All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2002 – Page 7
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SLR re-engining
SRI LANKA Railways put into service at the beginning of December the first of four refurbished diesel locos which are being rebuilt with Caterpillar 3516 engines at a cost of around Rs45m each. The Hitachi-built Class M5 locos are being rebuilt by Caterpillar’s local agent United Tractor & Equipment Ltd ...
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Silk Road vote
CONSTRUCTION of the proposed rail link between Central Asia and China could get under way by the end of this year, following approval of the project by the Kyrgyzstan parliament in December. This established the line as the country’s top infrastructure priority. A tripartite intergovernmental commission, with representatives from Kyrgystan, ...
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Road-rail vegetation units
Two Mercedes-Benz U1650 Unimogs with three-way tipper bodies have been adapted by Two-Way Technology for vegetation control work with Avondale Environmental Services. It has a three-point linkage which can be used with the rear rail guidance, and a removable rear spray designed to minimise drift. Two-Way Technology, United KingdomReader Enquiry ...
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Wrong Rosco
Sir - It was with frustration that I read your review of Railtex 2000 (RG 1.01 p62), in particular the emergency evacuation device developed by Pickersgill-Kaye. You state that this is being taken forward with Angel Trains, despite our stand clearly carrying joint branding with HSBC Rail, which is the ...
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More roubles to be spent
REVIEWING developments on the Russian rail network in 2000, Minister of Railways Nikolai Aksyonenko noted at the annual meeting of the ministry’s board of management on December 26 that RZD carried 1300 million tonnes of freight last year, an increase of 11% over 1999. Given that both motive power and ...
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Sidetrack
Benguela birthdayONE HUNDRED years ago, in 1902, a British company was awarded a concession to build and operate a railway from the coast at Lobito Bay in Portuguese West Africa through the province of Angola. Construction started in 1903, but it took until 1931 before the Benguela Railway reached the ...
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Sidetrack
Massage servicesParis metro operator RATP recently offered passengers a free massage and a healthy snack of green tea and seaweed crackers at four stations. The initiative aimed to ’stop people for five to 10 minutes in their work day so they can take a break and chill out’, according to ...
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Stub turnouts
Sir - Mention is made (RG 12.00 p836) of the installation by Switzerland’s Rigi Bahnen of a modern version of ’the stub turnout used on industrial railways in the 19th century’. Stub turnouts were also much-used by ’main line’ companies!JC Bourne clearly recorded, in 1839, stub turnouts at ’the entrance ...