Public Transport Victoria (PTV) has unveiled a 30-year blueprint for the development of the Melbourne suburban rail network, which if implemented in full could increase peak capacity by 50% by 2023 and 100% within 20 years.
Trenitalia rolled out its next-generation high-speed train, the ETR 1000 Frecciarossa, at AnsaldoBreda’s Pistoia plant on March 25, when the first completed train was christened Pietro Mennea in honour of the Italian 100m sprinter who died on March 21.
President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic attended a ceremony in Santo Domingo on April 1 to mark the opening of the city’s second metro line.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation says it has installed the world’s first auxiliary power supply system incorporating silicon carbide power modules in a series-production train.
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Dominican Republic opens Santo Domingo metro Line 2 The Dominican Republic has opened the second line of the Santo Domingo metro, which runs on an east-west alignment from María Montez to Eduardo Brito.
Network Rail completes first stage of Reading station upgrade
Network Rail completed the first stage of the £897m Reading station renovation and upgrade project in south-east England over the Easter weekend.
Bombardier to deliver 12 Twindexx Vario trains to Deutsche Bahn
Bombardier Transportation has secured a €113m order from Deutsche Bahn (DB) to supply 12 four-car Twindexx Vario electric multiple units.
Crossrail to award tunnel fit-out contract to Alstom, TSO and Costain joint venture
Crossrail is set to award a €350m contract to ATC, a joint venture comprising Alstom Transport, French trackwork provider TSO and British engineering firm Costain, to carry out the major fit-out and commissioning of new rail tunnels in London, UK.
UK Office of Rail Regulation (ORR)
London stations still dominate top of the stops list
4 April 2013
Waterloo has retained its position as the busiest station in Great Britain as top stations continue to attract growing numbers of passengers, reveal statistics published today by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
Station usage statistics for April 2011 - March 2012 estimate that there were 94,045,510 entries and exits made by passengers at Waterloo station - an increase of 2.5% compared with 2010-2011 figures. London Victoria comes second with 76,231,290 entries and exits (an increase of 3.6%) and London Liverpool Street third with 57,106,502 (up 2.4%). Eight out of the top ten busiest stations were located in London, with Birmingham New Street eighth with 31,213,842 (up 26.4%)* and Glasgow Central tenth with 26, 639, 418 (up 6.8%) the busiest stations outside London.
To view the station usage figures and accompanying notes, see http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529
Station usage statistics are an estimate of the number of passengers travelling to and from each station (entries and exits) in England, Scotland and Wales. Figures are based on ticket sales data recorded in rail industry systems. There are limitations to the dataset, as the figures are estimates and do not represent exact numbers.
Station usage figures are presented in alphabetical order according to station name but can be reordered by a variety of categories – e.g. number of passenger entries and exits, country or region, county or unitary authority. Guidance notes on how to filter the data are published alongside the Excel spreadsheet: http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/xls/station_usage_estimates_1112.xls
Waterloo has retained its position as the busiest station in Great Britain as top stations continue to attract growing numbers of passengers, reveal statistics published today by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
Station usage statistics for April 2011 - March 2012 estimate that there were 94,045,510 entries and exits made by passengers at Waterloo station - an increase of 2.5% compared with 2010-2011 figures. London Victoria comes second with 76,231,290 entries and exits (an increase of 3.6%) and London Liverpool Street third with 57,106,502 (up 2.4%). Eight out of the top ten busiest stations were located in London, with Birmingham New Street eighth with 31,213,842 (up 26.4%)* and Glasgow Central tenth with 26, 639, 418 (up 6.8%) the busiest stations outside London.
To view the station usage figures and accompanying notes, see http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529
Station usage statistics are an estimate of the number of passengers travelling to and from each station (entries and exits) in England, Scotland and Wales. Figures are based on ticket sales data recorded in rail industry systems. There are limitations to the dataset, as the figures are estimates and do not represent exact numbers.
Station usage figures are presented in alphabetical order according to station name but can be reordered by a variety of categories – e.g. number of passenger entries and exits, country or region, county or unitary authority. Guidance notes on how to filter the data are published alongside the Excel spreadsheet: http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/xls/station_usage_estimates_1112.xls
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