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It is not utopic ekema, i am very fan of rails i do not know if you folowed the chinese train which arrived to Madrid this month ?


It is historical !!








From Madrid to Algesiras (Gibraltar Detroit) there is only 4 hours more train travel. I took the Train many Times from Algesiras to Madrid it is fantastic :cheers:

From Algeciras to Tanger Med Rail station there is less than 20 km of shipping.


Today a train can travel from Est China to north Africa with only 20 km sea trip (45 minutes) in a train ferry like this:


There is already a freighttrain traveling from Duisburg Germany to Chongqing.
 
Locomotives arrive to get Prasa on trackFaster
January 15 2015


One of the four batches of locomotives that arrived in Table Bay Harbour.

Cape Town - Faster and modernised locomotives aimed at improving long-haul passenger rail were received by transport authorities on Wednesday after their arrival from Spain.

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Here's what I'm not getting.... why is PRASA getting these locomotives, didn't they order the Alston EMU? This is confusing.
 
I stand corrected but I think the Alstom stuff is for commuter trains, whereas these are for freight.
Initially it's what I thought but the agency that acquired these is Passenger Rail Association of South Africa, I guess the name says it all.

Besides we traditionally use electric locomotives for goods and diesel (like these new ones) are used as backup and in nature/game reserves where electric infrastructure is not attached to rail.
 
^^These Spanish locomotives are for long-distance rail service; the Shosholoza Meyl, etc, while the Alstom locomotives are for the Metro/city rail service. They are both for passengers though.
 
EMUs only work on electrified lines. So the new Alstom EMU will be used in Gauteng, Western Cape and KZN metrorail services. The Spanish locomotives will be used for long distance lines like Cape Town - Bloemfontein - Johannesburg etc. and ALSO for metrorail in the Eastern Cape because the PE and East London train lines are not electrified.

We also have a whole lot of separate contracts for Transnet, which is in charge of freight rail, a number of Chinese locomotives have been purchased recently.
 
Alstom wins €100m Egyptian signalling contract

16 Jan 2015



EGYPT: Egyptian National Railways has awarded Alstom a €100m contract to supply and maintain for five years signalling equipment for the line running 240 km south along the Nile from Beni Suef to Asyut.

Deliveries will start in 2016 and the new signalling is due to be operational by January 2019.

Announcing the contract on January 16, Alstom said it would supply Smartlock electronic. Interlockings to replace the existing electromechanical equipment, along with trackside equipment, power supplies and telecoms. The modernisation will increase the number of trains which can operate on the route by more than 80%.

The project is being financed by the World Bank as part of the Ministry of Transport’s initiative to bring signalling systems across the network up to international safety standards.

www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrast...ins-EUR100m-egyptian-signalling-contract.html
 
Minister receives new batch of PRASA locos

Moving along nicely:

When a new batch of diesel locomotives was docked off the ship at the Cape Town harbour on Wednesday, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters walked towards the Afro4001 loco and kissed it.

The Minister then told journalists that the delivery of the locos was an exciting moment for government and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) because they would go a long way in reducing travel time, providing comfort, reliability and improving efficiency.

The roll-out of the locos are expected to contribute to the rail operator’s plan of modernising the country’s rail infrastructure, including rolling stock, signal upgrade, infrastructure rehabilitation, station modernisation, new locomotives for long distance passenger services

All in all, 70 high-tech locomotives are expected to be delivered over the next few months, and they will be made up of 50 Euro Dual electro-diesel and 20 Euro 4000 diesel locomotives.

As they arrive, PRASA will take them to the track to test them until March, and thereafter, the locos will start operating from April this year.

The Minister said the Afro4001 diesel locomotive has already been tested and on one test-run, it pulled up to 50 coaches over a notable distance.

The trains will run along six long distance corridors, including the Johannesburg to Cape Town route.

As soon as PRASA receives new stock during the first half of the year, these will be increased to 10 corridors.

The Minister said government was investing R172.3 billion in the next 10 years to fast track the modernisation of public passenger transport to rail, from which R3.5 billion has gone into the manufacturing of 70 locomotives.

About R51 billion will go towards the manufacturing of 600 new trains for Metrorail, the Minister said.

Molefe, meanwhile, said the 70 locomotives were being manufactured in Spain, and added that PRASA would receive the first 20 of these within the next six months.

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/minister-receives-new-batch-of-prasa-locos-2015-01-15
 
Alstom wins €100m Egyptian signalling contract

16 Jan 2015



EGYPT: Egyptian National Railways has awarded Alstom a €100m contract to supply and maintain for five years signalling equipment for the line running 240 km south along the Nile from Beni Suef to Asyut.

Deliveries will start in 2016 and the new signalling is due to be operational by January 2019.

Announcing the contract on January 16, Alstom said it would supply Smartlock electronic. Interlockings to replace the existing electromechanical equipment, along with trackside equipment, power supplies and telecoms. The modernisation will increase the number of trains which can operate on the route by more than 80%.

