All Railway Gazette International articles in February 2007 – Page 2
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Makkah - Madinah tenders sought
DOMESTIC AND international companies have been invited to submit tenders for construction of Saudi Arabia's planned Western Railway linking Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah. The call for tenders by Saudi Railways Organisation marks a further step in the expansion of the kingdom's rail network. The 444 km passenger line is expected ...
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Loop resignalling
CHICAGO TRANSIT Authority awarded a $48?2m contract on January 10 for resignalling the downtown Loop at the heart of the city’s elevated metro network over the next three years.Divane Brothers Electric Co is to replace the signalling and train control systems at the busy Van Buren/Wabash and Lake/Wells junctions where ...
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Loco simulator
CORYS TESS will be showing a GNER Class 91 electric loco driving simulator. The French company is supplying each of GNER’s training sites in London, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh with two simulators, representing a Class 91 loco and a diesel HST power car. All will use a database representing 160?km ...
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Riedberg light rail
PLANS FOR a light rail route to the northern suburb of Riedberg were announced by the head of Frankurt-am-Main’s Transport Department Lutz Sikorski on December 21. He said 70% of the funding for the k60m project had been secured.Riedberg will be served by a loop linking U-Bahn Route U3 at ...
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Springs last longer
CONICAL springs which have been developed by Freudenberg Schwab to integrate the functions of steel coil springs and flexible axle bearings into a single component will to be demonstrated at the Railtex exhibition in London this month (p93). The design offers a large transverse to longitudinal stiffness ratio, with a ...
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Muni opens T-Third at last
LIMITED OPERATION of San Francisco’s T-Third light rail line began on January 13, with Muni Metro offering free rides on weekends and public holidays until April 7, when full revenue services are scheduled to start. T-Third services start from Castro Street station and run through the city centre using the ...
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Lack of trains raises risk
THE NIGERIAN public is at great risk at level crossings, claims a recent article in the Lagos Vanguard, because the country's railways have been run down to the extent that trains are rarely seen. 'A moving train is a strange sight in most parts of the country ... The ...
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Jakarta projects
DETAILED design for a 14?5 km metro line in Jakarta is expected to get underway shortly, following the announcement of a loan agreement in December.JBIC is providing ?1?87bn to finance engineering services for the Jakarta MRT System Project. The metro is expected to adopt Japanese construction techniques, including the shield ...
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Toll split could keep PN intact
THE AUSTRALIAN Consumer & Competi-tion Commission holds the key to plans announced in December by Toll Holdings for a ’strategic restructure’ that would divide the group into separate infrastructure and operating businesses. If the ACCC rules in Toll’s favour, the group will be able to keep Pacific National intact.A key ...
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High speed tenders
ON DECEMBER 26 Spanish infrastructure authority ADIF announced the award of two contracts to undertake civil works between Legutiano and Escoriatza on the Vitoria branch of the high speed network connecting it with Bilbao and San Sebasti?n.A 5?km section is to be built by a joint venture of Comsa and ...
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Hanoi tram revival underway
CHAIRMAN of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Quoc Trieu officially launched the construction of the first modern light rail line in the Vietnamese capital at a groundbreaking ceremony on December 27.Work began at the site of the maintenance depot and operations control centre in Tu Liem district, west of the ...
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Steel line handover
NIGERIA's first standard-gauge railway passed into private hands on January 11, when the 327 km Central Railway was transferred to Global Infrastructure Nigeria Ltd under a 20-year concession from the Bureau of Public Enterprises. Isolated from NRC's 1 067 mm gauge main lines, the Central Railway was conceived as an ...
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Third Railway Package goes to the vote
INTERNATIONAL passenger services in Europe are on course to be opened up to competition from 2010 following a vote in the European Parliament on January 18 after the second reading of the Third Railway Package. But a proposal supported by the Transport Committee for domestic services in the EU15 to ...
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PPP projects garner interest
PLANS TO finance French infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships are attracting attention, confirmed Transport Minister Dominique Perben on December 20, six days after RFF formally invited expressions of interest for its first scheme.The infrastructure manager is consulting on the PPP concession to design, install, operate and maintain GSM-R digital radio ...
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Glattalbahn opens its first section
TWO MOUNTAINS and a lake have long-constrained the city of Zürich. As a result, urban development has focused on the lower-lying areas towards the northeast, around the airport and the towns of the Glatt valley. These are served by several S-Bahn routes, but it became apparent during the 1990s that ...
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First leather seats
UK inter-city operator First Great Western has unveiled the first trailer coaches to be refurbished by Bombardier at its Derby plant under a £63m programme to overhaul the 53-strong IC125 HST diesel fleet. The first fully-refurbished trainset was officially unveiled with a Plymouth - London special train on January 17. ...
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First passengers ride Taiwan high speed line
TAIWAN High Speed Rail Corp began carrying fare-paying passengers on January 5, with the first train leaving Panchiao station near Taipei at 07.00 for the 345 km trip to Zuoying in the southern city of Kaohsiung. Tickets for the 90 min journey were offered at a 50% discount for travel ...
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TRAX expands
UTAH Transit Authority began work on January 8 to build a 1?6?km extension of Salt Lake City’s TRAX light rail network from the existing city-centre terminus to a new intermodal interchange where it will connect with the FrontRunner commuter rail route, Amtrak and both local and inter-city buses. Serving one ...
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EVR's private interlude is over
BALTIC Rail Services announced on January 9 that the sale of its 66% holding in Eesti Raudtee had been completed, ending five years of private-sector operation of the Estonian rail network. The move was followed by the appointment as Chief Executive of former infrastructure director Kaido Simmermann, who immediately ...
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Display of displays
INFOTEC’s LED Low Power Technology customer information displays will be linked to power meters to demonstrate the savings in energy costs which can be obtained through the use of energy- efficient displays.Also on show at Railtex will be LCD and TFT displays, as well as Infotec’s LED Low Power Technology ...
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