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Kazan metro opens
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin became the first passenger to ride the Kazan metro when it opened on August 27. He was joined for the 1·2 km trip from Kremlyovskaya to Ploschad Tukaya by Tatarstan's premier Mintimer Shamiyev and Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Judrina, and the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev ...
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Airport link rebid
KAWASAKI Heavy Industries was the sole bidder last month to supply electrical and mechanical equipment for the planned metro link between Taipei city centre and Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. The tender was opened on September 7 by the state-owned Bureau of High Speed Rail. Legislation requires at least three qualified ...
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Disneyland Resort Line ready to open
CHINA: September 12 sees the opening of the Hong Kong Disneyland park at Penny’s Bay, served by a 4 km branch from Sunny Bay on MTR’s Tung Chung Line. Revenue service on Hong Kong’s first fully-automated metro began on August 1, attracting an average of 10 000 passengers/day in the ...
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A rail vision for the capital
Forecasting that peak demand on the UK capital’s commuter railways is set to grow by 30% over the next 20 years, Transport for London’s Managing Director, London Rail, Ian Brown explained to Robert Preston how a package of major projects, upgrades and smaller schemes should deliver the extra capacity
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Vancouver contract signed
CONSTRUCTION of a 19 km automated light metro from Vancouver to Richmond and Vancouver Airport is expected to start this month. Completion is scheduled for the end of 2009, ready for Vancouver to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. On August 2, TransLink's project management subsidiary Ravco confirmed that it had ...
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D78 stock gets a fresh look
Robert Preston samples the first of 75 six-car London Underground trainsets to be refurbished
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NewsTTC to invest in trams and metro
ON JUNE 22 Toronto Transit Commission voted to buy a new fleet of up to 242 low-floor trams, as part of major upgrading of the city's ageing tram network. Commissioner Jope Milhevc said the project would give the city 'a first-class streetcar system'. TTC wants to see the first cars ...
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Work begins on Docklands Light Railway's Woolwich Arsenal extension
UK: At a ceremony in Woolwich on June 13, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Transport Minister Karen Buck marked the start of work on the Docklands Light Railway extension from King George V to Woolwich Arsenal. The 2·5 km extension is to be built by the Woolwich Arsenal ...
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Dubai metro contract awarded
ON MAY 29 representatives of Dubai Municipality and the Dubai Rapid Link consortium signed a 12·45bn dirham contract for final design and construction of the planned driverless metro in the United Arab Emirates' second largest city. The contract was signed by the Director General & Chairman of the Dubai ...
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Pre-series Avanto starts test running
Now undergoing trial running at the Siemens test centre in Wegberg-Wildenrath is the first of 15 dual-system Avanto low-floor light rail vehicles ordered by French National Railways in 2002. Harry Hondius reports
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DLR capacity expansion
DOCKLANDS Light Railway ordered 24 more articulated cars from Bombardier on April 28, as part of a programme to expand the capacity of its busiest route from Bank to Lewisham via Canary Wharf. Platforms are being lengthened so that trains can be extended from two to three cars in ...
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Indian metros to take off
UNPRECEDENTED investment in metro projects is planned in India, in the wake of the success of the Delhi metro, where the initial 8·3 km of Line 1 from Shahdara to Tis Hazari opened in December 2002. The next 4·5 km followed in October 2003, and a third segment was commissioned ...
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Macau plans light rail network
TENDERS are to be invited next year for construction of a 27 km light rail network in the Macau Special Administrative Region, with the aim of having the first routes operational by 2009. Proposals for the three-line network were unveiled by the Land, Public Works & Transport Bureau at the ...
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NewsKeeping Luas up to speed
INTRO: Maintenance of rolling stock and infrastructure on the two light rail routes in Dublin has been contracted to Alstom WELL BEFORE the first cars began running on Dublin's two light rail lines last year, Ireland's Railway Procurement Agency had put in place two contracts for the ...
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Angers confirms light rail plan
MAYOR OF Angers Jean-Claude Antonini announced on February 10 that the city had decided to adopt steel-wheeled technology for its north-south light rail line, after a study found that rubber-tyred alternatives were insufficiently proven. The 16th largest city in France hopes to get planning approval for the 12 km route ...
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NewsRubin moves into testing phase
Germany's first fully-automatic metro is on course to open in 12 months' time. After seven years of studies and development work, the first trainset has already started trial running in Nürnberg
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NewsIndustry divided by screen door debate
ONE OF THE biggest questions facing metro operators considering the conversion to automation is how to ensure safety at station platforms and/or detect obstructions on the track. The UITP metros conference in Nürnberg included a round table on the use of platform screen doors. Opening the debate, Holger Albert from ...
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Shenzhen opens two lines
CONFETTI-GUN salutes and loud cheers greeted the opening of China's latest metro on December 28, when Guangdong Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang inaugurated the first two lines in Shenzhen. Under construction since March 2001, the 21·8 km first phase has cost 11·5bn yuan. Line 1 runs east-west from the KCR border ...
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Automation by stealth
CHINA: This year Hong Kong MTR Corp will open its seventh line, and the first to be fully-automated. The 3·4km Disneyland Resort Line (DRL) will connect the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park at Penny’s Bay on the south coast of Lantau Island with the new Sunny Bay station on the ...
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MTR branches out
ON DECEMBER 3 Hong Kong MTR Corp signed a formal agreement to build and operate Beijing metro Line 4, which is due to open in time for the 2008 Olympics. MTRC is taking a 49% stake in the project, as will the state-owned Beijing Capital Group; the remaining 2% will ...
