nieuwstopic?!

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Ah in 2015... Waarom niet gewoon m.i.v. de nieuwe 18?

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Er zal nog veel water door de Maas vloeien voordat de wensen van het AVV werkelijkheid worden... Het oorspronkelijke artikel staat overigens hier.

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Contracts August 2008
30 Aug 2008
France: Finnish technology group Teleste has won a €1m extension to a previous contract to supply SNCF with CCTV equipment.

India: Under a €4m contract Bombardier is to supply traffic management and passenger information systems covering 53 km of Central Railway’s suburban network in Mumbai (p496).

Nigeria: German firm Lukas Hydraulik recently supplied NRC with re-railing equipment.

Switzerland: Keymile is supplying UMUX electronic data handing equipment to support 200 Thales axle-counters in the Gotthard base tunnel.

UK: In the first implementation of Atos Origin’s AVANTIXmetro e-ticketing package, Heathrow Express passengers can now receive e-tickets by mobile phone or PDA.

USA: French firm Gerken SAS is to undertake photographic surveys of Metro-North Railroad’s overheard electrification in Connecticut. Roof-mounted cameras will be used under a programme to identify potential trouble spots.

Amtrak is to use Oracle software for a real-time ticket sales and validation system to be launched on the Capitol Corridor next year. Handheld scanners will be used to automate ticket sales and validation.
bron: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... _2008.html

World infrastructure market August 2008
30 Aug 2008
Algeria: Railway agency Anesrif has awarded Nortel a contract to supply GSM -R equipment on the Tabia – Mecheria and Bordj Bou – Arreridj M’Sila routes currently under construction (RG 4.07 p205).

Argentina: TBA has taken delivery of an 08-16 split-head levelling and lining tamper as well as a PBR 400 ballast regulator from Plasser & Theurer, acquired at a total cost of 9·86m pesos. The first deployment will be on track renewals on the Sarmiento route.

China: A consortium of Ansaldo STS and Beijing HollySys has won a €62m contract to supply ETCS Level 2 equipment for the Zhengzhou – Xi’an high speed line. The two companies are to establish a joint venture to bid for future ERTMS contracts in China.

Czech Republic: Skanska is to modernise the 30 km Stribo – Planá section of the Plzen – Cheb route by May 2011 at a cost of KC2·3bn.

Europe: Work to replace the bridge over the Rhein river between Kehl and Strasbourg was launched on July 8, with a ceremony attended by representatives of the French and German railways and governments. Scheduled to open in 2010, the truss bridge will replace the current structure dating from 1954. It will comprise two spans of 131 and 107 m, and clearance above the river will be increased from 6·85 m to 7 m. To eliminate an operating bottleneck, the running speed will be raised from 100 to 160 km/h. Germany is contributing 75% of the €23m cost of replacing the bridge.'Construction of the new Rhein bridge stands for more mobility and a more united Europe’, said DB board member Dr Otto Wiesheu.

Finland: RHK has selected a consortium led by Pöyry to undertake detailed design costing €10·6m for the 8·1 km tunnel forming part of the planned €512m Helsinki-Vantaa airport link (RG 3.08 p122).

Italy: Ferrovie del Nord Barese has awarded DEC and IPA Precast a €47·8m contract to divert 8 km of its inland route between Bari and Barletta to serve Bari airport.

Malaysia: The MMC-Gamuda joint venture responsible for double-tracking the 329 km route from Ipoh to Padang Besar has selected a joint venture of Ansaldo STS and Balfour Beatty to provide signalling, communications and electrification under a €390m contract.

Namibia: South Korean firm Samsung has signed a contract to supply TransNamib with digital communications equipment for the 400 km Windhoek – Walvis Bay route.

Russia: Last month Nippon Steel began delivering 20 000 tonnes of high-specification rail which will be installed on the Moscow – St Petersburg route as part of an upgrading for operations above 200 km/h.

Spain: The Ministry of Development has awarded Puentes y Calzadas and Ortiz a €59·95m contract to build a double track alignment over the 7·3 km between Perafort and Alcover, completing civils tendering for the new connection between the Valencia – Barcelona route at Vandellós and the Madrid – Barcelona high speed line.

