All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2003
All articles published this month.
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Sidetrack
Postal tube cutROYAL Mail’s private underground railway in central London was mothballed on May 30. The 610mm gauge Post Office Railway from Whitechapel to Paddington opened in 1927, carrying post between sorting offices and main line stations in driverless electric trains 21m below the city’s streets.Changes in the location of ...
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Staff scheduling simplified
DANISH infrastructure authority Banestyrelsen signed a contract in May for the implementation of an automated staff management system from Trapeze Software. The system is already being used by Banverket in Sweden, and by the Roslagståg consortium of DSB and BK Tåg which took over Stockholm’s narrow-gauge Roslagsbanen suburban network on ...
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SNCF takes to the road
OPERATION of a train along the Champs-Elysées on June 1 was one of the highlights of Le Train Capitale, an open-air exhibition held in Paris between May 17 and June 15. Three refurbished Corail coaches top-and-tailed by two Y8000 locos ran from Place de la Concorde to Avenue Georges V ...
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PUBLICATIONS
2003 Public Transportation Fact BookThis is the 54th edition of this annual publication from the American Public Transport Association. It contains detailed statistical data on all aspects of the US public transport industry, with additional information covering Canada. Within the 242 pages are data covering operating statistics, financial information, safety ...
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Pointers
A major restructuring of Hungarian State Railways is expected to be announced this month, nearly a year after a new management team was appointed.Look for construction work to begin this year on the Guangzhou - Foshan line in southern China; it is due to open by 2007.A Thai consortium has ...
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PEOPLE
V Kornienko and N Luhanin have become Deputy Directors General at Ukrainian Railways. S Alenichev is named Director, Commercial; I Malyshko, Director, Power Supply; V Korobenko, Director, Statistics; I Shyber, Director, Rolling Stock; A Fedorchenko, Director, Procurement; G Klucherov, Director, Press & Public Relations; and A Krivopishin, Director, South Western ...
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Vinck vows to overhaul SNCB
ON JUNE 6 Managing Director of Belgian National Railways Karel Vinck laid out his plans to rescue the national railway from what he believes will ultimately be financial disaster. Called ’Move 2007’, the proposal was well received by the board, but Vinck has yet to persuade the as-yet unformed government ...
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Metros
Canada: A three-week upgrade of Ottawa’s O-Train diesel light rail line began on June 7, including installation of continuous welded rail. In recent months ridership on the 8 km route (RG 11.02 p702) has been steady at 6300 passengers/day.China: The first fully-integrated joint station for Kowloon-Canton Railway and MTR Corp ...
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Market
Australia: BHP Billiton has awarded Valdunes of France a €3m contract to supply wheels and axles for its wagon fleet. They are being supplied by TRIsource, established by Valdunes to market its products in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.Canada: Canadian Pacific Railway is acquiring 600 ...
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Modular point machine
CURRENTLY undergoing endurance testing at Chippenham is a prototype Surelock MW21 point machine developed by Westinghouse Rail Systems. Intended for the Metronet contract to resignal much of the London Underground, the MW21 is also compatible with RT60 requirements on the UK national rail network.The low-profile machine is designed for mounting ...
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Letters
Piling problemsSir - We regret that your Product News report ’Drains become piles’ (RG 5.03 p325) has mixed up two of Cofra’s range of soil consolidation and foundation technologies. MebraDrain has nothing to do with our new AuGeo system.Cofra’s AuGeo system consists of concrete piles formed in the ground to ...
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MFV keeps NEL under surveillance
INTRO: A twin-unit multi-function vehicle will undertake regular inspection of Singapore’s automated North East LineFACED with stringent requirements on availability and performance, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority decided to adopt advanced monitoring and infrastructure maintenance technology for the automated North East Line which was due to open in June (Metro Report ...
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Interfleet in Sweden
A SWEDISH subsidiary has been established by railway consultancy Interfleet Technology. Incorporated in early May, Interfleet Technology AB is based at the Stureplan complex in central Stockholm. The new office is headed by Hans Svensson, who joins the company as Regional Adviser. According to Interfleet’s Managing Director, David Rollin, the ...
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Indian SPV
GAUGE conversion work on the Bangalore - Hassan - Mangalore corridor in southern India is to be completed by December 2004, following the decision to form a Special Purpose Vehicle to fund and manage the Rs1·5bn project. Indian Railways signed an accord in June with Karnataka’s state-owned infrastructure development corporation ...
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Knowledge of the wheel-rail interface incomplete
MYSTERY still shrouds what really goes on at the wheel-rail interface. What else could explain the enthusiasm and depth of debate by over 200 contact mechanics specialists from 25 countries at the CM2003 conference at Chalmers University of Technology in G
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Products inBrief
Voith Turbo has started series production of 180 power packs being supplied to Alstom for use in Trenitalia’s Minuetto multiple-unit fleet. The pre-assembled modules incorporate an Iveco V8 diesel engine, Voith T212bre transmission, cooling system, auxiliary generator and drive control equipment mounted in a Flexframe structure that can be bolted ...
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Zürich - Thalwil inaugurated
WITH THE summer timetable change on June 15, Swiss Federal Railways began revenue operations on the second biggest project to be completed as part of the Bahn 2000 programme. A week earlier Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger, SBB President Thierry Lalive d’Epinay and CEO Benedikt Weibel participated in celebrations on June ...
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High speed noses
COMBINED nose and coupling assemblies for the Talgo 350 trainsets to work Spain’s Madrid - Barcelona line are being supplied by the Scharfenberg subsidiary of Voith Turbo. The contract reflects a move by the main suppliers to contract out the supply of components as complete sub-assemblies, minimising interface issues.The power ...
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Intensive inspection at high speed
Last month Network Rail launched a 200 km/h infrastructure measuring train designed to record the condition of the UK's busiest main lines at two-weekly intervals. The ultimate aim is to give track engineers data that is never more than 48h old
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Rotterdam grows
ROTTERDAM metro and light rail operator RET has started work on the extension of TramPlus route 23 from Feijenoord stadium through IJsselmonde to Beverwaarde, and on the first stage of the planned 12 km southern route to Carnisselande. Construction of the two routes has been delayed compared to the original ...