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DELAY IN TENDER PROCESS FOR 150 LOCOMOTIVES

ISLAMABAD - Tenders for the procurement of 150 locomotives by Pakistan Railways (PR) are likely to be delayed as the National Assembly Standing Committee on Railways has formed a technical committee that would carry out a third party evaluation of the procurement process.
The Standing Committee Chaired by Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday has unanimously formed a six-member special committee to review the evaluation criteria and terms and conditions in order to ensure transparency which would complete its work in two weeks’ time.
Pre-bid conference for the procurement of locomotives is scheduled to be held on September 6 while tenders are planned to be opened on September 24. The process may be extended for two weeks subject to the completion of pre-bidding evaluation process.
Chairman Railway Board Javed Iqbal informed the committee members that 18 tenders have so far been received from various locomotive manufacturing companies. He said that the entire procurement process would be transparent and in compliance with the established public procurement regulations.
Sardar Sadiq while emphasizing the need for transparency in the whole procurement process, pointed out that there are pro-China and pro-America groups in Pakistan Railways in terms of the procurement of locomotives. “We want the ‘pro-Pakistan’ approach as whatever is procured, should be in the interest of Pakistan Railways and Pakistan as a whole,” he said.
The Executive Committee of National Economic Council had approved in December last year procurement of 150 locomotives at a cost of Rs55 billion including foreign exchange component of Rs40 billion. Pakistan Railways has prepared specifications for procurement of 75 locomotives having 3,000 to 3,500 HP and 75 locomotives of 2,000 to 2,500HP in complete built unit (CBU).
Secretary railways Iqbal said that a full scale rehabilitation of about 150 locomotives would start next month. It is projected that 96 locomotives would be back on track by the end of the fiscal year to earn a revenue of Rs12 billion.
The committee asked Pakistan Railways to submit a report on the number of locomotives procured during 2008-2011 and the state of their conditions. It also asked railways authorities to acquire original spare parts from manufacturers while repairing and rehabilitating the sick locomotives. Out of its 500 locomotives, only 200 locomotives were in operation.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said that the decline in revenue generation never stopped since 2008-09 when generated Rs23 billion, It declined to Rs22 billion in 2009-10 and Rs18.7 billion in 2010-11. In the backdrop of current crisis, railways officials feared that this revenue could be as low as Rs12 billion during the current fiscal year.
Presenting the revenue statistics, Sardar Sadiq regretted that no solution has so far been worked either by Pakistan Railways or the federal government to turn railways a sound public sector organization. Against the dismal picture of revenue generation, Pakistan Railways is spending huge amount on salaries and allowances to its staff. The annual bill of salary and allowance which was Rs10.6 billion in 2008-09 has shot up to Rs15 billion. Likewise, railways paid Rs5.3 billion as pension to its retired employees in 2008-09 and it increased to Rs8 billion in 2010-11. In terms of losses, the picture is bleak and the losses have now reached Rs33 billion against Rs23 billion in 2008-09, he explained.
The issue of stolen radiators from the Central Diesel Workshop in Rawalpindi also came up for discussion and the Inspector-General of Railways Police informed the committee that in two incidents 11 radiators were reportedly stolen from the workshop. After thorough enquiry it was discovered that these radiators were not stolen but were misappropriated by concerned railway staff. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is also investigating the matter and a report will be before the committee at its next meeting.
The committee discussed the implementation of minimum wage of Rs7,000 by Pakistan Railways for its temporary laborers. Railways was not paying the minimum wage announced by the ministry of finance in the 2010-11 budget. The committee gave 30 days to Pakistan Railways to implement the decision effective July 2010

 

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Saudi Arabian train on test at Velim

SAUDI ARABIA: The first of eight fixed-formation diesel trainsets which Saudi Railways Organisation ordered from CAF in July 2008 is now undergoing trials at the VUZ testing centre at Velim in the Czech Republic.

The 180 km/h push-pull trainset is formed of five 26·8 m long passenger coaches and single-cab 22·3 m long diesel-electric power car with a 3 600 kW MTU engine.

There is 2+1 seating for 94 first class passengers in the driving car and second coach, with 2+2 seats for 192 second class passengers in the other vehicles. The driving trailer includes a luggage compartment. The centre coach has two wheelchair spaces, along with a buffet counter, conductor's compartment and a prayer room where an interactive screen continually displays an arrow pointing towards Makkah.

