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Edmonton extends light rail line
NEW YEAR'S Day saw the start of revenue operation on the first addition to Edmonton's light rail line in 14 years, although formal inauguration ceremonies were not held until the following day. Costing C$100m, the 600m extension from University to the Health Sciences station is the first part of the ...
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Lok Ma Chau Spur Line offers a quiet route to China
Noise mitigation is integral to the design of the 7·4 km Lok Ma Chau Spur, a second rail link between Hong Kong and the mainland which will relieve congestion at the Lo Wu crossing point
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NewsSilence of the trams
UK: Secretary of State for Transport Alistair Darling has effectively killed any prospect that light rail construction in England will resume in the near future. Thanks to devolution of such matters to the Scottish Parliament, a new network is still expected go ahead in Edinburgh. The first indication of trouble ...
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Canada Line cars ordered
SOUTH KOREAN rolling stock builder Rotem has won the contract to supply trainsets for the Richmond - Airport - Vancouver automated metro, which has been named the Canada Line to mark Vancouver's role as a gateway between North America and Asia. The 19 km line with 16 stations is ...
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DLR reaches City Airport
MAYOR of London Ken Livingstone and UK Transport Minister Karen Buck officially opened the latest extension of the Docklands Light Railway at London City Airport station on December 6. Services on the 4·4 km branch from Canning Town to King George V had already begun on December 2, adding four ...
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NewsBangkok Airport Express to change city travel
The 28 km standard gauge link to the new Bangkok airport lies at the heart of plans to revitalise the Thai capital’s urban rail services. Andrew Grantham reports
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Kazan metro opens
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin became the first passenger to ride the Kazan metro when it opened on August 27. He was joined for the 1·2 km trip from Kremlyovskaya to Ploschad Tukaya by Tatarstan's premier Mintimer Shamiyev and Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Judrina, and the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev ...
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Completion of South Line will more than double Metrorec traffic
Due for completion in 2006, the second line of the Recife metro will serve the airport and areas south of the city. Murray Hughes visited the line with Metrorec General Manager Sileno Sousa Guedes
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Airport link rebid
KAWASAKI Heavy Industries was the sole bidder last month to supply electrical and mechanical equipment for the planned metro link between Taipei city centre and Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. The tender was opened on September 7 by the state-owned Bureau of High Speed Rail. Legislation requires at least three qualified ...
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Disneyland Resort Line ready to open
CHINA: September 12 sees the opening of the Hong Kong Disneyland park at Penny’s Bay, served by a 4 km branch from Sunny Bay on MTR’s Tung Chung Line. Revenue service on Hong Kong’s first fully-automated metro began on August 1, attracting an average of 10 000 passengers/day in the ...
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Vancouver contract signed
CONSTRUCTION of a 19 km automated light metro from Vancouver to Richmond and Vancouver Airport is expected to start this month. Completion is scheduled for the end of 2009, ready for Vancouver to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. On August 2, TransLink's project management subsidiary Ravco confirmed that it had ...
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NewsTTC to invest in trams and metro
ON JUNE 22 Toronto Transit Commission voted to buy a new fleet of up to 242 low-floor trams, as part of major upgrading of the city's ageing tram network. Commissioner Jope Milhevc said the project would give the city 'a first-class streetcar system'. TTC wants to see the first cars ...
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D78 stock gets a fresh look
Robert Preston samples the first of 75 six-car London Underground trainsets to be refurbished
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Work begins on Docklands Light Railway's Woolwich Arsenal extension
UK: At a ceremony in Woolwich on June 13, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Transport Minister Karen Buck marked the start of work on the Docklands Light Railway extension from King George V to Woolwich Arsenal. The 2·5 km extension is to be built by the Woolwich Arsenal ...
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Dubai metro contract awarded
ON MAY 29 representatives of Dubai Municipality and the Dubai Rapid Link consortium signed a 12·45bn dirham contract for final design and construction of the planned driverless metro in the United Arab Emirates' second largest city. The contract was signed by the Director General & Chairman of the Dubai ...
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Indian metros to take off
UNPRECEDENTED investment in metro projects is planned in India, in the wake of the success of the Delhi metro, where the initial 8·3 km of Line 1 from Shahdara to Tis Hazari opened in December 2002. The next 4·5 km followed in October 2003, and a third segment was commissioned ...
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DLR capacity expansion
DOCKLANDS Light Railway ordered 24 more articulated cars from Bombardier on April 28, as part of a programme to expand the capacity of its busiest route from Bank to Lewisham via Canary Wharf. Platforms are being lengthened so that trains can be extended from two to three cars in ...
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Pre-series Avanto starts test running
Now undergoing trial running at the Siemens test centre in Wegberg-Wildenrath is the first of 15 dual-system Avanto low-floor light rail vehicles ordered by French National Railways in 2002. Harry Hondius reports
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Macau plans light rail network
TENDERS are to be invited next year for construction of a 27 km light rail network in the Macau Special Administrative Region, with the aim of having the first routes operational by 2009. Proposals for the three-line network were unveiled by the Land, Public Works & Transport Bureau at the ...
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NewsKeeping Luas up to speed
INTRO: Maintenance of rolling stock and infrastructure on the two light rail routes in Dublin has been contracted to Alstom WELL BEFORE the first cars began running on Dublin's two light rail lines last year, Ireland's Railway Procurement Agency had put in place two contracts for the ...