The project is being financed by the World Bank as part of the Ministry of Transport’s initiative to bring signalling systems across the network up to international safety standards.

www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrast...ins-EUR100m-egyptian-signalling-contract.html

It is ETCS 1 to complete Alex-Cairo :

Thales Group wins Cairo-Alexandria railway upgrade
Daily News Egypt / April 1, 2013


A high-ranking source within the Egyptian Railways Authority recently revealed that the French Thales Group company had won a bid to install electric signals along Egypt’s Cairo-Alexandria railway at an estimated cost of $270m (Yusuke Kawasaki/Wikimedia Commons)
A high-ranking source within the Egyptian Railways Authority recently revealed that the French Thales Group company had won a bid to install electric signals along Egypt’s Cairo-Alexandria railway at an estimated cost of $270m


A high-ranking source within the Egyptian Railways Authority recently revealed that the French Thales Group company had won a bid to install electric signals along Egypt’s Cairo-Alexandria railway at an estimated cost of $270m. The Authority is set to fund the project through a recently obtained World Bank loan.

The source, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that construction of the project was set to begin next month. He added that a second bid would be held within the first half of the coming fiscal year to construct electric signals along the Beni Suef to Assiut railway line, at an estimated cost of $330m. The contract for the next project is set to be signed during the second half of the 2013/2014 fiscal year.

He added that 200 railway tracks along the Beni Suef to Assiut line had been selected for renovation by the Authority and that electric signals would be installed. Some of the selected tracks are along the maritime railway, while others are located on lines heading to Upper Egypt.

The source added that Egypt has so far only received $11m of the total $600m allotted to the country in a recent loan granted by the World Bank. This amount will cover only the cost of administrative expenses, with payment procedures on the part of the bank stalling transfer of the remaining funds.

Magdi Musa, Director of the Office of the President for the Egyptian Railways Authority, said that so far 46 railways had been developed and equipped with electric signals, at an estimated cost to the state of EGP 132.64m ($19.5m).

Hatim Abd al-Latif, Egypt’s Minister of Transportation, said plans had also been made to develop an additional 321 railway crossings at an estimated cost of EGP 400m ($58.8m) by the end of the year, as part of a plan to establish 550 crossings throughout the country by the end of the 2014/2015 fiscal year.
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/01/thales-group-wins-cairo-alexandria-railway-upgrade/


 
Longest train in the world - South Africa

The Sishen-Saldanha line - Class 9E locomotives each with 342 wagons of iron ore - this train is 3.7 km long, carrying more than 40 000 tonnes, and officially the longest working train in the world

:cheers:

Monstrous !!

In Mauritania they have a 2 km train

 
Rolls Royce secures €100m order to supply 232 loco engines for TFR



Consortium China North Rail (CNR) Rolling Stock South Africa (RSSA), led by Chinese locomotive manufacturer CNR Dalian, has ordered 232 MTU Series 4000 engines from Rolls-Royce Power Systems for State-owned Transnet Freight Rail’s (TFR’s) new freight locomotives.

The €100-million order would see the delivery of Rolls Royce subsidiary MTU’s “most powerful” locomotive engines between 2015 and 2017.

CNR RSSA was one of the four companies selected to supply TFR with 1 064 locomotives as part of the parastatal’s R50-billion locomotive procurement project.

CNR RSSA would supply 232 diesel locomotives at a cost of R7.8-billion, while China South Rail (CSR) Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive would supply 359 electric locomotives at a contract value of R14.6-billion, excluding hedging and escalation costs.

Bombardier Transportation South Africa would supply 240 electric locomotives at a base cost of R10.4-billion and General Electric South Africa Technologies would supply 233 diesel locomotives at a base cost of R7.1-billion

The first 20 of the 3 300 kW, type 20V 4000 R63L engines, produced at Rolls-Royce Power Systems’ headquarters in Friedrichshafen, Germany, would be delivered directly to CNR, while subsidiary MTU South Africa was planning additional assembly capacity to accept the balance of the engines for final assembly, testing and preparation.

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/ar...to-supply-232-loco-engines-for-tfr-2015-01-26

Rolls-Royce is to power freight trains in South Africa as part of one the biggest ever infrastructure projects in the country.
Rolls has agreed a €100m (£75m) to deal to build 232 engines for Chinese locomotive manufacturer CNR Dalian.
CNR is at the centre of one of South Africa's biggest ever infrastructure projects as the country looks to overhaul its rail network and fleet of freight locomotives.
Rolls will supply the project with MTU Series 4000 engines, they will be produced in Germany with delivery of the engines between 2015 and 2017.
Ulrich Dohle, chief executive of Rolls-Royce power systems, said: "We are proud to be supplying MTU's most powerful locomotive engine for one of the largest transport infrastructure projects in South Africa."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...yce-to-power-Chinese-made-freight-trains.html
 
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