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October 22, 2018 | Africa

Alstom ships first Dakar TER train to Senegal

THE first of 15 Alstom Coradia Polyvalent bi-mode multiple units for the Dakar TER project left Alstom’s Reichshoffen plant in eastern France on October 22 on the first leg of its journey to Senegal.

October 12, 2018 | Africa

Transnet Freight Rail runs 375-wagon manganese train

TRANSNET Freight Rail (TFR), South Africa, says it has completed a successful test run with a loaded 375-wagon manganese train, which ran the entire 861km length of the heavy-haul line from Sishen to the port of Saldanha on South Africa’s Atlantic coast.

$A 1.96bn Sydney Metro West tunnelling contract awarded

Sydney Metro has awarded the Acciona Ferrovial joint venture a $A 1.96bn ($US 1.44bn) contract to build the central section of the Sydney Metro West line.

September 26, 2018 | Rolling stock

Egypt awards €1bn coach contract

EGYPTIAN National Railways (ENR) has signed a supply contract worth more than €1bn with Transmashholding-Hungary, a Russian-Hungarian Consortium, to deliver 1300 passenger coaches over five years.

September 24, 2018 | Africa

First Kenya Standard Gauge Railway tunnel holed through

KENYA Railways celebrated the holing through of the 4.5km Ngong Tunnel on September 24, the first tunnel on the country’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) network.

September 20, 2018 | Rolling stock

DTI to supply passenger information systems for South African EMUs

IRJ at InnoTrans 2018: DTI, Australia, has finalised contract negotiations with Alstom Ubunye for the supply of Passenger Information Systems (PIS) for 576 X’Trapolis EMUs being manufactured for Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa).

September 19, 2018 | Africa

Egyptian National Railways to purchase 50 locomotives from Progress Rail

Egyptian National Railways (ENR), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Progress Rail to supply 50 new locomotives.

August 30, 2018 | Africa

Transnet records 11.3% revenue increase in 2017-18

TRANSNET, South Africa, has reported an 11.3% revenue increase to Rand 72.9bn ($US 4.9bn) for the year ending March 2018, up from Rand 65.5bn compared with the year ending March 2017, as it moves towards implementing its new Transnet 4.0 strategy.

August 7, 2018 | Track

Plasser wins Egyptian measuring car order

EGYPTIAN National Railways (ENR) has awarded Plasser & Theurer a contract worth around €6.8m to supply an EM100U track recording car.

August 6, 2018 | Metros

Cairo Metro nets €605m in loans for Line 1 rehabilitation

CAIRO Metro’s Line 1 is due to be rehabilitated with the aid of €605m in loans, including €205m from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a €350m loan provided by the European Investment Bank and a €50m loan from the French Development Agency.

August 2, 2018 | Africa

Botswana Railways launches DMU tender

BOTSWANA Railways (BR) has issued a call for tender for the supply of three DMUs with a closing date for bids of September 7.

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