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- Strong passenger growth fuels another record year for VR
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Super Express raises questions
by David Briginshaw -
Hitachi wins race to build British intercity fleet: Hitachi secured a massive breakthrough deal last month to supply Britain's next-generation intercity passenger train. Keith Barrow examines the specification for the fleet, which could total 1400 vehicle
by Keith Barrow - Innovative Paris suburban emu unveiled
- Denmark approves 10-year infrastructure plan
- Turkey ready to launch high-speed
- Korea boosts rail spending
- Consortium clinches Mecca-Medina civil works contract
- JR East starts new high-speed train production
- India starts Eastern DFC
- China to build Libyan line
- Rebuilding of the 283km abandoned Puerto DeseadoLas Heras line for freight and tourist traffic has started in anticipation of a new cement factory being constructed on the route
- Work has started on replacing 20km of rail and 140,000 sleepers on the western line in Tasmania
- Preliminary work has started on Australian Rail Track Corporation's southern Sydney freight line
- Construction of the 166km second section of the Transnortheastern Railway between Salgueiro and Trinidade was due to start on February 12
- British infrastructure manager Network Rail's chief engineer, Mr Andrew McNaughton, has been seconded to High Speed 2 for 12 months
- Tentative plans have been put forward to extend the Boyaca Electric Railway to Bogota
- The German government passed an economic stimulus package on January 27 which includes 700 million [euro] for rail investment
- The number of lorry loads switching to rail increased
- India's Railway Ministry
- The Channel Tunnel reopened fully on February 9
- Spanish infrastructure manager Adif is investigating the feasibility of increasing the maximum length of freight trains from 400m to 600m following trials between Madrid and Valencia
- LKAB, Sweden, recently commissioned a new Funkwerk Alistercargo interlocking system at its marshalling yard in Kiruna. Funkwerk replaced the old relay-based interlockings, as well as signals and track circuits
- Skanetrafiken, the passenger operator in the Skane region
- Reconstruction and reopening of 67km of track from Barquisimeto to Yaratagua and Acarigua is expected to happen this year, with civil engineering works said to be around 80% complete
- CN completes EJ&E takeover
- Netherlands to revive HSL East?
- RFF awards GSM-R contract
- Spain to invest 5 billion [euro] in railfreight
- Bombardier has released the first images of its second generation Electrostar emu
- Additional funding for Via Rail?
- Thieves strike Guatemala Railways
- Israeli passenger numbers rise
- Class 1s defy the downturnbut warn of tough times ahead
- Siemens results beat expectations
- All receives Reais 1.1 billion loan
- Ansaldo scores 118m [euro] profits
- India predicts double-digit growth
- DB acquires Polish operator
- Train operator Chaco has signed a contract with the Argentine government for six dmus
- NREC, United States, and Materfer, Argentina, are investigating a joint-venture facility
- Carillion Rail has won an 80 million [pounds sterling]
- Siemens is to install communications infrastructure for the 400 million [pounds sterling] South Wales resignalling scheme
- British air-conditioning equipment maintenance and training company Techtrain
- Energy absorption systems manufacturer Oleo International, Britain, has been bought by British company
- Corus Railway Infrastructure Services has won the design contract for works at Reading station
- Wabtec is to build an additional 20 MPXpress commuter locomotives for Ontario passenger operator Go Transit
- The concession to operate commuter trains in the Franconia region has been awarded to German Rail subsidiary Bavarian Regional and City Transport
- Bids are being invited to operate the West Munsterland passenger concession from 2011 to 2023
- Rurtalbahn, based in Duren, is reportedly considering replacing its 14-year-old Regiosprinter dmus with new trains
- Sistemi Territoriali and Ferrovie Emilia Romagna have invited tenders to supply 32 emus of varying capacities and two dmus
- Strukton Rail, Netherlands, has signed a five-year maintenance contract with Dutch infrastructure manager Prorail to maintain 300km of track in the De Peel region in the south of the country
- The region of Silesia plans to invite tenders for eight emus before the end of the year
- The Wielkopolskie region
- Portuguese infrastructure manager Refer is to issue 500 million [euro] bonds guaranteed by the national government
- Saudi Railways Organisation is to buy 10 new diesel locomotives, split equally between passenger and freight operations
- Slovakian State Railways has invited tenders for 12 dmus with a value of between C45 million and 53 million [euro]
- Transnet is inviting EMD, GE Transportation, and Siemens to bid for a contract to supply 100 diesel locomotives
- Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by a consortium of Thales and Dimetronic
- Alstom and Spanish partners Acciona and Comsa have won an 80 million [euro] contract to install the European Train Control System Level 1 on the 41km GironaFigueres line
- ABB, Switzerland, has won a C61 million contract from Swiss trainbulder Stadler
- Massachussetts Bay Transportation Authority has shelved plans to order up to 56 diesel locomotives
- Bombardier and CAF unveil catenary-free LRVs
- Santo Domingo opens first metro line
- Bielefeld opts for Vossloh Kiepe LRVs
- MTR to operate Stockholm Metro
- Budapest public transport operator BKV took delivery of the first five Alstom Metropolis metro cars on February 9
- RATP and Veolia establish Asian JV
- The Australian state of Victoria has awarded Alstom a $A 327 million contract to supply an additional 20 X'Trapolis six-car emus for suburban services in Melbourne
- German Rail subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin says passenger numbers on the city's S-Bahn network reached record levels last year
- Planning has begun on a 175 million [euro] extension of tram Line 9 to Kleinwabern
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved a plan by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to extend the light rail Green Line 8km from the existing northern terminus at Lechmere to Medford
- The 6.4km northern extension of Line 2 from Vishwa Vidyalaya to Jahangirpuri opened on February 3, nine months ahead of schedule
- Construction is set to begin this year on a 2.1 billion [euro] two-line light rail line after the project was approved by China's National Development and Reform Commission.
- Istanbul Metro opened two extensions of Line M2 on January 30
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has appointed Hill International as project manager
- Lyon Region Public Transport Authority has awarded Areva a 58 million [euro] contract to install its Pegasus
- Ansaldo STS has won a 54 million [euro] contract to design, supply and install signalling, communications and electrical systems on the 5km Dante-Garibaldi Centrale section of Metro Line 1
- The five-station extension of the South Line from Tancredo Neves to the city's airport and Cajueiro Seco is due to open this month.
- The Land Transport Authority has awarded Alstom a $US 155 million contract to design, supply and install 70km of track, electrified at 750V dc on the metro Downtown Line
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