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NewsShiraz metro Line 1 opens
IRAN: The initial phase of Shiraz Urban Railway Organization’s metro Line 1 was officially opened by Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri on October 11. The first section runs for 10·5 km between Ehsan in the north of the city and Namazi in the centre, with eight stations now open. It will be ...
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NewsSiemens to provide CBTC for Paris Line 14 extension
FRANCE: Siemens has been awarded a contract to equip an extension of Paris metro Line 14 with communications-based train control. Line 14 runs for 9 km between Olympiades in the south of the city and Saint-Lazare, from where a 5·8 km, four station extension northwards to Mairie de Saint-Ouen is ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - October 2014
The Andhra Pradesh government is reviewing bids to undertake feasibility studies for a metro in Visakhapatnam. Toronto’s first Bombardier Flexity Outlook trams entered service on the 510 Spadina route on August 31. The 100% low-floor cars are part of the first new generation of streetcars in the city ...
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NewsBudapest awards €91m fare collection system contract
HUNGARY: Budapest transport authority BKK has awarded Scheidt & Bachmann a €91m five-year contract to design, supply and manage an automated multi-modal fare collection system. The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is providing €54·5m to finance the project, and the municipality HF5·3bn. Scheidt & Bachmann and its Hong Kong-based ...
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NewsAtlanta Streetcar starts test running
USA: The first light rail vehicle for the Atlanta Streetcar line began test running under its own power on October 1. Siemens has supplied four cars from its S70 Avanto LRV family under a $17·2m contract awarded in 2011. These are powered from overhead wires at 750 V DC. ...
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NewsChicago commuter modernisation plan
USA: Chicago commuter rail operator Metra has proposed a 10-year, $2·4bn modernisation plan, which it says is the ‘first long-term rolling stock plan in Metra history’. Of the current fleet of 837 coaches, 40% date from before the 1990s. The plan would see the purchase of 367 new cars ...
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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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NewsFirst Rio Line 4 metro train rolls out
BRAZIL: The first trainset for Rio metro Line 4 rolled off the production line at the CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles factory in China on September 29. The Type A trainset is due to arrive in Rio in December. The six-car trainset has capacity for 2 240 passengers. The stainless ...
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NewsFirst trams arrive in Zhuhai
CHINA: The first two trams for Zhuhai Line 1 have arrived in the Chinese city from AnsaldoBreda’s Pistoia factory in Italy. The remaining eight trams will be assembled at CNR Dalian’s factory under a 10-year licensing agreement signed between the two firms in 2012. The five-section Sirio vehicles will ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - October 2014
Incumbent Üstra has been directly awarded a 22½ year contract to operate the Hannover light rail network from September 25 2015. India’s Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu has reduced the minimum population a city must have before the government supports the construction of a metro from 2 million to ...
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NewsSaarbahn reaches Lebach
GERMANY: A northern extension of the Saarbahn tram-train in Saarbrücken was inaugurated at 10.00 on October 5, with a day of music and free travel until 18.00. The 10·4 km extension from Heusweiler Markt to Lebach-Jabach uses a former heavy rail alignment as far as DB’s Lebach branch, which ...
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Metro Report InternationalKing Abdullah Financial District monorail revealed
SAUDI ARABIA: The first monorail vehicle for the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh was officially unveiled at InnoTrans by Pierre Attendu, President of Bombardier Transportation’s Systems Division, and Waleed Aleisa, Project Manager at Al Ra’idah Investment Co. The vehicle stopped off in Berlin while being delivered to Saudi Arabia ...
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NewsSRT plans multimodal hub at Bang Sue
THAILAND: State Railway of Thailand has reactivated long-standing plans to develop land around Bang Sue station on the northern edge of Bangkok under a property deal aimed at reducing the company’s debt pile. Three plots of land have been identified by SRT, and these would be developed for mixed ...
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NewsNew trams enter service in Daugavpils
LATVIA: The first six of 12 UKVZ trams ordered earlier this year entered passenger service in Daugavpils on September 30. The remaining six are to be delivered in April 2015. Tram operator Daugavpils Satiksme ordered eight type 71-623 single-section trams and four type 71-631 three-section trams from the Russian ...
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NewsBombardier's River Line contract renewed
USA: New Jersey Transit has awarded incumbent Bombardier Transportation a new $296m contract to operate and maintain the River Line diesel light rail service. The contract runs for 15 years from March 14 2015, with an option for a further five years. Bombardier has operated the 55 km River ...
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NewsLos Angeles breaks ground on Regional Connector
USA: A groundbreaking ceremony for the Regional Connector light rail line took place in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles on September 30. The 3 km underground line will link the Blue, Expo and Gold lines and add three stations, at 1st Street/Central Avenue, 2nd Street/Broadway and 2nd ...
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NewsPort Authority requests PATH airport extension proposals
USA: New York-New Jersey Port Authority issued a request for proposals on September 26 for an extension of the PATH metro line from Newark Penn Station to Newark Liberty International Airport. A Port Authority study recommended the $1·5bn project in 2012, and it is included in the $27·6bn 10-year ...
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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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NewsDubai metro expansion plans
UAE: Dubai Roads & Transport Authority is studying proposed alignments for extensions of the city’s two metro lines that would open in time for Expo 2020. An 18·5 km extension to the Red Line is planned from Jebel Ali to the Expo 2020 site with 12 stations. At the ...
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NewsDimmable tram windows
GLAZING: Vision Systems Automotive exhibited a prototype of its Nuance smart shading window on a Bombardier Flexity 2 metre-gauge tram for De Lijn, which was displayed at InnoTrans. The electronically dimmable window uses a suspended particle film applied to the glazing. When electronically activated, this allows light through, but ...
