All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2005 – Page 4
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Delhi Metro awards contract
DALAL Mott MacDonald has won a Delhi Metro Rail Corp contract worth £9m covering detailed structural and architectural design of Mandi House station on Line 3.Electrical and mechanical design is being undertaken by Delhi Metro Rail Corp, which prepared the outline structural and architectural designs. Construction of the station is ...
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RFID avoids oven collisions
LOCOMOTIVES which move wagons containing 20 tonnes of coke at 1320íC between the 132 ovens and two quenching towers at the Redcar plant of steelmaker Corus are subjected to extremely harsh conditions as the plant runs continuously every day of the year.’Each cooling operation produces 2 tonnes of steam, so ...
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Work begins on Docklands Light Railway's Woolwich Arsenal extension
UK: At a ceremony in Woolwich on June 13, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Transport Minister Karen Buck marked the start of work on the Docklands Light Railway extension from King George V to Woolwich Arsenal. The 2·5 km extension is to be built by the Woolwich Arsenal ...
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Bogie firm establishes European arm
STANDARD Car Truck Co has established a European arm, Standard Car Truck Europe Ltd, following the acquisition of the assets of Wagon Rail Interface Technology Ltd. WRITe specialised in the design of high-performance bogies and single-axle suspensions for wagons. SCT Europe is led by Managing Director Jim Longton, who ...
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Argentina shops for passenger trains
THE ARGENTINIAN government has signed an agreement with the Spanish trade development organisation Expansión Exterior that will see 96 trainsets and 536 locos and coaches bought from Renfe and Feve over five years at a cost of 1·1bn pesos. Transport Secretary Ricardo Jaime said the stock would be strengthen Buenos ...
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Plans amended
ON JUNE 17 the Spanish Ministry of Development began public consultation on its proposal to alter the alignment of the cross-city tunnel in Gijón, where work began in April 2003. This is one of a number of major changes to the project announced by Development Minister Magdalena Álvarez on June ...
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Alternative fuels on test
LAST MONTH, three railways unveiled projects intended to reduce the rail industry’s dependence on diesel fuel. On June 14, Brazilian industrial giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce announced in Rio de Janiero that it will use biological fuel on its Vitória a Minas Railway, following positive tests with two locomotives ...
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Alstom results show recovery
’THE RESULTS we are presenting today clearly demonstrate the ongoing recovery of Alstom’, said Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Patrick Kron, following board approval on May 30 of the group’s accounts for the year to March 31 2005. ’All key indicators are in line with or better than the guidance ...
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Slow progress through the Alps
A FIRE in the 12·8 km Fréjus road tunnel on June 4, in which two lorry drivers died, calls to mind the more serious fires in the 11·6 km Franco-Italian Mont Blanc tunnel in March 1999 and in the Gotthard motorway tunnel in October 2001.At the time several heavyweight names ...
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Cross-border co-operation accord
A LETTER of Intent setting out terms for the operation of TGV Est Européen was signed in Strasbourg on May 23 by SNCF President Louis Gallois and DB Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn. Also present at the event were the then French Transport Minister Gilles de Robien and his German counterpart ...
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X60 undergoes acceptance tests
INTRO: Harry Hondius MSc reports from SalzgitterSEPTEMBER is due to see the entry into revenue service of the first of 55 X60 low-floor EMUs, ordered in May 2002 by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik for use by Citypendeln operator Keolis. The contract with Alstom includes an option for 50 more sets. Total price ...
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2020 vision in green
AN ENTICING vision of attractive, sustainable and efficient public transport, contributing to a higher quality of life, was painted by speaker after speaker at the International Union of Public Transport’s 56th World Congress, which took place in Roma on June 5 to 9.Many of the factors needed to ensure high-quality ...
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People in the News - July 2005
Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin was appointed President of Russian Railways on June 15, replacing Gennady Fadeyev who becomes an advisor to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. Dr Bill Emery has been appointed Chief Executive of the UK's Office of Rail Regulation; he also becomes a member of the ORR board. UK ...
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IDR2-Novum promises lower rail maintenance costs
This year four groups of French and German experts will complete a wide-ranging programme of theoretical and field research which suggests that a system approach to track-train interaction can cut rail maintenance costs
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Reporting on 100 years of key developments in the rail industry
1905UK: July 21. First edition of Railway Gazette published.Russia: Regular through operations begin on the Trans-Siberian Railway after completion of Circum-Baikal railway.1906Switzerland - Italy: January 25. First train runs through the Simplon tunnel.1907USA: July 24. New Haven electric services begin to use New York’s Grand Central Terminal, marking completion of ...
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Congratulations from our readers
On learning that Railway Gazette would be celebrating its centenary this month, and marking 170 years of unbroken service to the railway industry, many of our readers have been kind enough to send their congratulations and good wishes.
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On May 22 Japanese Land, Infrastructure & Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa, and JR Hokkaido Chairman Shinichi Sakamoto participated in ceremonies at Shin-Hakodate to mark the start of work on the first phase of the Hokkaido Shinkansen, which was approved in December 2004. The government is covering two-thirds of the ´470bn ...
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Dubai metro contract awarded
ON MAY 29 representatives of Dubai Municipality and the Dubai Rapid Link consortium signed a 12·45bn dirham contract for final design and construction of the planned driverless metro in the United Arab Emirates' second largest city. The contract was signed by the Director General & Chairman of the Dubai ...
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