Urban rail – Page 235
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Metro Report InternationalLagos Blue Line metro agreement
NIGERIA: Alstom has signed a letter of intent to work with Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority on the Blue Line metro project. The ‘head of agreement’ was signed when France’s President Macron visited the France-Nigeria Business Forum in the city on July 4, and a definitive contract is expected to ...
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NewsBerlin orders electric Mercedes buses
GERMANY: Berlin transport operator BVG has ordered 15 Mercedes‑Benz Citaro electric buses. Deliveries are due to begin in the first quarter of 2019. Each bus will have ten battery modules which will be charged using a plug-in charger at the depot. The axles will be powered by electric motors ...
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens to supply Taoyuan Green Line E&M systems
TAIWAN: Siemens is to supply electrical and mechanical systems for the Green Line automated metro project in Taoyuan. The line is to be built under a turnkey contract which the city government has awarded to a consortium of Siemens, local construction company BES Engineering and South Korea rolling stock supplier ...
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NewsBergen tram operations contract renewed
NORWAY: Bergen transport authority Bybanen selected Keolis Norge to continue operating the city’s trams on June 29. Keolis expects to sign the contract after a 10-day standstill period. The contract would run for eight years from July 2019, and includes an optional two-year extension. Keolis will also manage the ...
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NewsFirst Thomson-East Coast Line train arrives in Singapore
SINGAPORE: The first Thomson-East Coast Line train has arrived at Mandai Depot near the northern end of the line after being unloaded at Jurong Port. Land Transport Authority ordered 91 four-car driverless trainsets from a consortium of Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Qingdao Sifang in 2014 under a S$749m ...
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Metro Report InternationalBYD to supply 100 electric buses to Santiago
CHILE: BYD has signed a contract to supply 100 K9FE electric buses to Santiago public transport operator Transantiago, the manufacturer announced on July 3. The buses are being supplied in collaboration with energy distributor ENEL and are due to begin arriving in late November. ENEL and BYD had already ...
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Metro Report InternationalBoston Green Line extension breaks ground
USA: A groundbreaking for Boston’s Green Line light rail extension took place on June 25 at the future site of Union Square station in Somerville. The GLX Constructors joint venture led by Fluor and including Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Herzog Contracting Group and The Middlesex Corp is undertaking the work ...
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Metro Report InternationalCRRC rolls out Delingha tram
CHINA: CRRC’s Qingdao factory has rolled out the first tram for Delingha, which is expected to enter service by the end of the year in the city in Qinghai province. The two-section low-floor tram is equipped with onboard energy storage that consists of a supercapacitor and lithium-titanate battery, which ...
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NewsCAF signs agreement to acquire Solaris
INDUSTRY: Spanish rolling stock and signalling supplier CAF signed an agreement to negotiate the purchase of 100% of the shares in Polish bus and tram manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach on July 2. The enterprise value of Solaris is estimated to be slightly above €300m, with the final amount ...
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NewsManchester tram contract signed
UK: Transport for Greater Manchester has signed a £72m contract with Bombardier Transportation UK and Kiepe Electric for the supply of 27 trams, the authority announced on July 2. The first tram is expected to arrive in February 2020, with deliveries to be completed in June 2021. The high-floor ...
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NewsElectric buses presented in Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG: Irizar has presented six electric buses from the 10 that it is supplying to Luxembourg. The 12 m long Irizar ie buses will operate on Route 290, which links Luxembourg City with Mersch to the north. The buses have a range of 200 km and are expecte ...
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Metro Report InternationalNice opens second tram line
FRANCE: The initial section of the second tram line in Nice was inaugurated on June 30, with a ceremony at the Cadam administrative centre attended by the city’s Mayor Christian Estrosi, as Président of the local Métropole, and the Préfet of Alpes-Maritimes Georges-François Leclerc. Line T2 will eventually run ...
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Metro Report InternationalDalian metro Line 2 extended
CHINA: A one-station extension of Dalian metro Line 2 was inaugurated on June 28. The 3·1 km underground extension runs from Dalian Airport to Xinzhaizi, where interchange will be provided with the future Line 4. Line 2 is now 25·8 km long with 21 stations. The first ...
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Metro Report InternationalElizabeth Line maintenance trains on test
UK: Three maintenance trains for the Elizabeth Line are being tested ahead of delivery to London later this year. Linsinger is testing an MG31 UK rail milling train between Salzburg and Linz. The 48 m long vehicle assembled at Linsinger’s Steyrermühl factory in Austria will be transported by road ...
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NewsWarszawa tests increased metro frequencies
POLAND: Metro Warszawskie tested running Line 1 trains at 2 min headways during the morning peak on June 27. The operator expects that extending the east-west Line 2 at both ends would generate more ridership not only on that line, but on the north-south Line 1 as well. It ...
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Metro Report InternationalTicket machines with video links on test
GERMANY: Duisburg transport operator DVG is testing five Cubic Transportation Systems ticket machines which include video links to its customer service centre. Passengers can use the video links to talk to customer service staff who can assist with planning journeys and purchasing tickets. The video service is available between ...
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NewsMING fleet to replace RER B Interconnexion stock
FRANCE: Île-de-France Mobilités, RATP and SNCF have called tenders for supply of replacement rolling stock for Paris RER Line B which links Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport and Mitry-Claye northeast of Paris with Robinson in the south and St Rémy-les-Chevreuse in the southwest. The contract covers a firm order for 146 ...
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Metro Report InternationalValley Metro extension design contract approved
USA: Phoenix’s Valley Metro Rail board has appointed Jacobs Engineering to design Phase II of the Northwest Phase II light rail extension. This will extend the light rail line west from 19th Avenue on Dunlap Avenue, then run north on 25th Avenue and across I-17 on Mountain View Road to ...
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NewsPardubice introduces new trolleybuses
CZECH REPUBLIC: City transport operator DP Pardubice put into service 15 Škoda 30Tr SOR trolleybuses on June 22. The KC118·5m order signed in November is partly financed by EU funds. The trolleybuses are intended to replace some of the city’s diesel buses following the opening of two extensions of ...
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NewsStadler-Siemens consortium rolls out first Berlin S-Bahn train
GERMANY: The first of the electric multiple-units that a Stadler-Siemens consortium is supplying for the Berlin S-Bahn was rolled out on July 27 at Stadler’s Pankow factory in the capital. The four-car Class 484 EMU is due to arrive at Stadler’s site in Velten north of Berlin in the ...
