Features & Analysis – Page 62
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Supersite will advance techniques of wayside monitoring
Developed by the Wayside Monitoring Alliance, the Supersite condition monitoring station is designed to provide comprehensive data on passing wagons, using root cause analysis and predictive maintenance to prevent small defects leading to major problems
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Athens gears up to face Olympic challenge
Unprecedented levels of investment are being poured into four separate urban rail networks as the Greek capital prepares to host the 28th Olympiad next month. Artemis Klonos reports
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Stadler relies on tailor-made trains
ON JUNE 4 Stadler Rail officially opened a SFr20m third assembly hall at its Bussnang plant. The event marked completion of a second phase of expansion at the site in northeast Switzerland. Bussnang-based Stadler-Fahrzeuge AG has been active in the specialist passenger rail vehicle sector since 1945. Growth took off ...
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A luta continua!
Despite financing delays and setbacks caused by cyclones and famine, a multinational concessionaire is starting to make progress with the renovation and operation of the Nacala Corridor linking Mozambique and Malawi
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Poland was the largest of the countries to join the European Union on May 1, and the possibility of the huge rail freight business being privatised attracted much interest. Privatisation is off the agenda for the moment, but Marek Rabsztyn and Jan Raczynski find that more than 20 new operators ...
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Giant T makes steady progress
ITALY's high speed lines are being built in the shape of a giant T with the spine stretching from Milano in the north to Napoli in the south. The bar of the T is formed by an east-west route that will link Torino to Trieste. After the final section of ...
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Please handle with care!
Picking up on comparisons published in our January 2004 issue, Fred Mau and David Ashmore from Booz Allen Hamilton in Sydney debate the pros and cons of benchmarking in the railway sector
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Modular vehicle concepts will pave the way to European integration
Major railway operators and suppliers have embarked on a challenging journey to develop together the first European modular high speed train capable of operating at speeds over 200 km/h
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SNCB to be split apart next year
Harry Hondius reports on developments at Belgian National Railways
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Private sector kick-starts two-stage airport line
A private-sector consortium has won a 30-year concession to build and operate the 58 km link now under construction between central Seoul and Incheon Airport. The first phase will open in 2007
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Learning lessons from tilting trains
DB's failure to meet promised performance improvements where tilting trains were introduced led inevitably to strong media criticism. Murray Hughes finds that many of the difficulties can be blamed on too much innovation pushed through too quickly
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Rebuilding Iraq's ravaged railways
Bechtel is co-ordinating reconstruction on Iraqi Republic Railways, which conflict and lack of maintenance have left in a poor condition. Following a rapid assessment of the infrastructure, work has begun on a major upgrade of the route from Um Qasr to Shouaiba Junction
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Expansion plans attract 'substantial interest'
Murray Hughes asked Eng Khaled Alyahya, President, Saudi Railways Organisation, about plans to expand the Saudi Arabian network that include transfer of SRO's core assets to the private sector
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Dubai poised to call construction tenders
Plans for a two-line urban rail network are being firmed up to cope with explosive demand for transport in this booming city. Murray Hughes reports
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AGC to revitalise regional routes
SNCF has ordered up to 500 Bombardier-built AGC multiple-units to replace life-expired DMUs and EMUs on regional services. Funded by regional authorities, the family will include diesel, electric and dual-mode versions
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MF2000 to start trials this year
The first of 805 steel-wheeled cars for the Paris metro is nearing completion at Alstom's factory in Valenciennes, and operator RATP expects to take delivery of a pre-production MF2000 trainset at the end of this year
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Co-operation underpins open-source ticketing
Transport operators and authorities in the Calypso Networks Association have been developing standards for smart card ticketing and related applications
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Transcontinental link completed
On January 15 the first FreightLink container train for Darwin will leave Adelaide, arriving at the Northern Territory port two days later. The inaugural service on the Alice Springs - Darwin marks the completion of the 150 year dream of linking Australia's Top End with the cities in the south ...
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Head-hardened rail put to the test
Voestalpine Schienen and German Railway are carrying out in-track testing of the rolling contact fatigue resistance of head-hardened and as-rolled steel rails, and from this are developing an effective grinding strategy for different rail grades
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Cross-city link takes shape
Antwerpen's north-south junction will provide a direct connection for both conventional and high speed services to the north of the city