Spain’s national railway infrastructure manager Adif has awarded a 10-year contract worth EUR 339 millions to Nokia Networks, Siemens and Thales to modernize and maintain the country’s railway communication system on high-speed train lines. The contract covers a 10 year period, from 2015-2024. This latest railway communications infrastructure and long-term maintenance
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Ineco will carry out the feasibility studies for the future high speed line that will link Egypt’s capital city Cairo and Luxor. This corridor of over 600 km will connect the two most important cities of the country, boosting its tourism infrastructure. With this important agreement, Ineco lays its international
Two potential routes are being assessed for the planned Moscow – Beijing high speed railway line, either through Kazakhstan or Russia’s Altai territory, stated Russian Railways (RZD) First Vice President Alexander Misharin. “There are two options for the 7,700-km route: through Kazakhstan (the Chinese colleagues are designing everything already) and through
Turkish company Tumosan to sign MoU with Patentes Talgo
Turkish tractors and diesel motors manufacturer Tumosan Motor ve Traktor Sanayi announced it will sign a memorandum of understanding with Patentes Talgo SLU on production, sales and maintenance of train equipment. The agreement is in line with Tumosan’ s strategy to enter the train, high-speed train and railroad materials and
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California High-Speed Rail Authority joined hundreds of supporters and government, student, community, transportation, business and labor leaders to break ground on the nation’s first high-speed rail system. “We now enter a period of sustained construction on the nation’s first high-speed rail system—for the next five years in the Central Valley and for a
RUB 6 billion for the engineering, survey work and project documentation of Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway line
The Government of Russia will allocate Russian Railways (RZD) from the 2015 federal budget an amount of RUB 6 billion for the engineering, survey work and the development of project documentation for the construction of Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan high-speed railway line. Next year a tender for the selection of a contractor will be organised, informed
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A direct high speed train service connecting Konya to Istanbul was officially inaugurated on the 17th of December by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, accompanied by Transport Minister Lutfi Elvan. Journey time between the two cities will decrease to four hours 15 minutes, from 13 hours by a conventional train,
The EU’s TEN-T Programme will co-fund with over €600,000 studies preparing a new high speed railway line between Dresden, Germany and Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The new line is to complete the European rail axis linking the central and southern Europe, from Athens to Dresden. The preparatory studies will
The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Russian Railways (RZD) and the State Committee on Development and Reform of the People’s Republic of China, and Chinese Railways Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding on High-Speed Rail Transport. The objective of the document is the development of the Eurasian high-speed transport corridor from Moscow
China to invest USD 10 bn in Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway
China is ready to invest 400 billion rubles (USD 10.7 billion) in the construction of a high-speed railway linking Moscow with Kazan, a top Russian rail official said Tuesday, as the Kremlin looks to further strengthen its economic ties with Beijing to offset the effects of its standoff with the West over Ukraine. China Development Bank, which in April confirmed plans
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- Adif awards EUR 339 m high-speed railways communications systems contract to Nokia Networks, Siemens & Thales
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