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NewsJingye agrees to buy British Steel business
UK: China’s Jingye Group has entered into contracts to acquire the business and assets of British Steel Ltd (in liquidation), the Official Receiver and special managers from EY announced on November 11. British Steel supplies 95% of the rails used by Network Rail. ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail regions take over project delivery
UK: The next phase of Network Rail’s devolution strategy came into force on November 11, when responsibility for capital projects was transferred from the former centralised Infrastructure Projects business to the five geographical regions that were established in June to provide support for the 14 routes responsible ...
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Metro Report InternationalSt Petersburg tests hydrogen tram
Photo: Nikita Fastov RUSSIA: Dynamic testing of a hydrogen fuel cell tram started on the St Petersburg network on November 1. The retrofitted single-section LM-68M2 tram has been created jointly by operator Gorelektrotrans and the Central Research Institute of Electrical & Marine Technology. Its interior is divided ...
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Metro Report InternationalBolzano tram plans presented
ITALY: The Bolzano city authorities presented plans for a tramway to be built in the South Tirolean city under the TRAM.BZ brand on November 6. The 7·2 km tramway would serve 17 stops on a Y-shaped east-west alignment. Services would be operated as two routes, ...
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NewsChina – Serbia service delivers railway equipment
Serbia SERBIA: A train with 28 wagons carrying 500 tonnes of Chinese-made equipment for use in the upgrade of the Beograd – Novi Sad line has arrived in Beograd. The equipment had left the Chinese city of Jinan at end of September, travelling 10 500 km ...
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NewsFront door to destination with RENFE app
SPAIN: National operator RENFE is to integrate Karhoo’s taxi booking platform into its ‘RENFE as a Service’ mobile app, which is being developed with the aim of enabling passengers to book an end-to-end journey across modes including rail, metro, taxi, private hire vehicle and scooter in a ...
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Metro Report InternationalWarszawa reveals Hyundai Rotem tram design
The winning option received more than two-thirds of the votes. POLAND: Tramwaje Warszawskie has announced the result of a public vote on the styling of the fleet of trams that Hyundai Rotem is supplying to Warszawa. Option A received 6 947 votes. ...
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Rail Business UKFurther delay to Elizabeth Line opening
UK: Elizabeth Line project promoter Crossrail Ltd has announced further delays and cost increases to the project. Earlier this year Crossrail Ltd announced that it had identified a six-month delivery window between October 2020 and March 2021. Its updated forecast is that the tunnels under central London ...
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Metro Report InternationalMobile phone in/out ticketing pilot launched
GERMANY: A pilot project to test the use of mobile phone location data to see what journeys a passenger has made and then charge them appropriately has been launched. The project partners are Rhein-Main transport authority RMV, ticketing technology company Fairtiq, which has deployed the system in ...
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NewsTransit freight train runs through the Marmaray tunnel
TURKEY: A freight service passed through the Marmaray tunnel under the Bosporus between Asia and Europe in Istanbul at 03.30 on the morning of November 7, carrying 42 TEU of electronic goods in transit from China to the Czech Republic. The service organised by ...
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Metro Report InternationalIași selects Bozankaya trams
ROMANIA: Bozankaya has been selected to supply 16 trams to operate on the metre-gauge network in Iași, the Turkish supplier announced on November 4. The 34-month contract worth €30m envisages the first tram would be delivered in mid-2021. The five-section low-floor vehicles will be 30 m long ...
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NewsSwiss vote to adopt technical pillar
Photo: SBB SWITZERLAND: Changes to the Eisenbahnverordnung national railway regulations to embed the requirements of the technical pillar of the EU’s Fourth Railway Package were formally approved by the Federal Council on November 6. Emphasising that ‘Switzerland has a great interest in ensuring that cross-border railway traffic ...
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NewsStuttgart airport rail connection contract awarded
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has awarded a consortium of Strabag subsidiary Züblin and Max Bögl Group a €500m contract to build a loop from the Stuttgart – Wendlingen – Ulm high speed line which will enable long distance and regional trains serve Stuttgart airport. The 5·3 km ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransdev orders 157 electric buses for Göteborg
SWEDEN: Transdev has placed an order for 157 electric buses from Volvo for use in Göteborg, the supplier announced on November 5. Deliveries of Volvo’s 7900 electric articulated vehicles are due to begin next year. The buses will have capacity for 150 passengers, and batteries will be ...
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Rail Business UKChinese interest in British Steel bid
UK: British Steel has announced that the Official Receiver is holding discussions with a Chinese bidder which is interested in purchasing the whole of the business in a strategic acquisition which would support the development of its operations outside of China. The potential bidder began visits to ...
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Metro Report InternationalLondon journey planner tweaked to incorporate data analytics insights
UK: Transport for London has made changes to its journey planner following analysis of depersonalised wi-fi connection data from the mobile devices of passengers at London Underground stations. TfL previously relied on customer surveys of passenger flows, but the analysis of 2·7 billion data ...
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Metro Report InternationalGovernment announces Torino metro Line 2 funding
ITALY: Deputy Minister of Economy & Finance Laura Castelli confirmed on October 31 that the government has allocated €828m towards the construction of a second metro line in Torino. The planned Line 2 would serve 23 stations on a 26·5 km route from Rebaudengo in the ...
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Metro Report InternationalModertrans tests Elbląg tram in Łódź
POLAND: The first Moderus Beta tram that Modertrans is supplying to Elbląg has arrived in Łódź for testing on that city’s network. In 2017 Modertrans was the sole bidder in a tender to supply four trams to the northern Polish city. Deliveries of the single-section ...
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NewsBulgarian Railways to create stand-alone passenger and freight divisions
BULGARIA: A restructuring of national train operator BDZ EAD which will see its passenger and freight divisions become stand-alone joint stock companies has been agreed with the Ministry of Transport, IT & Communications. Bulgarian freight train. This follows the government’s introduction of a ...
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Metro Report InternationalLviv takes delivery of trolleybuses
UKRAINE: Lviv has taken delivery of the first 10 of 50 trolleybuses that Electron is supplying under an order placed this year. The low-floor vehicles are equipped with air-conditioning, CCTV, GPS, USB sockets and wi-fi. The stainless steel bodies are lined with aluminium-composite panels. The order is ...