All Railway Gazette International articles in April 1998 – Page 3
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German commuters to have many Talents
FORMAL LAUNCH of German Railway’s Class 644 Talent diesel-electric sets took place in Aachen on March 13. Intended for use on S-Bahn routes in the K
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Luxury lounges on the Coast Starlight
CAPTION: Amtrak West unveiled its newly redesigned and renovated Pacific Parlour car under dreary skies at Los Angeles Union Station on February 19. The first class lounges are assigned to the Coast Starlight, which connects Los Angeles with Seattle, and are open only to sleeping car passengers. The dome-like ...
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CITY NEWS
n New York subway ridership jumped to 1·13 billion during 1997, the highest figure for 25 years, including a 30-year monthly record in December. This reflects major investment during the last decade to overcome neglect and deferred maintenance.MTA officials expect a further jump of around 100 million riders with the ...
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CFR plans upgrading programme
ROMANIAN state railway CFR is working to raise Ecu340m for an upgrading programme which includes renovation of 900 route-km, main line electrification and line speed increases, rolling stock renewal, and communications modernisation.CFR has signed a memorandum of understanding with the World Bank for half the cost of a US$18m programme ...
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Catering confirms its role
PROVIDING some form of on-board catering in the package that train operators offer to customers is no longer in question. What is open to question is the cost of this service. As railways seek to cut costs, contract catering has become the prime means of delivering on-board food and drink, ...
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Handling containers under catenary
MANNESMANN Dematic has installed a prototype Transmann portal container-handling crane in the yard at Wetter, near Dortmund. The Transmann features a rigid load guidance system that enables it to handle containers under catenary.Designed to handle 20 to 45ft containers weighing up to 41 tonnes, the Transmann can transfer up to ...
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Refer faces a busy year
INTRO: The Portuguese infrastructure authority is developing a charging structure this year as it works to complete major projects and define the ground rules for future investment. Refer President Dr Manuel Frasquilho outlined the challenges ahead to Robert PrestonBYLINE: Dr Manuel FrasquilhoPresidentReferON JANUARY 1 1999 Refer will take over the ...
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Rail Business Intelligence
LAST MONTH Rail Privatisation News, our newsletter about Britain’s privatised rail industry, celebrated its third birthday. The break-up of British Rail into around 100 companies and the subsequent sell-off are history, but interest in the hard commercial information in which RPN specialises is as strong as ever. Feedback from readers ...
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CP restructures into business units
INTRO: Following the creation of infrastructure authority Refer, Portuguese Railways has embarked on the task of reorganising its operations as five business units. CP President Dr Crisóstomo Teixeira (right) spoke to Robert Preston in LisboaTHE FIRST business unit to take shape under CP’s new management structure was Freight & Logistics ...
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Thalys traffic builds
Thalys recorded its five millionth passenger on February 20, and reported sharp increases in traffic levels. In the first six weeks of 1998 the service carried half a million passengers, a 72% increase on the same period last year. This was largely due to faster journey times resulting from the ...
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Russia builds passenger motive power
INTRO: When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Russia was left with no factories producing multiple-units or passenger locos within its borders; now home-grown designs are emerging BYLINE: Dr Tech Sc V A MatyushinDeputy Director-GeneralCentral Scientific Railway Research InstituteTHE RAILWAYS of the former USSR were going through an exceptionally ...
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Products In Brief
Cattron has added a speed control feature to its MP96 line of portable radio remote control systems, allowing train speed and bulk handling equipment to be controlled by one person during loading. An axle impulse device installed on the locomotive allows speed to be calculated in 0·05 km/h increments.Cam-Tech (UK) ...
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Bridge link funded
THE BANGLADESH government has signed a 40-year concessional loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank providing US$110m towards construction of a 99 km rail link from Jamtoli to Joydebpur, via the new Jamuna river bridge, which is due to open for road traffic later this year.Tenders for construction of a ...
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Jorritsma plans to break up NS
NETHERLANDS Railways faces the prospect of having to surrender half its passenger services to rival operators from 2010 under proposals to introduce competition to the Dutch rail network drawn up by Transport Minister Annemarie Jorritsma. A discussion paper proposing a phased programme to dismantle much of NS was presented to ...
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Bosporus tunnel project launched
TURKEY: Construction of a fixed link between the European and Asian parts of the Turkish rail network could get under way next year, according to Transport Minister Necdet Menzir. He was speaking at a seminar organised by the State Planning Office on February 23 to unveil the latest proposals to ...
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Order bonanza rolls on
GERMAN Railway is taking up more options for locomotives and regional tilting trains.Most significant is a decision to exercise an option with Adtranz for 400 main line electric locos of Class 145. The main customer will be DB Cargo with 300 units; some of these may be built as two ...
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Virgin picks Bombardier to build CrossCountry fleet
ON MARCH 3 Britain’s Virgin Rail Group announced in London that it had picked Bombardier Transportation as preferred bidder to supply rolling stock for its CrossCountry franchise. The company has a letter of intent for an £858m contract combining tilting diesel units and loco-hauled push-pull sets with a maintenance package ...
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Sokol bids called
WORK is under way on a 5ha site next to the present station in St Petersburg to build a terminal for the planned high speed line to Moscow being promoted by the Russian High Speed Railway Shareholding Co, RAO VSM. While the company still does not have enough secure finance ...
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