Sweden: Peab is to install a second track on the 7 km Skänninge – Fogelsta section of the Motala – Mjölby line in a SKr105m contract.

Turkey: Invensys company Dimetronic has won its first major order in Turkey, a €25m contract from civils contractor Yapi Merkezi to supply ETCS Level 1 and 2 equipment for the 212 km Ankara – Konya 250 km/h line now under construction.

UK: Network Rail has selected Telent to upgrade telecoms infrastructure under the Thameslink project (RG 3.08 p172).

USA: Sound Transit has awarded the Seattle Tunnel & Rail Team joint venture of Jacobs Engineering Group and CH2M Hill a construction management contract for the 5·1 km light rail extension to the University District. Construction begins next year for opening in 2016.
bron: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... _2008.html

World rolling stock market August 2008
31 Aug 2008
Benin: Rites has placed an order with India’s Golden Rock workshop for the refurbishment of three metre-gauge diesel locos for use in Benin. They will be shipped in October.

Bosnia: BHZJK has awarded Croatian firm TZV Gredelj a €4·1m contract to modernise three ex-DB Class 212 diesel-hydraulic locomotives and one Class 642 diesel-electric by September 2009.

Croatia: HZ has awarded TZV Gredelj a 30m kuna contract to modernise four locos by September 2009.

Czech Republic: In June CD Cargo rolled out a Class 218 electro-diesel loco converted from a Skoda Class 210.028 by the Ceské Budejovice works and CZ Loko. The frame, bogies and cab have been retained, and it has been fitted with a 384 kW Caterpillar 3406 engine and a Siemens alternator. CD Cargo may convert several more if the loco proves successful on trip freight and shunting duties.

On June 11 railway authority DÚ granted unrestricted approval for the use of ÖBB Class 1216.2 electric locomotives on Czech infrastructure.

On July 9 CD Cargo awarded CZ Loko a contract to rebuild 30 out-of-use Class 750 and 753 diesel–electric locos as Class 753.7 by 2010. To be fitted with Caterpillar 5312B DI-TA engines rated at 1 455 kW, they will be sold to ING Lease and leased back.

India: Czech firm Bonatrans has won a €10m contract to supply wheelsets for 424 metro cars Bombardier is building for Delhi (RG 5.08 p279).

US firm ITT Corp is to supply Indian Railways with Koni dampers and shock absorbers worth US$1m.

Ireland: The Railway Procurement Agency has awarded Alstom a €15m five-year contract to maintain 18 additional Citadis trams on order for Dublin’s Green Line.

Israel: The first of 87 coaches ordered from Siemens for inter-city and regional services arrived in Ashdod on June 18. ISR expects to begin trials this month, and regular service by November. Built in Praha with bogies from Graz, the coaches are 24·4 m long and 2·86 m wide, and weigh 47 tonnes. One car per set has a generator and cab for push-pull operation at up to 160 km/h.

Malaysia: China Northern’s Tai-yuan plant has won an order to supply a TY2T-C300 catenary maintenance vehicle with a top speed of 95 km/h.

Mozambique: At the end of June India’s Golden Rock workshop dispatched two refurbished diesel locomotives to Nacala. They have been fitted with new lights and converted from metre to 1 067 mm gauge.

Netherlands: On June 25 Stadler’s Bussnang plant rolled out the first of eight GTW EMUs ordered by Veolia in February 2007 at a cost of €29m. They are to be used on Maastricht – Kerkrade services.

Poland: On July 9 the Opole region signed a 34·5m zloty order with PESA for five two-car DMUs for local services between Opole, Nysa and Kedzierzyn-Kozle. The first will delivered this year, the last in 2010.

Sole bidder Siemens is to supply PKP Intercity with 10 ES64UA multi-system electric locos for 200 km/h passenger services. Testing of the first is expected to begin by the end of 2008, and deliveries will be completed in two years. The €44·5m order is financed from a 2006 EIB credit agreement.

