All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 901
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NewsPioneering PPP energises Dijon tram
FRANCE: On July 1 the Grand Dijon urban authority and Inéo, a subsidiary of GDF Suez, signed a 26-year PPP agreement worth €176m to design, supply, maintain and finance the electrical and control equipment for the city’s tram network. Under the first deal of its kind in France, Inéo and ...
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NewsBoston orders MotivePower HSP46 diesels
USA: Meeting on July 14, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation board approved a contract with MotivePower Inc for 20 diesel locomotives of a new design, designated HSP46, valued at up to $114·6m. The 4 600 hp locomotives will be assembled at the company’s plant in Boise using major components ...
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NewsHyderabad metro bids announced
INDIA: Larsen & Toubro has emerged as lowest bidder to construct the Rs122bn Hyderabad metro network on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis. The project was officially approved by Urban Development minister S Jaipal Reddy at the end of June. Eight companies had been shortlisted for a new ...
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NewsFactory opens to support bearing technology shift
RUSSIA: A factory to produce sealed pre-lubricated compact tapered bearing units for Russian and export customers was opened in Tver on July 8. SKF is investing SKr235m in the plant, which at full capacity could employ 100 people producing up to 150 000 bearing units a year. SKF said the ...
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NewsNJ Transit approves FY2011 spending
USA: An order for 100 additional double-deck commuter cars, valued at up to $293·5m, and 10 dual-mode locomotives costing $78·8m, was approved on July 15 by New Jersey Transit, exercising options on existing orders with Bombardier. The decision came after the board passed a $1·8bn operating budget and $1·35bn capital ...
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NewsChina funds Argentina's rail revival
ARGENTINA: Chinese companies are to undertake route upgrades and supply rolling stock under a series of major contracts signed in Beijing on July 13, during the first state visit by President Cristina Fernández. With 85% of funding provided by China Development Bank, CMEC is to undertake a three-stage US$10bn upgrade ...
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NewsIn touch onboard
SAUDI ARABIA: Moxa is to provide ethernet switches for the data, information and CCTV networks onboard the 22 two-car trainsets AnsaldoBreda is to supply for the driverless metro being built at Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman women's university in Riyadh. Moxa has also supplied the Helsinki metro with ethernet switches for ...
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NewsFourth order for CRH1 high speed trains
CHINA: The Ministry of Railways has ordered an additional 40 CRH1 Zefiro high speed trains from the Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation joint venture at a cost of 5·2bn yuan, Bombardier announced on July 16. The eight-car trains will have a top speed of 250 km/h and capacity for 604 passengers, ...
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NewsKiwiRail announces Auckland electric train shortlist
NEW ZEALAND: KiwiRail has shortlisted Hitachi, Hyundai Rotem, Bombardier Transportation and a consortium of CAF and Mitsubishi for the contract to supply up to 38 three-car electric multiple-units to operate Auckland suburban services. KiwiRail is working with Auckland Regional Transport Authority to procure the 1 067 mm gauge trains as ...
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NewsRFF agrees terms for Tours – Bordeaux PPP concession
FRANCE: Infrastructure manager Réseau Ferré de France confirmed on July 15 that it had completed negotiations with the Vinci-led LISEA consortium over the PPP concession to build LGV Sud Europe Atlantique between Tours and Bordeaux, which it describes as ‘the largest railway project in Europe’, with a total cost of ...
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NewsDB Regio awarded Warnow-Netz operating contract
GERMANY: The Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has awarded incumbent DB Regio a new 13-year contract to operate Warnow-Netz regional services. Announced on June 30, the contract will be implemented in two phases and will eventually cover the operation of 4 million train-km a year. The first phase comes into effect in ...
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NewsWork underway on Ashkelon - Be’er-Sheva line
ISRAEL: Infrastructure works for the 60 km Ashkelon - Be’er-Sheva line were formally launched by Israel Railways on July 4. The US$500m project has been designated as of national importance and is scheduled for completion in early 2015. Initial work has already been undertaken on the Ashkelon ...
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NewsIndian wagon builder enters European market
FRANCE: Indian rolling stock and earth moving equipment manufacturer Titagarh Wagons Ltd has made its first overseas acquisition, purchasing the assets of French rolling stock supplier IGF Industries-Arbel Fauvet Rail which went into receivership in February last year. TWL said AFR has the capacity to produce up to 5 000 ...
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NewsCertification and materials specialist bought
USA: Testing and certification company TÜVRheinland announced its acquisition of the Rail Sciences Inc consultancy on July 7. Founded in 1987, Atlanta-based RSI provides specialist track/train dynamics studies and simulations, derailment investigations, track inspections, grinding programmes, operational analysis and risk assessment. It has a materials and metallurgical laboratory in ...
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NewsSiemens joint ventures to supply Desiros and modernise yards
RUSSIA: Siemens is to form joint ventures to supply 240 electric multiple -units and modernise 22 marshalling yards under memoranda of understanding signed when German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for talks in Yekaterinburg on July 15. The agreements were signed by Siemens President & CEO Peter ...
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NewsLocomotive workshop opens
NETHERLANDS: NedTrain Chief Executive Michiel van Roozendaal opened the company's newly-built freight locomotive maintenance, servicing and refurbishment workshop at Rotterdam Waalhaven on June 24. The company said the new facilities would enable it to provide faster turn-round times and a higher quality of service than was possible at its ...
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NewsDB Schenker moving to Frankfurt
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn is to concentrate the management of its freight and logistics division DB Schenker at a new site near Frankfurt Airport over the next one to two years, it announced on July 14. Teams currently based in Berlin, Mainz and Essen will move to the Frankfurt site, which ...
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NewsSeries E6 mini-Shinkansen trainset unveiled
JAPAN: The: prototype Series E6 mini-Shinkansen trainset for East Japan Railway's Akita route was unveiled to the public at Sendai depot on July 9. Once trials are completed the train is expected to enter commercial service from 2013. The Series E6 has five motor and two trailer cars, providing 315 ...
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NewsProducts & Technology in Brief
Erico has developed a Positive Train Control grounding kit, containing rods, clamps, welding material, moulds, and cable for protecting PTC signalling towers from lightning strikes. The first screens showing 20 min blocks of news, 'what's on', and advertising material went live on 18 København S-Tog trains on ...