All Railway Gazette International articles in February 1998 – Page 3
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Dock line development
Heads of agreement for a 25 km north-south rail service in Buenos Aires have been signed by the Argentinian government, the city administration and suburban concessionaire Ferrovías, which hopes to complete the first phase of the Tren del Este project from Aristóbulo del Valle to Caminito within 12 months ...
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Dismantled by robot
CENTRAL Japan Railway has installed equipment in a rolling stock depot at Osaka that automates the process of dismantling shinkansen bogies in preparation for maintenance work.The equipment comprises a six-axis articulated general purpose robot with a bogie positioner and a range of tools including position detectors, socket wrenches, and a ...
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JR-East seeks ’lean and flexible’ EMU
EAST JAPAN Railway has started planning its next generation of commuter trainsets for Tokyo suburban services to follow the Series 209 ’half-life’ EMUs introduced five years ago. An experimental prototype will be developed over the next two years, with series production starting around 2003.The Series 209 launched on the Yamanote ...
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Ringsted expansion launched
DANISH rail infrastructure authority Banestyrelsen launched a public consultation on January 12 into options for increasing capacity on the 64 km København - Ringsted main line running west from the capital. The Folketing passed a law last May authorising the start of planning for the project.With the opening of the ...
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Motorail expansion
GERMAN Railway subsidiary DB AutoZug is to expand its motorail services next summer, with new destinations including Fréjus on the C
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Exporail returns to Hong Kong
INTRO: Exporail (Asia) 98 is taking place at the Hong Kong Exhibition & Convention Centre from February 17 to 19. Over 100 exhibitors from 18 countries will display products and services for rolling stock and infrastructureTHE third Exporail (Asia) event returns to Hong Kong, where this exhibition of railway technology ...
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Industry Extra
Great Britain: On December 23 FirstBus plc shareholders approved a change of name to FirstGroup plc, reflecting the widening scope of its transport operations with the Great Eastern rail franchise.Switzerland: Stadler Group has bought the remaining 30% of Stadler Altenrhein from Adtranz subsidiary Schindler Waggon.
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German Rail plugs into Thalys
MARKETING managers at DB will be hoping that a 4h journey to Paris will prove irresistible to K
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Helping hand
BOSNIA & Herzegovina Railways (ZBH) has been fortunate to secure from German Railway a fleet of rolling stock to help it restore services to its 1021 route-km war-torn network. Eight diesel locomotives, 28 wagons, a tamper and ballast plough were included in an initial consignment of rolling stock dispatched to ...
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High-speed IDEAs
THE US Transportation Research Board has expanded its Ideas Deserving Exploratory Analysis programme to include high-speed rail. Last month TRB invited proposals for ’innovative technologies and concepts’ for ’cost-effective upgrading of current rail systems for safer, faster, more efficient and reliable, and environmentally sound high speed operations.’Areas being considerered for ...
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Jubilation at inaugural public run
derived from those used on the GEC Alsthom-built Class 465 EMUs. Performance, even in the ’detuned’ state running with old Jubilee trains, was also impressive. Passengers will certainly notice the powerful acceleration and braking when the trains begin operating on the new section of route, where their full performance potential ...
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Industry News
Australia: Gilbert Lodge Australia has been appointed by Swiss manufacturer PMA AG to market its nylon cable protection products in Australasia.France: A December 17 liquidation order instructed Remafer to devise a recovery plan and deliver three wagons currently under construction.Germany: Bombardier Inc has concluded an agreement with investors advised by ...
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Influence spreading
THERE IS increasing evidence that Spoornet’s drive to supply its expertise to other African railways is paying off. Apart from earning hard cash, it should also bring benefits to those railways in need of technical and managerial know-how.Among recent moves is the establishment of a joint venture with Belgian National ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: Pierino Piffaretti (left), Managing Director of Switzerland’s Schindler Waggon, hands over a symbolic key for the company’s Pratteln works to Swiss Adtranz chief Beat Müller, to mark the change of ownership of the rolling stock business at the beginning of January CAPTION: BAA director Michael Maine (2nd from left) ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Via Rail Canada. Although management had done an excellent job in downsizing, he said he would find it difficult to ask the federal cabinet to fund new rolling stock.CN signed an agreement on January 19 for GEC Alsthom AMF Transport Inc of Montreal to maintain 50 rebuilt SD40-3 locos used ...
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Investing in punctuality
NS Reizigers has announced a package of measures to improve punctuality that will require the investment of an additional 50m guilders a year. Punctuality figures have not been published for several years, and some consumers’ organisations believe that on-time performance has dropped as low as 50% on some routes during ...
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Japanese Maglev sets new world record
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, engineers at Japan's Tsuru - Otsuki Superconducting Maglev test track in Yamanashi prefecture completed their current series of very high speed trials by setting a new world record for an unmanned trainset. Following the achievement of a new manned record of 531 km/h on December 12, the ...
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Keeping viaducts level
ENSURING that track on seven viaducts does not move because of ground settlement was one of many challenges facing engineers designing Hong Kong MTR’s airport line, now due to open on July 6. The answer was to use Hydratight’s lifting and jacking equipment controlled by a lift management system. An ...
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LETTERS
LRV designsSir - Having read your latest issue regarding light rail transit activity on the West Coast of North America, I found that William D Middleton gave an excellent overview of the present situation.Unfortunately, however, he seems somewhat less well informed about available light rail vehicles for the proposed systems. ...
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