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January 2, 2019 | Metros

Delhi opens Pink Line extension

DELHI Metro Rail Corporation opened the final major section of the automated Pink Line on December 31, a 9.7km stretch from Lajpat Nagar to Mayur Vihar Pocket-1.

December 10, 2018 | Signalling

Alstom awarded Mumbai Metro Line 3 CBTC contract

MUMBAI Metro Rail Corporation (MMRCL) awarded Alstom a contract worth more than €100m on December 10 to supply the Urbalis 400 CBTC signalling system for Line 3 of the Mumbai Metro.

November 6, 2018 | Signalling

Siemens Mobility to supply CBTC for Chinese Metro projects

SIEMENS Mobility has been awarded contracts to supply its Trainguard MT CBTC solution for Suzhou metro Line 5 and Nanjing metro Line 7 in eastern China. Both lines are due to be commissioned in 2021.

October 16, 2018 | Metros

Automating Glasgow’s ‘Clockwork Orange’

Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, is home to one of the world’s smallest and oldest metro systems. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport senior director Charlie Hoskins tells Keith Barrow how modernisation and automation is bringing this technically-unique system into the 21st century.

October 4, 2018 | Signalling

Siemens and Thales to supply signalling for Grand Paris Express

SOCIÉTÉ du Grand Paris (SGP), which is implementing the Grand Paris Express metro project, has awarded a consortium of Siemens Mobility and Thales a contract to deliver Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC), as well as the operating control centres for the future lines 15, 16 and 17, which will be completed by 2030.

September 28, 2018 | Technology

Automatic for the people: unlocking the benefits of automated operation on the main line

Automatic train operation (ATO) has been employed on metro networks in various forms for decades, but increasingly main line railways are opening up to the efficiency and reliability improvements on offer. Kevin Smith examines where ATO applications are today, what the future automated main line might look like, and how the industry plans to get there.

August 9, 2018 | Metros

Next stage of São Paulo CBTC rollout set for 2019 completion

THE latest stage of the rollout of Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) on São Paulo’s metro should be installed in 2019, secretary of metropolitan transportation, Mr Clodoaldo Pelissioni, has said.

July 11, 2018 | Metros

Alstom awarded Sydney Metro maintenance contract

ALSTOM has been awarded a 15-year contract by Metro Trains Sydney (MTS) for the maintenance of rolling stock and signalling on the 36km Sydney Metro Northwest Line, which is currently under construction and due to open in the first half of 2019.

May 25, 2018 | North America

New York to accelerate subway modernisation

NEW YORK City Transit (NYCT) president Mr Andy Byford unveiled plans for the modernisation of the city’s bus and subway networks on May 23, bringing forward major improvements to signalling and stations.

April 25, 2018 | Signalling

RATP to modernise ATO on Paris metro Line 6

PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) has awarded a contract to Alstom to supply and install communications-based train control (CBTC) equipment to modernise the existing analogue automatic train control system on Line 6 of the Paris metro.