Features & Analysis – Page 46
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Single main station forms centrepiece of Wien redevelopment
A €2bn redevelopment project in Wien will give the city a showpiece station with 10 through tracks replacing the Ostbahnhof and Südbahnhof termini. Target date for completion is 2013
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NewsMaxima locomotive finds a new home
Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik and HGK have signed a co-operation agreement to develop a central workshop for the Maxima and Gravita locomotive families, reports Achim Uhlenhut
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EWS joins DB to create a European network
THE EUROPEAN Union's Directorate-General for Competition was this month expected to approve the purchase by Deutsche Bahn AG of all the shares in EWS Holdings, the UK's biggest rail freight operator. On September 19, EWS Chief Executive Keith Heller explained to a Rail Freight Group meeting in Oxford that his ...
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High Speed 1 inaugurated as London - Brussels joins the 2 h club
Eurostar set a record time of 1 h 43 min from Brussels to its new London St Pancras terminus on September 20. Murray Hughes was on board
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High Speed 1: the stations
St Pancras PASSENGERS from Paris and Brussels will now arrive at the stunningly-renovated St Pancras station, which with the adjacent Midland Hotel forms a masterpiece of Victorian architecture on the government's list of 9 137 buildings considered of Grade ...
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Who is who in High Speed 1
THE BRITISH government selected London & Continental Railways in February 1996 to build and operate High Speed 1 (then called the Channel Tunnel Rail Link), and to own and operate the UK arm of Eurostar. LCR's shareholders are Arup, Bechtel, Halcrow and Systra, transport operators National Express Group and SNCF, ...
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News‘Depot mark 2’ promises faster maintenance of faster trains
Andrew Grantham reports from Eurostar Engineering Centre Temple Mills
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NewsAt home with the High Speed 1 domestic stock
THE FLEET of Hitachi EMUs for UK domestic commuter services will be housed in a purpose-built depot at Ashford. The £53m depot adjacent to the high speed line was officially opened by Japanese ambassador Yoshiji Nogami and UK Secretary of State for Transport Ruth Kelly on October 2, the same ...
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NewsBrussels Diabolo PPP agreement signed
BELGIUM: The first PPP in Belgium reached financial close on September 28, allowing infrastructure authority Infrabel to announce the formal go-ahead for the long-planned Diabolo project, which will improve rail links to Brussels Airport and Antwerpen. Infrabel is working with private-sector investors HSH Nordbank AG and Babcock & Brown, who ...
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Capacity is the key as Banverket moves to a higher level
Sweden's infrastructure manager has replaced a regional structure with national operations and projects divisions, in a bid to focus on getting the most out of its network. Operations Director Björn Östlund explained to Chris Jackson the significance of the move
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Getting it right at China's mega-stations
Pedestrian flow modelling is enabling informed design decisions during the construction of huge new stations in Beijing and Guangzhou
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NewsERTMS moves on: 'there is no way back'
Chris Jackson reports from the UIC ERTMS World Conference in Bern
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Mechatronic bogie heralds 250 km/h on Swedish tracks
Riding the Gröna Tåget test train with mechatronic bogies, Murray Hughes reports on the Swedish research programme to develop the next generation of high speed train that will replace the X2000
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NewsHector Rail's growth strategy
A focused business plan and solid financial backing are enabling traction provider Hector Rail to target specific needs in Scandinavia and beyond
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NewsSkåne springboard as Arriva expands
Arriva's experience of working with local governments helped the company win a nine-year concession to run the Pågatåg network in Sweden
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Paris awaits wide-body revolution
Bombardier’s novel wide-bodied Spacium 3.06 design has been chosen as the standard EMU for commuter services in Ile-de-France. Murray Hughes reports
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TTCI marks two milestones
EARLY NEXT year senior North American railroad officials will gather at the Transportation Test Center in Pueblo, Colorado, for high-level discussions on the future of the industry. The occasion is intended to mark two anniversaries – 10 years since TTC Inc was set up as a subsidiary of the Association ...
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Engineers debate high speed expansion
Next month the German and French railway engineering associations VDEI and AFFI will be holding a colloquium in Strasbourg to look at the role that engineers can play in furthering rail development across the continent