Brazil: Invensys Rail Dimetronic is supplying signalling and a Westrace electronic interlocking for the Novo Hamburgo extension of the Porto Alegre suburban Line 1. China: CNR has developed a ‘high speed’ vehicle which can be dispatched to undertake emergency repairs to electrification equipment, bridges and other infrastructure. MTR Corp has awarded a consortium of Samsung C&T and Hsin Chong a US$590m contract to build 2·2 km of Hong Kong’s Shatin to Central Link. CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive has won its first metro signalling contract, covering Changsa Line 2. Sinohydro has been awarded a 16·9bn yuan contract to build Shenzhen Metro Line 7. France: Thales has supplied FieldTrac 6315 AzLM axle counters to RFF for the first time. They have been installed on the 44 km Nice – Breil route along with LockTrac 6171 PIPC electronic interlockings. Germany: Siemens is to supply DB Netz with six Simis D electronic interlockings, more than 350 axle-counting heads and 300 signals for the Hannover – Uelzen route by 2014. Malaysia: Thales is to resignal the Kuala Lumpur monorail, with TagMaster supplying RFID readers. OTN systems is to upgrade the monorail’s data communications backbone to increase bandwidth by 2·5 Gbps. Netherlands: ProRail has appointed Strukton Rail to undertake a major remodelling of the ’s-Hertogenbosch station area to eliminate bottlenecks by mid-2014. Poland: PKP PLK and ZTM Warszawa have awarded Mostostal Warszawa a 16m z More...
