Australia: NSW Department of Transport has appointed Turner Townsend to provide cost planning services for the 23 km North West Rail Link project in Sydney. ARTC has awarded an alliance including Leighton Contractors a A$150m contract for the final stage of the 36 km South Sydney Freight Line. Belgium: THV Schuman-Josaphat has been awarded a €39m civil works, tracklaying, electrification and signalling contract for the 19 km Phase 1 of the Schuman – Josaphat link on the SNCB network in Brussels. Canada: Huron Central Railway has awarded Swift Railroad Contractors and M’Anishnabek Industries contracts for track renewals on its 288 km line as part of a C$33·3m two-year project. Czech Republic: Skanska has won a KC118m contract for track renewals on Praha’s riverside Výton – Pístavišt tram line. SŽDC has awarded Kapsch a €20m contract to equip the 230 km line from the Slovak border to Ostrava, Perov and eská Tebová with Kapsch CarrierCom GSM-R by early 2013. Denmark: On August 5 Siemens confirmed that Banedanmark had awarded it the €252m contract for resignalling the København S-bane (RG 7.11 p11). ‘The biggest rail automation order that Siemens has ever received’ covers 170 route-km, 135 trainsets and 25 years of maintenance. A Strukton Rail/Aarsleff Rail JV has been subcontracted to undertake installation. Europe: EBRD has appointed Italferr to supervise the 36-month programme to upgrade 150 km of Corridor X in Macedonia and Serbia. Finland: VR Track has won a €90m contract to modernise the Lielahti – Kokemäki line, using an alliancing model for the first time. Germany: DB Netz has ordered two Loram rail grinding machines. DB has awarded a consortium led by Porr contracts totalling €700m to build the 9·5 km Filderstadt and 6 km Ober-/Untertürkheim twin-bore tunnels for the Stuttgart 21 project. Porr has won a €200m contract to supply ballastless track for the 90 km Erfurt – Gröbers section of the 123 km Erfurt – Leipzig/Halle high speed line which is due to open in 2015. Ansaldo STS has signed a €13·8m contract to resignal DB’s Berlin – Rostock route, its second major ETCS Level 2 contract with DB and the first within a framework signed this year. Hungary: Siemens has won a €53m contract to supply ETCS Level 2 including two Simis interlockings, Iltis controls and a Trainguard 200 radio block centre for the 65 km Budapest-Kelenföldi – Székesfehérvar route. Japan: JR East has ordered a Harsco 20-stone rail grinder. Mexico: Alstom is to undertake maintenance of 660 track-km belonging to Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de Mexico under a €40m agreement running to 2022. 90 staff will transfer from Ferrovalle to Alstom. Poland: TSS Grade is to modernise 22 km of PKP PLK’s Poznan – Skandawa line under a 27·5m z More...
