All Railway Gazette International articles in June 1998 – Page 3
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Gardermobanen prepares to open in October
ALL BEING well, Oslo’s 48 km rail link to the new twin runway Gardermoen airport will open in October 8. Airline traffic is expected to reach 11·7 million in 2000 and 16·8 million in 2010, with 50% of passengers travelling by train. Some doubt remains about the rail link’s opening ...
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Görlitz launches third ICE generation
WELL OVER 1500 people were present at an emotional ceremony on April 3 in the DWA works in Görlitz to mark completion of the first two series-built end cars for German Railway's 230 km/h ICT tilting train fleet (RG 5.98 p279). The Görlitz factory had turned out the legendary Fliegender ...
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Point heater monitors
BOWARD Computer Services has supplied a telemetry system to Railtrack to monitor point heaters between London and Birmingham on the West Coast main line. A total of 74 Mitsubishi programmable logic controllers, controlling 60 point heating systems and 14 standby generators, report to a central monitoring computer in Birmingham which ...
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Unlikely partners at high speed wedding
INTRO: A 10-car ICE-TGV combination was demonstrated to Taiwanese officials on May 4 as part of Taiwan High Speed Rail Consortium’s efforts to secure a US$17bn build-operate-and-transfer concession for the Taipei - Kaohsiung high speed lineFIVE YEARS ago such a marriage would have been unthinkable. The improbable union of French ...
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Incentro order
On April 20 the French city of Nantes announced a contract worth ’under Ecu50m’ for 23 all-low-floor trams to the Adtranz Incentro design, with an option for four more. The first order for the ’modular product platform’, delivery is scheduled for the first half of 2000.The chosen configuration is 36·4m ...
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INSIDE INDUSTRY
China: Siemens, Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Plant and the Zhuzhou Research Institute of Electric Locomotives are to invest 300m yuan in a joint venture, Zhuzhou Siemens Traction Equipment Co, to build up to 60 AC locos a year. The Austrian government is to provide start-up fundingEurope: After GEC Alsthom’s flotation on ...
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Integral slips
CZECH railwaymen looking forward to running 200 km/h tilting trains between Berlin, Praha and Wien may have to wait a little longer. CKD Praha announced last month that delivery of the prototype Class 680 Integral had slipped by another nine months to April 15 next year.When the contract for 10 ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: On May 1 Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajapayee formally ’dedicated’ the 760 km Konkan Railway in a ceremony at Ratnagiri (above). The line was opened to traffic on January 26 (RG 3.98 p138), but the ceremony could not be held until after the country’s general election. Konkan Railway ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: Using the last of 14 IC125 high-speed trains refurbished for Midland Main Line, Adtranz (UK) ran a commemorative special on April 30 to mark the retirement of Chief Executive Stig Svärd - who was presented with a souvenir by MML Managing Director Nick Brown (left).First privately-ordered rolling stock off ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: Queensland Rail has opened a $3·9m container terminal at Cloncurry, near Mt Isa. The $200m upgrade of the Townsville - Mt Isa route is scheduled for completion later this year.Westrail has invited tenders for upgrading of the signalling on its freight network. Signalling, maintenance and workshop facilities for the ...
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‘s-Hertogenbosch interchange opens
Netherlands Railways opened a rebuilt station and transport interchange at ’s-Hertogenbosch on May 14. The five year project has cost 185m guilders, with nearly half of this going on improved railway infrastructure including grade separated junctions and extra tracks.The station has been expanded with an extra island platform to cope ...
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Riga interlocking
RESIGNALLING of Latvian Railways’ main terminus is to be completed in 2000 under a contract with Adtranz Signal, signed at a ceremony in Riga on April 29 attended by LDZ Director-General Andris Zorgevics, Deputy DG Rihards Peders, and the Swedish ambassador Hans Magnusson.Adtranz Signal will supply an Ebilock 950 electronic ...
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PKP to split in July
THE POLISH Ministry of Transport confirmed on May 1 that Polish State Railways will be restructured on July 1, with the naming of Directors to head three new business units. Tadeusz Augustowski will be Director of Rail Infrastructure, with Jósef Szczepanski at Freight Operations and Marek Pawicki at Passenger. They ...
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LETTERS
INTRO: Infrafer’s businessSir - We would like to point out some important corrections to the article on Algeria by Dr Kadi Abdelsselam in Rail Business Report 1998.The article states that Infrafer is a subsidiary of the Algerian Railways (SNTF). While Infrafer was originally spun off from the SNTF in August ...
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Marketplace
Brazil: São Paulo Metro has called tenders for a rail grinder.Chile: EFE has purchased an additional five Class 440 EMUs from RENFE of Spain at a cost of Pts1·4bn, for delivery by the end of this year.Czech Republic: Liberec Transport Authority has ordered six RT6S low-floor trams from CKD Praha ...
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Private metro plan
A PRIVATE-SECTOR consortium has put forward plans for construction of a four-line metro in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo. Backed by commercial property developers, the group hopes to negotiate a concession from the municipal administration by mid-2000 to build and operate the network.According to Metro Montevideo Director-General Manuel Carballal, construction of ...
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Metros
Austria: Wiener Lokalbahnen has ordered six three-section T2500 LRVs from BWS for Sch157m. Electrical equipment for the LRVs, due to enter service in September 2000, will be supplied by Adtranz, ELIN EBG and Siemens.Belarus: Insond of Austria is to participate in building the Rakauskaya - Kountsaushchyna section of the Minsk ...
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Monorail for sale
After going round in circles for a decade, Sydney’s Darling Harbour monorail could be heading for pastures new. Australian business group TNT announced at the end of April that the single-track loop opened in July 1988 is up for sale. Built at a cost of A$65m to offer visitors a ...
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UP woes over?
ATTACK is the best form of defence, so the saying goes. Perhaps this explains Union Pacific’s May 1 decision to pour $1·4bn into its Texas and Louisiana operations over the next five years, with up to $160m to be spent this year. Of this, about half will go on upgrading ...
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