Metro news – Page 235
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Transport for London drops PPP fight
OPERATIONAL control of the London Underground network is on course to be transferred to Transport for London within the next two months, following the announcement on February 4 that TfL and the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone were dropping their legal fight against the UK government's 30-year Public-Private Partnership. In ...
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Beijing Line 13 completed
JANUARY 28 saw the start of full operation on Beijing's City Rail light metro line, following four months of partial services. Trains had begun running on the western portion of the 40·6 km horseshoe route at the end of September (RG 10.02 p609). The line has cost 6·57bn yuan to ...
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Tube Lines signs PPP contract
THE LONDON Underground Public-Private Partnership took a decisive step forward on December 31 when the Tube Lines consortium achieved financial close on a 30-year contract to maintain infrastructure and rolling stock on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines. On that date, 2500 employees transferred to the private sector from LU ...
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NewsSubway contract won with help from Brazil
Alstom signed a contract on October 31 to supply MTA New York CityTransit with 660 cars to the R160 design. Options could add another 1040 cars
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Balancing the risks in København
Bids were received last month for construction of Phase 3 of the København Metro. Andrew Grantham finds that the tendering process has drawn on the experience of the many different parties involved in the first two phases of the project
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Alstom wins Jerusalem LRT
THIS MONTH is due to see the formal signing of the 30-year concession to build and operate Line 1 of the planned Jerusalem light rail network. On October 28, the Israeli ministries of Transport and Finance announced that the City Pass consortium had been selected for the project, and that ...
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European Commission clears London Underground PPP
ON OCTOBER 2 the European Commission announced that it had decided not to raise any objections to the Public-Private Partnership for London Underground. The commission was of the opinion that the PPP contracts and the payments to be made to the Infracos 'do not constitute state aid', as they were ...
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D78 modernised
A LONDON Underground District line vehicle has been modernised as a prototype for a programme to refurbish the fleet of D78 stock under the Public-Private Partnership (RG 6.02 p317). Creactive Design was commissioned to implement the modernisation, in partnership with LU's Train Modification Unit. Ventilation has been improved by ...
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NET Incentro unveiled
BOMBARDIER rolled out the first of 15 trams for Nottingham Express Transit Line 1 on August 13. The five-section Incentro all-low-floor articulated trams are similar to those already in service in Nantes. The stainless steel car bodies with GRP cladding and aluminium roofs were assembled in Derby from components produced ...
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Local assembly brings metro benefits
Bombardier Transportation has delivered the first of 18 metro trainsets for service on Line 2 in the Romanian capital
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O'Rourke launches Dublin PPP
IRELAND'S Minister for Public Enterprise Mary O'Rourke announced on January 16 that the government had given the formal go-ahead for Phase 1 of the Dublin metro (RG 10.01 p629). The Rail Procurement Agency is to seek expressions of interest for a concession to finance, design, build and operate the network. ...
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Sunderland ready to open
JANUARY 29 saw the first light rail vehicles reach South Hylton as test running began on Tyne & Wear Metro's 20 km Sunderland Direct extension (RG 7.01 p474). Revenue services are due to start on March 31, and this will be followed by an official opening by HM Queen Elizabeth ...
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Istanbul invests in rail
TURKEY: Eight metro, light rail and tram projects have been included in Istanbul municipality's 2001 capital investment budget, which was unveiled in mid-December. Total expenditure on rail schemes is put at 4000bn lire. The largest proportion of the money is allocated for construction of new suburban rail corridors feeding into ...
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NewsEcotram research aims to cut tram energy consumption
AUSTRIA: Technische Universität Wien is heading a consortium of Wien transport operator Wiener Linien, Siemens, Vossloh Kiepe, Rail Tec Arsenal and SCHIG, which is undertaking research into operating strategies and design alterations which could lower the energy consumption of trams. Launched in March 2010 and backed by Austrian research agency ...
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Sirio goes north
GÖTEBORG Transport has ordered a fleet of 40 Sirio low-floor light rail cars from AnsaldoBreda for SKr600m, plus an option for a further 80 vehicles. The 29m long unidirectional cars are 2650mm wide and will have seats for 83 passengers and room for 96 standees. Two prototypes are due for ...
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NewsNET construction in full swing
The Nottingham Express Transit light rail line is taking shape after 10 years of planning. The first trams to be fully funded under Britain's Private Finance Initiative are expected to carry 11 million passengers a year from 2003
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SNCF pioneers the tram-train concept
Dual-mode vehicles able to run on city-centre tram routes and main line tracks have been running successfully in Karlsruhe since 1992. Jean-Paul Masse investigates French National Railways' proposals to introduce the concept to its network
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Tyne & Wear Metro shares tracks to Sunderland
Britain's light rail revival was spearheaded by Tyne & Wear Metro in 1980; Richard Hope reports on another key milestone scheduled for January 13 2002 when light rail operation over the Railtrack network is scheduled to begin
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High-speed flywheels cut energy bill
Chris Jackson reports on trials of a lightweight flywheel energy storage unit being conducted on London Underground's Piccadilly line
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Model guides metro expansion
By 2003 Madrid's metro network will have grown to 233 route-km, almost twice its size in 1995 when the first of two expansion programmes was started. Close management focus and an insistence on proven tunnelling techniques have kept these works to budget, while operating costs are falling as innovations help ...