All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2004 – Page 2
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Rotterdam depot to serve international operators
NedTrain Cargo Support is to build maintenance facilities at Rotterdam Maasvlakte to serve the growing number of open access rail operators working out of the port. The first workshop will offer light wagon maintenance and running repair services, including lubrication and wheelset changes, and will be followed by a locomotive ...
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Debts but no trams
ALMOST EXACTLY 26 years ago, a decision was taken to build a light rail network in Lagos (RG 2.78 p47). Fast forward 25 years to December 2003, when a function was held to launch the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, and State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced that a US$135m ...
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Relentless progress to meet the deadlines
BYLINE: Ad van den DoolStrukton Railinfra bvStrukton Railinfra faces the challenge of laying 140 km of track and installing 220 km of overhead wires on the Betuwe Route in one year. After a selection process involving nine prequalified contracting consortia from various European countries, the contract for the trackwork and ...
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Pre-assembled turnouts cut installation times
BYLINE: Dr Peter Schulz and Chris van Dranen*INTRO: TURNOUTSfor the Betuwe Route are being supplied by BWG of Germany, working with its Dutch sister company WBN Wisselbouw. In 2000 WBN Wisselbouw supplied the turnouts used below the hump to the sorting sidings in the marshalling yard at Kijfhoek south of ...
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Cross-city link takes shape
Antwerpen's north-south junction will provide a direct connection for both conventional and high speed services to the north of the city
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Coupling up tram-trains
AVANTO tram-trains being built by Siemens for operation on SNCF’s Aulnay-sous-Bois - Bondy line in Paris will be fitted with automatically retractable couplers from Voith Turbo Scharfenberg.The couplers and covers will provide automatic mechanical and electrical connections between the 15 vehicles, which are expected to enter service on the converted ...
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Exposing the real infrastructure cost drivers
INTRO: Why are life-cycle infrastructure costs five times lower in the USA than in the Netherlands, but are 50% to 200% higher in Japan and Hong Kong? Jan Swier* shows how these huge cost differences can be explained, allowing them to be predicted more accuratelyOVER THE LAST 10 years, Netherlands ...
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Controversy dogs freight corridor
INTRO: Cost over-runs and political problems have conspired to delay the completion of the Betuwe Route, and questions are being asked about its viabilitysupply network. ProRail also awarded a €75m contract to Holland Railconsult and Alstom in the same month for the ETCS Level 2 train control system. Also in ...
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Nordharz contract
ON DECEMBER 9 Sachsen-Anhalt Transport Minister Karl-Heinz Daehre announced that the Land subsidiary Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH had selected Connex Regiobahn GmbH for a 12-year concession to operate regional services on the Nordharz network. The company will take over from DB Regio’s Südost business unit in December 2005. The Nordharz concession ...
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Transcontinental link completed
On January 15 the first FreightLink container train for Darwin will leave Adelaide, arriving at the Northern Territory port two days later. The inaugural service on the Alice Springs - Darwin marks the completion of the 150 year dream of linking Australia's Top End with the cities in the south ...
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Pyrenees link closer to start
AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT confirming the compulsory purchase of 170000m2 of farmland at La Jonquera was published by the Spanish Ministry of Development on December 4. The land will be required for the southern portal and access to the 8·2 km twin-bore cross-border tunnel that forms part of the new Figueres ...
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Chinese initiative
THREE German companies and Guangzhou Railway Group signed an agreement on December 2 to create a ’German high speed initiative’ in the Chinese city.Turnout maker BWG, track supplier Pfleiderer and Siemens will assist local rail operators, and the high speed initiative will support the development of a 127 km inter-city ...
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Car orders placed
PHOENIX light rail promoter Valley Metro Rail has selected Kinki Sharyo to supply 36 cars to operate the 32·3 km route at a cost of $115m. They will be 27·4m long, with partial low floors, and designed to operate in trains of up to three units. The deal includes options ...
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Capital’s metro grows
BEIJING Metro Corp announced on December 12 that trial passenger services on the city’s 19 km Line 4 would start on December 28, bringing the length of operational metro in the Chinese capital to 95 km. Built mainly above ground, the elevated light metro Line 4 runs east from an ...
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ÖBB to be broken up ...
STRIKES THAT brought services on the Austrian Federal network to a halt during November in protest at the government’s plans to reform the national railway proved to be of no avail. Legislation that will force through a complete restructuring of ÖBB was passed by parliament on December 4, and railway ...
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Intermodal boost
CANADIAN Pacific Railway announced on November 20 a major upgrading of its intermodal services between Montréal, Chicago, and Vancouver. A new fleet of 5500 double-stack wagons and lengthening of 18 passing loops in northern Ontario will allow CPR to carry 28% more containers on 16% fewer trains.Addition of remote-controlled mid-train ...
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Operators rail at footing the ETCS bill
IN TECHNICAL terms, the European Train Control System can be implemented. In financial terms, it can be funded. But it cannot be financed by the railways alone. This was the message to emerge at last month’s ERTMS conference in Leipzig.A UIC report entitled ’Implementing the European Train Control System’ suggests ...
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Halting market share decline is biggest challenge in the East
WITH ACCESSION to the European Union top of the agenda in Eastern Europe, delegates to Terrapinn’s Central & East European Rail 2003 summit in Budapest on November 27-29 were warned not to make the same mistakes as railways in Western Europe. Jean-Arnold Vinois, Head of the Railway Transport & Interoperability ...
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Five make Subte Line A bidding
FROM A FIELD OF nine prequalified bidders, metro construction authority Subterr
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Mandura bidders
RAILLINK JV has been named preferred bidder for the contract to fit out the 70 km New MetroRail line in Western Australia connecting the state capital with urban developments along the southern coast between Rockingham and the resort of Mandura (MR03 p44).Announcing the decision on December 9, WA Planning & ...
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