All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 854
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NewsTCDD awards Pehlivanköy resignalling contract
TURKEY: National railway TCDD has awarded CAF's signalling business Eliop Seinalia and its local subsidiary Eliop Otomatik Sistemleri a contract for resignalling at Pehlivanköy, where the lines from Istanbul to Greece and Bulgaria diverge. The turnkey contract covers design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of Type S3e electronic interlockings and Sherpa ...
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NewsOttawa O-Train expansion plan approved
CANADA: Ottawa Transit Commission has voted unanimously to move ahead with a C$59m plan to expand the O-Train diesel light rail service, including the purchase of six new vehicles. Two new passing loops would be added and signalling upgraded, allowing a cut in headways from 15 min to 8 min. ...
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Dominique Perben
Dominique Perben, a former French transport minister, has been nominated for the post of Chairman of transport infrastructure financing agency Aftif by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Dr Markus Hunkel
Dr Markus Hunkel, Senior Vice-President, Strategy, at DB Schenker Rail, will become Operations Director on June 1 following the resignation of Dr Christian Kuhn.
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NewsBayern quadrupling completed
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn completed a 13-year project to widen the 62 km Augsburg - München main line from two to four tracks on June 6, providing extra capacity on one of Germany's busiest routes which carries 350 trains/day. From the December 11 timetable change services will be rescheduled to ...
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NewsChinese firm wins European wagon order
EUROPE: CNR Jinan announced a contract to supply 20 ammonia and 20 liquefied gas tank wagons to French leasing company Atir-Rail on June 17. Although Albania acquired a number of Chinese-built vehicles in the 1960s, CNR said the deal is its first European wagon order and marks the entry of ...
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NewsRail debate ahead
FRANCE: The future of rail is to be the subject of a 'national debate' in September, Transport Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet announced on June 16. 'The railway sector finds itself at a crossroads', she said, facing conflicting challenges that included maintaining the existing network while pursuing an ambitious high speed ...
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NewsRepowered Class 73 to roll out next year
UK: Railway Vehicle Engineering Ltd is to rebuild a Class 73 electro-diesel locomotive with modern traction equipment. The prototype is currently at the design stage and RVEL hopes to complete the project during 2012. Envisaged as a prototype for a possible fleet of 12 to 14 locomotives, the project has ...
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Andreas Willich
Andreas Willich, Deputy Director of Long Distance Traffic at SBB, has been named Head of Passenger Transport at Swiss operator BLS.
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NewsLA Gold Line Foothill extension bids submitted
USA: Three short-listed consortia seeking a design-build contract for the first phase of the Los Angeles Gold Line Foothill Extension from Pasadena to Azusa have submitted their final proposals on schedule. The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority’s technical evaluation committees is now reviewing and assessing the submissions. Contract ...
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NewsAdvisory role for Interfleet
UK: Interfleet Technology has launched Interfleet Transport Advisory Ltd as a separate company to provide strategic consultancy to the transport sector including road, urban transit and freight. Based in London, ITA operates both in support of and independently from Interfleet offices worldwide, having developed out of the consultancy's advisory ...
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NewsEtihad Rail signs telecommunications accord
UAE: National rail network developer Etihad Rail announced on June 19 that it had signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration with Dubai-based communications specialist du. The MoU was signed by Etihad Rail CEO Richard Bowker and du CEO Osman Sultan in a ceremony at du headquarters attended ...
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NewsPhoenix SkyTrain schedule accelerated
USA: The $1·5bn PHX SkyTrain automated peoplemover connecting Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport with the region’s light rail line should be finished more than five years earlier than originally planned. Phoenix city council in mid-June approved completion of Phase 1A by early 2015, just two years after Phase 1, ...
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NewsOntario’s Waterloo region approves light rail line
CANADA: The Waterloo Regional Council on June 15 approved construction of a C$818m light rail line linking Conestoga Mall in Waterloo with Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener. The 19 km line with 18 stops, tentatively set to open in 2017, will run along dedicated lanes on existing streets. Services ...
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NewsMetro tunnel floated underneath Amsterdam Centraal
NETHERLANDS: Construction experts from around the world were in Amsterdam on May 31 to observe the complex operation to float a 20 000 tonne concrete immersed tunnel section for the north–south metro line into place beneath Centraal station. The Noord/Zuidlijn will provide a fixed link from the north bank of ...
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NewsAkiem adds Class 77s to lease fleet
FRANCE: Electro-Motive Diesel announced on June 20 that it had delivered seven Class 77 locomotives to the SNCF Geodis subsidiary Akiem, who will lease them to local operator Voies Ferrées Locales et Industrielles for use on heavy freight trains in northern France. Facilitated through a financing package arranged by Bank ...
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NewsGauge-changing trains ordered for Moscow – Berlin
RUSSIA: RZD's Federal Passenger Co and Patentes Talgo signed a contract for seven 20-car long-distance passenger trains at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 18. Talgo said the contract worth more than €100m ‘marks the culmination of 15 years of bilateral contact between the two companies’. Three trains ...
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NewsSiemens unveils London Underground concept train
UK: A design concept for a next-generation train for London Underground’s small-profile ‘tube’ lines was unveiled by Siemens during the Railtex exhibition. Building on its successful role in supplying replacement bogies for Central Line and Waterloo & City Line stock, Siemens was asked by LU to develop a ‘concept ...
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NewsRZD orders 2ES5 and narrow gauge locomotives
RUSSIA: Russian Railways signed two agreements for the purchase of locomotives during the 1 520 Forum in Sochi. The first is a contract for 200 Alstom-TMH 2ES5 twin-section AC electric freight locomotives to be delivered by the Novocherkassk plant in 2013-20, building on a memorandum signed at InnoTrans 2010. The ...
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NewsTognum and Transmashholding announce diesel engine joint venture
RUSSIA: On June 17 Tognum and Transmashholding signed an agreement to form a joint venture to market and later manufacture diesel engines for the Russian and CIS locomotive, mining, marine and energy markets. Tognum Transmashholding BV will be registered in the Netherlands and owned 50:50 by the partners. It will ...