SWEDISH infrastructure manager Trafikverket has awarded Siemens a contract worth around €17m to supply a Sitras SFC Plus static frequency converter to feed power from the 50Hz public grid into the railway's 16.7Hz traction power network.
POLISH infrastructure manager PKP has commissioned WYG Consulting to carry out a feasibility study of the electrification and modernisation of approximately 100km of the Lublin - Stalowa Wola line in southeast Poland.
THE government of Ukraine has announced plans to electrify the 105km Kovel - Izov line at 25kV ac, and is set to enter negotiations with Poland over extending this to Hrubieszow, which is the gateway to PKP-LHS, the 1520mm-gauge line to Katowice.
THE board of Californian commuter rail operator Caltrain has authorised the release of a design-build request for proposals (RFP) for the Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project (PCEP), the next step in the $US 1.5bn electrification of the 82km San Francisco – San Jose corridor.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation has awarded Alstom two contracts worth more than $US 75m to supply signalling, telecommunications, and electrification equipment for the first phase of the metro network in Kochi, India.
BRITISH transport minister Baroness Kramer announced on November 28 that the Department for Transport has allocated £16m to fund the electrification of the 16km Oxenholme – Windermere line in northwest England.
AFTER months of political deadlock, the British government and the Welsh assembly have reached an agreement on funding for the electrification of the South Wales Main Line between Cardiff and Swansea and the Valley Lines suburban network around Cardiff.
THE Czech Ministry of Transport and Czech rail infrastructure manager SŽDC have launched a feasibility study into the possible conversion of all lines currently electrified at 3kV dc to 25kV ac 50Hz.
NETWORK Rail (NR) announced on November 5 that it has signed contracts worth a total of £250m with Costain and Morgan Sindall for electrification and associated works on the Edinburgh – Falkirk High – Glasgow Queen Street line as part of the £742m Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP).
ISRAEL Railways (IR) announced on October 28 that it has shortlisted five prequalified suppliers for a design-supply-build-maintain contract for the first stage of its electrification programme.
