Archive for category: Subways and Underground

Blackfriars Underground station reopens

Blackfriars Underground station reopened this morning to accommodate a 60% increase in footfall. The station has been completely rebuilt over the last three years. New lifts and escalators make the station easier to access and a curved glass façade fl...
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Birse Metro awarded Tube cooling contract

Birse Metro has been awarded a contract to provide a Water Cooling System at London Underground’s Oxford Circus station. The system will serve 14 new Passenger Air Handling Units (PAHUs) located on six platforms at the station. The contract, part...
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Birse Metro awarded Tube cooling contract

Birse Metro has been awarded a contract to provide a Water Cooling System at London Underground’s Oxford Circus station. The system will serve 14 new Passenger Air Handling Units (PAHUs) located on six platforms at the station. The contract, part...
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Tube incident response ‘Blue Light’ trial

The Tube’s Emergency Response Unit is carrying out a trial with the British Transport Police in an attempt to reach emergencies faster. The trial aims to halve response times and means that Transport for London’s ERU vehicles will travel un...
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Subway salute for Anne

The 115th anniversary of the opening of the Glasgow Subway is particularly poignant for 80-year-old passenger, Robert Connor. A regular user of St George’s Cross station it was there Mr Connor met Anne, a subway ticket collector, who he’d later mar...
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Subway salute for Anne

The 115th anniversary of the opening of the Glasgow Subway is particularly poignant for 80-year-old passenger, Robert Connor. A regular user of St George’s Cross station it was there Mr Connor met Anne, a subway ticket collector, who he’d later mar...
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Melbourne’s Metro makes ‘solid start to 2012′

Metro has begun the year on a solid footing by ‘exceeding performance targets for the eighth consecutive month’, Metro said. The number of trains running on time in January was 90.13 per cent and the number of services delivered was 98.06 p...
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Melbourne’s Metro makes ‘solid start to 2012′

Metro has begun the year on a solid footing by ‘exceeding performance targets for the eighth consecutive month’, Metro said. The number of trains running on time in January was 90.13 per cent and the number of services delivered was 98.06 p...
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Atkins wins Oslo Metro design contracts

Atkins has won design contracts to for parts of the Oslo Metro in Norway. The contract includes a section upgrade on the Lambertseterbanen line, the modernisation of Brattelikollen and Karlsrud stations and the redesign of two depots and workshops for ...
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Atkins wins Oslo Metro design contracts

Atkins has won design contracts to for parts of the Oslo Metro in Norway. The contract includes a section upgrade on the Lambertseterbanen line, the modernisation of Brattelikollen and Karlsrud stations and the redesign of two depots and workshops for ...
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Skanska awarded Second Avenue Subway Systems project contract

Skanska USA’s civil construction business unit has been awarded a contract by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York for the Second Avenue Subway Systems project. The construction value of the project is $261.9 million. Skanska, with j...
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