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NewsWorld rail infrastructure market - September 2019
Australia: John Holland, CPB Contractors and Aecom have been awarded a A$215m contract to undertake platform extension, power upgrading and other works as part of a A$2·1bn of upgrade of Melbourne’s 39·5 km Sunbury suburban line. Bulgaria: NRIC has awarded the Ertms CA Voluyak DZZD consortium of ...
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Metro Report InternationalBattery vehicle recharging project launched
SWEDEN: The Solaris Sverige subsidiary of Solaris Bus & Coach is supplying a trolleybus for the EVolution Road R&D project that aims to test dynamic electric vehicle charging. Evolution Road is led by Elonroad and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Lund. Other partners are ...
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Rail Business UKTfL confirms details of Reading services
UK: Details of the transfer of London Paddington – Reading stopping services from Great Western Railway to TfL Rail from the December 15 timetable change have been confirmed by Transport for London. The services are to be operated under the TfL Rail brand, which will be replaced ...
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NewsWork starts to rebuild Istanbul – Bulgaria main line
The start of work ceremony was attended by guests including EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc. TURKEY: Work on modernisation of the 233 km line from Halkalı west of Istanbul to the Bulgarian border crossing at Kapıkule began on September 25 with a foundation-laying ceremony in Edirne attended ...
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Metro Report InternationalPraha airport trolleybus route approved
The trolleybus route would replace the busy bus route 119. CZECH REPUBLIC: Praha city council has approved a project to build a trolleybus route to Vaclav Havel Airport. The 4·8 km route would follow that of the existing bus 119 from Veleslavín metro Line A station, replacing ...
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Metro Report InternationalWarszawa metro loan agreement signed
POLAND: The city of Warszawa signed a loan agreement with the European Investment Bank on September 26 covering extensions of metro Line 2. The 1·5bn złoty loan is to be put towards extensions at both ends of the east-west line. A 9·3 km western extension is to ...
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Metro Report InternationalŠkoda trams enter service in Chemnitz
GERMANY: The first ForCity Classic trams that Škoda Transportation is supplying to Chemnitz entered passenger service on September 25. Chemnitz transport operator CVAG and Škoda signed a €35m contract in June 2016 for the supply of 14 bidirectional fully low-floor vehicles, marking Škoda’s first tram order for ...
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NewsThalys-Eurostar merger planned under Green Speed initiative
EUROPE: SNCF, SNCB and the Patina Rail investment vehicle announced on September 27 their intention to combine the Eurostar and Thalys high speed rail operations, reporting that outline proposals were being presented to their respective boards. The proposed merger is being taken forward under a project ...
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Metro Report InternationalSystra awarded Grand Paris Express contract
Grand Paris Express FRANCE: Grand Paris Express metro project promoter Société du Grand Paris has awarded Systra a contract to provide technical project management assistance services for construction of the East and West sections of the future automated Line 15. What Systra described as ‘an exceptionally large’ ...
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Metro Report InternationalAtlanta consults on draft Regional Transit Plan
USA: Commuter rail, metro and light rail projects form the centrepiece of proposals to improve public transport in the 13-county greater Atlanta metropolitan region. Established last year, the Atlanta-Region Transit Link Authority has been mandated to develop a ‘seamless’ regional transport network, bringing together and augmenting the ...
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NewsNewag awarded locomotive contracts
Trako POLAND: PKP Intercity has awarded Newag a contract to supply a further 10 Griffin 160 km/h electric locomotives. The 183·8m złoty order has been placed as an option on a May 2018 contract for an initial 20 locomotives. It was announced at the Trako ...
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Metro Report InternationalBeijing Daxing airport opens with high speed rail and metro links
CHINA: Two rail links to Beijing’s second international airport were opened for revenue services on September 26, the same day that commercial passenger flights began using Beijing Daxing Airport. This followed official inauguration of the airport by President Xi Jinping the previous day. ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
A memorandum of understanding has been signed for Plasser & Theurer to test its track inspection vehicles and technologies on ÖBB Infra’s tracks, in return for providing the Austrian infrastructure manager with data about the condition of its assets. SilverRail Technologies Inc has exercised an option to ...
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Metro Report InternationalGround-level electric bus recharging system presented
SPAIN: Alstom has unveiled a pilot installation of its SRS ground-based recharging system for electric buses in front of the University of Malaga’s School of Industrial Engineering. Based on the supplier’s established recharging technology for trams, this is designed to provide a safe ground-level ...
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Metro Report InternationalIstanbul metro financing packages agreed
TURKEY: Financial packages have been agreed to support the ongoing construction of the Ümraniye – Ataşehir – Göztepe metro line M12 on the Asian side of Istanbul. The 13 km line will run underground from 60 Yıl Parkı to Kazık Karabekir, with 11 stations. The European Bank ...
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NewsVDB calls for faster digital roll-out strategy
GERMANY: Rail industry association VDB has put forward a seven-point plan to accelerate the introduction of digital train control across the national rail network, suggesting that an industrial scale roll-out of digital interlockings and ETCS could begin as soon as 2022. The proposals follow the signing on ...
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NewsTurkey to develop national rail research institute
The institute is intended to support development of the Turkish main line network. It will be eventually be based at TCDD premises in Ankara. TURKEY: The Ministry for Transport & Infrastructure is to establish an Institute of Rail Transport Technology, which will be operated jointly by infrastructure ...
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NewsAmsterdam – London through train agreement to be signed shortly
EUROPE: The international agreement which would permit the operation of through passenger services between the Netherlands and the UK is expected to be signed in October, State Secretary for Justice & Security Ankie Broekers-Knol told the Dutch parliament’s lower house on September 25. Eurostar told Railway Gazette ...
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News5G remote control train tested
GERMANY: A test train with no driver on board has been remotely controlled using equipment based on 5G technology. The test train ran for the first time on September 17 on a section of the 25 km Erzgebirgische Aussichtsbahn between Annaberg-Buchholz and Schwarzenberg in Sachsen. It consisted ...
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NewsUIC to promote open source projects
INTERNATIONAL: The International Union of Railways has launched OpenRail as a brand to gather and promote open source projects in the rail sector, and to foster proofs of concept and software development. Announcing OpenRail on September 20, UIC said the programme would facilitate the identification of open ...