Metro news – Page 114
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NewsMTR’s Stockholm metro contract extended
SWEDEN: Stockholm transport authority SL exercised an option on September 8 for MTR Stockholm to continue to operate the city’s metro network for a further six years. The subsidiary of Hong Kong’s MTR Corp began operating the network in November 2009 under an eight-year contract. This has now been extended ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - September 2015
Istanbul Ulam has called tenders for 75 four-car trainsets to operate on the future Line M7. The first three sponsors for Kuala Lumpur’s Station Naming Rights Programme are AirAsia, Bank Rakyat and Suez Capital. Nippon KOEI has carried out a feasibility study for a 35 km metro ...
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NewsTokyo peoplemover to receive lightweight train
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has completed a five-car Model 330 automated rubber-tyre light metro trainset which is expected to enter service on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Nippori-toneri Liner peoplemover next month. The cars have an unpainted double-skin aluminium body structure which is designed to be around 1·5 tonnes lighter ...
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NewsAlstom completes Dublin tram overhaul
IRELAND: Alstom has completed the 300 000 km overhaul of 26 Citadis 402 trams supplied in 2009 for Dublin’s Luas light rail Green Line. This follows completion last year of the 600 000 km overhaul of the original batch of Citadis 401 trams which are now concentrated on the Red ...
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NewsEdmonton opens northern Metro Line
CANADA: Revenue services on the second light rail route in Edmonton began running on September 6, when the capital of Alberta inaugurated the Metro Line serving the north of the city. Built at a cost of C$665m, around $90m below budget, the 10 km Metro Line diverges from the existing ...
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NewsPurple Line trains set sail for Bangkok
THAILAND: The first of 21 three-car metro trainsets being built by East Japan Railway’s J-TREC business for Bangkok’s Purple Line was shipped from Yokohama on September 7. The entire fleet is scheduled to arrive in Thailand by January, and revenue services on the 23 km Purple Line running from ...
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NewsPrime Minister opens Delhi metro extension to Faridabad
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the 13·9 km southern extension of Delhi metro Line 6 (Violet) from Badarpur to Escorts Mujesar in the satellite city of Faridabad on September 6. This takes the metro over the border from the capital territory into the state of Haryana. Revenue services began ...
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NewsMetro trains to feature ‘elephant tusk’ inspired lighting
INDIA: Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has revealed the future appearance of the 25 Metropolis trainsets which are to be supplied by Alstom Transport’s s Sricity plant. Alstom’s Design & Styling department at Saint-Ouen in France collaborated on the design with KMRL and Tata Elxsi, which devised the livery. Their brief ...
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NewsGroundbreaking ceremony for CRRC's US assembly plant
USA: Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker joined Mayor of Springfield Domenic Sarno and CRRC Vice-President Yu Weiping on September 3 for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the Chinese company’s future US rolling stock plant. Last October Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority awarded the CNR MA joint venture of ...
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NewsTram bridge across Kraków Płaszów station opened
POLAND: A 1 km section of new tram line connecting Kraków’s Wielicka and Lipska streets via a 600 m bridge across Kraków Płaszów station opened on August 30. Although the new link is relatively short, construction was a complex two-year project. The bridge incorporates a tram stop with stairs and ...
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NewsSzczecin extends right bank tram network
POLAND: Regular services on a new tram line on the right bank of the River Odra in Szczecin began on August 29, ready for the start of the new school year and two days after the inauguration ceremony. Agreements for construction of the first phase of the new line were ...
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Metro Report InternationalL&T wins ‘breakthrough’ Riyadh metro contract
SAUDI ARABIA: L&T Construction’s Railway Business Unit has announced a ‘major breakthrough railway order’ for the construction of 62·86 km of ballastless double-track on Riyadh metro lines 1 and 2. The 40-month contract worth US$161·4m was awarded by design and build contractor BACS, a consortium of Bechtel, Almabani General Contractors, ...
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NewsPorto operating contract retendered
PORTUGAL: Metro de Porto and bus operator STCP are retendering the contract to operate the city’s public transport networks, having agreed with preferred bidder Transports Ciutat Comtal that agreements reached earlier this year would be rescinded. All prequalified bidders for the earlier competition, including TCC, have been invited to participate. ...
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NewsNew metro cars in Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA: The first six of 120 Alstom Metropolis cars for Line H of the Buenos Aires metro arrived in the city on August 27. The stainless steel air-conditioned cars are equipped with regenerative braking. The previous day, test running took place on the first 10 of 105 cars that ...
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NewsFeature articles in the September 2015 issue of Metro Report International
Articles in the September 2015 issue of Metro Report International. Comment UITP President Masaki Ogata sets out his priorities for the public transport sector at the start of his term News Review Round-up of world metro, light rail and tram news City digest London orders trains, Chinese rolling stock market ...
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NewsGdańsk inaugurates tram extension
POLAND: An extension of the Gdańsk tram network was inaugurated on August 26, when Mayor Paweł Adamowicz received the safety certificate enabling the line to carry passengers. Revenue services will begin on August 31; this is a month earlier than originally planned, to be ready for the start of the ...
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NewsMoscow Metro receives diagnostic train
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has taken delivery of a diagnostic train from Tvema. The Sinergiya-2 train is the next model of the first-generation Sinergiya train that is already in service on the metro. Sinergiya-2 uses infrared sensors, thermal imaging and laser measurement, as well as high-resolution recording, to detect rail ...
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NewsTabriz metro opens
IRAN: The first phase of Tabriz metro Line 1 opened for trial passenger services on August 28, with free travel offered for an initial three months. The 7 km route runs northwest from El Goli to Ostad Shahryar with four intermediate stations, including three in a tunnel excavated using ...
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NewsMetro trains on test in Montréal
CANADA: Montréal metro operator STM announced on August 25 that two Azur trainsets will begin daytime test running on the network. A prototype trainset without interior fittings arrived in April 2014 and has been used for night time testing on the network over the past 15 months, following trials ...
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NewsSydney Metro TBM breaks cover
AUSTRALIA: Tunnel boring machines typically arrive ‘face first’ at a breakthrough sites, but TBMs Maria and Isabelle which are being used on the Sydney Metro Northwest project passed through a future ventilation and emergency access shaft at Cheltenham with the top 3 m of their cutter heads above ground. ...