All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2002 – Page 6
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Sinai link restored
ON NOVEMBER 14 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak formally opened the 640m El-Ferdan swing bridge across the Suez Canal, 20 km north of Isamailia. The bridge reinstates the rail link into Sinai which has been broken since the third bridge was destroyed during the 1967 war with Israel. Built over five ...
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Low-maintenance point operation
INTRO: After successful trials with a prototype maintenance-free point actuator, two production units were installed on Railtrack’s Southern Region. Following full product acceptance, further applications are now underwayCONTRACTUAL relationships between train operator, infrastructure manager and maintenance contractor are increasingly focusing attention on punctuality and performance requirements. In turn this is ...
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Market
Australia: The Commonwealth government was due to receive bids last month from consultants for two more scoping studies into the potential for high speed railways in the Melbourne - Canberra - Sydney and Sydney - Brisbane corridors.Denmark: Angel Trains International has ordered 12 more Class MQ two-car Siemens Desiro VT642 ...
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Market
Egypt: Tenders have been invited for a 25-year franchise to extend ENR’s optic fibre communications network.Europe: The European Commission has appointed Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe to study ’European Priorities & Strategies for Railway Noise Abatement’. Covering the EU countries plus Norway, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, it will review ...
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Opening in sight for TGV Méditerranée
WITH French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot at the controls, TGV Réseau set No 531 achieved 354 km/h during a test run between Aix-en-Provence TGV and Valence TGV on January 17. SNCF President Louis Gallois and RFF Director General Jean-François Bénard were also present to mark the start of commissioning trials ...
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Metros
Canada: Testing is underway on 8 km of the Vancouver SkyTrain Millennium line. The first section will open early this year, with the remainder in the summer.China: Hong Kong MTR Corp has opened a cross-platform interchange between the Island and Kwun Tong lines at North Point station. It is intended ...
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Metros
Azerbaijan: Baku metro chief Tagi Ahmadov has complained that the state budget for 2001 only allocates 10bn manats for the network, compared to the 66bn manats needed. Repairs require 32bn manats, and a large percentage of the fleet is out of use awaiting repairs.Belgium: Bombardier is to supply 10 low-floor ...
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Metrotrén underway
Spanish Development Minister Francisco Álvarez-Cascos has laid the first sleeper for the doubling of FEVE’s El Berrón - Pola de Siero route, part of the €344·8m Metrotrén project to create a suburban network serving Oviedo, Gijón and neighbouring towns in Asturias. A total of 65·6 km of FEVE’s metre-gauge routes ...
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ÖBB tries plug-and-play pointwork
INTRO: Railways are seeking to use turnouts that can be installed quickly and that require little or no maintenance. Austrian Federal Railways has found that the Hydrostar design with its associated Hydrolink control and IS-2000 monitoring meets these objectivesBYLINE: Ing Friedrich Papacek Head of Design & Construction, Signal Technology ...
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Shenzhen order
ON NOVEMBER 23 Bombardier confirmed that Shenzhen Metro Co had ordered 19 six-car trainsets from its CARC joint venture with Changchun Car Co of China. The trains are destined to operate the first phase of the metro network now under construction in the Shenzhen economic development zone between Hong Kong ...
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Pajares project
Spain’s Ministry of Development has instructed high speed line authority GIF to proceed with outline design of a new high speed alignment to avoid the steeply-graded crossing of the Pajares pass on the León - Oviedo route. Costed at €1·56bn, the new line would run from a point south of ...
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PEOPLE
SNCB Chief Executive Officer Etienne Schouppe has been appointed Chairman of the International Union of Railways for 2002-03. DB’s Hartmut Mehdorn, East Japan Railway’s Masatake Matsuda and Marton Kukeley of MÁV have been elected as UIC Vice-Chairmen.A former head of Union Railways and Costain, John Armitt was named Chief Executive ...
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people
Alexand D Rusak has been named Head of Locomotives at Russian Railways, succeeding Vladimir N Pustovoi who becomes a Vice-Minister of Railways. The appointment of Sergey N Gapeev as a Vice-Minister (RG 1.01 p15) has been confirmed. Mikhail P Akulov becomes President of RZD’s SouthEastern Railway in place of I ...
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Pointers
n Chinese Vice-Minister of Railways Sun Yongfu has announced plans to build a second rail link to Tibet. Work on the 1600 km Kunming - Lhasa line would begin after completion of the Qinghai route in 2007.n India’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the construction of a 68·2 ...
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Pointers
n Chinese Railways expects to order 4500 new locomotives over the period of the 10th five year plan (2001-05), of which 75% will be electric. Dalian Rolling Stock Plant is expected to build 20 SS4 electric locos in 2001.n The Indonesian Communications Ministry has announced plans to construct 190 km ...
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Shinkansen programme revived
THE Japanese government has decided to accelerate the current programme of high speed line construction as part of measures to aid the country’s economic recovery. Budget plans for the financial year starting on April 1, agreed in December, envisage a start of work on the outstanding sections of two long-planned ...
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Publications
Modelling and Simulation of General Train/Track Interaction by Clars AnderssonAn existing state-space numerical method to simulate vertical dynamic interaction between a rolling train and a railway track has been improved and extended. The extensions add three new features to the dynamic system, these being a non-linear railpad model, flexibility of ...
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Web-damped rails
NOISE reductions of up to 12dB can be achieved by the use of rail damping in curves and at other critical locations. Vossloh has developed a sandwich damping system, in which rubber strips are glued to each side of the web and protected by a steel cover. Strips and covers ...
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railwaydirectory.net
WE ARE THRILLED to announce this month that Railway Directory, for 106 years our standard reference work for the international railway industry, is now published on the internet. Railway Directory remains an essential guide to the world’s railways and their suppliers, and the web version supersedes the CD-ROM published in ...