, succeeding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who had been acting minister for two months following the departure of Mamata Banerjee to become Chief Minister of West Bengal in May.
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Debra Johnson
Debra Johnson has been named acting Executive Director & CEO of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, following the resignation of Nathaniel Ford on June 30.