All Railway Gazette International articles in February 2002 – Page 3
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Electrification upgrade
CROATIAN Railways awarded design contracts on December 12 for renovation and upgrading of electrification equipment on its two sections of the Budapest - Sarajevo - Ploce Corridor Vc, which total 129 km. VPS Design of Zagreb will be responsible for the northern section linking Beli Manastir on the Hungarian border ...
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Electronic seat reservations
VIRGIN Trains’ Pendolino and Voyager trains are fitted with VMS2000 Electronic Seat Reservation equipment. This automatically retrieves data from the national reservations system and displays it above the seat, removing the need for paper labels.In the past data has had to be manually uploaded to electronic displays. Using a dual-processor ...
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Metro-North to refit EMUs
OVER the next six years about $150m is to be spent refurbishing 241 M-2 EMU cars used on Metro-North Commuter Railroad’s New Haven line. The 25-year-old fleet is in a rundown condition, with 30 to 60 cars sidelined for repairs most weekdays. The overhaul should keep the cars running for ...
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Enterprise refurbishment underway
NORTHERN Ireland Railways is refurbishing 14 De Dietrich carriages used on the flagship Belfast - Dublin Enterprise cross-border services. According to NIR Engineering Executive M McGreevy, the vehicles, built in 1997, are being refurbished at a cost of up to £150000 each to ensure a high-quality passenger environment ’before they ...
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Eskisehir starts
NEXT MONTH will see the start of construction work on the 14·5 km light rail network in Eskisehir. The line will be built under a US$121m turnkey contract awarded by the municipality to a consortium of local engineering group Yapi Merkezi and Bombardier. The project is being financed by 20-year ...
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Tseung Kwan O Extension prepares to open
INTRO: Civil engineering and tracklaying is now complete on Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway’s HK$20bn Tseung Kwan O extension. A critical part of the project has been interfacing the new line with existing infrastructureBYLINE: David SortonProject Manager, Hong Kong MTR CorpINSTALLATION of power supplies and signalling is well advanced on ...
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In favour of vertical integration
Sir - Please count me as a ’vertical integrationist’ (RG 1.02 p3). The brave reforms of Great Britain’s railways have quite obviously not produced the intended results. One can admire the courage of the proponents, and the political will for implementation, but objectively one cannot dismiss the negatives. These include ...
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Finance
China: Bank of China and Agricultural Bank of China are providing 3bn yuan and 2bn yuan loans respectively to the Shanghai Transrapid maglev scheme. Agricultural Bank of China is providing an 8bn yuan credit extension to Shanghai’s Yangpu metro project. Due to open in 2005, the 23 km Line 8 ...
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NewsFire suppression
EUROTUNNEL is installing water mist fire suppression from Fogtec Brandschutz on seven HGV shuttle trains. Each vehicle is to be fitted with 30 Fogtec water nozzles, spaced at 1m intervals. Activated by infra-red sensors, the nozzles do not have moving parts, and are modular for ease of servicing. Wind tunnel ...
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Two traction fleets modernised
WITH the economy of Croatia starting to grow again following the war with Serbia in 1991-95, Croatian Railways (HZ) is gradually restoring services as demand builds up. HZ has secured loans from the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development to fund a modernisation programme, and some ...
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Restructuring the French reforms
A SITE NEAR Baudrecourt in Lorraine has been chosen for a ceremony on January 28 to mark the start of work on TGV Est, France’s next high speed line. For the first time infrastructure company Réseau Ferré de France rather than SNCF will be responsible for managing construction. It is ...
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Hand-held readers on test
TRIALS of a hand-held portable smart card ticket reader are to begin on Northern Ireland Railways this summer.NIR is introducing smart card ticketing as part of a £6m Translink scheme to integrate the province’s trains and buses. Rather than equip stations with barriers, NIR is to issue on-train staff with ...
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Simple heating
COLD spots in coaches, including vestibules and toilets, can be eliminated using Taipale Flex-El, a 0·2mm thick heating film developed in Finland. This is powered by the vehicle’s electrical supply. It requires no maintenance, and can be installed unobtrusively behind panels or under the floor. Flex-El can raise the ...
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High speed laboratory
SPAIN’s Ministry of Development is to establish a high speed research facility that will test components as well as signalling and control systems. Work will also be directed towards ensuring interoperability across the Spanish high speed network. Funding to establish the facility will be provided by Cedex, the ministry’s research ...
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PATHstudies integrated ticketing
PORT Authority Trans-Hudson commissioners voted on December 13 to adopt a fare collection system which will accept both smart cards and New York City Transit MetroCards. It is hoped the PATH smart cards will eventually be accepted on all rail and bus lines throughout the New York and New Jersey ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: Victoria state government has decided not to build a rail link to Melbourne airport in the next 10 years, following the prediction of low patronage in a report by Booz·Allen & Hamilton. However, the proposed alignment is to be reserved for future rail use.South Australia began negotiations last month ...
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IR studies network wiring
ISRAEL RAILWAYS has called tenders for a preliminary design study into the electrification of its entire network, totalling 700 route-km. Previous proposals had only envisaged wiring the 320 route-km passenger network radiating from Tel Aviv, but the new plan would include the heavy-haul freight routes in the south of the ...
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Portable ticket issuing
BRITISH inter-city operator Midland Main Line is to begin using SchlumbergerSema’s Avantix Mobile ticket-issuing machine this month. Based on a Pocket PC, 1500 Avantix Mobile units will replace existing portable machines on National Express Group’s nine franchises.Avantix Mobile can print magnetic stripe tickets for use with automatic barrier gates, and ...
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Southwest links open
CHINESE Minister of Railways Fu Zhihuan joined ceremonies at Guiyang on December 30 to mark the completion of upgrading work on CR’s Zhuzhou - Liupanshui line. The 1139 km electrified line connecting the industrial heart of Hunan province with the southwestern coalfields of Guizhou province has been double-tracked at a ...
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