All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 938
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NewsVAL refurbishment completed
FRANCE: The last of 38 two-car trainsets used on Lille mini-metro Line 1 was returned to the city on October 22 following refurbishment at Alstom’s Petit-Foret plant near Valenciennes, marking the completion of a three-year programme valued at €11m. Under a contract awarded by operator Transpole and the Communauté Urbaine ...
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NewsLow prices force change at Strukton Rail
NETHERLANDS: 'Prices in the market for renewals are under great pressure', said Strukton Rail on October 19, announcing a reorganisation under which the company's four regions will be reduced to two. Around 350 jobs are to go across the country, and Strukton has started negotiations with its staff and ...
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NewsVossloh buys Global Rail Systems
USA: Vossloh acquired a majority stake in Texas-based Global Rail Systems with effect from October 16. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the existing management will remain in place. The automation, level crossing and control equipment company is intended to complement Vossloh's other US businesses, Vossloh Track Material, Cleveland ...
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NewsPesa signs first tram export contract
HUNGARY: Polish rolling stock manufacturer Pesa Bydgoszcz signed a contract to supply the city of Szeged with nine low-floor trams on October 22, its first order for trams from outside Poland. The firm's €16m bid beat a rival offer of €20·6m from Czech supplier Inekon. The first of the ...
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NewsSão Paulo metro resignalling signed
BRAZIL: A €280m contract to upgrade signalling and automatic train control on São Paulo metro lines 8, 10 and 11 was signed by operator CPTM and a consortium of Invensys Rail, Brazilian engineering company Montagens e Projetos Especiais and Spanish telecoms supplier Infoglobal on October 22. Line 8 is ...
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NewsMantena awarded Coradia Nordic maintenance
SWEDEN: Alstom Transport has awarded Norwegian train maintenance company Mantena a seven-year contract worth €22m to maintain the 49 Coradia Nordic electric multiple-units which will be delivered to Skånetrafiken from next month. Under the contract announced on October 22 Alstom will supply Mantena with spare parts for the units, ...
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NewsCourt ratifies Warszawa Line 2 award
POLAND: Warszawa City Hall can finally sign the contract with the winning bidder and start construction of its second metro line following the conculsion of legal proceedings. Following an international tendering process, a consortium comprising Italian contractor Astaldi, Gulermak of Turkey and Przedsiebiorstwo Budowy Dróg i Mostów was announced ...
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NewsTramino prototype unveiled
POLAND: Solaris Bus & Coach unveiled its prototype Tramino low-floor tram at the Trako fair in Gdansk on October 14, before the vehicle begins test running with MPK in Poznán. The five-module unidirectional car is 31·9 m long and 2350 mm wide, with 61 seats and space for 116 ...
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NewsDriverless metro car rolled out
SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai Rotem's first driverless light metro car for domestic use was rolled out at the company's Changwon plant on October 15, when Chairman of the National Assembly Chair Kim Hyung Oh took a test ride. The company is supplying 50 driverless metro cars as well as electrical ...
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NewsPrivate coal line gets go-ahead
INDONESIA: On October 21 state-owned coal miner PTBA announced it had received government approval for a 307 km railway which will link its Banko Tengah mine in South Sumatra with a port at Srengsem in Lampung province. To be used solely by PTBA, the railway will have a capacity of ...
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NewsLocos ordered for fewer and more efficient trains
CANADA: Orders for a total of 70 diesel-electric locomotives were announced by Canadian National on October 21. GE Transportation is to supply 35 ES44DC locomotives of 4 400 hp from the fourth quarter of 2010, while EMD will provide 35 SD70M-2s of 4 350 hp from January 2011. ...
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News€10bn rail spend for 2010
SPAIN: Investment in new rolling stock as well as the infrastructure of the national network is set to total €10·2bn next year, according to the Ministry of Development's draft budget. Appearing before a parliamentary committee on October 6, Secretary of State for Transport Concepción Gutiérrez said the ministry was ...
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NewsRail associations to develop common positions
EUROPE: On October 19 three industry associations announced an agreement to develop common positions on technical issues in support of the activities of the EU's European Railway Agency. The European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM), the Community of European Railway & Infrastructure Companies (CER) and the International Union of Railways ...
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NewsLOTOS Kolej orders Traxx locomotives
POLAND: The LOTOS Kolej transport subsidiary of oil and gas group LOTOS signed a €18·6m order for six Bombardier Transportation diesel-electric freight locomotives on October 14. The 2 400 kW Traxx locomotives will be built at Kassel using bodyshells from Wroclaw and bogies from Siegen. Deliveries start in ...
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NewsTGV Sud Est refurbishment deal
FRANCE: SNCF has selected Compin Group to supply interior fittings for the refurbishment of its original fleet of TGV Sud Est trainsets. Under a contract signed on October 6, the interiors specialist will supply complete kits for 60 trains, with options for a further 47. Each trainset has two power ...
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NewsChina strengthens Russian ties
INTERNATIONAL: China’s Ministry of Railways has signed a memorandum of understanding to work with Russian Railways on the development and introduction of high speed trains in the Russian Federation. The MoU covers both the upgrading of existing lines for faster speeds and the construction of dedicated high speed lines. The ...
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NewsNormandie upgrading moves ahead
FRANCE: Plans for improving rail connections to and from Haute-Normandie were announced by Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau during a visit to Rouen on October 15. The long-term aim is to develop a new high speed line linking Paris, Mantes, Rouen and Le Havre, as announced by President Sarkozy on April ...
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NewsMineral line accord signed
MONGOLIA: Surveying and detailed design of a new railway to open up the mineral deposits in the South Gobi area is expected to get underway in November, following the signing of a formal accord between the Transport Ministry and Russian Railways on October 15. The memorandum of agreement was signed ...
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NewsCTL restructures to boost east-west traffic
POLAND: Open access rail freight operator CTL Logistics is to restructure its cross-border operations from December 1, in a bid to boost its share of the rail freight market between Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. CTL Logistics President Krzysztof Sędzikowski announced on October 15 that the company wants to become ...
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NewsGreen Line groundbreaking in Sacramento
A groundbreaking ceremony in Sacramento on October 12 marked the start of construction on the first 1·8 km segment of the California state capital's Downtown — Natomas — Airport light rail extension. The US$44m project, now designated as the Green Line, will run north along 7th Street from the H ...