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On the path of change
East Japan Railway adopts a
30-year vision to transform
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Investment driveElectrification and new
locomotives transform
transit traffic prospects

Smart metros
Data and automation areplaying a growing role inreshaping urban transport

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December 2018

Rail in the futuretransport mix

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AUSTRALIAHigh Capacity
Metro Trains
Testing has started of the High Capacity
Metro Trains that Evolution Rail is
supplying to operate Melbourne’ssuburban network.
The Evolution Rail consortium ofPlenary, CRRC Changchun Railway
Vehicles and Downer Group has a PPP
contract to supply 65 electric multipleunits for use on the 1 600 mm gauge
network from mid-2019. It will maintainthem for 30 years at depots to be built
in Pakenham East and Calder Park.
The six-car are based on CRRC’s Type A design
and are being assembled at Downer’s Newportfacility in Melbourne. They will have capacity

AZERBAIJAN: ŽOS Zvolen has
completed work on the first two of fiveČKD-built CME3 Co-Co diesel-electric locos which are being refurbishedfor ADY with the complete renewal ofall equipment except bodyshells to extend their service life by 15 years.
CANADA: Montréal metro operator
STM has ordered a further 17 nine-car
trainsets from a consortium of Bombardier Transportation (€188m) and Alstom (€112m).
for 1 380 passengers, compared with 900 on thecurrent rolling stock used by operator Metro Trains
Melbourne. Q

INFRASTRUCTURE
CANADA: The City of Québec andtransport authority RTC have awarded
Systra Canada a seven-year C$12·5m
contract to undertake engineering design for a proposed 23 km tram line.
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada is toprovide legal services under a separate
five-year contract worth C$375 000.
CHILE: Metro de Santiago has awarded Colas Rail a €20m contract to electrify a southern extension of Line 2.
CHINA: Siemens Mobility is to supply

its Trainguard MT CBTC signallingfor Suzhou metro Line 5 and Nanjing
metro Line 7, which are scheduled toopen in 2021 (p48).
Vossloh Fastening Systems China has
won a €35m order to supply rail fastenings for a section of the future Ganzhou– Shenzhen high speed line.

CZECH REPUBLIC: SŽDC has se-lected a consortium of Skanska, EŽPraha and AŽD Praha to electrify the5·6 km Kadaň-Prunéřov – Kadaň line
at 25 kV 50 Hz. The KC339m project
includes resignalling, modernisation ofKadaň station and construction of a halt
at Kadaň-Sídliště. The work is scheduled for completion in January 2021,
allowing the launch of direct services
from Děčín to Kadaň.

GERMANY: DB Netz has awarded a€189m contract for construction workon the second S-Bahn city crossing in
München to a consortium of Ed Züblin, Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau,Max Bögl Stiftung & Co and BauerSpezialtiefbau. The Overground Westpackage covers the section from Laim
to Donnersberger Brücke.

MALAYSIA: A joint venture of Ma-

laysian Resources Corp and GeorgeKent has won an 11·9bn ringgit construction contract for the LRT3 lightmetro in Kuala Lumpur.

PERU: A consortium of Metrotenerife (60%), Trazas Ingeniería (35%) andGreen Life SAC (5%) has been awardeda €2m contract to help develop proposals to convert the 41 km Lima – Chosica
freight line for mixed traffic operation.
POLAND: PKP PLK has selected Fre-quentis to provide dispatcher terminalsand communication nodes as part of thenational GSM-R roll-out, including
the latest release of the fixed terminal
communication system FTS 3020 andthe new Dicoa S20 touchscreen operator working position.

SWEDEN: Trafikverket has selected

Portuguese company Efacec and local partner Industrispår to develop andsupply a new generation of automaticlevel crossing protection systems, including control equipment, interfaces,
barriers and road signs. The contract isworth €5m/year for an initial five years,
and is renewable for up to 30 years.

TURKEY: Getzner is supplying 65 000

sleeper pads and 125 000 m2 of underballast mats for the 406 km Ankara –Sivas line which is to open in 2020.

UK: Network Rail has awarded ESG
contracts worth £3·1m to supply overhead electrification monitoring systems
for installation on its Mentor monitoring vehicle and a Virgin Trains Pendolino, and to provide 10 years of support.

British Steel has supplied Drax power
station with Zinoco corrosion-resistantcoated rail for use at a level crossing where
significant rail damage had occured.

EUROPE: Leasing company Akiem
has placed two firm orders for Bombardier to supply a total of 33 Traxx MS2,AC3 and DC3 locomotives in 2019-21.

EP Cargo has ordered a further three
Siemens Vectron MS locomotives
equipped for use in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary,
Romania and Slovakia, with an option
for seven more. They are to be delivered in spring 2019 and initially used inPoland.
FRANCE: On behalf of the Hautsde-France region, SNCF has awarded
Bombardier a €256m firm order to supply 19 Omneo Premium double-deck
inter-city EMUs for use on the Paris– Amiens and Paris – Saint Quentin –Maubeuge/Cambrai routes from 2022.
GERMANY: On October 19 Ham-burger Hochbahn gave notice that it intends to directly award the Alstom-led
DT5 Hamburg consortium a contract
to supply a further 13 DT5 metro trainsets compatible with the existing DT5
fleet, in a contract which would also
have two options each for the supply ofa further 16 sets.

INDONESIA: CAF subsidiaries are tosupply traction and control systems andwheelsets and gears for 31 LRVs thatPT Inka is to supply to Jakarta.
INTERNATIONAL: RM Rail has wonorders to supply Russia’s GazprombankLeasing and VEB-Leasing and Kazakhstan’s largest cement manufacturer
with more than 1 000 Type 19-1217
cement hopper wagons by September
2019. The teardrop-shaped body offersa capacity of 73 tonnes and volume of60 m3, taking into account the densityof bulk cement.
KAZAKHSTAN: Hyundai Rotem has

signed an 80·8bn won contract to supply 32 metro cars to Almaty in time forthe opening of an extension in 2020.