Lund – Malmö quadruple tracking contract
Prime Minister inaugurates Napoli Afragola station
ÖBB starts Pyhrnstrecke station upgrading
Weekly LCL service widens appeal of China-Europe rail route
Siemens to buy planning software company HaCon
Hupac orders eight multisystem locomotives
Montecargo privatisation cancelled
IONX and Ermewa agree telematics partnership
High-value chemicals travel from China to Europe by rail
DB Regio selected for Rhein-Neckar operating contract
National railway CFR SA has awarded the Asocierea RailWorks consortium of Alstom and civil and railway works partners Aktor, Arcada and Euroconstruct the Lot 2 Caţa – Apaţa contract to modernise a 28 km section of the 128 km Sighișoara – Brașov route.
Consortium leader Alstom’s share of the contract is worth €70m; this covers the traffic management system, digital interlocking, ETCS Level 2, GSM-R, passenger information systems, upgrading the electrification with its OCS3 catenary and supplying substations.
The most complex part of the project to raise the line speed to 160 km/h is the construction of 5 km and 6·9 km twin-bore tunnels, where Alstom will be responsible for the ventilation and fire-protection systems.
A consortium of Turkish contractors Alsim Alarko and Makiol had originally been selected for the Lot 2 contract in 2019.
The award of the contract to Asocierea RailWorks which was announced on September 23 follows the award of the lots 1 and 3 contracts to the same consortium in March. It means Alstom will now provide signalling and electrification for the entire Sighișoara – Brașov route.
Alstom has been involved with the rehabilitation of the Romanian sections of the TEN-T Rhine-Danube Corridor since 2012, and now has five ongoing and two completed signalling and infrastructure projects, covering more than 75% of the 450 route-km being upgraded.
‘Alstom has now reinforced its leading position on the Romanian railway market, for both digital train control and electrification’, said Gabriel Stanciu, Managing Director for Romania, Bulgaria & Moldova, when the latest contract was announced. ‘Covering the entire subsection between Sighișoara and Brașov will provide smooth and effective operation, ensuring a consistency in the quality of service and co-ordinated efforts to complete the entire subsection on time and budget.’
This article first appeared on www.railwaygazette.com
About this website
Railpage version 3.10.0.0037
All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest is © 2003-2021 Interactive Omnimedia Pty Ltd.
You can syndicate our news using one of the RSS feeds.
Stats for nerds
Gen time: 2.1704s | RAM: 6.38kb