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December 17, 2020 | Signalling

NYCT certifies Mitsubishi as CBTC supplier

NEW York City Transit (NYCT) has officially qualified Mitsubishi Electric, Japan, as a CBTC supplier after successfully testing and verifying the interoperability of the company’s solution with NYCT’s existing CBTC systems.

December 16, 2020 | Metros

Contract for Toulouse’ third metro line awarded

TISSEO Communities, the project manager of the 27km Toulouse Aerospace Express metro project, has awarded Alstom a €470m contract to design, build and maintain the line’s transport system.

December 16, 2020 | Africa

Kenya reintroduces Nairobi - Nanyuki passenger services

KENYA Railways Corporation (KRC) reintroduced commercial passenger services on the 177.2km Nairobi - Nanyuki metre-gauge line on December 11, more than two decades after they were withdrawn.

December 16, 2020 | Fleet

Stadler to supply seven locomotives for Uruguay freight line

PORTREN, Uruguay, has signed a contract with Stadler for the supply of seven Euro4001 diesel-electric locomotives, which it will operate on the freight railway serving a new factory opened by the Finnish bio-tech business UPM.

December 16, 2020 | Fleet

Berlin awards €571m LRV contract to Bombardier

BERLIN Transport Authority (BVG) has awarded Bombardier Transportation a €571m framework contract for the supply of up to 117 Bombardier Flexity low-floor LRVs, with an initial order for 20 vehicles.

December 16, 2020 | Locomotives

SNCF successfully tests mainline autonomous train at GoA2

A consortium led by French National Railways (SNCF) has successfully operated a locomotive at Grade of Automation (GoA) 2 under real mainline operating conditions using ERTMS.

December 16, 2020 | Africa

Ethiopia - Djibouti line reports reduced revenue due to vandalism

ETHIOPIAN Railway Corporation (ERC) has reported that the 752.7km Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Djibouti, Djibouti cross-border standard-gauge line has suffered increased journey times and reduced revenues, following criminal damage to infrastructure.

December 15, 2020 | Policy

Britain’s National Infrastructure Commission publishes rail needs assessment report

INTER-city links in northern and central England should be prioritised, possibly at the expense of High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase 2b, according to the Rail Needs Assessment published by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) on December 15.

December 15, 2020 | Infrastructure

Estonian Railways awards electrification planning contract

INFRASTRUCTURE manager Estonian Railways (EVR) has awarded a contract to draw up detailed plans to electrify its network to a joint venture of Spanish engineering firms Ardanuy and Ayesa.

December 15, 2020 | Technology

Sensor4Rail project to start testing next year

GERMANY’s Sensors4Rail development project has announced that it will begin testing its sensor-based train traffic technology on the Hamburg S-Bahn from early next year.

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