Urban transport news
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John Holland wins Parramatta tramway bridge contract
AUSTRALIA: John Holland has been awarded a A$322m contract to build a 1·3 km section of Stage 2 of the Parramatta Light Rail project in west Sydney, covering a 320m bridge and its approaches. Design and preliminary work will start later this year with major construction ...
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Alstom delivers 100% locally produced metro trainset to Delhi
INDIA: Alstom Transport India Ltd handed over the first of 52 six-car driverless Metropolis trainsets for the Delhi metro on September 23. Described as being ‘100% locally designed and produced’, the trains are being built at Alstom’s factory at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, under the Indian ...
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TfL appoints Elephant & Castle tunnelling contractor
UK: Transport for London has awarded Dragados UK a contract to design and build passenger tunnels to link a new Northern Line station box at London Underground’s Elephant & Castle station with the line’s existing platforms and overbridge. Work on the station box began in January ...
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Single-deck EMUs to replace double-deck coaches
SWITZERLAND: Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn has awarded Stadler a contract to supply 17 three-car Flirt EMUs for use on the 13·2 km S-Bahn route S4 between Zürich HB and Sihlwald. These will replace eight sets of life-expired loco-hauled single and double-deck stock on the Sihltalbahn. The ...
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Astra Vagoane eyes the international market with prototype tram
INNOTRANS: Romania’s Astra Vagoane Călători unveiled a prototype tram at InnoTrans 2024. The two-module standard gauge tram prototype was manufactured for display at the show. Astra Vagoane says that it aims to target both the domestic and international market with the design. ...
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Aachen Regiotram planning funding
GERMANY: A project to build a tram line running north from Aachen to Alsdorf has been allocated €5·5m by federal and state governments to continue with planning. Initially floated in 2017, a feasibility study reported positively in 2022, with follow-up research in July 2023 by Transport ...
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Tri-mode München metro maintenance car handed over
INNOTRANS: The first of 10 multifunctional maintenance vehicles for the München U-Bahn has been handed over at an event which included a brass band to create what manufacturer Robel Bahnbaumaschinen called a ‘traditional Oktoberfest atmosphere’ at the Berlin show. The Freilassing-based company is supplying ...
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Third rail current collection monitoring to reduce wear
INNOTRANS: Mersen is demonstrating a digital monitoring system designed to reduce the wear on metro trains third rail current collector shoes. D-CCD monitors the current between the shoe and third rail, measuring the temperature rise in the current collector, the real time force applied on the ...
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Tram assist suite developed as the next step toward automation
INNOTRANS: Bosch Engineering is presenting its latest collision warning system which enables light rail vehicle manufacturers and operators to select specific functions according to their individual requirements. The tram forward assist system element of the suite warns of impending head-on collisions and detects both road signs and ...
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Automated train gangway coupling system to be tested in Toronto
INNOTRANS: Hübner has unveiled its AutoCouple concept for the fully automated coupling and uncoupling of inter-car train gangways. A trial on the Toronto subway is planned for 2025. Rather than being a direct replacement for conventional coach gangways, AutoCouple aims to make it easier for operators ...
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Bengaluru, Thane and Pune metro projects approved
INDIA: Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs Manohar Lal said in August that India has now over 1 000 km of metro under construction or approved, following government sign-off of projects in three cities. In Bengaluru, the third phase of construction will add 44·7 route-km along ...
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First tram-train from joint procurement unveiled at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: Stadler and Saarbahn have unveiled the first of the Citylink tram-trains to be completed as a part of a huge joint order placed by six German and Austrian transport agencies which have teamed up to reduce costs. The operators launched a joint ...
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Kuala Lumpur MRT3 consultation underway
MALAYSIA: Mass Rapid Transit Corp has begun a three-month consultation over its plans for the Circle (MRT3) line in Kuala Lumpur. From September 2 to December 2 2024 the public is being asked to provide feedback on the planned alignment and other aspects of the proposed ...
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Bayern branding highlights Land’s backing for S-Bahn fleet
INNOTRANS: The future appearance of the 90 extra-long electric multiple-units which Siemens Mobility is to supply for München S-Bahn services was unveiled by Bayern Transport Minister Christian Bernreiter at InnoTrans on September 25. The livery, developed by design studio Neomind, is based on the Land of Bayern’s ...
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Mobile inspection lab for urban railways launched at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: Plasser & Theurer has unveiled its InfraSpector Truck road-rail mobile testing lab, which is designed to meet all the infrastructure inspection and measuring requirements of metro, tramway and local railway operators. It has an operating speed of 60 km/h, can operate in tunnels and is able ...
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Port Adelaide’s Port Dock station reopens after 43 years
AUSTRALIA: Port Dock station on a spur from the Outer Harbor line in central Port Adelaide has reopened after 43 years.
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Urban transport industry news round-up
This week’s round-up of news from the urban transport sector.
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10-elephant tram for Berlin tramway trunk line
INNOTRANS: Alstom is showing a nine-section version of the Flexity Berlin family which with a length of 50·89 m – or, as is marked out along the floor, 10 elephants – is the longest tram ordered by the capital’s public transport operator BVG. ...
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Berlin U-Bahn Type JK train on display at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: On show in the city where it will operate is a Stadler Type JK metro trainset for the Berlin U-Bahn’s small-profile lines. In March 2020 operator BVG finalised a €3bn framework contract with Stadler covering the supply of up to 1 500 vehicles by 2035, ...
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Daejeon hydrogen tram on show at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: Hyundai Rotem is displaying its prototype hydrogen fuel cell tram at InnoTrans 2024 in Berlin. It was developed as part of a national research and development project launched in 2021 by Hyundai Rotem, Korea Institute for the Advancement of Technology, Korea ...