Rail conquers the Alps

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Competition winner
AUSTRALIA: Hassell, Herzog & de Meuron and heritage
consultant Purcell have won a A$1m design competition
for the redevelopment of Melbourne’s Flinders
Street station, with support from Arup, Thiess, Equiset,
RLB and Jarlo Visions. The station would become a new
civic precinct with an art gallery, plaza, amphitheatre,
market and home for cultural organisations.
‘The weatherproof, articulated filigree vaulted roofscape
is a respectful yet dynamic interpretation and
contextual response to the history, function and location
of this very special place in the heart of Melbourne’,
said Ascan Mergenthaler of Herzog & de Meuron. l
CONTRACTS
CANADA: Nomad Digital has
completed the roll-out of wi-fi on
VIA Rail’s Ocean service.
CHINA: Siemens has won a €25m
contract to supply communications
including the Controlguide
station management system for
Hong Kong’s Shatin – Central Link.
FRANCE: SNCF has awarded a
joint venture of Newrest (65%)
and Elior (35%) a contract to provide
catering from November on
domestic TGV services, Intercité
trains on the conventional network
and international services
on LGV Est operated by SNCF/
DB joint venture Alleo.
POLAND: Zachodniopomorskie
voivodship has awarded a consortium
of Trako and Refunda a
600 000m złoty contract to develop
a regional transport plan running
to 2025.
RUSSIA: Sole bidder Maksima-
Telekom has been selected to
install wi-fi on the Moscow metro.
INFRASTRUCTURE
ALGERIA: Siemens has won a €20m
contract to supply Trainguard MT
communications-based train control
for the extension of Alger metro Line 1.
AUSTRIA: ÖBB Infrastruktur has
awarded Powerlines an €8·3m contract
to undertake electrification works for
the Wien Hauptbahnhof project.
BELGIUM: Infrabel has awarded ETF
Luxembourg and Cegelec a €15m resignalling
contract including replacement
of PTAR with PLP signalling at
signalboxes in La Louvière, Manage,
Ecaussines, Gouy-lez-Piéton and Feluy.
FINLAND: Länsimetro has awarded
Skanska a €37·5m contract to build
Keilaniemi metro station in Espoo.
LITHUANIA: LG has awarded Eurovia
CS and Eurovia Lietuva a contract
to upgrade the 18·5 km Kazlu Ruda –
Mauruciai route for Rail Baltica (p10).
NETHERLANDS: Strukton Rail has
been awarded a contract to maintain
the Utrecht sneltram line for five years
from December 1. It has also been
selected to modernise track and overhead
line equipment at Zichtenburg
tram depot in Den Haag.
NORWAY: Skanska has won a
NKr532m contract to extend the Bergen
Bybanen tram line to Flesland airport.
POLAND: PKP PLK has awarded
Porr a 39·8m złoty contract for track
renewal on 24 km of the Poznań –
Szczecin line, and Eurovia a 17·5m
złoty contract to modernise track, signalling
and electrification on the 9 km
Jaworzyna Śląska – Świebodzice section
of the Wrocław – Wałbrzych line.
Gotowski has won a 290m złoty contract
to build a 9·5 km tram line serving
the Fordon area of Bydgoszcz,
with 14 stops and three turning loops.
SKM w Trójmieście has awarded
Rajbud and Dekpol an 80m złoty contract
to build Gdansk Śródmieście
station by the end of 2014; running
suburban services through to this
new terminus will help to increase capacity
at Gdańsk Główny.
QATAR: Qatar Rail has appointed
Jacobs Engineering to provide project
management for the Doha Red Line.
SAUDI ARABIA: Tata Steel’s
Scunthorpe and Hayange plants are
to supply 60 000 tonnes of rail for the
Haramain High Speed Rail project.
SINGAPORE: LTA has awarded Samsung
C&T Corp a S$285m contract
for the construction of Caldecott metro
station and associated tunnels. A
separate S$421m contract was awarded
to Shanghai Tunnel Engineering
Co for the construction of 7 km of
twin tunnels on the Thomson Line.
SPAIN: ADIF has awarded Azvi a
€8·15m contract for track renewals on
the 20·8 km Almoraima – Algeciras
route, raising speeds to 160 km/h with
provision for future electrification.
SWEDEN: Trafikverket has awarded
Strukton Rail a €80m contract to
maintain the 680 track-km northern
section of the Södra stambanan route
for five years from May 2014, with
an option for a two-year extension.
Strukton Rail has a separate contract
covering the southern 430 track-km.
SWITZERLAND: AlpTransit has
awarded the SFr138m railway systems
contract for the 15·4 km Ceneri
base tunnel to the CPC consortium of
Cablex, Porr Suisse, Porr Bau, Condotte,
Cossi and LGV. The SFr96·4m
track contract has been awarded to
the Mons Ceneris consortium of
Mancini & Marti, Marti Contractors,
Marti Tunnelbau, Pizzarotti, GCF
and Valditerra Lavori Ferroviari.
TURKEY: A Yapı Merkezi Construction/Yapıray
joint venture has won
a YTL53·8m contract to extend the
Konya tramway from Alaaddin Tepesi
to Adliye Sarayı by August 2015.
UK: Network Rail has awarded Telent
a contract to replace Radio Electronic
Token Block base stations on the Far
North and West Highland Lines.
USA: Promoter M-1 Rail Corp has
selected Stacy & Witbeck as general
contractor for the 5·3 km Detroit
streetcar project (RG 3.13 p15).
VIETNAM: ETF and local subcontractors
are to modernise a 35 km section
of the metre-gauge Hanoi – Lao
Cai route, including three stations
and construction of a bridge.
Posco Engineering & Construction
has won a US$73m contract to build
eight light rail stops in Hanoi.
18 Railway Gazette International | September 2013