Getting the train to Velim was not easy, as at 3 050 mm wide and 4 570 mm high the vehicles do not fit European loading gauges. CAF had intended to ship them by barge to Cerhenice via the Elbe river, but low water levels meant it was not possible to get further upstream than Magdeburg. The train was therefore offloaded and hauled to Velim by German private operator OHE, but it took more than a month to get approval for the out-of-gauge movement.

The train is expected to remain at the test centre for the rest of this year.

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First major Afghan railway opens

AFGHANISTAN: Freight services began running on Afghanistan's first major railway on August 20-21. This followed the signing on August 4 of a three-year agreement for Uzbek national railway UTY to operate the 75 km 1 520 mm gauge line, which it built at a cost of US$165m using Asian Development Bank funding.

The line starts at the Hayratan freight terminal on the Afghan side of the Uzbek border, which handles around half of Afghanistan's imports and is served by a Soviet-built rail spur dating from the early 1980s. It runs though an empty landscape to a freight terminal near Mazar-i-Sharif airport.

UTY has been appointed to operate the line as its only international connection is through Uzbekistan, and the lack of an indigenous rail industry in Afghanistan means it will take time to train local operations and maintenance staff.

Afghanistan's only other main line railway is a short spur across the border from Turkmenistan. However an Iranian-funded 1 435 mm gauge line is under construction from Iran to Herat, and studies are underway for the creation of a northern rail corridor from Herat to Mazar-i-Sharif and Tajikistan. This would provide the Central Asian republics with a route to the sea; studies are underway for a link from Atamyrat in Turkmenistan to Andkhoi which could link with this corridor.

A north-south line to serve the Aynak copper mining development is also being studied by Chinese mining firm MCC.

 

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Coal miner orders diesel locomotives

RUSSIA: The Mecheltrans Vostok transport subsidiary of mining, metals and power group Mechel announced an order for 16 Sinara Transport Machines TEM8 diesel-electric locomotives on August 5.

They will be delivered in 2012-14 to operate a 315 km railway which Mechel has built to link its Elga Coal Complex mining development with the Baikal-Amur line.

The TEM8 will be a development of the TEM7A, adapted to suit the mountainous route and local climate, and powered by a GE Transportation 2 200 kW engine. The order is being financed by VTB Leasing.









Estonian freight operator orders Chinese shunting locomotives

ESTONIA: Freight operator EVR Cargo has announced a €30·2m contract for a consortium of China National Corp for Overseas Economic Co-operation and a CNR subsidiary to supply 16 diesel shunting locomotives.

The 1 520 mm gauge DF7G-E locomotives will be built at CNR's Beijing February 7 works, with the first scheduled to be delivered for type approval in the first half of 2012 and the rest to follow by the second quarter of 2013.

EVR Cargo said the 'modern, efficient and cost effective' locomotives will offer significant savings in fuel consumption and maintenance costs. They will replace ?KD ChME3 locomotives to a 1960s design which are becoming increasingly uneconomic to maintain as spare parts are no longer available.

Evolution locomotives built in Kazakhstan by the JSC Locomotiv/GE joint venture were sent to Estonia and Russia for type approval last month. This is expected to lead to orders from private operators. Tajikistan has also expressed interesting in buying three Evolution locomotives, and Mongolia 10.

 

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INDIAN RAILWAY TO GET ITS MOST POWERFUL DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE

Locomotive major Electro-Motive Diesel Monday said it has completed the design for a high-horsepower locomotive for the Indian Railways.

According to the company, the new design - WDG5 - would be developed into the most powerful diesel locomotive in the country with a power output of 5,500 bhp.

"This diesel locomotive has an output of 5,500 bhp, which will make it the strongest diesel locomotive ever to run on the Indian rail network," the company said in a statement.

The company further said that the locomotive has a tractive effort of 560 kn and can pull more load at higher speeds with less emissions than engines which are currently in use.

"We have great confidence that the WDG5 will be the locomotive of tomorrow for Indian Railways," said Glen Lehmann, chief marketing officer, international, Electro-Motive Diesel.

The design entails the usage of modern technologies like electronic fuel injection and more.

"It includes electronic fuel injection, radial grids and high adhesion, lightweight fabricated bogies," Lehman said.

The interiors of the locomotive would have crew-friendly features and modern controls.