Slovenia: SZ has awarded ÖBB Technische Services a €12m seven-year contract to maintain its 32 Class 541 Siemens Taurus 3 electric locomotives.

Spain: A consortium of Bombardier and Talgo has been awarded a 14-year contract to maintain 45 S-130 trainsets at RENFE’s Santa Catalina and Fuencarral depots in Madrid.. The contract runs to 2022, with Bombardier valuing its share at €128m.

Ukraine: Ferrexpo Poltava Mining plans to lease a further 440 wagons for its iron ore and pellet traffic during 2008, following an initial trial with 110 vehicles last year. Swiss-based Ferroexpo group expects to benefit from UZ’s reduced tariffs for customers providing their own rolling stock.

Sinara Transport Machines has signed a 300m rouble contract to supply mining logistics firm Region with 10 TGM6D diesel locomotives. They will be built at the Lyudinovo Locomotive Plant in Russia.

UK: By the June 30 deadline both prequalified consortia submitted bids to supply trains under the Department for Transport’s Intercity Express Programme (RG 4.07 p185). Express Rail Alliance is a consortium of Bombardier, Siemens, Angel Trains and Babcock & Brown, while Agility Trains comprises Hitachi, Barclays Private Equity and John Laing Projects & Developments.

The Scottish Government announced an order for 16 four-car and 22 three-car Siemens Desiro EMUs on July 11. HSBC will finance the trains in a deal valued at more than £180m, and they will be leased by First ScotRail under a 17-year contract.

USA: The first two Colorado Railcar diesel railcars for TriMet’s Wilsonville to Beaverton Westside Express Service in Oregon were delivered to the Wilsonville depot on June 19. TriMet has ordered three single-car units each with two 600 hp Detroit Diesel engines, plus a trailer car for times of high demand. Work on the $117m line is more than 90% complete, with revenue service on the 22 km route scheduled to start in October or November. Trains will initially run in peak hours only, operated by Portland & Western Railroad.
bron: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... _2008.html

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Vom: 01.09.08
Olivier Poitrenaud neue Spitze für Thalys International
Der Aufsichtsrat von Thalys International benennt zum 1. September Olivier Poitrenaud zum neuen Geschäftsführer des multinationalen Zugunternehmens. Poitrenaud, Absolvent der Ecole Polytechnique, wird im Alter von 45 Jahren zum Nachfolger von Jean-Michel Dancoisne, der diesen Posten in den vergangenen fünf Jahren innehatte.
Der neue Geschäftsführer war bislang Chief Operating Officer (COO) bei Thalys International. In dieser Funktion führte er den „Neuen Thalys“ mit ein, der pünktlich zur Eröffnung der neuen Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecken von Brüssel nach Köln, bzw. Amsterdam bereit stehen wird. Zuvor hatte er seit 1989 verschiedene Posten in der Belegschaft und Direktion der französischen Bahngesellschaft SNCF bekleidet.
bron: http://www.eurailpress.de/article/view/ ... ional.html

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NTV targets 20% market share by 2015
01 Sep 2008 | Murray Hughes
'Congratulations on your initiative!' Endorsing the public launch of Europe's first private-sector high speed train operator at a press conference in Roma on July 15, newly-appointed European Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani welcomed the arrival on the scene of Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori.

'We cannot but be happy with the development of the market', he enthused, emphasising that the Commission 'will support all initiatives that will allow the market to develop'. The Commission wanted Europe's railways 'to grow out of the phase of problems' and enter an era of recovery - and 'recovery depends on competition'.

Tajani's words were not lost on his audience of around 200 people, who included ambassadors from several countries as well as numerous media representatives.

The arrival of a serious competitor for Trenitalia had been eagerly awaited from the moment NTV postponed its launch event - originally planned for February - pending the outcome of Italy's general election in April.

NTV Chairman Luca di Monte-zemolo announced that his company was starting out on 'an Italian journey'. Founded in December 2006, NTV had 'a different entrepreneurial matrix' with the shareholders (Table I) linked by friendship and sharing the same passion. 'Sometimes we have problems highlighting the positive things in our country', he said, but on this occasion there was a positive story to tell. NTV's business partners saw the train 'as the perfect means of transport … with energy efficiency as our pillar', he continued. The Italian government had invested around €40bn in the national high speed network, and di Montezemolo said that the more that this network was used, the more value would be derived from that public investment. NTV would give passengers a choice when they travelled, he said, adding that he expected to see 'other players invest in this field in the next few months'.

