All Railway Gazette International articles in February 2006 – Page 3
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Torino - Novara to carry Olympic traffic
SPECTATORS arriving in northern Italy for this month's Winter Olympics may get off to a flying start when Trenitalia opens the Torino - Novara section of its high speed line between Torino and Milano. All being well, trains are due to start running over the new line from February 1. ...
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Cab and coach composites
METRO-NORTH Railroad has selected American Acoustical Products’ HushLiner FR acoustic ceiling panels for installation in the cabs of its GE Genesis passenger locomotives, replacing vinyl film which had de-laminated.The lightweight panels provide sound absorption and an attractive, cleanable surface that resists graffiti and de-lamination. Exposure to a flame causes rapid ...
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Holland buy-out
Holland Railconsult staff acquired the majority of the company’s shares in a buy-out effective from January 2.Management and staff now hold 74% of the shares in the Dutch consultancy, and Van Lanschot Bankiers the remaining 26%.On December 15 the Movares Polska subsidiary announced the acquisition of Lublin-based consultancy Biuro Projektów ...
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Dry bulk loads
FREIGHT operator EWS and its French-based subsidiary Euro Cargo Rail are offering European users of dry bulk powders and granule products rail transport in ISO-Veyor pressurised containers (RG 9.03 p595).Contained within standard ISO frames, the ISO-Veyor units are filled and sealed at source for intermodal transport to a site, where ...
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Europeans to dissect the British Experiment
A SEMINAR has been organised in Brussels on February 23 for the purpose of dispelling myths and misconceptions that have gained currency among the ranks of senior rail managers in Europe about the outcome of Britain’s unique privatisation experiment in the mid-1990s.This event was triggered by letters sent last autumn ...
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News in Brief
Paths on the standard gauge network in Switzerland will be allocated by an independent organisation from April 1. Trassenvergabe AG, set up in December to manage and allocate paths, is owned equally by Swiss Federal Railways, BLS Lötschbergbahn, Südostbahn and the Association of Public Transport Undertakings. The move is intended ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Qinghai-Tibet Railway Corp and Shanghai-based Rail Partners Inc have set up a joint venture to operate luxury tourist trains between Xining and Lhasa, taking three days to cover over 2000 km.NS Business Cards have been issued to 4200 Capgemini employees in the Netherlands. The cards are used to book business ...
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City News in Brief
Anxious to get rail service to Dulles International Airport as soon as possible, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority has proposed that it should build the planned 37 km metro extension from West Falls Church, now priced at $3·8bn. The current schedule calls for the 18·6 km first segment to ...
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Green Tulip blooms in bulbland
ON JANUARY 17 Dutch Transport Minister Karla Peijs signed a contract with the Green Tulip consortium for operation of the Betuwe Route. Consisting of Babcock & Brown (which has just purchased Swiss intermodal operator Crossrail AG, p60), TowRail, national network manager ProRail and the port authorities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, ...
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CP embraces best practice
INTRO: Following its transformation from a national railway to a train operator, Comboios do Portugal is looking to play a bigger role on the European stage. President António Ramalho explained to Chris Jackson his plans to develop the business ’WE ARE putting Portugal on the European railway map’, insists António ...
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Seat belts increase injury, says study
'THERE IS no overall net safety benefit associated with the fitting of two-point passenger restraints to trains. Two-point passenger restraints should therefore not be fitted to rail vehicles', concludes research by Britain's Rail Safety & Standards Board. The study found that injuries would be worsened if passengers in a collision ...
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Beijing links
ECI TELECOM announced on January 4 that Beijing Metro had selected its optical transmission equipment to expand video surveillance and safety communication on Lines 1 and 2. The XDM Multi-Service Provisioning Platform will cover 47 stations and around 100 km of track. 'The 2008 Olympics will be a challenging experience, ...
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Palermo awards LRT contract
A CONSORTIUM INCLUDING Bombardier Transportation, AMEC Spie and SIS (a subsidiary of Spanish construction group Sacyr Vallehermoso) has been awarded a €192m turnkey contract to build a three-line LRT network totalling 15 km in the Italian city of Palermo. The contract includes detailed design, civil works, mechanical and electrical systems ...
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French safety authority founded
JANUARY 1 saw the formal establishment of a new public authority to oversee railway safety in France. Legislation to authorise the établissement Public de Sécurité Ferroviaire was approved by the Assemblée Nationale on December 15.The move is part of the process of transposing into French law the requirements of the ...
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Auckland upgrade financed
INVESTMENT worth between NZ$450m and NZ$600m to upgrade Auckland’s suburban rail infrastructure was announced on December 20 by Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen and Transport Minister David Parker.At present Land Transport New Zealand and Auckland Regional Transport Authority share the cost of the suburban network 60:40. Under the latest agreement, ...
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Ensuring asset continuity
ASSET-PRO is in the advanced stages of developing a hosted software package for the management of train maintenance, ensuring that records can be passed from one franchisee to another when operating concessions are re-awarded.Managing Director John Orchard said ’if we are to ensure that maintenance records are not lost when ...
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Regulator rules Toll bid anti-competitive
ONJANUARY23 Toll Holdings wrote to shareholders in its rival Patrick Corp extending the deadline for its A$4·6bn hostile bid (RG 1.06 p5) to February 13.Toll said it had also agreed to ’certain procedural undertakings in order to facilitate its ongoing discussions’ with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, after ACCC ...
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Chiang Kai-Shek airport rail link contract signed
CONTRACTS were signed on January 12 for construction of the long-planned rail link between Taipei and Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport. Taiwan's Bureau of High Speed Rail has awarded the project to a Japanese consortium of Marubeni, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi at an estimated cost of NT$25·5bn. Originally planned as ...
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