All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2008 – Page 4
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ETCS software error led to Lötschberg derailment
A FULL service of passenger and freight trains began operating through the 34·6 km Lötschberg base tunnel using ETCS Level 2 on December 9, marking another milestone in the protracted history of Europe's interoperable train control system. The tunnel had been formally opened on June 15, when authority was granted ...
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Patriot Rail Corp buys third railway
USA: Short line and regional freight line operator Patriot Rail Corp announced its purchase of Utah Central Railway on January 3. This is the third railway acquired by Patriot, which now owns and leases 400 km of rail line in Tennessee, Alabama, Montana and Utah. Established in 1995 to use ...
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Electro-diesel loco offers flexible traction
Spanish rolling stock builder CAF has developed its Bitrac dual-mode locomotive for the domestic market
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Amsterdam workshop ready
THE DUTCH High Speed Alliance may be some way from launching services on HSL-Zuid (RG 11.07 p688), but at least its trains now have somewhere to live. In November the Mayor of Amsterdam Job Cohen formally opened the newly-built Nedtrain workshop at Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer which will maintain locomotives and high ...
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Constant guardian protecting bridge
THE SAFETY of trains crossing a major waterway in the western USA is being enhanced with the deployment of a $380 000 Collision Alert Monitoring & Impact Analysis system developed by Florida-based Duos Technologies. A bank of vibration and acceleration sensors detects any impact along the bridge, while a series ...
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NewsEWS promises Channel Tunnel 'revolution'
EWS announced on November 22 that its Euro Cargo Rail subsidiary will be launching 12 intermodal services through the Channel Tunnel during 2008, connecting 'the key UK economic regions' with terminals in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. The first is due to start at the end of January ...
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NewsHS1 for sale
LONDON & Continental Railways, owner of the £5·2bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the UK share of Eurostar, is to be separated into three businesses, UK Rail Minister Tom Harris announced on November 20. The recently-completed 109 km high speed line between London at the Channel Tunnel will be sold ...
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Railway Gazette team strengthened
TWO FURTHER members of staff joined the Railway Gazette journal team in November as part of an expansion strategy for the DVV Rail Media portfolio. To strengthen the editorial team under Editor Chris Jackson, Robert Preston has been promoted to Deputy Editor with special responsibility for the expanding newsletter business; ...
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Demonstrating the power of hydrogen
A pan-European consortium aims to demonstrate a hydrogen fuel cell powered passenger train in Denmark during 2010
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