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Bombardier loses LU signal modernisation contract

  • 02-01-2014 4:26am
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    Telegraph
    Bombardier, the Canadian transport group, has lost a £354m contract to modernise signalling on vital parts of the London Underground.

    The company, which is employing around 100 engineers in London on the project to upgrade the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, said its signalling system was incompatible with the Underground's creaking infrastructure, more than two years after the contract was first awarded.

    Transport for London (TfL) will now seek new bids for the contract, insisting that the planned upgrade will still be delivered to its time schedule of 2018. However, a spokesman admitted that the cost of the project may potentially rise. ...


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