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Timetable tests on lines 4 and 6, respective 30km and 13km overground lines, are being stepped up with a view to handing the lines over to the operator, the Flow consortium – comprising Alstom, Hitachi Rail STS, and Italian State Railways – in the second half of the year, reported the International Railway Journal.
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2228 Views | the publication reaches you by | Saudi Arabia Today“We are running in what we call carousel mode with 35 trains to simulate the timetable, the maintenance and various other areas,” remarked Lindsay Vamplew, project director for the Ramped consortium comprising WSP (previously Louis Berger) and Hill International, which is overseeing package three of the project comprising lines 4, 5 and 6.
“At the same time we are trying to complete the stations, with building systems the last part of that. We are looking for those two lines to go into system demonstration in roughly May and potentially trial running where we handover to the operator to simulate the network in June or July, with a view to getting those two lines running next year,” noted Vamplew.
Progress is also being made on lines 1, 2 and 3, which are similarly in the final 10-12% of the works to be implemented although slightly behind on rolling stock testing, which is not at the carousel stage yet, stated Carter Rohan, the project director for the RMTC project management consultancy.
RMTC consortium comprises Parsons, Egis and Systra, which is overseeing packages 1 and 2 covering lines 1, 2 and 3.
According to him, the underground 25-km Line 5 is running a little further behind. “It will be September before we go into some of system demonstration and we will look towards the end of the year to handover to the operator,” he added.
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