"It has modern driver interface and crew-friendly features, such as an air conditioned cab and toilet, which is another first for the Indian Railways' fleet."

The new design was completed in collaboration with the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) of the Indian railways.

Currently, the company provides service support to Indian railways' locomotive facilities at multiple locations.

 

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Powerful 5500 horsepower diesel locomotives to roll out next year in india


With the aim of moving more freight at higher speeds, the Railways plan to roll out technologically advanced 5500 horsepower (HP) diesel locomotives early next year.

The new high HP locos will also have air-conditioning and toilet facilities for the engine drivers, a first of its kind in the Indian Railways. "The 5500 HP locos are being manufactured at Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi and we are expecting the first lot early next year," said a senior Railway Ministry official involved with the modern loco project.

Called as WDG5, the locos, which will have a new design, will be equipped with several technlogically advanced features including those to guard against accidents.

Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has said, "AC and toilet facilities in the driver's cabin are aimed at providing the required comfort to locomotive drivers," according to the official.

WDG5 has been designed by Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi with the help of US-based Electro-Motive Diesel.
They are likely to replace two conventional locos of 3300 HP each to move freight trains

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Alstom lands Russian Railways locomotive deal

French power-engineering and train company Alstom SA (ALO.FR) said Thursday it will receive EUR400 million from Russian Railways to design and produce a new locomotive.

Alstom and Russian partner Transmashholding signed a EUR1 billion contract with Russian Railways in June to supply 200 locomotives.

Alstom and Transmashholding agreed the French company would receive EUR400 million of the EUR1 billion contract, Alstom said in a statement

 

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Flying Scotsman on track for spring return

THE complex restoration of one of the most famous locomotives in the world is expected to take about a year longer than originally envisaged.

The work on the Flying Scotsman, one of the jewels in the crown of York’s National Railway Museum, is unlikely to be completed until late spring next year.

Originally, the work on the iconic locomotive had been expected to be completed this summer. However, the project was delayed following the discovery of a number of additional problems.

Remedial work is being done in Bury, which will ensure the locomotive will keep on the track for decades to come.

Museum director Steve Davies said: “The Flying Scotsman restoration is one of the most complex steam locomotive engineering projects of its kind ever undertaken in Britain and there is no doubt that it has been challenging.

“There have been a number of points where unforeseen issues have arisen that have caused the project to be delayed while options were considered and decisions were made.

“These decisions were taken in accordance with our aims of ultimately maintaining maximum public exposure and enjoyment of the locomotive.

In order to achieve this, the planned overhaul has always had safety, reliability and sustainability, both mechanical and economic, at the heart of our decision-making processes.”

He added: “No one is more keen to see the completion of this project than myself, and I’d like to reassure the public that although the restoration has been ongoing for over five years, we are extremely close to seeing Flying Scotsman steaming once again.”

The museum bought the locomotive seven years ago for £2m following a nationwide fundraising campaign.

Its restoration has been supported by Tata Steel – formerly Corus – and a £275,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The public also donated £250,000 to the Steam Our Scotsman appeal.

The work due to take place on Flying Scotsman in the next few weeks includes the machining of the axle boxes, manufacture of a middle motion bracket, and repair and of the horn guides.

 

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world rolling stock updates september 2011


Argentina: The province of San Luis has acquired a 3GS-24C GenSet N-ViroMotive for 11m pesos.

Australia: Fortescue has ordered 246 iron ore wagons from CNR, while Pacific National has ordered 728 coal hoppers from CSR Yangtze.

Bangladesh: CNR Tangshan is to supply BR with 20 three-car metre-gauge commuter DMUs for US$58·3m.

Brazil: AmsteadMaxion is to supply 462 wagons to MRS Logística and 145 container wagons to Brado Logística, which is also to acquire two GE diesel locomotives for R$8m.

Canada: Montréal’s port authority has ordered two more RJ Corman Railpower 2000 hp genset locos.

China: CSR Nanjing Puzhen has signed a 3·13bn yuan contract to supply 402 metro cars to Nanjing from 2013. Line 3 will get 46 Type A trains with lightweight welded aluminium bodyshells, while 21 trains to be delivered to Line 10 will be riveted.

Estonia: EVR Cargo has placed a €30·2m order for 16 CNR Beijing February 7 Type DF7G-E diesel shunting locos to be delivered 2012-13

France: RATP has placed a €300m order for Alstom, Bombardier and Areva to supply 66 more MF01 metro trains in 2013-16 for Paris Line 9, the last of three options in a 2001 framework for up to 160 trains.

