All Metro articles – Page 129
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NewsTramRus tram coming to St Petersburg
RUSSIA: The TramRus joint venture of Alstom and Transmashholding is to supply a tram to St Petersburg by December 1. This would be the first 100% low-floor tram to run in the city, according to the manufacturer. The tram is currently undergoing testing at TramRus’s Oktyabrsky Electric Railway Car ...
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NewsSouth Island Line tunnel broken through
CHINA: Excavation of the Nam Fung Tunnel on Hong Kong metro’s South Island Line (East) was completed on October 17. Drill-and-blast works for the 3·2 km tunnel between Admiralty and Ocean Park stations started in August 2012. Around 500 tonnes of explosives were used for 750 blasts, producing approximately ...
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NewsKarlsruhe welcomes new light rail vehicle
GERMANY: The first two Vossloh Citylink NET 2012 light rail vehicles entered passenger service in Karlsruhe on October 18, with a day of free travel after the ceremonial roll-out the previous day. Karlsruhe transport operators VBK and AVG ordered an initial build of 25 vehicles in October 2011 for ...
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NewsStrasbourg orders Citadis trams
FRANCE: Alstom has signed a framework agreement for the supply of 50 Citadis trams to Strasbourg. An initial 12 trams, worth €41m, are expected to enter service by the end of 2016. The trams will be put into service on Line A and Line D, both of which are ...
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NewsLos Angeles takes delivery of P3010 light rail vehicle
USA: Kinkisharyo International formally delivered the first of 78 P3010 light rail vehicles to Los Angeles on October 17. The pilot vehicle will be used for testing before series production begins, with delivery of the first production vehicle due in mid-2015. All 78 LRVs are expected to be in ...
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NewsParis exercises metro train option
FRANCE: Paris public transport operator RATP has exercised an option for 12 MF01 steel-wheeled metro trainsets to be supplied by a consortium of Alstom, Bombardier Transportation and AREVA TA for lines 2, 5 and 9. The €75m order announced on October 20 is an option on an order placed in ...
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NewsMauritius selects light rail contractor
MAURITIUS: The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has awarded a partnership of Indian construction company Afcons Infrastructure and CAF a contract to build a 37 km light rail line from the capital Port Louis to Curepipe. Much of the route, known locally as métro leger, would use the alignment of ...
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NewsSiemens signalling for Metrorrey Line 3
MEXICO: The Nuevo León state government has awarded Siemens a €25m contract to provide signalling, telecoms and control systems for Monterrey light metro Line 3, having selected the company as preferred bidder at the end of May. Siemens is to supply CTS/M automatic train protection, two Sicas electronic interlockings, its ...
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NewsShiraz metro Line 1 opens
IRAN: The initial phase of Shiraz Urban Railway Organization’s metro Line 1 was officially opened by Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri on October 11. The first section runs for 10·5 km between Ehsan in the north of the city and Namazi in the centre, with eight stations now open. It will be ...
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NewsSiemens to provide CBTC for Paris Line 14 extension
FRANCE: Siemens has been awarded a contract to equip an extension of Paris metro Line 14 with communications-based train control. Line 14 runs for 9 km between Olympiades in the south of the city and Saint-Lazare, from where a 5·8 km, four station extension northwards to Mairie de Saint-Ouen is ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - October 2014
The Andhra Pradesh government is reviewing bids to undertake feasibility studies for a metro in Visakhapatnam. Toronto’s first Bombardier Flexity Outlook trams entered service on the 510 Spadina route on August 31. The 100% low-floor cars are part of the first new generation of streetcars in the city ...
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NewsBudapest awards €91m fare collection system contract
HUNGARY: Budapest transport authority BKK has awarded Scheidt & Bachmann a €91m five-year contract to design, supply and manage an automated multi-modal fare collection system. The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is providing €54·5m to finance the project, and the municipality HF5·3bn. Scheidt & Bachmann and its Hong Kong-based ...
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NewsAtlanta Streetcar starts test running
USA: The first light rail vehicle for the Atlanta Streetcar line began test running under its own power on October 1. Siemens has supplied four cars from its S70 Avanto LRV family under a $17·2m contract awarded in 2011. These are powered from overhead wires at 750 V DC. ...
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NewsChicago commuter modernisation plan
USA: Chicago commuter rail operator Metra has proposed a 10-year, $2·4bn modernisation plan, which it says is the ‘first long-term rolling stock plan in Metra history’. Of the current fleet of 837 coaches, 40% date from before the 1990s. The plan would see the purchase of 367 new cars ...
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NewsNew Tube for London initial designs unveiled
UK: Design proposals for the New Tube For London project to modernise London Underground’s small-profile Piccadilly, Bakerloo, Central and Waterloo & City lines were revealed on October 9. Transport for London has shortlisted Alstom, Bombardier, CAF, Hitachi and Siemens for the contract to supply around 250 trainsets. It plans ...
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NewsFirst Rio Line 4 metro train rolls out
BRAZIL: The first trainset for Rio metro Line 4 rolled off the production line at the CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles factory in China on September 29. The Type A trainset is due to arrive in Rio in December. The six-car trainset has capacity for 2 240 passengers. The stainless ...
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NewsFirst trams arrive in Zhuhai
CHINA: The first two trams for Zhuhai Line 1 have arrived in the Chinese city from AnsaldoBreda’s Pistoia factory in Italy. The remaining eight trams will be assembled at CNR Dalian’s factory under a 10-year licensing agreement signed between the two firms in 2012. The five-section Sirio vehicles will ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - October 2014
Incumbent Üstra has been directly awarded a 22½ year contract to operate the Hannover light rail network from September 25 2015. India’s Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu has reduced the minimum population a city must have before the government supports the construction of a metro from 2 million to ...
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NewsSaarbahn reaches Lebach
GERMANY: A northern extension of the Saarbahn tram-train in Saarbrücken was inaugurated at 10.00 on October 5, with a day of music and free travel until 18.00. The 10·4 km extension from Heusweiler Markt to Lebach-Jabach uses a former heavy rail alignment as far as DB’s Lebach branch, which ...
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Metro Report InternationalKing Abdullah Financial District monorail revealed
SAUDI ARABIA: The first monorail vehicle for the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh was officially unveiled at InnoTrans by Pierre Attendu, President of Bombardier Transportation’s Systems Division, and Waleed Aleisa, Project Manager at Al Ra’idah Investment Co. The vehicle stopped off in Berlin while being delivered to Saudi Arabia ...