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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.

December 15, 2020 | High-speed

Consultation process launched for Hannover - Bielefeld HS line

GERMAN infrastructure manager DB Networks has begun consultation with local authorities along the route of the planned high-speed line between Hannover and Bielefeld.

December 15, 2020 | Metros

Paris inaugurates Line 14 extension

PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) inaugurated the 5.8km Gare Saint-Lazare - Mairie de Saint-Ouen northern extension to metro Line 14 on December 14.

December 15, 2020 | Fleet

Hitachi and Eversholt Rail to trial battery-equipped class 802

HITACHI Rail and British rolling stock leasing company Eversholt Rail have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a battery pack that can be installed on a five-car class 802 inter-city train operated by Great Western Railway (GWR) on the 480km journey between London and Penzance in the southwest of England.

December 15, 2020 | Infrastructure

China opens HS line and Xinzheng Airport link

CHINA opened the 432km high-speed line linking Taiyuan, Henan and Zhengzhou on December 12 together with a rail link between Zhengzhou and the city’s Xinzheng Airport.

December 14, 2020 | Asia

Knorr-Bremse awarded CRRC metro train systems contract

CHINESE manufacturer CRRC has signed a contract with Knorr-Bremse for the supply of braking, exterior doors, and air-conditioning systems to equip metro trains for two new lines in Beijing.

December 14, 2020 | Infrastructure

China plans 10,000km of new lines in three key regions

CHINA’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has published plans to start construction of 10,000km of new inter-city and urban rail lines in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay areas in the next five years.

December 14, 2020 | Financial

Rail Baltica awarded €214.3m grant agreements

RB Rail, the joint venture which oversees the Rail Baltica project, has been awarded two grant agreements worth €214.3m to support design, planning, construction, and land acquisitions for the project.

December 14, 2020 | Fleet

ČD orders 19 RegioPanter EMUs

CZECH Railways (ČD) has ordered 19 additional RegioPanter two-car dual-voltage EMUs from a consortium of Škoda Transportation and Škoda Vagonka.

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