Under a 34-year leasing contract worth €1554m awarded by the regional council, a special purpose vehicle formed by Sogefinerg and Calif is to acquire 10 trainsets from SNCF for TER services in Poitou-Charentes.

Gabon: In July two EMD JT42CWR locos built for leasing firm Crossrail in 2008 but not delivered were shipped from Rotterdam for use by Setrag.

Germany: Vossloh España has won a €37·6m contract to supply 13 Tramlink LRVs with roof-mounted ultra-capacitors to Rostock in 2013-14.

Cantus has reached a strategic agreement for Siemens to supply up to 200 trainsets, enabling it to submit accurate costings when bidding for passenger operating contracts.

Hungary: Stadler has won a contract from MÁV to maintain 10 Bombardier Talent EMUs until 2017, the first time it will maintain another manufacturer’s rolling stock.

India: IR has rejected a proposed aluminium-bodied wagon design developed by a joint venture of FreightCar America and Titagarh Wagons because of concern about metal being cut out and stolen.

Indonesia: Jakata commuter operator PT KAI Jabodetabek has taken delivery of 20 second-hand coaches bought from Japan for US$2·3m.

Italy: ATM has awarded CAF a €553m contract to supply 218 motor bogies for Milano metro Line 2 trains, as well as 32 trailer bogies and 144 wheelsets for Line 1.

Ferrovie Udine-Cividale has ordered 35 intermodal wagons from EKK Wagon for €3m, with an option for 10.

Lithuania: LG has awarded Skinest Baltija a 30m litas contract to supply flat and tank wagons.

Pakistan: The National Logistics Cell freight organisation has agreed to fund the repair of up to 20 out-of-service PR locomotives.

Poland: Following a legal challenge KD cancelled a contract for Pesa to supply five four-car EMUs and awarded the 100m złoty order to Newag.

Lubuskie voivodship has ordered a Newag 220M DMU for 8m złoty.

Russia: RZD has announced plans to buy 248 EMU and 21 DMU cars from Transmashholding by the end of 2011.

TMH’s Bryansk plant is supplying Uralelectromed with 300 type 12-3090 hopper wagons featuring a revised design to prevent deformation of the bodywork during loading and reduce friction during unloading.

Brunswick Rail is taking delivery of 70 Promtraktor-Vagon 12-1304 open wagons with 18-9836 Amsted Rail bogies for testing. A 25 tonne axleload and lengthened body give a capacity of up to 75 tonnes.

Petersburg Tram Mechanical Factory is to supply 30 more 71-153 trams to Moscow. They will feature more powerful heating with ‘air curtains’ at the doors, and a Glonass location system to enable the provision of real-time information online.

Vagonmash is to supply 24 cars to the St Petersburg metro for 492m roubles.

Sudan: CSR Ziyang is to supply five locomotives to Sudan Railways, and has signed a three-year contract to maintain 19 which have reached the end of their two-year warranty.

Turkey: CNR Dalian has delivered two CKD2 locomotives with CAT3512B engines to an unspecified customer.

Turkmenistan: The railway ministry has awarded Stock Plaza a contract to supply 250 hopper wagons.

UAE: Etihad Rail has ordered seven EMD SD70ACS heavy-haul locomotives to be delivered in 2012.

UK: Stadler Pankow has won a £16·3m contract to supply six Vario-bahn trams to increase capacity on Croydon Tramlink from early 2012. As rapid delivery is required, three will be diverted from an order for five placed by Bergen’s Bybanen which Stadler has already completed.

 

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Mumbai switches from DC to AC

INDIA: New trains have been ordered and a key section of Western Railway’s main line from Mumbai’s Churchgate terminus switched from 1·5 kV DC to 25 kV 50 Hz operation as part of a Rs5bn programme to eliminate residual DC electrification from the Western and Central Railway networks serving the city.

On October 13 the World Bank approved a loan to fund electrical equipment for 72 more commuter EMUs, which will take the Mumbai Railways Vikas Corp suburban fleet to approximately 3 214 cars. The 110 km/h 12-car steel-bodied units are to be built by ICF; Bombardier submitted the lowest bid to supply the electrical equipment, with Alstom, CSR Zhuzhou and Mitsubishi also tendering.

