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    PKP Polish Railway Lines to launch tenders worth PLN 11 bn this year

PKP Polish Railway Lines to launch tenders worth PLN 11 bn this year

Polish state owned infrastructure manager PKP Polish Railway Lines plans to make investments worth more than PLN 50 bn (EUR 12.4 bn) until 2023. Later this year, PKP PLK will launch tenders with a total value of PLN 11 bn (EUR 2.7 bn). The infrastructure manager has already started making

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    Czech Republic joins the Rail Freight Corridor North Sea – Baltic

Czech Republic joins the Rail Freight Corridor North Sea – Baltic

The Czech Republic (ČR) has joined the Rail Freight Corridor North Sea – Baltic. The Czech Republic lies on the intersection of the important European routes: RFC 5 corridor (Baltic– Adriatic), RFC 7 (Orient/East-Mediterranean), and RFC 9 (Czech-Slovak, CS corridor). ČR and the countries of RFC 8 (BE, NL, DE, PL, LT) have thus made efforts

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Kazakhstan to invest USD 40 billion in transport projects by 2020

Kazakhstan intends to invest USD 40 billion in transport projects in by 2020 as part of the project to transform the country into a logistics and transit hub in the Eurasian continent. “By 2020 we plan to implement projects with a total amount of investments around USD 40 billion, aimed at removing all

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Bombardier wins rail control signalling contract in Poland

PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. has awarded Bombardier Transportation-lead consortium the latest turnkey rail signalling contract for the Polish section of the E59 rail corridor. The contract has a total value of PLN 210 million (EUR 53 million), with Bombardier’s share valued at approximately PLN 93 million ( EUR 23

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    Alstom-led consortium awarded hot axle box and blocked brake detectors contract

Alstom-led consortium awarded hot axle box and blocked brake detectors contract

Romanian state-owned infrastructure manager CFR SA has awarded Alstom Transport – PAS Impex consortium a contract for design and installation works of hot axle box and blocked brake detectors. The contract value is RON 55 million (EUR 12.5 million). The project is financed under the Sectoral Operational Programme “Transport” (SOP-T) 2007 – 2013. The period of works

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Mott MacDonald – Sudop Praha jv to carry out studies for first section of Czech railways high speed network

The Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration (Správa Železniční Dopravní Cesty, SŽDC) has selected Mott MacDonald – Sudop Praha A.S. joint venture (JV) to carry out two studies for a new cross-border railway line that will connect Dresden in Germany with Ústí nad Labem and Litoměřice in the Czech Republic. The new railway will

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    New metro line opens in Istanbul

New metro line opens in Istanbul

On the 19th of April,  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accompanied by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Transportation Minister Feridun Bilgin and Mayor Kadir Topbaş attended the inaugurating ceremony of Istanbul metro’s Line 6 (Levent-Rumeli Hisarustu). The 3.3 km line has four metro stations and a capacity of 8100 passengers/h per direction. “Now, Istanbul has

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EUR 15 million EU financial support for ETCS development and installation

The EU’s TEN-T Programme will support with over €15 million the development and installation of the common European Train Control System (ETCS) in Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and The UK. The new system is expected to improve the interoperability, safety, reliability and capacity on European railways. Seven separate projects aim to

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    Ostrava airport railway link inaugurated

Ostrava airport railway link inaugurated

As of today, people can travel by train to airport Letiste Leose Janacka Ostrava in Mosnov. The 2.9 km long railway line connecting the airport with the town of Sedlnice is linked to the main railway corridor between Ostrava and Prague and Ostrava and Brno.  This is the first new railway line built in the Czech

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    Hungary: Gysev installs ETCS on Hegyeshalom – Rajka- border railway section

Hungary: Gysev installs ETCS on Hegyeshalom – Rajka- border railway section

Works for equipping Hegyeshalom – Rajka- border  railway section with ETCS (European Train Control System) have been launched. The 13 km long railway section, part of Hungary’s  railway line No. I (Budapest-Hegyeshalom- Rajka),  is managed by the Austrian-Hungarian infrastructure manager Gysev. Thales Rail Signalling Solutions Kft., a Thales Austria GmbH., and Dunántúli Távközlési és Biztosítóberendezési

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