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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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AFTER many months of uncertainty, the future of the Vancouver Island railway finally looks assured after the Canadian government agreed to contribute $C 7.5m ($US 7.47m) to the rehabilitation of the Esquimalt - Courtenay line.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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LATVIAN state-owned passenger operator Pasažieru Vilciens has awarded CAF a contract worth around Euros 400 million to supply 34 emus and seven dmus, and maintain them for 30 years.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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POLISH State Railways (PKP) subsidiary PKP Intercity (PKP IC) has begun testing a Siemens Vectron electric locomotive on long-distance passenger services.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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THE French Ministry of Transport has approved the route for two new high-speed lines totalling 417km that will serve the southwest of the country. The lines will extend the Sud-Europ Atlantique high-speed line, currently under construction between Tours and Bordeaux, southeast to Toulouse and south to Hendaye on the Spanish border.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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MR Richard Bowker has left his position as CEO of Etihad Rail, the company responsible for the United Arab Emirates' $US 11bn railway network construction programme, to join English Football Association as an independent director.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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TRANSNET South Africa today unveiled plans to invest Rand 205bn ($US 25.9bn) in rail projects over the next seven years as part of a drive to triple revenues and support booming mineral exports.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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THE Municipality of Amsterdam, the owner of the city's metro network, has awarded Alstom a Euros 100m contract to supply a CBTC solution based on its radio-based Urbalis platform on the network's four existing lines and the new North-South line, which is currently under construction.
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Friday, April 06, 2012 |
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HARSCO has secured orders worth more than $US 20m to supply its track maintenance grinders to new customers in Korea and China, and existing customer, Britain's infrastructure manager, Network Rail.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
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RAIL.ONE has been awarded a contract to supply turnout sleepers for the 123km Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle high-speed line in eastern Germany. The contract covers almost 22,000 linear metres of ballastless sleepers, which will be installed on the Erfurt - Gröbers section by the end of 2013.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
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THE extension of Los Angeles' light rail Gold Line from Pasadena to Azusa took a major step forward yesterday when the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority issued the Kiewit Parsons Joint Venture full notice to proceed with the $US 486 million full construction phase of the project.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
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HS2, the company overseeing the project to build a high-speed line between London, Birmingham and northern England, has awarded Atkins a £13.3m contract to prepare preliminary designs for the County South section of the line which will run 91km through the counties of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
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CSR Zhuzhou has been awarded a contract to supply 23 six-car Type B trains for the first metro line in Wuxi, a city of 6.3 million inhabitants in China's eastern Jiangsu province.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
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DESPITE a challenging and eventful 2011, marked by a strong Swiss franc, fluctuations in freight volumes and problems with infrastructure bottlenecks, especially on Switzerland's Lötschberg route, BLS Cargo says its annual results released on April 4 show that it has almost recovered from the economic crisis of 2009.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
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AUCKLAND today inaugurated the first addition to its commuter rail network in 82 years, with the official opening of the Manukau Rail Link by the Mayor of Auckland Mr Len Brown.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
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GYÖR Sopron Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) confirmed on March 30 that it has selected Stadler as preferred bidder for a contract to supply four emus.
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