All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2006
All articles published this month.
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NewsWaterloo & City on schedule for September 1 re-opening
London Underground's PPP contractor Metronet reports good progress with its programme to upgrade the 2·4 km Waterloo & City Line, which has been closed to traffic since April 1. Track relaying and signalling enhancements will cut journey times and increase capacity between Waterloo and Bank
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Air cargo trial will pioneer hub-and-spoke operation
Andrew Sharp, Director General of the International Air-Rail Organisation, looks at plans to operate high speed freight services to and from Leipzig/Halle airport
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World of tickets
THALES has announced a series of metro ticketing contracts involving contactless smart card technology.Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp has awarded a consortium of Thales, LG and local company Beikong a contract to replace the existing system of paper tickets inspected at gate lines with a contactless system covering 1184 ...
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Radio silence
ALMOST EXACTLY four years ago, on June 28 2002, the California Public Utilities Commission formally approved the use of Advanced Automatic Train Control on the Bay Area Rapid Transit network in Oakland and San Francisco. Being developed for BART under a $40m contract awarded to Harmon Industries in 1998 (RG ...
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Subsidiaries progress RZD reforms
JULY 1 saw the formal start of operations for Russian Railways’ Federal Passenger Board, which has been established as an early priority for the third stage of the RZD reform programme.The reform of RZD’s passenger operations is based on splitting the commercial and social services into separate businesses. According to ...
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Rail welding plant
ON JUNE 27 Lithuanian Railways’ Gelmagis subsidiary inaugurated a long-welded rail plant in Silenai, removing the need for LG to buy-in welding services from Latvia and Belarus. Geismar supplied equipment worth 20m litai for the plant in the north of the country, which employs 16 staff. In addition to supplying ...
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People
On July 12 Anne-Marie Idrac (below) was appointed as President of SNCF, succeeding Louis Gallois who has stepped down as head of the French national rail operator to become Co-Chairman of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. Idrac had been head of Paris transport operator RATP since 2002, and was ...
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Possession or ownership?
IT LOOKS as if political decisions determining the future legal status of Deutsche Bahn AG will be taken next month. But don’t expect anything simple or clear cut.At least the options are being narrowed down. A joint parliamentary committee charged by the government with investigating the privatisation of DB AG ...
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Overvoltage protection
PROTECTION of staff from voltage differences, and of electrification equipment from the effects of lightning strikes and stray current, is being obtained by SNCF using ABB’s hybrid voltage limiter. It is common practice to avoid direct earthing of the rails in DC traction systems, to reduce the risk of stray ...
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Wires to Nanjing
ELECTRICALLY-hauled freight trains began running on Chinese Railways’ Shanghai - Nanjing main line on July 1, with the completion of wiring work on the southern section of the Beijing - Shanghai corridor.CR’s Shanghai Railway Bureau expects to operate around 20 freight trains each way per day on the 303 km ...
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Tram modernisation
TENDERS were called last month for a €25·2m contract to modernise the tramway infrastructure in the Romanian city of Arad.Bids were due by July 5 for the project, which includes rehabilitation of trackwork over 17·6route-km and repairs to the streets along which the trams operate. This accounts for around a ...
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Market
Algeria: SNTF has awarded a consortium of Siemens and Estel a €43·5m contract to supply relay interlockings and telecoms for the 204 km line under construction from Tebessa to Ain M’Lila, and for upgrading an 8 km line between Gué de Constantine and Oued Smar, bypassing Alger.Bangladesh:To regain passengers lost ...
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Low-emission locos on order
METRO-NORTH Railroad confirmed an order with Brookville Equipment Corp last month for the supply of 11 low-emission locomotives for use on the Shore Line East, Danbury and Waterbury branches. They will be manufactured in Brookville, Pennsylvania, for delivery in the last quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of ...
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Interlocking orders
INDIAN RAILWAYS has awarded two contracts to Union Switch & Signal India for the installation of electronic interlocking equipment on two routes as part of its network-wide signalling and safety upgrading programme.The bigger contract covers the supply of Microlok-II interlockings for 14 stations on the Northeast Frontier Railway’s Rangiya Division ...
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Golmud – Lhasa railway inaugurated
CHINA: Premier Hu Jintao presided at ceremonies on July 1 to mark the official opening of the 1 142 km line from Golmud in Qinghai to Lhasa in Tibet. Cutting the ribbon at Golmud station, Hu told an audience of 2600 people gathered in the station square that ‘the project ...
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Light rail go-ahead for Ottawa
OTTAWA city council voted on July 12 to approve the contract for construction of the city’s planned north-south light rail line, clearing the way for work to begin later this year. The 29·7 km route will link Barrhaven with the University of Ottawa, serving 23 stations. The DBOM concession contract ...
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Gearless motor
A GEARLESS 110 kW traction motor developed by Siemens is undergoing trials at the Wegberg-Wildenrath test facility, where it is fitted to a former München U-Bahn car. Siemens claims an efficiency of 96% for the Syntegra permanent magnet synchronous drive. As it does not have gears it produces less ...
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PPPs to fund TGVs
FRENCH infrastructure manager RFF announced on July 20 that it had appointed financial advisors to assist with the development of PPP funding packages for three major investment projects (RG 11.05 p668).Royal Bank of Canada’s Capital Markets division has been selected to put together the PPP for the Nîmes - Montpellier ...
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Finance
Africa: The Indian government has granted a US$7·1m line of credit to fund the purchase of a loco and 12 metre-gauge coaches for use on services between Dakar in Sénégal and Bamako in Mali from August 2007.Canada: Transport Canada has announced C$2·1m of operating funding to continue CN subsidiary Algoma ...