All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2007 – Page 3
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Transmash and Bombardier sign partnership
BOMBARDIER Transportation's Chief Operating Officer Wolfgang Tölsner and Transmash Holding President Dmitri A Komissarov have signed a €12·5m agreement establishing two equally-owned joint ventures in Russia. Signed in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on May 25 during the Strategic Partnership 1520 conference, the agreement covers the creation of ...
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Industry News in Brief
RailWorks Corp has been acquired by its management and private equity firm Wind Point Partners. They purchased the business in May from MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners, which had owned the North American track and infrastructure construction and maintenance company since 2002.Wagon manufacturer W H Davies has expanded its UK maintenance ...
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African locomotive arrivals
THIS MONTH Sifang Loco & Rolling Stock Co will deliver to Angola the last of eight SDD6 diesel locos ordered for Luanda railway. Services on the 424 km line from the capital to Malange and the 55 km branch to Dondo are expected to be fully restored later this year, ...
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Low sulphur
MTA Metro-North Railroad's diesel locomotives are to be switched to ultra-low sulphur fuel by January 2008, five years ahead of a deadline set by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The railway estimates that adoption of the fuel will result in a 13% reduction in hydrocarbon emissions, a 6% cut in ...
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Green Goats penned
RAILPOWER Technologies Corp issued a statement on June 1 recalling 59 diesel-battery locos from the GG-series, including Green Kids and generation I, II and III models, and requesting that owners temporarily cease operating them. The action was triggered by a fire in a Green Goat in Texas on May 30. ...
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Europe's private freight operators under siege
THE NEWS that Deutsche Bahn has been actively discussing acquisition of the UK's largest freight carrier, English Welsh & Scottish Railway, and is considering a 'partnership' with Fret SNCF, which lost €840m in 2006, has once again set alarm bells ringing among the fledgling private sector rail freight operators in ...
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Thales consolidation takes shape
'GROUND Transportation is a core activity at the heart of Thales' strategy', confirmed Senior Vice-President Jean-Paul Lepeytre on May 23, during a presentation in Helsinki to outline developments since the company took over the Alcatel Transportation Systems business in January (RG 6.06 p361). Identifying the company's role as a ...
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Egis Rail launched
FRENCH rail and public transport engineering consultancy Semaly was officially relaunched as Egis Rail on June 1, following a restructuring of the rail activities within the Egis group. Since the former Lyon transport engineering arm was privatised in 1992, Semaly has been 77% owned by Egis - which is itself ...
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Level crossings pose the widest risk
THE DEATH of 11 people in a collision between an inter-city DMU and a lorry at Kerang in Victoria on June 5 is another regrettable addition to the growing list of fatal level crossing accidents. In the Australian state alone, 65 people have died in level crossing incidents over the ...
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Serco preferred bidder for Dubai metro operations contract
DUBAI'S Roads & Transport Authority named Serco as preferred bidder for the contract to operate and maintain the first two lines of the Dubai Metro on June 19. The contract is valued at more than £400m over 12½ years, and begins this summer with a pre-launch consultancy and planning ...
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Pointers July 2007
The month a six-member committee of transport officials appointed by Bangladesh's caretaker government will complete a report recommending strategies for improving passenger transport and accelerating the development of the railway network. A consultants' report has advised double tracking the Dhaka - Chittagong route and constructing a more direct line to ...
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Dualis extends the reach of the Citadis family
Alstom's latest design of tram-train vehicle builds on its successful modular tram family
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NewsGE unveils hybrid locomotive
GENERAL Electric officially unveiled its prototype hybrid road switcher at Los Angeles Union Station on May 24, one of the first outings of a locomotive which GE says has taken five years and $250m to develop. Numbered 2010 to indicate the year when GE plans to roll out its first ...
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NewsBetuwe Route opens for business
The dedicated freight route running for 160 km between the port of Rotterdam and the German border finally welcomed its first commercial services on June 18.
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Economic growth drives Indian Railways spending
With India's economy growing at more than 8% per year, demand for both freight and passenger transport is rising rapidly. Outgoing IR Chairman J P Batra tells Chris Jackson that the biggest challenge is to absorb growth on the existing network and add capacity as quickly as possible
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NewsDuoTrack cuts cabling costs
'THIS IS a cost-efficient solution, not a cheap solution', notes Harald Büthe, Nexans' Product Development Engineer, of the DuoTrack cabling application that Nexans is introducing on the Odenwaldbahn in Hesse, Germany. DuoTrack is a trunk cabling installation process that incorporates not only a cable, but also all the related ...
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NewsOrbita shows the way to optimised maintenance
Focused and dynamic performance data is helping operators to improve rolling stock reliability and optimise predictive maintenance.
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NewsRegenerative braking boosts green credentials
Amid a growing focus on environmental issues, British operators are embracing regenerative braking as a means of saving energy and reducing maintenance costs. Roger Ford explains the benefits of the technology, and acknowledges the challenges standing in the way of wholesale adoption
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NewsThrusting forward in a changing diesel market
VOITH AG is committed to a strategy of steadily increasing its role in the worldwide traction market. At its 'Fit for the Future' customer day in Würzburg, Voith Turbo set out its ambition to deliver all components needed for propulsion, including drive shafts and axle gears. The company is seeking ...
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Wayside and on-board storage can capture more regenerated energy
Japan's railways are demonstrating how lithium-ion batteries and double-layer capacitors can save energy, reduce diesel emissions, and even keep electric trains moving where there is no power source
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