Infrastructure news – Page 144
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NewsPKP PLK reinstates line for freight services
POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK has rehabilitated the 11 km Jełowa – Murów section of the Opole – Namysłów route to support an expansion of Stora Enso Wood Products’ plant at Murów. Passenger services were withdrawn form the route in 1992, and the line was taken out of use following ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London awards long-term drone inspection licence
UK: Transport for London has granted approval for Lanes Rail to use drones to carry out of asset surveys. This is the first long-term drone licence that TfL has awarded, and comes after a 12-month testing and approval process. In addition to having a Civil Aviation Authority UAV licence, ...
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NewsInfrastructure specialists converge on Infrarail
The UK’s 12th biennial exhibition of railway infrastructure equipment and services returns to London’s Excel centre
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NewsIP targets Algarve electrification by 2020
PORTUGAL: National infrastructure manager Infraestruturas de Portugal has proposed electrification at 25 kV 50 Hz of the railway along the country’s south coast under the auspices of the Algarve Regional Co-ordination & Development Commission. The €57·9m project would cover electrification of the 45 km between Tunes and Lagos, and the ...
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NewsNigerian railway modernisation agreement signed
NIGERIA: An agreement to proceed with the interim phase of a concession to upgrade the 1 067 mm gauge rail network was signed by federal government and an international consortium on April 27. The consortium is led by GE and includes Chinese construction company SinoHydro, South African transport and logistics ...
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NewsCambodia reinstates Sisophon – Battambang railway
CAMBODIA: The reopening of a further 69 km of main line railway was celebrated on April 29 when an inaugural train ran from Sisophon to Battambang carrying Transport Minister Sun Chanthol. The reopening of this section of the country’s northern main line between Phnom Penh and the Thai border marks ...
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Metro Report InternationalIstanbul to increase capacity on Line M1
TURKEY: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality expects to call tenders on May 15 to increase capacity on metro Line M1. The municipality expects the work on the 21 km route to take 2½ years. All station platforms are to be lengthened to accommodate five-car trainsets instead of four-car maximum now, and ...
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Metro Report InternationalBrussels inaugurates Marconi depot
BELGIUM: The new Marconi tram depot and maintenance facility in the southern Brussels district of Uccle was formally inaugurated on April 27 by the Minister of Mobility for the Brussels Capital Region Pascal Smet, STIB Chairman Thomas Ryckalts and CEO Brieuc de Meeûs. Financed by the Capital Region, the €80m ...
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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market - April 2018
Australia: Transport for New South Wales has awarded Laing O’Rourke a A$955m contract to build the Sydney Metro platforms and concourse at Central station. John McAslan + Partners and Woods Bagot are the architectural partners. China: Pandrol is to supply Shanxi Jingshen Railway Co with almost 880 000 Fastclip ...
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Metro Report InternationalRail boost in Auckland transport plan
NEW ZEALAND: Further investment in suburban and light rail is to be funded under the NZ$28bn Auckland Transport Alignment Programme unveiled by Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff on April 26. Described as the country's largest ever civil construction programme, ATAP 2018 is intended to ‘create a 21st ...
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NewsRail boost in Auckland transport plan
NEW ZEALAND: Further investment in suburban and light rail is to be funded under the NZ$28bn Auckland Transport Alignment Programme unveiled by Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff on April 26. Described as the country's largest ever civil construction programme, ATAP 2018 is intended to ‘create a 21st ...
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NewsETCS contract awarded
CZECH REPUBLIC: Infrastructure manager SŽDC has awarded AŽD Praha a KC383m contract to install ETCS Level 2 on the 108 km Česká Třebová – Přerov section of the main rail corridor running east from Praha. Work on the 204 km Břeclav – Přerov Petrovice u Karviné section has been ...
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NewsFinland – Estonia Tunnel strategy to be published next month
EUROPE: The Finnish and Estonian joint working group, which is developing proposals for the 92 km FinEst undersea railway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn, is due to publish its recommendations on how to proceed on May 7. This will set out a vision for what should happen next, how ...
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NewsKøbenhavn – Ringsted computer model developed
DENMARK: Infrastructure manager Banedanmark has used 3D scanning and BIM data to produce a detailed 3D computer model of the fast line under construction between København and Ringsted which is scheduled to open next year. This allows potential suppliers to view and ‘walk around’ the route from a computer. ...
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NewsRehabilitation of Šabac – Loznica line underway
SERBIA: Work has begun to rehabilitate two sections of the 65 km single-track line from Šabac to Loznica and Brasina on the Bosnian border. This should enable the passenger service which was suspended in 2005 to be reinstated from September 1. Modernisation of the Petlovača – Lešnica and Loznica – ...
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NewsIranian railway expansion continues
IRAN: The city of Kermanshah was connected to the railway network when President Hassan Rouhani opened a 110 km line from Firuzan on March 20. This forms part of the Malayer – Khosravi corridor which will eventually run to the border with Iraq. The first section from Malayer to Firuzan ...
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NewsSB Rail awarded track machine contract
UK: Network Rail has awarded the SB Rail joint venture of Swietelsky and Babcock International Group a seven-year contract to supply, operate and maintain tamping, dynamic track stabilising and ballast distribution and profiling machines for its London North Eastern, London North Western and Scotland routes. The deal is worth in ...
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Metro Report InternationalDurham-Orange Light Rail construction management consultant appointed
USA: Transport agency GoTriangle has selected a Gannett Fleming/WSP joint venture as its construction management consultant for the planned light rail project in North Carolina’s Durham and Orange counties. The joint venture is to provide a constructability review, estimating, contract packaging, design and specification review services under the first phase ...
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NewsSNCB inaugurates Kinkempois workshop
BELGIUM: Celebrations were held in Liège on April 19 to mark the opening of SNCB’s new rolling stock maintenance workshops at Kinkempois. Intended to maintain locomotives, EMUs and coaches, the facility has been developed on the site of a former freight depot, incorporating a wagon repair shop dating back to ...
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Metro Report InternationalChicago Blue Line resignalling contract awarded
USA: The Chicago Transit Board has awarded a Kiewit-Aldridge joint venture a $152·9m contract to undertake signalling renewal works between Jefferson Park and O’Hare on the Blue Line. Announcing the contract on April 18, CTA said this would be the first major signalling renewal since the section of the Blue ...