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Property deal will fund Tehran Line 4
A US$836m contract for construction of Tehran Metro Line 4 was signed on May 15 by the Managing Director of Tehran Urban & Suburban Railway Co, Mohsen Hashemi, and the Managing Director of China North Industries Corp, in the presence of the city's Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Norinco was selected ...
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Urban rail news in brief - May 2004
Argentina: The contract to build the 2·9 km extension of metro Line A from Primera Junta to Nazca (RG 4.04 p186) was signed in Buenos Aires on April 12. Civil works began 10 days later, with new stations expected to open at Pu? n and Carabobo in 2007 and at ...
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Safetram addresses crashworthiness of trams and light rail vehicles
An EU-funded three-year research programme to develop cost-effective structural safety improvements for trams and light rail vehicles has produced two modular bodyshell designs
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Kinetic energy storage wins acceptance
The ability of KESS to support line voltage, regenerate braking energy and provide uninterrupted supplies at stations has now been demonstrated on urban railways in London, New York, Lyon and Tokyo
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Darling launches light rail NET
SECRETARY of State for Transport Alistair Darling and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham Brent Charlesworth joined the ceremonies on March 8 to mark the completion of the UK's latest light rail network. Revenue services on Nottingham Express Transit Line 1 began at 06.00 the following morning. The 14 km ...
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Beijing metro accords
CONSTRUCTION of a fourth heavy metro line in Beijing is to be undertaken by a private-sector consortium including Hong Kong MTRCorp, which recently signed a concession in Shenzhen (RG 2.04 p65). The Chairman of Beijing Capital Group Liu Xiaoguang revealed on March 4 that the company had reached an agreement ...
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Addis Abeba plans interurban light rail
PROPOSALS are being developed for a 100 km rapid transit link between Addis Abeba and Nazareth to relieve transport problems in the Ethiopian capital. Public transport patronage has increased by 43% since 1986, with local buses now handling more than 600000 passengers a day. Although described as light rail, the ...
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Lausanne to join the automated metro club
Construction of Switzerland's first driverless metro is now expected to start in the spring
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NewsThird-rail trams across the Garonne
France's ninth modern tram network began carrying passengers in December, and work is getting underway on the first of seven extensions. Chris Jackson looks at Bordeaux's innovative surface-contact power supply
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West Rail opens to passengers
FULL COMMERCIAL service on Hong Kong's West Rail was due to start at 14.00 on December 20, after a formal opening ceremony had taken place that morning at Kam Sheung Road station. KCRC Chairman Michael Tien announced the opening date on December 12 following six weeks of fault-free ghost ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - December 2003
Tender are due to be called next month for supply of dual-system rolling stock to operate the Randstad Rail network in the Netherlands. Den Haag light rail operator HTM is to buy 21 low-floor cars to run through services from the west of the city to the Zoetermeer line, requiring ...
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Kharkiv metro extends
THIS MONTH is due to see the delivery to Kharkiv metro of the first of 25 additional cars ordered earlier this year from Metrowagonmash of Moscow. Under the agreement signed by General Manager Mikhail Pilipchuk, the cars are due to arrive at the rate of five per month for final ...
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NewsTram tug
THE FIRST production tram tug to use WheelMotor traction motors has been delivered to Dublin's Red Cow LUAS depot, where it will be used to position Alstom Citadis trams over a Sculfort wheel lathe. The Railcat1 design was developed by Stored Energy Technology following an enquiry from Alstom, which ...
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Sofia metro extension shortlist
BULGARIA: Final tenders are due this month to build a 2·3 km extension of the Sofia metro from Serdika to Interpred (RG 6.03 p347). A first round in May attracted 12 bids, of which five were shortlisted in July. According to Sofia Mayor Stefan Sofianski, construction will start by ...
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Alger metro contract
CONSTRUCTION of the next section of Alger metro Line 1 could start this year, following the award of an engineering contract on June 24. Entreprise du Métro d'Alger has selected a consortium of Systra and SGTE to design the 4·1 km Hamma - Hai El Badr section of the capital's ...
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Taipei metro funding deal
TAIPEI City Government has been promised NT$40bn to fund construction of two more metro lines over the next five years. The funding deal was announced by Premier Yu Shyi-Kun on July 3 during a meeting with the capital's Mayor Ma Ying-Jeou. Metro builder DORTS is now working on three ...
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Guangzhou Line 2 completed
JUNE 28 saw the formal opening of Guangzhou metro Line 2, bringing the city's network to 36·8 km serving 31 stations. Limited services had been introduced on the northern section of Line 2 between Sanyanli and Xiaogang on December 28, but these were suspended in May to allow final commissioning ...
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Tube transfers to TfL
AT 00.01 on July 15, responsibility for London Underground Ltd was transferred from the UK Secretary of State for Transport to Transport for London. The handover followed the award of 30-year concessions to Tube Lines and Metronet under the Public-Private Partnership, and saw the abolition of London Regional Transport, which ...
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Neihu line E&M deal signed
TAIPEI City Government's metro construction subsidiary Department of Rapid Transit Systems has awarded contracts for construction of the 14·8 km automated Neihu line, serving the northeast of the city. The US$1bn design-and-build contract has been awarded to Kung Sing Engineering Corp, which has in turn subcontracted the E&M works valued ...