Posted 6 years ago by Railpage System User
INDIA: Lucknow Metro Rail Corp and Alstom unveiled the appearance of the Metropolis trainsets for the city’s future metro line on May 10, in the presence of Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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PHILIPPINES: The first Chinese-built light rail vehicles for MRT Line 3 in Manila entered service on May 7 after several months of testing and final fit-out.
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The final driverless trainset for the Downtown Line has been completed at Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles Co’s factory in Changchun in China. Deliveries of all 92 three-car sets are expected to be completed by the middle of the year.
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CHINA: Shentong Metro Group has selected the Shenkai joint venture of its subsidiary Shanghai Shentong Consulting (51%) and Keolis (49%) for the operation of the automated peoplemover that will form the southern section of Shanghai metro Line 8.
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PHILIPPINES: The Department of Transport & Communications has reportedly recommended to the government’s most senior planning body that the planned US$3·4bn PPP project to rebuild the main line between Manila and Legazpi be split into two phases.
Posted 6 years ago by Railpage System User
JAPAN: Seibu Railway has put into service a Class 4000 electric multiple-unit which has been refurbished with just 52 seats for luxury dining excursions.
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INDIA: The central section of the Namma Metro Purple Line in Bangalore was inaugurated on April 29, ahead of the start of revenue services the following day. With the completion of its first phase, the standard gauge route now has 17 stations.
Posted 6 years ago by Railpage System User
Shizuoka Railway has taken delivery of the first of 12 Class 3000 electric multiple-units ordered from J-TEC at cost of ¥4bn. The 11 km local railway carries 11 million passengers/year between its 15 stations.
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A metro station serving Shanghai’s new Disney Resort opened on April 26. The underground station becomes the eastern terminus of Line 11 and is connected to the theme park’s northern entrance.
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INDONESIA: The PT Raillink joint venture of national railway PT Kereta Api and airport operator PT Angkas Pura II has awarded a consortium of local rolling stock manufacturer PT Inka and Bombardier Transportation a €66m contract to supply 10 six-car electric multiple-units for the future Jakarta airport rail link.
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MONGOLIA: Parliamentary Speaker Zandakhuu Enkhbold has officially opened a 33·4 km rail connection to the Tumurtei iron ore mine development, which is around 200 km north of Ulaanbaatar.
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ASIA: Construction of a railway bridge over the River Astarachay which forms the border between the two similarly-named towns of Astara in Azerbaijan and Iran was formally launched with a groundbreaking ceremony on April 20.
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TURKEY: Izmir suburban rail operator Izban started through running between its two lines on April 17.
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PHILIPPINES: Construction of Manila metro Line MRT7 started on April 20 with a groundbreaking ceremony at Quezon Memorial Circle.
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JAPAN: Sanyo Electric Railway’s Series 6000 electric multiple-units entered revenue service on April 17.
Posted 6 years ago by JimYarin
Indian Railway’s arm, Railtel, which provides Internet services as Rail Wire via its extensive network along with Google,on Friday announced the launch of free high-speed public Wi-Fi services at Visakhapatnam Railway Station, which will benefit over 1.9 lakh visitors daily.
Posted 6 years ago by bevans
China is pioneering a transcontinental rail service carrying cargo between the Far East and Western Europe with the aim of capturing some of the freight which currently moves by sea and air.
Posted 6 years ago by Railpage System User
CRRC Nanjing Puzhen is to supply 18 five-section 100% low-floor trams to operate the second tram line in Suzhou.
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The first air-conditioned electric multiple-unit built for Mumbai suburban services by the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai was delivered to Central Railway’s Kurla depot on April 5.
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A 6·5 km southern extension of Kuala Lumpur’s Ampang Line opened on March 31, adding four stations.
Posted 6 years ago by Railpage System User
Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit announced on March 31 that it had selected MMC-Gamuda to build the underground section of Klang Valley MRT Line 2, also known as the SSP Line.
Posted 6 years ago by bevans
Has the Thai-Chinese high-speed train project been derailed? Officially it’s still on, albeit on a reduced scale. Unofficially, the scheme has been suspended until further notice.
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State Railway of Thailand has awarded a 32·4bn baht contract for E&M works for Bangkok’s Red Line to a consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi and Sumitomo Corp, the consortium announced on March 30.
Posted 6 years ago by Railpage System User
High speed services reached Japan’s third main island on March 26, with the inauguration of the first phase of the Hokkaido Shinkansen.
Posted 6 years ago by Jack Le Lievre
The opening on Saturday of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, a high-speed railway connecting Hokkaido with Honshu via an undersea tunnel, will be the culmination of an epic project 42 years in the making.
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