All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 860
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NewsSound Transit dedicates University Link TBMs
USA: Senator Patty Murray and Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff joined Sound Transit board members in Seattle on May 16 to launch the first of three tunnel boring machines that will excavate the twin tunnels for the 5·1 km light rail link to the University of Washington.The extension starts ...
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NewsInterest sought in Gobi rail project
MONGOLIA: Expressions of interest in financing, building and operating a 1 100 km east-west railway have been called by national railway shareholding company MTZ. The line was approved by parliament last year, and is to be developed in four sections: from Dalanzadgad via Tavan Tolgoi and Tsagaan Suvarga to Saynshand ...
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NewsNews in Brief
Korea Railroad Research Institute has signed a memorandum with the Indonesian Trade & Industry Council to explore opportunities for involvement in the Jakarta airport rail link and Jakarta – Surabaya upgrade. A feasibility study for the airport line is being undertaken by Sarana Multi Infrastruktur and ...
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NewsWorld Bank loan supports Kunming urban rail project
CHINA: The World Bank has approved a US$300m loan towards the US$1·7bn construction of Kunming metro Line 3. The loan is intended to support ‘compact, transit-oriented urban development by providing high quality, integrated public transport on the East-West Line 3 corridor’. The 19·5 km underground line will ...
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NewsWomen-only metro inaugurated
SAUDI ARABIA: King Abdullah rode on the recently completed driverless metro during his inauguration of the Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University campus in Riyadh on May 15. As well as being the largest women-only university in the world, PNU is said to be the largest single-site university. Transport within ...
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NewsPomeranian Metropolitan Railway funding agreed
POLAND: The project to introduce a local service between Gdansk, Gdansk Airport and Gdynia has received additional funding from the EU's Operational Programme Infrastructure & Environment, meaning the EU will meet 612m zloty of the 914m zloty cost of the works. The project involves a mix of reopenings and new ...
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NewsJeddah airport peoplemover contract awarded
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Binladin Group has awarded Bombardier Transportation a US$96m contract to supply an automated peoplemover for the King Abdulaziz International Airport Development Project in Jeddah. Saudi Binladin Group recently won a contract to design and build a new terminal at the airport to handle rising ...
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NewsGlobaltrans plans private locomotives
RUSSIA: Private freight operator Globaltrans is poised to take advantage of a partial liberalisation of the traction market which the government is expected to announce later this year, CEO Sergey Maltsev said on April 4. Globaltrans is one of a number of independent freight operators in Russia, and it has ...
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NewsDenton – Dallas A-Train services to start in June
USA: Denton County Transportation Authority has officially designated June 20 as the start of revenue service on its 33·8 km A-Train commuter line between Denton and the DART Green Line station at Trinity Mills in Carrollton. The opening will be kicked off with community-wide celebrations on June 18. Construction is ...
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NewsNew Jersey Transit unveils first ALP-45 loco
USA: May 11 saw the unveiling at Newark Penn Station of the first of 26 ALP-45 electro-diesel locomotives ordered by New Jersey Transit nearly three years ago from Bombardier.The dual-mode locos were originally intended to optimise service through the new trans-Hudson tunnels between northern New Jersey and Manhattan then being ...
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NewsProjects approved in China
CHINA: Further rail projects have been authorised, despite the problems at the Ministry of Railways and media concerns about the cost of the massive expansion programme. The National Development & Reform Commission has approved the proposed 329 km double-track line from Qianjiang in Chongqing province to Zhangjiajie and Changde in ...
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NewsLessons from the UK
RUSSIA: A group of 30 RZD senior management staff attended a week of study last month at the University of Portsmouth in the UK under an Anglo-Russian partnership agreement initiated in 2009 with support from global accountancy practice PricewaterhouseCoopers. The group studied at the university's Business School as ...
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NewsNews in Brief
RZD is studying the introduction of piggyback services between St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad and Moscow. An experimental Helsinki – Moscow service will be trialled later this year. African Development Bank signed a €300m loan to finance upgrading of ONCF's Tanger – Marrakech corridor on ...
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NewsGE Transportation announces Texas locomotive factory
USA: GE Transportation is to open a plant in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce new and remanufactured locomotives from 2012. Announcing its intention on May 12, the company said it will invest up to $96m in the 84 000m2 plant, while the Texas Enterprise Fund will provide up to ...
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NewsSNCB Logistics to update resource planning systems
BELGIUM: National rail freight operator SNCB Logistics has selected Quintiq and Ab Ovo to deliver a new resource planning and operations management system to co-ordinate its business over the coming year. Under a contract announced on May 11, the long-term planning functions are due to go live towards the end ...
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NewsDB Schenker Rail to serve Baltic States
LITHUANIA: An increase in rail freight traffic between central Europe and the Baltic States is expected following the signing of a co-operation agreement between DB Schenker Rail Polska CEO Hans-Georg Werner and the Director General of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai Stasys Dailydka at the Transport Logistic fair in München on May 10. ...
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Claire Porter
Claire Porter, Head of Strategy at Thales UK’s transport division, became the first female president of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers on April 15.
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NewsTackling inter-disciplinary transport challenges
UK: Young transport professionals looking to enhance their qualifications and professionals in other disciplines seeking to focus on transport are the target audience for a Masters Degree course to be launched by City University London in September 2011. The Masters in Transport Strategy & Systems has been created to focus ...
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NewsDLR three-car upgrade completed
UK: The launch of three-car services on the Docklands Light Railway between Tower Gateway and Beckton on May 9 marked the completion of a £325m project to upgrade the network for longer trains.‘With passenger numbers increasing on the DLR every year, having the ability to run a three-car service right ...
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NewsBeijing - Shanghai high speed test runs begin
CHINA: Trial running over the full length of the Beijing - Shanghai high speed line began on May 11, with CRH380A trainsets being used for a month of staff familiarisation, fault simulation and emergency drills before the opening ceremony which is planned for the end of June. The 1 ...