Europe – Page 189
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NewsRack railway modernisation underway
SLOVAKIA: Infrastructure manager ŽSR has launched a seven-month modernisation of the 4·75 km metre-gauge rack railway between Štrba and the winter sports town of Štrbské Pleso in the High Tatra mountains. All trains will be replaced by buses until February 6 2021. The work, which is being ...
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NewsVerona – Vicenza high speed line contract awarded
ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI has awarded the Iricav Due consortium a €2·7bn contract to built the 44·2 km long Verona – Vicenza section of the Milano – Verona – Padova – Venezia high speed corridor. The consortium comprises Webuild, previously known as Salini Impregilo (45·4%), Astaldi (37·5%) ...
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Metro Report InternationalCork light rail study commissioned
IRELAND: Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority have appointed Jacobs Engineering to analyse route options and develop initial designs for a €1bn light rail line in Cork. The proposed 17 km route would provide a high-capacity and high-frequency cross-city service, running from a park-and-ride ...
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Metro Report InternationalTBM reaches Piazza Venezia as Roma Line C edges forward
Roma Mayor Virginia Raggi visited Line C construction work in late July. ITALY: Construction of metro Line C in Roma reached another milestone on August 6 when a tunnel boring machine broke though at Piazza Venezia, having excavated one bore from Colosseo. A second TBM is expected ...
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Metro Report InternationalRomanian-Chinese consortium wins disputed contract to supply 100 trams
ROMANIA: A consortium of Astra Vagoane Călători and CRRC has been declared the winner of an 846m lei contract to supply 100 trams to București. Turkish company Durmazlar had been named preferred bidder in December 2019, but the losing consortium submitted a complaint to the Court of ...
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NewsMoscow commuter operator orders EMUs
RUSSIA: Central Suburban Passenger Co has awarded Transmashholding’s Demikhovsky factory a contract to supply seven 11-car EP2D 3 kV DC electric multiple-units by September. They are to be used on REX-branded commuter services from Moscow Savyolovsky station to Savyolovo (130 km) and Dubna ...
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NewsCatalunya network modernisation programme underway
SPAIN: Infrastructure managers ADIF and ADIF Alta Velocidad have begun a €280m programme to enhance the network in Catalunya, with a number of projects to be undertaken in 2020 and early 2021. These include: installation of a third running rail to provide dual-gauge track on the ...
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Metro Report InternationalBerlin S-Bahn tenders invited
GERMANY: Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg has launched the competitive tendering process for the remaining two portions of the 331 route-km Berlin S-Bahn network, covering the North-South and east-west Stadtbahn service groups.
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NewsCovered van order signed
RUSSIA: Manufacturer United Wagon Co, leasing company TransFin-M and freight forwarding company FT Logistic have signed an agreement for the supply of 200 Type 11-6874 covered vans by the end of next year. Intended for carrying large lightweight or heavy small-sized goods, the wagons have 25 tonne ...
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Metro Report InternationalOmsk orders Uraltransmash trams
RUSSIA: The city of Omsk has ordered 24 trams from Uraltransmash for use on its six-route network, with deliveries planned to start within just three weeks. The 688m rouble order placed on August 6 includes 20 Type 71-407 trams 15·9 m long and 39% low-floor with a ...
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NewsSŽ selects IVU.rail scheduling and dispatching platform
SLOVENIA: National railway SŽ is to deploy IVU Traffic Technologies’ IVU.rail platform for the scheduling and dispatching of its passenger services by the end of this year. ‘Thanks to the integrated planning and scheduling of IVU.rail, we can now standardise many of our previously manual tasks in ...
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NewsILSA high speed trains ordered
SPAIN: Trenitalia has signed an €797m contract for a partnership of Hitachi Rail (60%) and Bombardier Transportation (40%) to supply 23 ETR1000 high speed trainsets for use by Intermodalidad de Levante, the future Spanish open access operator which is owned by the Italian national operator (45%) and ...
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NewsBeograd – Niš route modernisation announced
SERBIA: A €2bn project to modernise the 243·5 km Beograd – Niš line to allow 200 km/h operation is to begin in 2021, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport & Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlović announced on July 29. The Beograd – Niš line is partially double ...
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Metro Report InternationalTatra-Yug wins second tram export order
ROMANIA: Tatra-Yug has won a 170m lei contract to supply 17 low-floor trams to Craiova, beating bids from Polish company Pesa and Turkey’s Durmazlar and Bozankaya. Tatra-Yug’s bid of 136m lei was adjudged best value, with other offers coming in at 147m lei (Bozankaya), 156m lei (Pesa) ...
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NewsSBB sells fire rescue trains to Norway
NORWAY: Swiss Federal Railways has sold three LRZ96 fire-fighting and rescue trains to Norwegian infrastructure manager Bane NOR, which is developing a new emergency response concept. The locomotive-hauled trains were originally supplied to SBB by Josef Meyer, Cattaneo and Dräger Safety in 1996. Each comprises a firefighting ...
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Metro Report InternationalAVG Flexity tram-train delivered to Karlsruhe
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation has delivered the first two of 20 Flexity tram-trains which Karlsruhe area operator Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft ordered in December 2018. The €87m order was the second option that AVG had exercised within a framework agreement signed in 2009 covering the supply of ...
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NewsTeltronic to supply TETRA radios for Finnish locomotives
FINLAND: Stadler has awarded Teltronic a contract to supply TETRA onboard voice and data radio equipment for 60 diesel shunting locomotives which national railway VR ordered last year. The contract covers 60 RTP-300 EN50155/EN45545 compliant radio sets, RCC-3000 touchscreen control consoles and accessories for driver’s voice communications. ...
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Metro Report InternationalFreight tram-train to be tested in Karlsruhe
GERMANY: Trials with a prototype freight tram or tram-train are to start in Karlsruhe and the surrounding area in 2022. The concept is being drawn up with a view to improving urban life by reducing road traffic and the emissions it generates. Known as ‘regioKArgo’, a pilot ...
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NewsPolish region orders electro-diesel multiple-units
POLAND: Newag has signed a 40m złoty contract to supply an initial two two-car Impuls 2 36WEh electro-diesel multiple-units to Zachodniopomorskie voivodship, with an 200m złoty option for a further 10 units. The first two are expected to be delivered this year for entry into passenger service ...
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NewsHauts-de-France tenders regional services
FRANCE: Following a year of consultation over the competitive tendering of up to 10 groups of local rail services, the Hauts-de-France regional council formally invited expressions of interest on July 30 for three nine-year public service contracts to operate routes in Nord-Pas de Calais and Picardie.