Australia: Under Victoria's Regional Rail Link project (RG 2.12 p12), a A$570m contract has been awarded to a consortium of John Holland, Abigroup, Coleman Rail, Aecom and GHD for extensive remodelling of the line between Melbourne's Southern Cross station and the Maribyrnong River, including 4·5 km of new tracks and a 1 km bridge over the river. Brazil: Trail, Consbem and Tiisa have been awarded a R$1649m contract to build a rolling stock depot at Presidente Altino on Line 9 of the CPTM commuter network in São Paulo within 24 months. Chile: Metro de Santiago has appointed Arup to design 11 stations for the future lines 3 and 6. China: Alfasi Constructions has appointed Aurecon to undertake computer-based erection analysis and geometry control for the steel roof for the future West Kowloon terminus of the Hong Kong Express Rail Link (RG 2.11 p45). Europe: Rail.One's local subsidiaries have won contracts to supply 337000 concrete sleepers for route upgrades in Hungary and 230000 sleepers plus 11000 m of turnout bearers for Romania Sersa Group has acquired a custom-made Möser GRail 1 rail re-profiling, corrugation removal and contact grinding machine suitable for use on street-running urban tramways and any gauge from 980 to 1660 mm. Hungary: Infrastructure agency NIF has awarded Thales Austria an HF51bn contract to supply ETCS Level 2 signalling for the Bajánsenye - Boba section of Pan-European Corridor V by September 2014. India: IL&FS Rail was the sole bidder for Phase 2 of the Gurgaon Rail Metro Rail project. This covers two 7 km extensions to the automated line. Phase 1 is scheduled to open in March 2013. New Zealand: Downer New Zealand has been awarded a NZ$40m contract to build the Wiri depot for Auckland's EMU fleet. Poland: PNiUIK has been awarded a 25m z More...
