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NewsIndian high speed rail project launched by Prime Ministers
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe attended a groundbreaking ceremony at Sabarmarti in Ahmedabad on September 14 to officially launch India’s first high speed rail project. The planned 508 km Mumbai – Ahmedabad line is to use Japanese Shinkansen technology including 1 435 mm standard ...
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NewsTiger Rail offers Europe – China freight options
INTERNATIONAL: Hong Kong-based supply chain company Tigers has launched Tiger Rail, offering a 16-day transit time eastbound or westbound between Duisburg in Germany and 15 destinations in China including Hefei, Chongqing and Chengdu. Tiger Rail customers can charter a train, or book full-container-load or less-than-container-load shipments onto weekly scheduled services. ...
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Metro Report InternationalHo Chi Minh City light rail memorandum signed
VIETNAM: Russian Railways’ engineering business RZD International and local company Lung Lo Construction Corp plan to establish a joint working group to explore the feasibility of building a proposed Tân Tạo – Linh Đông light rail line in Ho Chi Minh City. This follows the signing on September 8 ...
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NewsIzmir extension opens as Marmaray trainset tested
TURKEY: Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım opened a 17 km extension of Izmir’s Southern Line from Tepeköy to Selçuk on September 8. The extension cost TL300m, of which 70% was covered by the national budget, and makes use of a railway alignment originally opened in the 1860s. There is one ...
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NewsTracklaying complete on Harbin – Jiamusi fast line
CHINA: Contractors have completed tracklaying on the 343 km Harbin – Jiamusi high speed line in Helliongjang province. Designed for trains to run at 200 km/h, the railway is expected to open for commercial traffic in June 2018. With 14 stations including Yilan, Demoli, Fangzheng and Binxian, the line will ...
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Metro Report InternationalThales wins Ankeng light rail signalling contract
TAIWAN: China Steel Corp has awarded Thales a contract to supply signalling for the Ankeng light rail project in New Taipei City. Being developed by the New Taipei City Department of Rapid Transit Systems, the 7·5 km route with nine stops will run on a mix of elevated and ...
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NewsSinara to supply track machines to Iran
IRAN: At the Expo 1520 trade show in Moscow on August 31, Sinara Transport Machines signed a contract with Iranian contractor Ferrotek Steel worth €24m for the supply of 36 track machines.These will be used for maintenance and renewals across the main line network in Iran. The vehicles are to ...
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Metro Report InternationalChengdu opens airport express metro line
CHINA: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport gained a metro service on September 6 with the opening of the first phase of Line 10, the city’s first express metro line. The 10·1 km route runs southwest from Taipingyuan, the terminus of Line 3, to the airport. The six stations include one ...
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NewsTwo-for-three plan for Eurasian rail freight
INTERNATIONAL: Kazakhstan’s national railway KTZ is implementing a capacity optimisation plan which will see the containers from three 1 435 mm gauge intermodal trains arriving at the Dostyk border crossing from China being loaded on two trains for the 1 520 mm gauge leg to the Polish border near Brest ...
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NewsContracts signed as Thai high speed project progresses
THAILAND: Officials from Thailand and China signed two co-operation contracts for the planned Bangkok – Nakhon Ratchasima high speed railway project on the sidelines of the three-day BRICS Summit in Xiamen, which ended on September 5. The contracts are worth 5·2bn baht and cover ‘design and supervision’ tasks for the ...
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NewsLucknow metro opens
INDIA: Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attended the opening ceremony of the Lucknow metro on September 5. Passenger services were due to start the following day. Services are operating between 06.00 and 22.00 on an initial 8·4 km ‘priority corridor’ between Transport Nagar ...
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NewsABB India to install solar inverters at 750 Indian stations
INDIA: ABB India is to supply solar inverters for 750 stations in north India as part of an Indian Railways project to reduce dependence on electricity generated using coal, lower energy costs and meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Forming part of rooftop solar installations being set up by Azure ...
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Metro Report InternationalBYD-built monorail opens in Yinchuan
CHINA: The first domestically developed straddle monorail to enter revenue service in China opened on September 1 at the China Flower Expo Park in Yinchuan. The 5·7 km route with eight stations uses a fleet of seven three-car trainsets travelling at up to 80 km/h. Each trainset has capacity ...
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Metro Report InternationalKolkata metro platform screen door contract awarded
INDIA: Kolkata Metro Rail Corp has awarded a contract to a consortium of Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric and Panasonic Manufacturing (Beijing) Co to supply platform screen doors for the 12 stations being built for the city’s future Line 2. The 16·3 km east-west route between Howrah Maidan and Salt ...
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NewsUi-Sinseol Light Rapid Transit line opens in Seoul
SOUTH KOREA: A ceremony on September 4 attended by Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon marked the opening of the Ui-Sinseol Light Rapid Transit light metro line. Running north from Sinseol-dong to Ui-dong, the 11·4 km underground line serves 13 stations. Interchanges are provided with metro lines 1 and 2 at ...
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NewsTuran Express launches subsidised Almaty passenger services
KAZAKHSTAN: Private company Turan Express has begun operating local passenger services from Kapshagai and Uzynagash to Almaty on behalf of the city authority. Following the failure of two privately funded attempts to introduce services on Almaty – Kapshagai corridor, the local authority decided to call tenders for the operation of ...
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NewsMumbai metro Line 4 receives AIIB funding
INDIA: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is to provide US$500m towards the estimated US$2·22bn cost of the metro Line 4 project in Mumbai. To be delivered by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, the project is due to be completed in 2021. Line 4 would run on a ...
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Metro Report InternationalKunming metro Line 3 opens
CHINA: The fourth metro line in Kunming opened at 10.00 on August 29. Trial operations on Line 3 are taking place between 06.20 and 22.45, with fares based on distance. The 23·4 km east-west route serves 20 stations between Western Hills Park and East Coach Station via ...
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NewsBharat Wagon & Engineering Co to close
INDIA: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Ministry of Railways’ proposal to close the loss-making Bharat Wagon & Engineering Co Ltd, which has manufacturing facilities at Mokama and Muzaffarpur in Bihar. The government is to provide a one-off grant of Rs1·5bn towards a severance package for the ...
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Metro Report InternationalBombardier wins Chinese metro traction equipment contracts
CHINA: The Bombardier NUG Propulsion System Co joint venture of Bombardier and New United Group has won two contracts to supply metro train traction equipment. To be supplied from Västerås in Sweden and Changzhou in China, the Mitrac equipment will be fitted to 600 metro cars that CRRC Sifang ...