Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group operating in construction services, professional services, support services and infrastructure investments, announces today that it has been awarded a £64 million electrification contract in China, which along with recent wins in Sweden and Germany, totals £188 million of international rail contracts.

In China, Balfour Beatty Rail has secured a £64 million electrification contract for the Xinxiang-Heze-Ranzhou-Rizhao railway for the Ministry of Railways of China. The 616-kilometre, double-track, passenger and freight line project includes the delivery of overhead contact line and traction substations. The contract is due for completion in the summer of 2010.

The Swedish rail administration, Banverket, awarded Balfour Beatty Rail the £82 million railway maintenance contract for 1,270 kilometres in the Västra Götaland region in three separate contracts. This is the largest operational area for which Banverket has so far awarded a contract.

The turnkey maintenance contracts are scheduled to start on 1st September 2010 and are for five years with two further one-year options. The project involves the preventative and corrective maintenance of track, overhead line (OHL), signalling and telecoms, incident management and snow clearance.

In Germany, Balfour Beatty Rail and its recently-acquired track business, Schreck-Mieves, secured two multi-disciplinary contracts totalling £39 million, the latest multi-disciplinary contracts to be won in line with the strategy of providing a complete service for railway infrastructure. The works include catenary and 50 HZ installations for the Coswig-Dresden Neustadt line and the same scope plus track for the Leipzig-Leutzsch-Plagwitz line.

Commenting today Balfour Beatty Chief Executive, Ian Tyler said:

"We are delighted to have been awarded these contracts which utilise Balfour Beatty's multi-disciplinary rail skills and highlight our customers' confidence in our ability to deliver complex rail projects."

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