Urban rail – Page 399
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NewsIn touch onboard
SAUDI ARABIA: Moxa is to provide ethernet switches for the data, information and CCTV networks onboard the 22 two-car trainsets AnsaldoBreda is to supply for the driverless metro being built at Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman women's university in Riyadh. Moxa has also supplied the Helsinki metro with ethernet switches for ...
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NewsKolkata metro station design contract awarded
INDIA: Kolkata Metro Rail Corp has appointed Mott MacDonald as detailed design consultant for the six stations to be built on the 5·7 km elevated section of the East-West metro corridor between Salt Lake Stadium and Salt Lake Sector V. The capital value of the project, which includes 'landmark' ...
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NewsBarcelona metro network exceeds 100 km
SPAIN: Following the opening of a 0·6 km section of Line 2 from Pep Ventura to Badalona Pompeu Fabra on July 11, the Barcelona metro network now exceeds 100 km in length. The new station opened to the public at 15.00 after the official inauguration ceremony.The network is now 100·2 ...
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NewsLe Havre selects Citadis trams
FRANCE: On July 12 Alstom announced an €45m order to supply Le Havre local authority CODAH with 20 Citadis cars for the city’s future tram network. Continuing the tradition of French cities specifying locally-themed styling, the Le Havre cars will feature 'flowing lines and architectural references' to integrate with the ...
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NewsUS cities receive tram grants
USA: Five US cities have received nearly $105m for tram projects from the US Department of Transportation’s Urban Circulator Grant Programme, which is designed to help cities better co-ordinate transport, housing and commercial development. The recipients include: St Louis Loop Trolley: $25m for a 3·2 km, nine-stop route ...
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NewsLoan to relieve world's most overcrowded trains
INDIA: The World Bank agreed on June 29 to provide a US$430m loan towards the US$970·5m Mumbai Urban Transport Project phase 2A. This aims to improve capacity on Mumbai's suburban rail network, which the World Bank said suffers from some of the most severe overcrowding in the world with 4 ...
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NewsUrban rail progress in Najaf and Baghdad
IRAQ: Canadian consortium TransGlobim International has announced a US$600m 30-year concession to finance, build and operate a 37 track-km monorail linking three major Shi'ite pilgrimage sites in Najaf. Construction is expected to take three years, and a second phase would extend the line to the international airport. The monorail is ...
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NewsGatwick Airport peoplemover shuttle reopens
UK: The 1·2 km rubber-tyred automated peoplemover which links the north and south terminals at London Gatwick airport in less than 3 min reopened on July 1, following a £43m modernisation by Bombardier Transportation, Costain Group and Vinci Construction.The twin-track elevated line opened in 1987, and airport owner Global Infrastructure ...
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NewsBTS SkyTrain receives new rolling stock
THAILAND: On June 25 Skytrain operator Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Co Ltd (BTSC) marked the arrival of its new fleet of 12 four-car trains from China with a Buddhist blessing ceremony. The event at Laem Chabang port in Sriracha was hosted by Keeree Kanjanapas, Executive Chairman & CEO of ...
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NewsDelhi Metro orders more Movias
INDIA: Bombardier Transportation announced an order to supply Delhi Metro Rail Corp with a further 74 Movia metro cars on June 30. The €83m contract has an option for a further 40 vehicles. Deliveries of the additional cars for the second phase of the metro will be competed in 2011. ...
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NewsCSR Zhuzhou to supply Gurgaon trains
INDIA: On June 21 Siemens signed a contract for CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive to supply five three-car trains for the 6·1 km six-station elevated metro line being built in Delhi by the Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon joint venture on a PPP basis. The vehicles will be delivered between November 2011 and ...
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NewsTube Lines sale completed
UK: Transport for London confirmed on June 27 that Tube Lines had become its wholly-owned subsidiary, following the conclusion of an agreement to purchase its shares from Bechtel and Amey. The latter had entered into an agreement to sell the PPP contractor for £310m on May 7.‘This deal opens a ...
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NewsBarcelona metro lines 9 and 10 reach La Sagrera
SPAIN: On June 26 José Montilla, president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, inaugurated a third section of Barcelona metro lines 9 and 10 from Bon Pastor to La Sagrera. TMB operated a 24 h service during the weekend and free commemorative tickets were distributed to mark the occasion.The 2·8 ...
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NewsLA Gold Line extension breaks ground
USA: A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Los Angeles on June 26 for the 18·3 km first phase of the Gold Line Foothill Extension, which will take the light rail route from its current terminal in east Pasadena through the San Gabriel Valley to Azusa. However, only one contract ...
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NewsNew York Flushing Line CBTC contract awarded
USA: New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded Thales a $343m seven-year contract to upgrade the No 7 Flushing Line to communications-based train control. In addition to its core CBTC technology, Thales will supply non-proprietary, free-space wireless radio communication between the train and wayside equipment. Similar open-architecture signalling systems have ...
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NewsCalgary and Edmonton funding confirmed
CANADA: The Alberta provincial government on June 22 made good on a long-standing promise and awarded Calgary and Edmonton C$800m each in transport funding. The money, part of Alberta’s C$2bn ‘Green Trip’ programme, will not come all at once. According to Transport Minister Luke Ouellette, it will be ‘pay-on-progress’.The province’s ...
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NewsMitsubishi and Hitachi to co-operate in urban rail sector
JAPAN: An agreement to co-operate in the international urban rail supply market was announced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi on June 22. The companies aim to leverage each other's expertise to strengthen their competitiveness in what they see as a growing world market, and will 'work together as ...
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NewsCoupling up
CHINA: The Wabtec Golden Bridge Transportation Technology Co joint venture formed by Wabtec Corp and Hangzhou Golden Bridge Railway Equipment Co to manufacture metro couplings in China has won its first contract. The US$7m order announced on June 22 covers the supply of couplers for Hangzhou Metro cars. 'With this ...
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NewsFuel cell tram trial
SPAIN: Metre-gauge operator FEVE is planning to start trials with fuel cell traction between Ribadesella and Llovio on its non-electrified Santander - Oviedo route by the end of this year. A hydrogen fuel cell is to be installed in a 1970s tramcar to power four traction motors, capable of ...
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NewsGood business case for Dublin interconnector
IRELAND: With responses to the prequalification tender for the public-private partnership to build Dublin’s cross-city rail link due by July 20, Iarnród Éireann announced on June 22 that a new business assessment had confirmed a ‘strong’ economic case for the Interconnector project, now officially known as DART Underground. The 7·6 ...