Di Montezemolo's comments on the business partnership were echoed by Corrado Passera of Intesa Sanpaolo which had taken a 20% stake in the company with €60m of investment on January 11 2008. NTV's partners 'believe in the long-term with a well-capitalised project that starts in a solid way', he said. Citing the success of opening up Italy's telecommunications market, Passera said that the decision to open up the national rail market was taken 'with great wisdom'.

Agreements signed
Chief Executive Officer Giuseppe Sciarrone outlined the milestones that NTV had already passed (Table II), including the critical step of obtaining an operating licence from the Ministry of Transport on February 6 2007. A framework agreement signed with infrastructure manager RFI in January 2008 had 'granted all the paths we asked for'.

All that was missing was the rolling stock fleet and a safety certificate, which NTV expected to secure in two to two-and-a-half years 'after the train we have bought has been certified', Sciarrone continued.

NTV's project was based on careful analysis of the potential market for high speed systems', Sciarrone said, noting that experience elsewhere in Europe indicated that construction of high speed infrastructure led to an improvement in rail's competitive position and an increase in the volume of traffic. For NTV, 'our forecasts suggest we will be achieving 33 billion passenger-km a year by 2015, with 30000 to 50000 passengers a day'.

NTV's fleet of 25 AGV trainsets, each of 11 cars offering 460 seats, included one spare set, with the fleet expected to cover 135 million km a year. The first set would be delivered in September 2010, and this would be used to obtain European certification. Under the contract with Alstom, four sets would be delivered by March 2011, with commercial services starting in the spring or early summer of that year. One condition of the contract was that 11 trains would be assembled at Alstom's plant in Savigliano in northern Italy, where 'a crisis' had existed because of a lack of orders.

The AGV fleet would be diagrammed to operate 54 services a day on three routes, competing directly with Trenitalia's Alta Velocità and Eurostar Italia services in similar timings at a maximum speed of 300 km/h (Table III).

Each day 16 return services are to link Milano and Roma, of which three each way will run non-stop in a 3 h timing. Four return trips a day will be made between Roma and Vene­zia, calling at Firenze and Bol­ogna, and three return workings will connect Roma with Bari in 3 h 55 min using the Roma – Napoli high speed line as far as Caserta. There will be 16 trains a day each way between Roma and Napoli. Sciarrone emphasised that NTV was 'paying huge attention to the south of Italy', not least by siting its rolling stock maintenance workshop at Nola Interport near Napoli. Sciarrone was adamant that 'we don't want to be the maintainers of the trains', and for this reason the company considered it best 'to entrust the manufacturer' with the job.

Personnel
Around 150 to 200 staff will be needed to maintain the fleet, providing employment in the Napoli region, and NTV expects to have as many as 1 000 employees on its payroll within three years. Of these, 120 will be train drivers and 500 will be onboard staff, at least some of whom will be expected to speak languages other than Italian. A further 100 technicians will be needed for train operations, together with 200 station personnel. Cleaning, security, catering and call centre sales will be outsourced to other companies, providing 'secondary employment' for up to 1000 people, according to Sciarrone.

NTV aimed to look after its customers from the moment they arrived at their departure station until the time they left the destination station. This meant that the company would have its own premises at stations, which in Roma would include both Termini and Tiburtina. NTV wanted to be 'best in class' in terms of the train interior, although Sciarrone admitted that the company had not yet decided how many classes would be provided or what they would be. Trains would cater for business travellers, tourists and young people, he said, with facilities for people who wanted to work, read or simply be quiet.

Italdesign-Giugiaro had been chosen to develop the interior styling, and NTV was very conscious of the need to choose colours, materials, and a seat pitch that would suit its wide range of customers.