The outer section of the WR suburban route between Virar and Vileparle, north of Bandra, was converted from DC to AC at 15.10 on November 13, following the commissioning of a 30 MVA substation at Jogeshwari. The second phase covering conversion of the Vileparle – Churchgate section is due to be commissioned in December.

As well as allowing the operation of longer suburban trains, the conversion will permit through operation between Mumbai and Vadodara using standard AC locomotives, replacing Indian Railways’ ageing fleet of dual-system locos.

WR spokesman Sharat Chandrayan said replacement of the ‘old and obsolete’ DC equipment would reduce energy costs by Rs130m a year. It would also pave the way for faster operation, and create paths for more trains. WR's priority will be to extend all suburban services from nine to 12-car formations, and it plans to introduce 15-car trains in the longer term.


Chinese locomotives exported to Mongolia

MONGOLIA: CNR Dalian has completed five 1520 mm gauge diesel locomotives for export to Mongolia, its second delivery to the country.

They have 16V240ZJD engines rated at 2940 kW, and feature air-conditioning and a toilet for crew comfort.

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China tests 500 kph train

China tested a 500 kilometers per hour (311 mph) train over the weekend. Government officials call the record-breaking speedster a “useful reference” for China’s current high speed railway operations. The test train’s speed, according to a Monday report in China Daily, exceeds the world speed record of 300 kilometers per hour held by the Beijing Shanghai High Speed Railway. China’s latest high-speed train has a maximum tractive power of 22,800 kilowatts, compared with the 9,600 kilowatts for China Railways High-Speed (CRH) trains in service on the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed line.

he train tested over the weekend is made of plastic materials reinforced with carbon fiber.The design concept is inspired by China’s ancient swords.
The train’s designer and manufacturer is Sifang Locomotive, a subsidiary of China’s largest rail-vehicle maker, CSR Corp Ltd., based in Qingdao in eastern Shandong province.
Last year, Technology Review carried details of the WuGuang line trains, variants of Japan's Shinkansen and Germany's InterCity Express high-speed trains. That line clocked impressive speeds. A rail expert at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark at the time noted that high-speed rail technology implemented in China was not entirely different from the world's TGV, ICE, and Shinkansen systems. What was notable about China’s high-speed lines was that the system was designed from the ground up for very high-speed operation over hundreds of kilometers.
China has the largest network of bullet-train track in the world. The push for a massive buildout began in 2006 and continues, with the help of government stimulus funds. Miles of line are planned to the tune of billions to accommodate a future vision of over 16,000 kilometers of dedicated high-speed rail lines connecting all of China's major cities by 2020.
China’s engineering triumphs, however, have been hindered by troubles, highly publicized in the world press. The Chinese Railways Ministry Chief, Liu Zhijun, in charge of the construction of the high-speed railway massive network, was arrested for corruption. Then came reports that corruption had sacrificed safety concerns in a haste to roll out the high-speed rails. There were stories of substandard materials used to cut costs. The New York Times reported that the concrete bases for the tracks were made with insufficient hardening agents. The tracks could possibly warp, according to the report.
Safety concerns, however, seem to be top of mind in the government after the July incident where 40 people died when two bullet trains crashed into each other in Zhejiang province.
Officials felt it necessary to lower operating speeds on its bullet trains whereas trains with top speeds of 350 kh would be lowered to 300 kilometers peer hour, and trains designed for 250 would instead run at 200 kilometers per hour.
Similarly, Chinese officials in the latest announcement are careful to point out that future Chinese trains will not necessarily run at such high speeds as that demonstrated in the newly tested superfast train.

 

[IND151]

How about now ?

are the indian/ made in india engines? pqh

 

[Roybot]

are the indian/ made in india engines? pqh

Yes they are. They are the normal DMUs with a fancy front end.

 

[IND151]

^^^>^^ they are cool

 

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china develops high load passenger loco

BEIJING: A Chinese company has rolled out the first electric locomotive with a hauling capacity of 3,000 passengers, more powerful than ones currently in operation, according to the official media today.

The current-transmission locomotive has a maximum power of 7,200 kilowatts and an operating speed of 160 km per hour, said Suo Jianguo of Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co Ltd of China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation (CSR).
The locomotive has computer-controlled operations, braking, fire extinguishers, power supply and alert systems, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

It is designed to cope with increasing passenger demand on China's high-speed railways.

 

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i think they are hybrid engines not electric engines??