ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI has awarded Ansaldo STS a two-year framework agreement worth €100m for the provision of technical assistance, maintenance and upgrading services.
The contract announced on June 27 covers all existing Ansaldo STS systems on RFI’s conventional and high speed lines, along with the reconfiguration and upgrading of radio block centres, traffic management systems, electronic interlockings, train protection systems and centralised traffic control systems.
USA: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has awarded Ansaldo STS a $338m contract to equip the Boston commuter rail network with Positive Train Control. The contract includes design, installation, systems integration, commissioning, technical support and documentation.
POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK has called tenders for the works required to reopen the 3·5 km out-of-use route between Wieliszew and Zegrze, north of Warszawa. The design and build contract would include track replacement and the installation of electrification and signalling to permit passenger services ...
BELGIUM: Infrastructure manager Infrabel has successfully completed a major upgrade to the signalling at Brussels Midi station, as part of a €24m project to prepare for the introduction of ETCS on the cross-city Brussels Junction line. In two blockades over the long weekends of November 1-3 ...
TURKEY: Tenders for the design of new lines as well as the rehabilitation, electrification and resignalling of existing routes, proposals for rail-served logistics centres and the further development of the domestic supply chain are included in a 2020 strategic programme published by the president’s office on November ...
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 ...
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn has awared 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 ...
