All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2007
All articles published this month.
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Delhi metro launches second phase
Phase 1 of Delhi's metro network was completed in November, and work has now begun on an extension programme to take the metro to 120 km by 2010
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NewsBritain grapples with main line smart ticketing
Roger Ford reviews progress with smart ticketing in the UK heavy rail market
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Belgian Railways profits from investment
SNCB is starting to harvest the benefit from recent Infrabel investment projects, reports Harry Hondius
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Further Belgian funding approved
ON DECEMBER 5 Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstad joined SNCB Holding Chief Executive Jannie Haek and his Infrabel counterpart Luc Lallemand to mark the signing of regional pre-financing accords that will release €400m for three railway infrastructure investment projects. The deal provides €298·2m for the €458·7m upgrading of the Brussels ...
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Closing the gap from Bam to Zahedan
Steady progress is being made with construction of the international link from Kerman to Zahedan. Dr John Stubbs, Lecturer in Geography at the Univeristy of Derby, reports from Iran and Pakistan
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More US cities board the commuter rail train
Commuter rail is arguably the most dynamic segment of North America's urban rail sector, reports Julian Wolinsky, with two new networks opening, construction underway on three more and others in various stages of preparation. Existing systems are expanding, and orders for rolling stock are robust
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Investment will underpin RZD reforms
The third phase of Russia's railway reform process is due to see the introduction of competition by 2010, and will require the separation of infrastructure management from train operations. Chris Jackson asked Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin to explain how RZD is changing, and how it will fund much-needed investment ...
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NewsChiltern tries mobile tickets
ON DECEMBER 14 Chiltern Railways and YourRail began a three-month trial of ticket delivery by mobile telephones, using the mobi-ticket system developed by Mobiqa for use at concerts and sporting events. During the trials Chiltern Railways' E-Day advance-purchase ticket can be booked on line 24 h ahead of travel, ...
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Transit freight booms on Bafgh - Mashhad link
As predicted in previous articles (RG 6.05 p320), a considerable amount of freight traffic is moving over the railway that opened between Bafgh and Mashhad in 2005, according to Dr John Stubbs. Three passenger trains a week operate between the port of Bandar Abbas on the Gulf of Hormuz and ...
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Intelligence January 2007
Africa: 24 coaches built in Pretoria for DR Congo have been seized by National Railways of Zimbabwe. DRC had defaulted on monthly payments for 50 coaches leased from NRZ in 1998, and the railways have now agreed that the vehicles impounded in Bulawayo will stay in Zimbabwe as part- payment ...
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Finance January 2007
Bangladesh: The World Bank has approved the US$40m Bangladesh Railway Reform Programmatic Development Policy Credit, a 40-year credit granted to support rail reform as part of a long-term strategic partnership between the government, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Japan Bank for International Co-operation. China: On November 29 Asian ...
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Wires to Tanger
MOROCCAN railway administration ONCFM has awarded two contracts to Cegelec totalling €20m for electrification work on its two lines to Tanger. Signed in Paris on December 11, the first covers the erection of 150 track-km of 3 kV DC overhead line equipment between the junction at Msaada, near Sidi Kacem, ...
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In search of speed supremacy
CONFIRMATION that the French are hoping to exceed the 515?3 km/h world speed record set up on May 18 1990 by TGV set 325 came on December 14 with a statement by the Ministry of Transport.Followed on December 18 by a media presentation about the future development of high speed ...
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Phone reader
SWIFTPASS has launched a handheld scanner which reads barcodes displayed on mobile phone screens as well as paper tickets. The 'tickets' do not need to be accurately aligned, and the display is readable in low light. Wi-fi links allow for real-time validation, and immediate feedback of information to operators. ...
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Peaceful sleepers
SBB is to test concrete sleepers with a rubber base as it undertakes track renewals between Pratteln and Kaiseraugst. The trial of the sleepers is taking place alongside routine track replacement on the line, with 130 m of rubber-based concrete sleepers due to be laid. SBB hopes that the sleepers, ...
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Overground shortlist
TRANSPORT for London announced on December 15 that it had shortlisted two consortia to submit ’best and final offers’ for the contract to operate London Overground services on the North and East London lines.Four groups were invited to tender in June. Govia and MTR Laing have been chosen to go ...
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Uruguay launches parallel PPPs
URUGUAY’S MINISTRY of Transport & Public Works was due to open on December 18 for a period of one month a data room for companies preparing to bid for contracts to upgrade and maintain 962?km of the national rail network.Bidders will be expected to price for receiving 67% of the ...
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Three-dimensional lasers
Laser profile sensors are being employed in Russia by Infotrans to measure track wear. The sensors, developed by Micro-Epsilon, are used on Infotrans' inspection train to assess the state of RZD's track. The sensors build on existing track measurement technology by enabling profiling at speed as the inspection train passes. ...
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Japanese invest in US wagons
MARUBENI Corp and its US affiliate Marubeni America have acquired Illinois-based wagon lessor Midwest Railcar Corp, the Japanese firm announced on December 4. MRC was established in 1999, and now leases around 3 000 wagons to railways and freight shippers, provides a brokerage service and manages vehicles owned by third ...
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Infrared at speed
Following two and a half years of development, FLIR Systems has developed an infrared thermographic camera capable of processing images taken from a train travelling at line speed. This advance should enable engineers to undertake thermal imaging of infrastructure without recourse to time-consuming and costly possessions. The ThermoVision SC6000HS can ...