1st January 2013
EBRD is providing Romanian infrastructure manager CFR with a €175m loan to enable short-term liabilities to be paid off, support corporate reforms and assist with developing a detailed restructuring plan. French track renewals contractor Egénie is expecting to begin operations as an operateur ferroviaire de proximité or local freight operator early in 2013, via a sister company known as Agénia. Two Vossloh locomotives have been acquired and regular services are planned to Miramas near Marseille and Hourcade in Bordeaux. Germany’s Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn has been selected to operate Netzes Ostbrandenburg passenger services for 10 years from the end of 2014. The state-owned Israel National Roads Co, which is also responsible for the construction of new railways, has been renamed Netivei Israel National Transport Infrastructure Co. Deloitte has been awarded a Rs34m contract to undertake a forensic audit of Pakistan Railways, to identify the causes of its financial problems. Deutsche Bahn has selected a site in the Nippe area of Köln for a €200m depot which would maintain all ICE trainsets, including the future ICx fleet. Planning approval in 2014 would allow construction to go ahead ready for the depot to receive its first trainsets in early 2017.
31st December 2013
CHINA: Five further sections of the Beijing metro, with a combined length of 69·8 km, were put into revenue service on December 30. Adding one new line and extending three more, these projects bring the 16-line network to 442 route-km and 261 stations, overtaking Shanghai as the longest metro in the world. The first phase of Line 6 runs across the city from northwest to southeast, connecting Haidian Wuluju to Caofang. This 30·4 km route has 20 stations, including interchange to lines 2, 4, 5, 9 and 10. The second phase of Line 10 extends the route at both ends. One section heads south from the former western terminus at Bagou to Xiju, adding nine stations. The other runs south from Jinsong along the eastern side of the city and then turns west to Shoujingmai, adding a further 12 stations and bringing the line to 54&midot;8 km with 42 stations. Only a short section through Fengtai district from Shoujingmao to Xiju remains to complete a second ring line following the capital’s third ring road. This outer loop is intended to relieve the inner loop Line 2 which follows the second ring road. A northern extension of Line 9 from its former terminus at Beijing West Station to an interchange with Line 4 at the National Library finally connects this isolated line into the metro network, adding four more stations. As well as a connection with Line 6 at Baishiqiao South, interchange has also been provided to the western extension of Line 10 at the existing Liuliqiao station. In the north of the city, the short Line 8, which was originally built to serve the Olympic Park and subsequently extended northwards, has been extended south from Beitucheng on Line 10 to Guloudajie on Line 2, with one intermediate station at Anhuaqiao; a second at Andeleibejie is expected to follow shortly. Now carrying around nine million passengers a day, Beijing Metro expects to put at least one new line into operation each year between 2013 and 2015. This would bring the network to 19 lines and 561 km; in the longer term the capital’s metro is is projected to reach 1 000 km by 2020.
MOZAMBIQUE: A local subsidiary of Kazakhstan-based based Eurasian Natural Resources Corp has commissioned Mott MacDonald to undertake studies and is seeking expressions of interest in building a 1200 km standard gauge line from Chiuta in Tete province to a new port at Nacala, bypassing Malawi. Operations could start in 2015. A fleet of 3500 wagons of 110 tonne capacity is proposed, and 100 locomotives. The line would be available to third parties, and the government requires a passenger service to be provided.
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From railwaygazette.com - EBRD is providing Romanian infrastructure manager CFR with a €175m loan to enable short-term liabilities to be paid off, support corporate reforms and assist with developing a detailed restructuring...
Fast Lane reports (from USDOT)....
In Fiscal Years 2011 and 2012, our Federal Transit Administration signed more capital construction agreements for transit projects through its New Starts and Small Starts Program than in any two-year period in the agency’s history. That means that FTA is getting more transit projects started than ever before, bringing more communities the transportation options they want and need, and creating more jobs --hundreds of thousands of them-- at a time when families really need them.
Now, FTA is making a New Year's resolution to make it easier to submit projects for New Starts and Small Starts funding..
And getransportation.com reports that GE has signed an agreement with Transmashdiesel and JSC National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy's (KTZ) subsidiary JSC Remlokomotiv to create a joint venture company to produce diesel engines in Kazakhstan.
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nymr.co.uk - A table for 3 has become available on this coming Sunday’s Xmas Moorlander 6th January 2013. Train departs Grosmont at 1230. Please contact Customer Services if you wish to book 01751 472508.
west-somerset-railway.co.uk - Children 0 - 4 years inclusive travel FREE on the West Somerset Railway. Children aged 5 - 15 years inclusive travel at childrens rate. Age 16 and above travel at Adult fare.
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