Whereas a few years ago travel was seen as 'lost time', NTV was aiming to ensure that its customers remained 'connected with their world' while they were on board. If someone wanted to watch the one o'clock news, they would be able to do so, and if they followed a UEFA Champions League match on Wednesday evenings, 'we are working to make this possible on our train', with full wi-fi and internet facilities.

Sciarrone said that NTV had invested a total of €900m, of which €650m was for the initial fleet of trains, €100m was for construction of the maintenance depot, and €150m represented start-up costs including staff training. Advertisements seeking applications for NTV's first 50 train drivers would be published in Italian newspapers on July 16, as the driver training period was two years.

Break-even was envisaged in the third year of operations. In 2011 NTV would make a loss, with lower losses in 2012, Sciarrone affirmed, forecasting that 'we will achieve the first margins in 2013'. The target was to reach 'a market share of 20%' by 2015. In his closing remarks di Monte-zemolo commented that NTV was making the 'Italian journey' in co-operation with France. Perhaps one day, he hinted, NTV would have an interest in operating there.

Table I. NTV shareholders
Totale MDP Holding (shares distributed equally between Luca di Montezemolo, Diego Della Valle and Gianni Punzo) 54·5%
IMI Investimenti (shares held by Intesa Sanpaolo) 21·4%
Generali Financial Holdings FCP-FIS 16·1%
Nuova Fourb (shares held by Bombassei) 5·4%
Reset 2000 (shares held by Sciarrone) 2·6%

Table II. NTV milestones
December 2006: Company founded
February 6 2007: Operating licence granted by Ministry of Transport
July 28 2007: Title of Authorisation obtained and agreement signed on Universal Services under which NTV pledges to cover costs of service contracts for unremunerative segments
January 17 2008: Contract with Alstom for 25 AGV trainsets announced
January 17 2008: Framework agreement signed with infrastructure manager Rete Ferroviaria Italiana in which NTV is granted paths
February 5 2008: Alstom rolls out AGV demonstration trainset
July 15 2008: Public launch in Roma
September 2010: NTV's first AGV trainset due to be delivered by Alstom
March 2011: Four AGV trainsets to be available for commercial service
Spring 2011: Start of public service, building up to 54 trains a day by year end

Table III. NTV’s planned service pattern
Segment
2011 timing
2008 timing
Daily return trips in 2011

Torino – Milano
1 h 00 min
1 h 22 min
8

Milano – Roma non-stop
3 h 00 min
4 h 05 min
3

Milano – Bologna - Firenze – Roma
3 h 10 min
4 h 30 min
13

Milano – Bologna
1 h 00 min
1 h 34 min
14

Bologna – Firenze
35 min
58 min
18

Firenze – Roma
1 h 30 min
1 h 38 min
18

Roma – Napoli
1 h 10 min
1 h 27 min
16

Roma – Firenze – Bologna – Venezia
4 h 05 min
4 h 20 min
4

Napoli – Salerno
30 min
35 min
5

Roma – Bari
3 h 55 min
4 h 37 min
3
bron: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... _2015.html

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Vom: 01.09.08
TX Logistik eröffnet Niederlassung in Hamburg
Die TX Logistik AG hat eine Niederlassung in Hamburg eröffnet. Von dort aus werden künftig alle Vertriebsaktivitäten im norddeutschen Raum gebündelt. Bislang wurde der Vertrieb des privaten Eisenbahnverkehrsunternehmens komplett aus der Zentrale in Bad Honnef gesteuert.

Die neue Niederlassung in der Großmannstraße 70 im Stadtteil Billwerder steht unter der Leitung von Jörg Nowaczyk, Bereichsleiter Kombinierter Verkehr. Er ist für den Ausbau des intermodalen Verkehrs in Norddeutschland und auf der Achse Deutschland-Skandinavien verantwortlich. Für diese Aufgaben stehen Jörg Nowaczyk drei Vertriebsmitarbeiter zur Seite.

