THE first of 18 Alstom Metropolis trains for Guadalajara metro Line 3 was officially unveiled by Mexico’s secretary of state for transport and communications Mr Gerardo Ruiz Espara at a ceremony in the city on January 24.
MEXICO’s secretary of state for transport and communications Mr Gerardo Ruiz Espara attended a ceremony at the port of Veracruz on January 19 to mark the delivery of the first CAF Civity EMU for the Mexico City - Toluca interurban passenger line.
ALSTOM announced on January 9 that it has been awarded a contract by Mexican railway operator Ferromex to provide maintenance for 219 locomotives for five years.
THE first of 18 three-car Metropolis trains for Guadalajara metro Line 3 has left Alstom’s Santa Perpetua de Mogoda plant near Barcelona for the nearby port of Tarragona on the first stage of its journey to Mexico.
A consortium of Ineco, Spain, its Mexican subsidiary Inecomex, Spain’s infrastructure manager Adif, and Cal y Mayor y Asociados, Mexico, have been awarded a contract to supervise the construction of an extension to Line 12 of the Mexico City metro.
MEXICO City’s Collective Transport System (STC) has awarded a €164m contract to CAF Mexico for 10 nine-car rubber-tyred metro trains for Line 1.
A full-size mock-up of the forthcoming Alstom Metropolis train for Guadalajara metro Line 3 was unveiled in the city’s northern district of Zapopan on August 9 by Mr Rodolfo Guadalajara Gutiérrez, managing director of metro operator Siteur, and the governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco Mr Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz.
MEXICO's Federal Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) has awarded a consortium of Spanish and Mexican companies a Pesos 942m ($US 54.7m) contract to construct train maintenance facilities for the 57.7km Mexico City - Toluca interurban passenger line, which is due to open next year.
THE government of the Federal District of Mexico City is planning to launch tenders on March 24 for a contract to supply 15 new rubber-tyred trains for metro Line 1.
IRJ at the UIC ERTMS world conference Brussels. The application of automatic train operation (ATO) in conjunction with ETCS Level 2 is being pioneered on a new line project in Mexico, well ahead of its adoption in Europe.