All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2018 – Page 8
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Metro Report InternationalOslo electric bus pilot begins
NORWAY: December marked the start of a two-year electric bus pilot project in Oslo, involving three operators running a total of six electric buses. The total cost of the pilot is NKr43m. Nobina is operating two 18 m long articulated buses supplied by BYD on routes 31 and 31E, ...
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NewsIsrael Railways orders double-deck coaches for use with electric locos
ISRAEL: A €104m firm order for Bombardier Transportation to supply a further 54 Twindexx Vario double-deck coaches was signed by Israel Railways on December 31. Deliveries are scheduled to be completed by August 2020. The order has been placed within a October 2010 framework agreement. The latest order covers 11 ...
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Metro Report InternationalXiamen metro opens
CHINA: The flurry of metro projects commissioned in December culminated on the last day of the month with the opening of the first metro line in Xiamen. The 30·3 km Line 1 connects the mainland with Xiamen island, running from Yannei in the north to Zhenhai Road in the ...
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Metro Report InternationalGuiyang metro opens
CHINA: Guiyang became the 30th city in China with a metro when its first metro line was put into passenger service on December 28. The 12·8 km Line 1 runs from Xiamaixi to Guiyang North railway station serving 10 stations. Construction was approved in April 2013 and started in ...
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NewsUK railway news round-up
Network Rail plans to award three framework agreements for multi-discipline railway asset enhancement and renewal works across its Anglia, Southeast and Wessex routes during the five years of Control Period 6, with three one-year options to extend into CP7. The total value of the SMD Frameworks may be in the ...
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NewsModertrans to supply more trams to Katowice
POLAND: Tramwaje Śląskie has selected Modertrans to supply up to 15 partly low-floor trams for its network centred on Katowice. The base order covers eight unidirectional and two bidirectional single-section 13·5 m long trams. The tender specifies that the vehicles must be at least 20% low-floor, with capacity for ...
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NewsBrussels articulated electric bus order placed
BELGIUM: Brussels city transport operator STIB has awarded a €21m contract to Solaris Bus & Coach for the supply of 25 articulated electric buses. This forms part of STIB’s plan to have an entirely electric bus fleet by 2030. To be assembled at Solaris’ Bolechowo factory near Poznań, the ...
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Metro Report InternationalNPRT wins rolling stock orders for Shenzhen and Hangzhou
CHINA: CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Rail Transport Co announced on January 3 that it had been awarded three metro rolling stock contracts. MTR Technology Consultation (Shenzhen) Co awarded the joint venture a contract worth 1·15bn yuan to supply rolling stock for Phase 3 of Shenzhen metro Line 4. Deliveries are ...
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NewsRail Baltica design contracts awarded
POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK has awarded two contracts for planning the Polish section of the future Rail Baltica corridor. MGGP has been awarded a 19·8m złoty contract to undertake the detailed design of a planned 1·7bn złoty upgrade of the route between Białystok and Ełk, where the single track ...
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NewsMore LRVs ordered for Vitoria
SPAIN: Euskotren has awarded CAF a €14∙5m contract to supply three seven-section LRVs for the Vitoria light rail network, and to extend from five to seven sections three of the 11 Series 500 LRVs it had supplied for the opening of the route in 2008. The seven-section LRVs will be ...
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Metro Report InternationalSecond metro line opens in Nanning
CHINA: The second metro line in Nanning opened on December 28. Line 2 is 21 km long and serves 18 stations between Xijin in the north and Yudong in the south. Interchanges with Line 1 are provided at Nanning railway station and Chaoyang Square. A depot at Anji north ...
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NewsMoscow metro reaches Khovrino
RUSSIA: Line 2 of the Moscow metro was extended by 2·9 km on December 31, with the opening of a northern extension from Rechnoy Vokzal to Khovrino. Construction started in 2014, with Stroygazconsulting acting as main contractor. Khovrino station was built by SGK Avtostrada and Mostotryad-114, and is 14 ...
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NewsMombasa – Nairobi standard gauge freight service launched
KENYA: The first commercial freight train on the Standard Gauge Railway ran from Mombasa to the Embakasi Inland Container Depot in Nairobi on January 1. The 52-wagon train carried 104 TEU, which the operator pointed out was ‘almost equivalent to the trucks operating daily on the Mombasa – Nairobi highway.’ ...
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Metro Report InternationalChongqing adds two metro lines
CHINA: Two new metro lines were opened in Chongqing on December 28, bringing the city’s network to 164 route-km. The first phase of Line 5 links Expo Garden Centre and Dalongshan on a 13·6 km alignment with nine stations including three interchanges. The end-to-end journey time is 21 min, ...
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NewsStrukton to take over Danish fixed links rail maintenance contract
DENMARK: Power and communication network infrastructure services company Eltel signed a letter of intent on December 29 for the divestment of its Danish rail activities to Strukton Rail. The parties aim to finalise the transaction by January 31. Eltel’s Danish rail operations mainly comprise a contract to provide signalling, track ...
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NewsOstrów Wielkopolski receives first battery buses
POLAND: Solaris Bus & Coach handed over four electric buses to MZK Ostrów Wielkopolski on December 28. The Urbino 12 buses are the first zero-emission buses for the city and have been supplied under a contract that also saw three Solaris Urbino 12 diesel buses enter service in September. ...
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NewsCAF to begin recruitment for Newport rolling stock factory
UK: Work is underway on the factory which CAF is building at Newport in south Wales to support its expansion in the UK rolling stock market. The company expects to employ 200 people at the plant when it opens in autumn 2018, increasing to 300 in 2019. Recruitment is to ...
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Metro Report InternationalBarcelona tests vertical platform screen doors
SPAIN: Barcelona public transport operator TMB is to undertake what it says will be the first test of vertical platform screen doors on a metro network, with doors supplied by STraffic of South Korea to be installed at Can Cuiàs station on Line 11 during the second half of 2018. ...
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NewsGotthard Panoramic route EMUs ordered
SWITZERLAND: Schweizerische Südostbahn has ordered 11 Stadler Flirt electric multiple-units for use on services from Basel and Zürich to Locarno and Lugano operating via the traditional Gotthard main line, now branded the Gotthard Panoramic route following the opening in 2016 of the base tunnel. SOB and SBB finalised a co-operation ...
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NewsTikhvinSpetsMash to supply 548 timber wagons
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co subsidiary TikhvinSpetsMash has won orders to supply a total of 548 high capacity timber wagons to six customers in the first quarter of 2018. The orders have been placed by Lokotrans (330), DV Real Trans Group (50); Sibirsky Krai (50); cardboard packaging company ...