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Metro Report InternationalL&T wins ‘breakthrough’ Riyadh metro contract
SAUDI ARABIA: L&T Construction’s Railway Business Unit has announced a ‘major breakthrough railway order’ for the construction of 62·86 km of ballastless double-track on Riyadh metro lines 1 and 2. The 40-month contract worth US$161·4m was awarded by design and build contractor BACS, a consortium of Bechtel, Almabani General Contractors, ...
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NewsPomeranian Metropolitan Railway opens
POLAND: Revenue services on the Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna line serving Gdańsk airport began on September 1, following inauguration celebrations including steam-hauled trains on August 30. The new line is owned by PKM, a dedicated company established by Pomorskie voivodship. Branching from the existing network at Gdańsk Wrzeszcz, it uses ...
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NewsHigh speed links to the northeast completed
CHINA: A 210 km rail link to the North Korean border town of Dandong was opened for revenue service on September 1. This is the first of two high speed lines serving the border region that are scheduled to open this year. Under construction since 2010, the 207 km Shenyang ...
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NewsPorto operating contract retendered
PORTUGAL: Metro de Porto and bus operator STCP are retendering the contract to operate the city’s public transport networks, having agreed with preferred bidder Transports Ciutat Comtal that agreements reached earlier this year would be rescinded. All prequalified bidders for the earlier competition, including TCC, have been invited to participate. ...
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NewsDriving simulator investment
ARGENTINA: Minister of the Interior & Transport Florencio Randazzo opened a suite featuring 11 driving simulators at the national railway training facility, Cenacaf, in Temperley last month. Supplied by Spanish specialist Lander Simulation, the simulators are intended to recreate precisely the conditions that drivers will encounter on the Mitre and ...
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NewsFujitsu buys Applied Card Technologies
UK: Fujitsu announced its ‘multi-million pound’ acquisition of Applied Card Technologies on August 27. ‘ACT is a proven expert in the digital ticketing space and will be a vitally important part of the Fujitsu business’, said Regina Moran, CEO of Fujitsu UK & Ireland. ‘Digital ticketing is ...
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NewsTracking jumper cables
CABLES: A new design of pluggable inter-car jumper cable has been developed by Harting to carry electrical power, data and control signals. The jumpers use Han rectangular connectors to ensure a robust connection to the vehicles, and these have been fitted with industrial-grade Ha-VIS RFID transponders to improve the ...
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NewsNational Training Academy for Rail accreditation
UK: Expected to open later this year, the UK's National Training Academy for Rail near Northampton has reached an agreement with engineering certification organisation EAL covering 39 of its planned courses. Backed by the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering, NTAR is located beside the Siemens rolling stock maintenance depot ...
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NewsSolar and wireless automated level crossing commissioned
COLOMBIA: Ferrocarril del Pacífico has commissioned the first of 22 level crossings on the 196 km Buenaventura – Palmira route which are being fitted with automated safety systems by US firm Railroad Signal International, using a solar-powered train detection system from Canadian company Argenia Railway Technologies. Completion of the project ...
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NewsNew metro cars in Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA: The first six of 120 Alstom Metropolis cars for Line H of the Buenos Aires metro arrived in the city on August 27. The stainless steel air-conditioned cars are equipped with regenerative braking. The previous day, test running took place on the first 10 of 105 cars that ...
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NewsFeature articles in the September 2015 issue of Metro Report International
Articles in the September 2015 issue of Metro Report International. Comment UITP President Masaki Ogata sets out his priorities for the public transport sector at the start of his term News Review Round-up of world metro, light rail and tram news City digest London orders trains, Chinese rolling stock market ...
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NewsDB Regio retains Euregiobahn contract
GERMANY: Transport authority Nahverkehr Rheinland announced on August 27 that incumbent DB Regio had submitted the most economically advantageous bid for the next contract to operate RB20 Euregiobahn services. Radiating out from Aachen to Stolberg, Düren, Herzogenrath and Alsdorf in Germany and Heerlen in the Netherlands, the service carries around ...
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NewsCapital Partners invests in short line group Regional Rail
USA: Private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has acquired a stake in short line group Regional Rail. The existing management team will ‘retain significant ownership’ and continue to lead the company. Regional Rail was formed in April 2007 and has since acquired the East Penn, Middletown & New Jersey ...
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NewsGdańsk inaugurates tram extension
POLAND: An extension of the Gdańsk tram network was inaugurated on August 26, when Mayor Paweł Adamowicz received the safety certificate enabling the line to carry passengers. Revenue services will begin on August 31; this is a month earlier than originally planned, to be ready for the start of the ...
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NewsMurray Basin gauge conversion to begin next year
AUSTRALIA: Civil works are expected to begin in the second half of 2016 to convert the freight lines linking Geelong with the Murray Basin from 1 600 mm gauge to 1 435 mm gauge under a A$416m programme being led by the Victoria state government. The Murray Basin Rail Project ...
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NewsMoscow Metro receives diagnostic train
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has taken delivery of a diagnostic train from Tvema. The Sinergiya-2 train is the next model of the first-generation Sinergiya train that is already in service on the metro. Sinergiya-2 uses infrared sensors, thermal imaging and laser measurement, as well as high-resolution recording, to detect rail ...
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NewsTabriz metro opens
IRAN: The first phase of Tabriz metro Line 1 opened for trial passenger services on August 28, with free travel offered for an initial three months. The 7 km route runs northwest from El Goli to Ostad Shahryar with four intermediate stations, including three in a tunnel excavated using ...
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NewsDanny Broad
Danny Broad will take over as CEO of the Australasian Railway Association from October 1. He replaces Bryan Nye who stepped down in April.
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NewsCut-off construction contract signed
CROATIA: Contracts for the construction of a 12·2 km cut-off linking Gradec on the Zagreb – Križevci – Hungary line with Sveti Ivan Žabno on the Križevci – Bjelovar branch were signed by infrastructure manager HŽ Infra, Comsa and HF Wiebe on August 26. Work is scheduled to start in ...
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NewsLighter tank wagon for oil products
ARGENTINA: Military equipment manufacturer Fabricaciones Militares has unveiled a new 1 676 mm gauge tank wagon designed for the transport of crude oil and other heavy hydrocarbons. The self-supporting tank means that the wagon does not require a frame, offering a saving of up to 3 tonnes in tare weight ...