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Metro Report InternationalBudapest receives CAF tram
HUNGARY: The first of 47 CAF Urbos low-floor trams arrived in Budapest from CAF’s factory in Spain on March 11. Budapest transport authority BKK signed a €90m contract for 37 bidirectional trams in March 2014 and has placed a firm order for a further 10 under options for 87 more. ...
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NewsCross-Tokyo link inaugurated
JAPAN: Revenue services have started running on East Japan Railway’s Ueno – Tokyo Line, following an inauguration ceremony on March 14. Taking seven years to build at a cost of ¥40bn, the 3·8 km cross-city link provides an extra pair of tracks for suburban services on the busy north-south corridor ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - March 2015
Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has said that several tram and rail projects will be postponed as a result of economic difficulties caused by falling oil prices. Work is to begin this year on the first two lines of the Jinan metro: the 26·4 km north-south Line R1 ...
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NewsMadinah metro design contract
SAUDI ARABIA: The Madinah Metro Development Authority has selected Egis and Systra to carry out feasibility studies and preliminary design for a three-line metro. The 12-month contract also includes the preparation of tender documentation for the future design and build contracts. The Green, Blue and Red lines would have ...
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NewsFeature articles in the March 2015 issue of Metro Report International
The March 2015 issue of Metro Report International is out now. The latest issue includes the following articles: Comment V B Gadgil celebrates the first test of a CBTC train in India News Review Round-up of world metro, light rail and tram news City digest Network expansion in German-speaking cities, ...
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NewsGreen Mountain Line tram design revealed
TAIWAN: Voith Engineering Services has revealed the design the trams it has developed with Taiwan Rolling Stock Co for the Green Mountain Line tramway project in the New Taipei City region which surrounds the city of Taipei. The 8 km line will link Hongshulin station on the Taipei metro’s Tamsui ...
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NewsThales awarded Lusail light rail contract
QATAR: Lusail Light Rail Transit project civil works contractor QDVC has awarded Thales a contract to supply and maintain the supervision, telecoms, security and automatic fare collection systems for the future 32 km network, including contactless ticketing. The four-line tram network is being built under a contract which was ...
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NewsQatar's first Education City tram rolls out
QATAR: Siemens' Simmering plant in Austria has completed the first of the Avenio light rail vehicles for the Education City People Mover System, an 11·5 km catenary-free tramway which is being built to serve the the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science & Community Development's education and research campus west of ...
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NewsCAF selected for Bucureşti metro train order
ROMANIA: Bucureşti metro operator Metrorex has selected CAF as preferred bidder for a contract to supply 43 six-car trainsets to operate on the future 6·1 km Line M5 from Drumul Taberei to Eroilor, with an option for eight more. Metrorex had hoped to name the winner of the contract on ...
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NewsKharkiv metro expansion study
UKRAINE: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and the European Investment Bank are to fund a feasibility study for the extension of Kharkiv metro Line 3, with a view to funding its construction. The current cost estimate is put at €350m. City-owned operator Kharkiv Metro Co expects ridership on ...
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NewsValencia metro Line 9 opens
SPAIN: An opening ceremony for Valencia metro Line 9 took place on March 6 after a month of test running. The inaugural passenger service from Riba-roja del Túria departed at 13.05. Line 9 includes a 9·5 km, four-station branch off the western end of lines 3 and 5 at ...
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NewsWarszawa opens second metro line
POLAND: The second line of the Warszawa metro opened on March 8 with the departure of the inaugural train from Świętokrzyska at 9.40. Although no official opening ceremony took place, the first train carried Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, and travel was free on the first day of service, and 233 000 ...
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NewsStation navigation app for visually impaired people
UK: A six-week trial due to end on March 13 aims to assist blind and partially sighted people to navigate London Underground stations independently through a smartphone app. The prototype Wayfindr app has been developed by ustwo in response to the Royal London Society for Blind People’s Youth Forum. ...
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NewsStockholm metro train design unveiled
SWEDEN: Bombardier Transportation revealed the design of its articulated Movia C30 metro trainsets for the Stockholm metro Red Line at EurasiaRail 2015 in Istanbul on March 6. The air-conditioned trains feature three sets of double doors per car rather than two, as well as a reconfigured seating layout, to ...
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NewsCaracas metro welcomes refurbished trains
VENEZUELA: The first refurbished first-generation train has entered passenger service on Line 2 of the Caracas metro following six months of work. The oldest trains on the metro, built by Alsthom Atlantique, date from the early 1980s and have run for more than 3 million km. The entire fleet ...
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NewsSilom Line extension options announced
THAILAND: The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced three options for the alignment of the Silom Line metro extension on March 3. In December the city’s Traffic & Transport Office awarded a 40m baht contract to TEAM Consulting Engineering & Management Co for a feasibility study into extending the line north ...
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NewsJakarta metro trains ordered
INDONESIA: MRT Jakarta has awarded Sumitomo Corp and Nippon Sharyo a ¥13bn contract for the supply of 16 six-car trainsets for the first line of the Jakarta metro. The trainsets will be designed according to the Standard Urban Railway System for Asia specification. This was developed by Japanese railway ...
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NewsSt Petersburg orders more Škoda metro cars
RUSSIA: Škoda Transportation subsidiary OOO Vagonmaš has been selected to supply eight six-car trainsets for St Petersburg metro Line 3. The 3·8bn rouble contract is expected to be signed in the next few days. The vehicles will be lighter than those of the metro’s existing fleet, thanks to the ...
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NewsOttawa O-Train relaunches as Trillium Line
CANADA: Ottawa’s C$60·3m O-Train capacity expansion project was officially completed on March 2, with the entry into service of six Alstom Coradia Lint 41 diesel multiple-units. However, the launch was delayed by a points failure, and services were suspended the following day owing to signalling problems. The line has ...
