In brief
MÁV and GySEV in joint emu tender S
PEAKING at the Hungarian Railways 2012
conference in Budapest on September 25, Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) general manager and president Mrs Ilona Dávid, who also acts as the president of Györ - Sopron Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV), announced that the two railways will shortly issue a joint invitation to tender for 48 new emus. MÁV will receive 42 trains under the contract, while the remaining six will be delivered to GySEV. The partners are seeking to finance 85% of the purchase cost through European Union sources as
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IANGU Guotai, the general contractor in charge of the telecommunications upgrade
project on the 590km Ashgabat - Bereket - Turkmenhbashi line in Turkmenistan has selected Huawei to supply GSM-R, SDH, and telephone systems. Huawei will provide operational voice and data
part of funding applications to Hungary’s national development agency, which implies that the new trains are destined for use on suburban or regional services. The trains are likely to be a similar configuration to the 60 Stadler Flirt emus already in service with MÁV and the four ordered by GySEV in April. The GySEV trains cost
around É1.5m per vehicle for a four-car set, the same price paid by MÁV in 2005. A further order would
strengthen the position of Stadler in Hungary, which already has an assembly plant in Szolnok.
Huawei wins Turkmenistan GSM-R contract
services based on its GSM-R technology which is engineered using a
combination of conventional GSM-R base transceiver stations (BTS) and its own distributed BTS architecture which the company says improves the flexibility of the product.
Harsco wins orders for track equipment Austria
In an effort to improve its financial situation, Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) railfreight subsidiary Rail Cargo Austria (RCA) is selling 4000 wagons with a book value of É22m to its Industriewaggon (IWAG) subsidiary for É77.6m. However, RCA will lease some of the vehicles back from IWAG, which will lease the remainder to other operators.
Britain
Network Rail (NR) has awarded Balfour Beatty a £50m contract for power and distribution electrification work on the North West Phase 2 electrification project which covers 90 track-km on the Newton-le-Willows - Liverpool, and Huyton - Wigan lines. Invensys Rail will carry out signalling, telecoms and Scada work which will be
completed by December 2014. Network Rail Infrastructure has purchased the assets of IAD Rail Systems from Claverham, Britain. IAD specialises in design, integration, qualification and manufacture of points
operating equipment. Wabtec has completed the acquisition of LH Group for around £30m. LH Group overhauls diesel engines, transmissions, powerpacks and bogies, and has annual sales of more than £40m.
China
ARSCO has secured three contracts worth a total of $US 85m to supply and service track maintenance equipment. The orders include the company’s first rail grinder sale to an Italian customer. The units will be delivered in 2014 and 2015 for use on the new Line 5 of the Milan metro. Harsco will also deliver an additional P-811 track renewal train and a multi-functional
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track maintenance machine (pictured) to Indian Railways (IR) by early 2014,
complementing IR’s existing fleet of seven Harsco track renewal trains. Finally, Harsco has signed a contract extension with British infrastructure manager Network Rail to maintain its fleet of stoneblowers until mid- 2015. The deal includes an option for a two-year extension.
Ansaldo STS USA, as part of a strategic agreement with Insigma, has secured a $US 13.2m contract to supply CBTC on Hangzhou Metro Line 2 phase 1. The initial 18.7km southeast section of the 33.7km line will open in December 2013. The 15km northwestern section will follow in December 2016.
Germany
German Rail (DB) has placed a É50m order with Bombardier for five more Twindexx Vario double-deck emus. DB will use the trains on regional services linking the Baltic coast with Berlin and destinations in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt. Israel
Israel Railways has ordered a third batch of 72 double-deck coaches from Bombardier in a $US 158m deal, increasing its total fleet to 222.
Japan
JR East has selected Knorr- Bremse to supply brake equipment for the E7 high- speed trains that will operate on the new line between Tokyo and Kanazawa which will open in spring 2015. Knorr-Bremse will supply bogie equipment, brake discs, brake callipers, and Isobar brake pads for 17 trains. The first trains will be completed in autumn 2013.
Netherlands
NS Financial Services, in cooperation with NS
Passengers is inviting bids for new single-deck regional trains. The tender has been issued because NS cannot realise options on contracts with the Siemens-Bombardier consortium which supplied its class 2400 and 2600 trains for Sprinter services because these trains are not equipped with a toilet. Delivery is expected in 2016 or 2017.
Thailand
VGI Global Media Public Company has awarded ST Electronics a $US 13m contract to supply and maintain for two years half-height platform screen doors at nine BTS
Skytrain stations in Bangkok. Icco Composites, France, has secured a contract with Bangkok Metro to supply top contact third rail for 20km of new track. Delivery is planned for early 2013.
United States
Eurotech, Italy, has secured a $US 60m, three-year contract with Science Applications International Corporation (Saic) to supply its ISIS ICE embedded platform for the Positive Train Location (PTL) system that will be used as a component of Positive Train Control (PTC). PTL systems provide train length data and positive determination of train location. IRJ
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