All Metro articles – Page 226
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Tram-trains to serve Alacant airport
SPAIN: The Valencia regional government hopes to begin tendering next year for an 11·5 km extension of the Alacant light rail network to the city's airport, with the aim of opening the route in 2011. As well as conventional LRVs, operator FGV is planning to use tram-train vehicles with a ...
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Serco signs £500m Dubai metro contract
UAE: International services group Serco announced on April 10 that it had signed a contract with Dubai's Roads & Transport Authority covering the operation and maintenance of the emirate's first two metro lines (RG 4.08 p255). Serco had been named as preferred bidder in June 2007. The five-year operations contract ...
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PPP consortium builds Seoul's first automated metro line
SOUTH KOREA: Due to open in 2010, the 18·5 km first stage of the fully-automated Sin Bundang line will connect the rapidly-growing residential areas around Bundang with the capital's metro and suburban rail networks Construction work is well advanced in ...
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Tehran places €360m Chinese train order
IRAN: Tehran Urban & Suburban Railway Co signed a €360m contract with China Northern Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry Group for 455 metro cars and 160 double-deck coaches on March 26. CNR said the contract is its largest-ever export order. CNR has delivered 1?408 coaches and 432 metro cars to ...
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Twin Cities project gets local backing
USA: A coalition of local elected officials has agreed to support the Central Corridor light rail project connecting the centres of Minneapolis and St Paul, although the $909m plan will still require federal funding. The 17·7 km line would serve 20 stations from a MultiModal Terminal in Minneapolis, running via ...
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Freight ring to relieve metro
RUSSIA: Meeting on March 14, the board of Russian Railways formally adopted a master plan for converting the circular freight railway that runs round the city for use by local passenger trains. The 54 km line is to be electrified throughout, and 30 new stations built by 2011. Under an ...
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Genève to get S-Bahn
SWITZERLAND: Transferis has been established as a joint venture of SBB and SNCF to manage the launch of intensive cross-border suburban services for the Genève region from 2013. SNCF CEO Guillaume Pepy joined Paul Blumenthal, Head of Passenger Traffic at Swiss Federal Railways, at a ceremony to mark the inauguration ...
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NewsLänsimetro contribution
FINLAND: The cabinet voted on March 11 to provide €200m towards the total €713m cost of extending the metro westwards into the neighbouring city of Espoo. In the wake of the decision, planning tenders are expected to be received this month, with construction likely to start in 2009 and the ...
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Tram-train trials
UK: Five tram-trains are to be procured for trials in northern England, the Department for Transport confirmed on March 18. The two-year test starting in 2010 will 'establish whether tram-trains similar to those operating successfully in Europe are suitable for Britain's railway network.' Tram-trains will replace DMUs on the 60 ...
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Kaohsiung Red Line launched
TAIWAN: Public services began running on the island's second metro network on March 9, following the formal opening of Kaohsiung's 28 km Red Line the preceding day. Heading the list of VIPs riding the inaugural train were Premier Chang Chen-Hsiung and Mayor Chen Chu. Outgoing President Chen Shui-Bien had visited ...
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Docklands Light Railway car formally unveiled
UK: Decathlete Dean Macey, Chairman of Britain's Olympic Delivery Authority John Armitt, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Transport for London's Managing Director, London Rail, Ian Brown unveiled the first of a new design of train for the Docklands Light Railway on March 13. TfL placed a £50m order ...
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NewsDelhi Metro exercises €87m car option
INDIA: Bombardier announced on March 28 that it had received a €87m order from Delhi Metro Rail Corp for an additional 84 Movia metro cars. The order is an option on a €427m contract signed in July 2007 which covered the supply of 340 cars, and brings the total number ...
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Sydney metro to serve northwest suburbs
AUSTRALIA: On March 18 New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma unveiled plans for a 38 km metro line with 17 stations to link Rouse Hill in the northwestern suburbs of Sydney with the city centre. Expected to be completed by 2017, the line is projected to cost A$12·5bn to build. ...
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Tramtrack Croydon buy out
UK: Transport for London announced on March 17 than it had reached an agreement to buy Tramtrack Croydon Ltd, holder of a private finance initiative concession to run the 28 km Tramlink light rail system in south London. TfL will pay £98m for the company, with completion of the deal ...
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NewsIstanbul to build second light metro
TURKEY: The Municipality of Istanbul has awarded a joint venture led by Italian firm Astaldi a €751m contract for civil, electromechanical and signalling works on the Kadiköy - Kartal light metro line. The contract covers the construction of a 20 km double-track underground line on the Asian side of the ...
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Roca wiring out to tender
ARGENTINA: On March 11 the federal government launched tendering for a programme to complete electrification of the Roca suburban network in Buenos Aires at a cost of US$1·39bn. At present, 55 km of the 198 km Roca system is electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz AC. Work has been divided ...
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Trains in temporary accommodation
TUBE Lines has erected a temporary workshop at Stratford Market depot on London Underground's Jubilee Line to enable trains to receive train control equipment modifications as part of the resignalling of the route. The 1 960 m2 temporary workshop provides a dedicated facility to fit the additional equipment to each ...
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Branches on Canaries
SPAIN: Work is now underway on the two branches that will form Line 2 of the light rail network in the Spanish city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (RG 10.07 p597). Under a contract worth €11·4m, a joint venture of Acciona Infraestructuras, Comsa, Promotora Punta Larga and Tinerfeña Obras ...
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NewsBritain announces tram-train trials
UK: Five tram-trains are to be procured for trials on the Penistone line in Yorkshire, Britain's Department for Transport confirmed on March 18. The two-year trial starting in 2010 will 'establish whether tram-trains similar to those operating successfully in Europe are suitable for Britain’s railway network.' The project is a ...
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SuperCap tests complete
GERMANY: Mannheim tram operator MVV and Bombardier have completed four years of trials with a Mitrac Energy Saver which uses double-layer capacitors to store regenerated braking energy (RG 7.06 p405). Long-term results showed that the tram's traction power consumption was reduced by 30%. Overall power needs including doors, air-conditioning and ...