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Rest assured, the project is still on track, CRCC is finalising design for plant China’s CRRC Corporation Ltd will begin supplying Metro coaches by mid-2022, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd ( BMRCL) said, clearing the doubt that the project was cancelled. Officials said the company -- which bagged the Rs 1,600 crore tender to supply 216 coaches -- is currently finalising the design of its upcoming manufacturing plant at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh. “We will start getting supply in the second half of 2022. We had placed orders for 216 coaches. The first 24 coaches will come from ...

BART: Major track rebuild coming between South Hayward and Union City stations. BART/File photo BART will temporarily stop accepting delivery of new Fleet of the Future (FOTF) rail cars beginning January 8, 2021 to allow the manufacturer, Bombardier Transportation, the time to take steps to improve the cars’ reliability and availability, and to alleviate rail car storage constraints at BART’s maintenance yards. One of the issues to be resolved is related to software in the on-board automatic train control system. The new cars routinely stop while in service and will not move until after t...

Down. if he runs past a red signal, the it will automatically stop him. it's based on technology that's been around for decades. now, that would only occur if this were a situation, again, like the may 2015 philadelphia amtrak crash where the train operator was going around a curve much too fast or the one back in 2013. it would slow it down. but if there was a rail break, like the rail broke under the train or an axle broke, positive train control isn't going to do anything. >> i also want to bring in on the phone former ntsb investigator in charge and a railroad accident investigation expert...

A slight alignment at a low speed. here we have several important things. coming into the curve. they were negotiating a curve. the whole point of of a high-speed train and the reason that amtrak, you know, and any train operator wants to sell it is to go fast. >> yeah. >> so they would be keeping their train at the speed limit and hopefully not above, and the initial indications are is that the speed limit was 79 miles an hour. that's a pretty sharp curve for 79 miles an hour so it looks to me like it was a high-speed event on a curve and it looks like a rail might have been out of line and y...