FUTURE RAIL BELARUS IN FOCUS On the path of change Investment drive Smart metros East Japan Railway adopts a Electri$cation and new Data and automation are 30-year vision to transform locomotives transform playing a growing role in its business model transit tra%c prospects reshaping urban transport PAGE 34 PAGE 37 PAGE 46 www.railwaygazette.com December 2018 Rail in the future transport mix 16 December 2018 | Railway Gazette International INTELLIGENCE Market

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High Capacity AZERBAIJAN: ŽOS Zvolen has completed work on the 2rst two of 2ve Metro Trains ČKD-built CME3 Co-Co diesel-elec- Testing has started of the High Capacity tric locos which are being refurbished Metro Trains that Evolution Rail is for ADY with the complete renewal of supplying to operate Melbourne’s all equipment except bodyshells to ex- suburban network. The Evolution Rail consortium of tend their service life by 15 years. Plenary, CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles and Downer Group has a PPP CANADA: Montréal metro operator contract to supply 65 electric multiple- STM has ordered a further 17 nine-car units for use on the 1 600 mm gauge trainsets from a consortium of Bombar- network from mid-2019. It will maintain them for 30 years at depots to be built dier Transportation (€188m) and Al- in Pakenham East and Calder Park. stom (€112m). The six-car are based on CRRC’s Type A design for 1 380 passengers, compared with 900 on the and are being assembled at Downer’s Newport current rolling stock used by operator Metro Trains EUROPE: Leasing company Akiem facility in Melbourne. They will have capacity Melbourne. Q has placed two 2rm orders for Bombar- dier to supply a total of 33 Traxx MS2, AC3 and DC3 locomotives in 2019-21. MALAYSIA: A joint venture of Ma- INFRASTRUCTURE laysian Resources Corp and George EP Cargo has ordered a further three Kent has won an 11·9bn ringgit con- Siemens Vectron MS locomotives CANADA: 8e City of Québec and struction contract for the LRT3 light equipped for use in the Czech Repub- transport authority RTC have awarded metro in Kuala Lumpur. lic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Systra Canada a seven-year C$12·5m Romania and Slovakia, with an option contract to undertake engineering de- PERU: A consortium of Metrotener- for seven more. 8ey are to be deliv- sign for a proposed 23 km tram line. ife (60%), Trazas Ingeniería (35%) and ered in spring 2019 and initially used in Norton Rose Fulbright Canada is to Green Life SAC (5%) has been awarded Poland. provide legal services under a separate a €2m contract to help develop propos- 2ve-year contract worth C$375 000. als to convert the 41 km Lima – Chosica FRANCE: On behalf of the Hauts- freight line for mixed tra1c operation. de-France region, SNCF has awarded CHILE: Metro de Santiago has award- Bombardier a €256m 2rm order to sup- ed Colas Rail a €20m contract to elec- POLAND: PKP PLK has selected Fre- ply 19 Omneo Premium double-deck trify a southern extension of Line 2. quentis to provide dispatcher terminals inter-city EMUs for use on the Paris and communication nodes as part of the – Amiens and Paris – Saint Quentin – CHINA: Siemens Mobility is to supply national GSM-R roll-out, including Maubeuge/Cambrai routes from 2022. its Trainguard MT CBTC signalling the latest release of the 2xed terminal for Suzhou metro Line 5 and Nanjing communication system FTS 3020 and GERMANY: On October 19 Ham- metro Line 7, which are scheduled to the new D3456 S20 touchscreen opera- burger Hochbahn gave notice that it in- open in 2021 (p48). tor working position. tends to directly award the Alstom-led DT5 Hamburg consortium a contract Vossloh Fastening Systems China has SWEDEN: Tra2kverket has selected to supply a further 13 DT5 metro train- won a €35m order to supply rail fasten- Portuguese company Efacec and lo- sets compatible with the existing DT5 ings for a section of the future Ganzhou cal partner Industrispår to develop and Jeet, in a contract which would also – Shenzhen high speed line. supply a new generation of automatic have two options each for the supply of level crossing protection systems, in- a further 16 sets. CZECH REPUBLIC: SŽDC has se- cluding control equipment, interfaces, lected a consortium of Skanska, EŽ barriers and road signs. 8e contract is INDONESIA: CAF subsidiaries are to Praha and AŽD Praha to electrify the worth €5m/year for an initial 2ve years, supply traction and control systems and 5·6 km Kadaň-Prunéřov – Kadaň line and is renewable for up to 30 years. wheelsets and gears for 31 LRVs that at 25 kV 50 Hz. 8e KC339m project PT Inka is to supply to Jakarta. includes resignalling, modernisation of TURKEY: Getzner is supplying 65 000 Kadaň station and construction of a halt sleeper pads and 125 000 m 2 of under INTERNATIONAL: RM Rail has won at Kadaň-Sídliště. 8e work is sched- ballast mats for the 406 km Ankara – orders to supply Russia’s Gazprombank uled for completion in January 2021, Sivas line which is to open in 2020. Leasing and VEB-Leasing and Ka- allowing the launch of direct services zakhstan’s largest cement manufacturer from Děčín to Kadaň. UK: Network Rail has awarded ESG with more than 1 000 Type 19-1217 contracts worth £3·1m to supply over- cement hopper wagons by September GERMANY: DB Netz has awarded a head electri2cation monitoring systems 2019. 8e teardrop-shaped body o[ers €189m contract for construction work for installation on its Mentor monitor- a capacity of 73 tonnes and volume of on the second S-Bahn city crossing in ing vehicle and a Virgin Trains Pendoli- 60 m 3, taking into account the density München to a consortium of Ed Züb- no, and to provide 10 years of support. of bulk cement. lin, Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau, Max Bögl Stiftung & Co and Bauer British Steel has supplied Drax power KAZAKHSTAN: Hyundai Rotem has Spezialtiefbau. 8e Overground West station with Zinoco corrosion-resistant signed an 80·8bn won contract to sup- package covers the section from Laim coated rail for use at a level crossing where ply 32 metro cars to Almaty in time for to Donnersberger Brücke. signi2cant rail damage had occured. the opening of an extension in 2020.