All Railway Gazette International articles in January 1998 – Page 2
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Freight freeway opens this month
JANUARY 12 sees the inauguration of the first Trans-European Rail Freight Freeway, linking Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Italy. French National Railways announced on November 26 that the four railways had signed the accord creating the TERFF conforming to European Commission rules (RG 12.97 p829).Linking Antwerpen, Bettembourg, Lyon and the Calabrian ...
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Finance
Angola: Luanda Railway is seeking $15m for track repairs and purchase of second-hand locos from Spoornet as part of a $41m rehabilitation plan.Canada: On November 14 CN agreed terms for US$130m of pass through certificates for the finance of 115 new high-horsepower locomotives.Great Britain: European Investment Bank has agreed a ...
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Tunnel fans
GEC (New Zealand) Ltd has supplied two sets of two-stage JM Aerofoil fans, sound attenuators and backdraft dampers for Tranz Rail’s 8.5 km Otira tunnel, allowing the elimination of electric working across Arthur’s Pass. Extracting exhaust fumes at a rate of 80m3/sec, the sets run in parallel to flush out ...
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Traincatcher extraordinary
ONE of Railway Gazette International’s regular authors - compiler of our biennial review of World Train Speeds, Dr Colin Taylor - knows a lot about timetables. That is just as well.In April, Dr Taylor and his nephew Ross begin a rail journey of 17611 km from Vila Real in Portugal ...
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Porto picks the Eurotram
THE NORMETRO consortium of Adtranz and Soares da Costa has been selected to build and equip the light metro network in the Portuguese city of Porto. Metro de Porto SA announced the winning bidder for the Ecu840m package on November 27, almost exactly a year after shortlisting two preferred bidders.The ...
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Underfloor engines
GERMAN RAILWAY has ordered 100 QSK19-R underfloor horizontal engines rated at 750hp from Cummins Engine Co, for a batch of VT612 DMUs being built this year by Adtranz. The 19litre QSK19-9 is the biggest in a range of three new Cummins railcar engines designed to run at 2100 rev/min.AKN Eisenbahn ...
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Emergency extended
DESPITE strong arguments by Union Pacific Chairman Dick Davidson, the Surface Transportation Board on December 4 issued an instruction for a 100-day extension of its emergency order requiring UP to co-operate with competing railways to clear the backlog of shipments that has choked much of its western network. UP and ...
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Letters to the editor
Eurostar not ignored by NS Sir - We read with interest your Sidetrack item 'Eurostar ignored' (RG 11.97 p736). If your correspondent had taken the trouble to enquire more closely, he would have discovered that NS has been actively promoting Eurostar traffic via Brussels since day one. We ...
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RATP to handle Cup traffic
PARIS Transport Authority is preparing to handle huge crowds of football supporters attending the soccer World Cup in June. Travel to the specially built Stade de France in the city’s northern suburbs will only be possible by public transport, as the 5000 car parking spaces under the stadium will be ...
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QR enters the cruise train market
INTRO: Queensland Railways will launch the Great South Pacific Express in December 1998. Murray Hughes previews a unique addition to the world’s luxury cruise trainsDELEGATES to the AusRail 97 event in Melbourne were treated to a preliminary viewing of Queensland Railways’ spectacularly elegant Great South Pacific Express. Owned and operated ...
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Tendered operation cuts costs
ON JANUARY 1 Stockholm’s narrow-gauge commuter services transfer to private-sector management. Bus operator Linjebuss and Adtranz will run the three 891mm gauge routes for five years under contract to AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Over the past five years, SL has contracted out operation of tram, bus and metro routes in a ...
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Frontier controls
AUTOMATED customs clearance of goods entering Canada from the USA by rail is expected to reduce delivery times by an average of 48h. Railway Association of Canada announced on November 24 that agreement had been reached with the Canadian Society of Customs Brokers and Revenue Canada-Customs for detailed shipment information ...
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Wissmann confirms upgrading finance
GERMAN Transport Minister Matthias Wissmann announced on November 17 that his government would provide DM9bn out of the DM11bn total needed to carry out nine upgrading and new line construction projects. Describing the move as an ’investment offensive’, he said that formal agreements had been signed with German Railway.Most expensive ...
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Soil conditioning on the move
In conjunction with Alpine-Westfalia, the Environmental Division of Leonhard Weiss GmbH has developed WARAN, a transportable soil conditioning plant for the reconditioning and consolidation of subgrade. Designed to replace traditional methods such as the construction of sheet pile retaining walls, the 80 tonne WARAN plant is 20.6m long and 4.5m ...
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Ore line concession
AUSTRALIAN civil engineering group Leighton Holdings has been selected as preferred concessionaire to build and operate a 350 km iron ore railway in the mid-west region of Western Australia, together with an ore mine and concentrate beneficiation plant. They will serve the Okajee steel mill complex to be built at ...
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Clinton signs, Downs resigns
PRESIDENT Bill Clinton signed the Amtrak Reform & Accountability Act on December 2, giving America’s inter-city passenger railway a long-sought degree of financial stability. Amtrak President, Chairman & Chief Executive Thomas Downs said it would ’give Amtrak the ability to plan for the future. With these funds and adequate annual ...
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Vanguard clamps urban rail noise
LONDON UNDERGROUND was to start trials in mid-December with an experimental low-stiffness track support developed by Pandrol Rail Fastenings Ltd and Ortec GmbH of Germany. The Vanguard fastening is designed to reduce noise and vibration from urban railways.Unveiled by Pandrol at the Railtex exhibition in London on November 11-13, Vanguard ...
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Time to challenge rules and standards
’THE DANGER of standards for absolutely every eventuality is fatigue, and complacency that we have safety through the most complete set of procedures imaginable. Paper safety is dangerous and no substitute for effective leadership.’ This is heresy in an industry which has traditionally relied on rules rather than personal judgement ...
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Catering merged
FROM January 1 Wagons-Lits begins a new contract covering the majority of on-train catering for French National Railways. Under the terms of an arrangement agreed last year, Wagons-Lits with its 500 staff takes over the activities of Servair which employed 1300 on SNCF catering.Under previous contracts, train catering cost SNCF ...
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Saarbahn cars in the city streets
EUROPE’S second light rail operation sharing tracks with a main line railway was formally opened on October 24, in the German city of Saarbrücken. Following the lead set in nearby Karlsruhe, which launched dual-mode through working in 1992, Saarbrücken has plans for an extensive network of routes that will allow ...
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