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NewsLegal challenge to Siemens’ London Underground train contract win
UK: A legal challenge to Transport for London’s selection of Siemens as preferred bidder to supply new trainsets for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line was confirmed by Bombardier Transportation and Hitachi on July 23. ‘Hitachi Rail and Bombardier Transportation confirm that they have issued claims in the High Court against London ...
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NewsSiemens to supply London Underground deep tube fleet
UK: Transport for London has selected Siemens Mobility to supply 94 metro trainsets for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line, it announced on June 15. The £1·5bn contract is due to be signed following a 10-day standstill period. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2023 from a factory that Siemens will ...
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Metro Report InternationalBombardier to repower London Underground Central Line trainsets
UK: London Underground has awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract to replace the DC traction motors on the 85 eight-car 1992 Stock trainsets used on the Central Line with its Mitrac AC traction and control equipment. This is expected to reduce energy consumption while improving reliability and performance. The contract running ...
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NewsNext phase of London Night Tube to begin in October
UK: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced on August 26 that weekend all-night service on London Underground’s Jubilee Line would begin on October 7. The announcement comes a week after the launch of Night Tube services on the Central and Victoria lines. Transport for London recorded 50 000 passenger-journeys ...
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NewsBombardier-Hitachi joint venture to bid for New Tube for London
UK: Bombardier Transportation and Hitachi Rail Europe have formed a joint venture to bid to supply rolling stock under London Underground’s New Tube for London programme. Bids are due to be submitted on September 26. Both companies prequalified for the contract, along with Alstom, CAF and Siemens. The basic requirement ...
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NewsDisused Tube station to be leased
UK: Transport for London has announced that it will lease part of a disused Underground station to businesses ‘who have the ability to use the space to create something exceptional and establish the next chapter in the station’s history’. TfL announced on April 28 that it is seeking businesses ...
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NewsAll-night services to be extended in London
UK: Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced on February 20 that all-night weekend services are to be extended to London Underground’s sub-surface lines, part of London Overground’s East London Line and the Docklands Light Railway. All-night services on Friday and Saturday nights ...
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NewsNew Tube for London initial designs unveiled
UK: Design proposals for the New Tube For London project to modernise London Underground’s small-profile Piccadilly, Bakerloo, Central and Waterloo & City lines were revealed on October 9. Transport for London has shortlisted Alstom, Bombardier, CAF, Hitachi and Siemens for the contract to supply around 250 trainsets. It plans ...
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NewsBakerloo Line extension consultation launched
UK: Transport for London launched a consultation exercise on September 30 to ‘understand the level of public support for a proposed extension’ of London Underground’s Bakerloo Line from Elephant & Castle southeast towards New Cross, Lewisham, Bromley and Hayes. The extension is intended to improve connections to areas which are ...
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NewsLondon Underground starts New Tube for London train procurement
UK: On February 28 London Underground announced that it had placed an OJEU notice inviting expressions of interest in the supply of 250 small-profile trainsets for the Bakerloo, Central, Piccadilly and Waterloo & City lines. The invitation to tender is expected to be issued in early 2015. According to LU's ...
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NewsAll-night services in London Underground vision
UK: A ‘vision for the future’ of the London Underground was set out by Mayor of London Boris Johnson and London Underground Managing Director Mike Brown on November 21. The proposals include running some services throughout the night on weekends and the redeployment of station staff. Transport for London ...
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NewsBombardier signalling centre opens
SPAIN: Bombardier's signalling centre of excellence at San Sebastián de los Reyes was officially opened on July 20. Built at a cost of €3m to serve the European and Latin American markets, the facility is currently developing the Cityflo 650 CBTC that Bombardier is to supply to London Underground, as ...
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NewsSiemens unveils London Underground concept train
UK: A design concept for a next-generation train for London Underground’s small-profile ‘tube’ lines was unveiled by Siemens during the Railtex exhibition. Building on its successful role in supplying replacement bogies for Central Line and Waterloo & City Line stock, Siemens was asked by LU to develop a ‘concept ...
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NewsBombardier awarded London Underground SSL signalling contract
UK: Transport for London formally announced Bombardier Transportation as the winner of the £354m contract to upgrade signalling on London Underground's Sub-Surface Lines on June 14, following the statutory standstill period required under EU tendering rules. The company had been named preferred bidder on April 12. Bombardier will provide its ...
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NewsBombardier is preferred bidder for London Underground resignalling
UK: Bombardier Transportation was named preferred bidder for the major contract to resignal London Underground's large-profile Sub-Surface Lines on April 12. The contract will be signed following the regulatory standstill period during which the other shortlisted bidder, Invensys Rail, is able to raise any objections. The contract covers around ...
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NewsLondon Underground PPP funding gap
UK: London Underground is considering its options, including 'legal remedies', after PPP Arbiter Chris Bolt directed on March 10 that work to maintain and upgrade the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines in the seven and half years of Review Period 2 from July 1 2010 should cost £4·46bn. LU ...
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Jubilee and Northern lines lead LU signalling renewal
This year Tube Lines starts the installation of Seltrac transmission-based train control on London Underground's Jubilee Line. Roger Ford reports from the Highgate test centre on progress with the complex programme
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Alcatel wins Tube Lines resignalling
LONDON Underground infrastructure concessionaire Tube Lines announced on October 2 that it had awarded a £300m contract to Alcatel for resignalling of the Jubilee and Northern lines. Installation of SelTrac S40 communications-based train control is expected to increase ’capability’ by 22% on the Jubilee line by 2009 and 18% on ...
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PPP bidders prepare for handover
INTRO: As the long and often controversial process to set up the Public-Private Partnership nears completion, Metronet and Tube Lines are preparing to take over train and infrastructure maintenance on the London Underground network by the end of this month. Each consortium is planning a package of track renewals, resignalling ...
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Ads move underground
MOVING advertising images are to be projected onto the walls of London Underground stations, following the signing of a contract on April 6. Cross Track Projection (XTP) digital projection equipment will be installed in some central stations this autumn, and across the network within five years.XTP makes it possible ...
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