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1 week ago | railjournal.com | Mark Simmons

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1 week ago | railjournal.com | Mark Simmons

STADLER has signed a contract with the Sud region of France to supply eight metre-gauge two-car hybrid multiple-units. The value of the contract has not been disclosed. The 40m-long new trains which have capacity for around 180 passengers will replace DMUs on the 151km line between Nice and Digne-les-Bains operated by Provence Railways (CP). They will run on battery power in built-up areas and use a biodiesel-powered engine for rural sections of the line.

1 week ago | railjournal.com | Mark Simmons

ALSTOM has signed a €60m contract with German Rail (DB)-subsidiary S-Bahn Hamburg to provide onboard ETCS and ATO equipment for 82 class 490 EMUS. Alstom will equip four three-car prototype trains at its Berlin plant and manage their recertification for operation on the national network by 2029. The new equipment will enable ATO at Grade of Automation 2 (GoA2).

1 week ago | railjournal.com | Mark Simmons

CENTRAL Communication Port (CPK), the company delivering Poland’s new hub airport and its associated rail projects, has awarded Austria’s Porr Group a Zlotys 2.17bn ($US 570m) contract to build a 4.6km tunnel under the centre of Łódź. CPK’s largest contract to date is for the construction of the tunnel to accommodate two tracks, using a single tunnel boring machine (TBM) with a diameter of approximately 14m. It will be the longest and widest single-bore railway tunnel ever built in Poland.

2 weeks ago | railjournal.com | Mark Simmons

TRAIN testing started on the newly converted 13.4km section of Sydney’s City & Southwest metro line on April 3. Trial running follows extensive work to transform the 130-year-old former Bankstown Line to modern driverless metro standards.   The first train travelled along the length of the line in 5 hours, travelling at no more than 5km/h. When the extended metro line from Sydenham to Bankstown opens next year, the estimated journey time will be 11 minutes.