Die Strategie von TX Logistik ist auf die Internationalisierung der Verkehre ausgerichtet. Im Fokus steht dabei der Nord-Süd-Korridor. Pro Woche verkehren im Rahmen des Geschäftsfelds TX Cargostar intermodal 20 Züge zwischen Herne und Verona, zehn Züge zwischen Lübeck und Verona, zehn Züge zwischen Herne und Melzo (Mailand) sowie vier Züge zwischen Padborg und Verona. Ergänzt wird die Relation Lübeck – Verona durch eine wöchentliche Zubringerverbindung Padborg – Hamburg. Darüber hinaus gibt es zehn Züge pro Woche auf der innerschwedischen Verbindung Eskilstuna – Malmö + Trelleborg.
bron: http://www.eurailpress.de/article/view/ ... mburg.html

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SBB to buy 32 FLIRT trains
01 Sep 2008
SWITZERLAND: The board of Swiss Federal Railways has exercised options with Stadler for a further 32 FLIRT trainsets, to be used on services in Vaud, Ticino and Basel from 2010.

The SFr418·6m order includes 19 FLIRT units for RER Vaudois services from Lausanne, and two trainsets for Regio S-Bahn Basel route S1 from Basel to Frick and Laufenburg.

The 19 FLIRTs currently used on TILO services in Ticino will be joined by a further 11 to enable an expansion of cross-border services to Italy, including a direct link to Milano Malpensa airport.
bron: http://www.eurailpress.de/alle_news.html

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Vom: 01.09.08
Gasser jetzt bei Mosolf Automotive Railways
Ab sofort wird die zweiköpfige Geschäftsführung der Mosolf Automotive Railways GmbH (MAR) durch Hartmut Gasser (67) verstärkt. Er folgt dem in der Gründungsphase in der Führungscrew vertretenen Dr. Jörg Mosolf nach, der sich damit als CEO wieder ganz den Geschäften der Mosolf-Gruppe widmen kann. Weiterhin vertreten im Führungsgremium ist wie bisher Wolfgang Messing.

Zum Aufgabenbereich von Gasser gehören künftig die Optimierung, Gestaltung und Verhandlungen des Traktionsgeschäfts, die Disposition der stark wachsenden Waggonzahlen sowie die Optimierung der Umlaufzeiten. Außerdem wird sich der erfahrene Bahnmanager der Entwicklung intelligenter und flexibler Transportkonzepte widmen, die die Abhängigkeit vom Ganzzuggeschäft mindern und dabei auch multimodale Ansätze integrieren.

Gasser kann auf eine langjährige Erfahrung im Bahn- und Logistikbereich zurückblicken. Der gebürtige Konstanzer war zunächst in leitenden Funktionen für die Deutsche Bundesbahn und später für Kombiverkehr tätig. Ab dem Jahr 2000 baute er im Privatbahnbereich in federführender Position sowohl boxXpress als auch TX Logistik mit auf und war anschließend für rail4chem und European Bulls aktiv. Seit 2000 hat Gasser außerdem den Vorsitz im Netzwerk Privatbahn e.V. inne
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Work begins on Libyan railway
01 Sep 2008
LIBYA: On August 30 Russian Railways began the construction of a 554 km double-track railway parallel to the Mediterranean coast between Surt and Banghazi.

The Office for the Implementation of Railway Projects signed the contract with RZD in Tripoli on April 17. Construction of the standard gauge line is expected to take four years at a cost of €2·2bn, with the work to be undertaken by Russian specialists working with local companies.

There will be four major and 24 minor stations on the route, of which two will have both passenger and freight facilities and four will be for freight only. The project includes 30 rail and 23 road bridges.

Diesel traction will be used at first, with electrification to follow in a second phase of works.

'A new chapter has opened today in the economic cooperation between Libya and Russia', said RZD President Vladimir Yakunin. 'This is the first major project in the history of the two countries in the transport sphere. Russian Railways already has sufficient experience with this kind of work, so we know we can deliver on schedule and with high quality.'

Libya has long held ambitions to construct a railway along the coast between the Tunisian and Egyptian borders. Earlier this year China Railway Construction Corp was awarded contracts worth 3·2bn dinars to construct a 352 km line between Al Khums and Surt by 2013, as well as a 800 km line from iron ore deposits at Wadi Shati near Sabha to the port of Misratah by 2012.

In 2001 the Railways Executive Board confirmed that work was underway on a line from Ras Ejder on the Tunisian b..., but this has not been completed.
bron: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... ilway.html

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> Nieuws
China wil snelste trein ter wereld bouwen
China wil tegen 2012 de snelste trein ter wereld laten rijden tussen Peking en Shanghai. De trein zou een maximumsnelheid halen van 380 kilometer per uur. Volgens Zhang Shuguang, de hoofdingenieur verbonden aan het Chinese ministerie van Spoorwegen, is het Aziatische land bezig met de ontwikkeling van een trein die het traject vier uur zal verkorten. Momenteel duurt de treinrit tussen beide steden tien uren.

380 km/uur
"We beheersen de technologie die fundamenteel is voor de productie van hogesnelheidstreinen en de realisatie van nieuwigheden", legde Zhang uit aan de China Daily. "Het is mogelijk dat we binnen twee jaar beginnen met de productie van treinen die een snelheid van 380 kilometer per uur halen en dat we ze zullen inleggen op de hogesnelheidslijn Peking-Shanghai", voegde hij toe.

Olympische Spelen
Dankzij de overdracht van de Duitse ICE-technologie (Inter-City Express), gecreëerd door een consortium onder leiding van Siemens, heeft China net voor de start van de Olympische Spelen in augustus een trein ingelegd tussen Peking en Tianjin die een snelheid van 350 kilometer per uur kon halen. De constructie van de hogesnelheidslijn tussen Peking en Shanghai is gestart en kan in 2012 in gebruik genomen worden, een jaar voor de voorziene deadline, aldus China Daily. (afp/gb)
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bron: http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/990/Buiten ... uwen.dhtml

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Amai, ze gaan daar snel in China :s

[K V B]

Amai, ze gaan daar snel in China :s

In China bouwt men een complete metro van 200 km in de tijd die men hier nodig heeft voor de milieu effecten raportage...

[pietje]

Amai, ze gaan daar snel in China :s

In China bouwt men een complete metro van 200 km in de tijd die men hier nodig heeft voor de milieu effecten raportage...

Dat is het voordeel dat ze in china privé grondbezit nog niet toelaten, ze moeten dus niets onteigenen.
gewoon een nieuw "kot" aan de "gedupeerden" aanbieden en ze moeten maar content zijn.
dan toch liever zoals hier, hoewel het hier soms wat sneller zou mogen gaan...

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Vom: 02.09.08
Ostseebahn auf Veolia Verkehr verschmolzen
Die Ostseebahn GmbH, Berlin ist auf Grund des Verschmelzungsvertrages vom 22. August auf die Veolia Verkehr Regio GmbH mit Sitz in Berlin übergegangen. Damit ist die Firma ist erloschen.

Am 27. August 2002 haben die Rostocker Straßenbahn AG (RSAG) und die damalige Connex Regiobahn GmbH ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen mit dem Namen „Ostseebahn“ gegründet. Ziel des Unternehmens war eine Stadtbahn nach dem Karlsruher Modell. Die Umsetzung scheiterte jedoch. Die RSAG haben in der Folge ihren Anteil (50 %) am Unternehmen zum 30.12.2005 an ihren Partner verkauft. Der Sitz des Unternehmens ist durch Beschluss der Gesellschafterversammlung von Rostock nach Berlin verlegt worden.
bron: http://www.eurailpress.de/article/view/ ... wse/1.html

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SBB confirms double-deck order
02 Sep 2008
SWITZERLAND: On September 2 Siemens and Bombardier confirmed they had received a previously-announced €189m order to supply 121 low-floor intermediate double-deck coaches.
SBB will receive 113 of the coaches to lengthen existing Zürich S-Bahn trainsets, while eight will go to the Sihltal Zurich Uetliberg Bahn. Deliveries will run from mid-October 2010 to March 2016.
The car bodies will be produced by Siemens in Wien, with final assembly at Bombardier's site in Villeneuve. Siemens puts its share of the contract at €122m, with Bombardier's share worth €67m
bron: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... order.html