All Railway Gazette International articles in June 1999 – Page 2
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Storm clouds gather over WCML upgrade
FIVE YEARS have slipped by since the newly-created Railtrack launched in March 1994 a feasibility study into the upgrade of Britain’s prime inter-city route. The West Coast main line - actually a network linking London Euston with Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh - had already been scheduled by British ...
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West Coast deal
ON MAY 11 British bus and rail operator Go-Ahead Group confirmed that the three-company consortium of which it is a member had reached agreement with the Swedish government to run inter-city services on the West Coast route between G
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Commuter rail proposed
USA: Septa has commissioned a US$145000 two-year feasibility study into restoring passenger services on the Bethlehem and Stoney Creek lines, providing a commuter service to Philadelphia. Trains would start at Quakertown in Bucks County, and run south through Perkasie, Derstines, Telford, Hatfield and Lansdale before taking the Stoney Creek line ...
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Double-deckers complete IC service
FINNISH RAILWAYS is currently taking delivery of 42 double-deck coaches to expand capacity on its highly successful InterCity services launched in 1989. VR Ltd now operates eight supplementary-fare trains each way per day. Most run inwards to Helsinki in the morning and return in the evening, targeting the day-trip business ...
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South Jersey LRT contract
ON MAY 12 the NJ Transit board approved a US$604m design-build contract with Southern New Jersey Rail Group, a consortium of Bechtel and Adtranz, for the Camden-Trenton diesel light rail project, subject to NJT reaching agreement with Conrail by June 1 to operate a 7 1/2 min interval passenger service ...
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High-speed contribution
SPANISH Secretary of State for Infrastructure Albert Vilalta told the Parliamentary infrastructure committee on April 30 that 30% of the cost of building the high speed line from Madrid to Barcelona and the French border would be met by charging access fees for the first 20 years of operation. In ...
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Not counting the cost of safety
SPEAKING at a press conference in Frankfurt on May 3, German Railway Chairman Dr Johannes Ludewig gave some indication of the safety measures likely to be introduced once the enquiry into the ICE disaster at Eschede on June 3 1998 is concluded. Noting that DB ’is doing everything humanly possible ...
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Track engineers seek cost-saving innovations
INTRO: Increasing use of electronics has paved the way for suppliers of maintenance equipment to improve track quality and availability, and at the same time reduce costs. David Burns previews the VDEI exhibition taking place in Wien from June 1 to 3IN COMPARISON with many other industries, the railway business ...
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Counting sensors
RENFE’s Suburban business unit has installed the Cuper passenger-counting system developed in conjunction with Eliop on 10 EMUs operating in Madrid. The number of people boarding and leaving a train is counted using pressure sensors installed on the fixed step of each passenger door. An on-board processor locates the train ...
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Flange-bearing crossing diamonds offer improved performance
Trials at the AAR Transportation Technology Centre have found that flange-bearing crossings which reduce wheel impact loadings have the potential to cut track maintenance costs and operating delays, with no significant problems in terms of wheel wear
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Germans to wire Harbin - Dalian
CHINA’s Ministry of Railways and the China National Machinery Import & Export Co signed a contract on May 12 with representatives of Adtranz and Siemens for electrification of the 950 km Harbin - Dalian trunk line. Installation of the 25 kV 50Hz equipment is due for completion in mid-August 2001, ...
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Transpatagonian decree issued
THE ARGENTINE government issued a decree in April confirming that construction of two long-planned rail links would be ’in the public interest’. This paves the way for the Secretary of Transport to offer concessions to build and operate the Transpatagonico line and the Transandino del Sur corridor linking Bahía Blanca ...
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Reform underpins rail development
INTRO: Technical innovation to upgrade equipment and operating practices is being combined with organisational restructuring to prepare Russian Railways for the challenges aheadBYLINE: N E AksyonenkoMinister of Railway TransportRussian FederationRAIL IS THE BACKBONE of Russia’s transport system. It remains the most reliable and least expensive mode, meeting the country’s demand ...
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GE to upgrade Indian diesels
INDIAN Railways is negotiating a technology transfer agreement with General Electric of the USA for upgrading its fleet of 3000 WDM2 diesel locos, built to an Alco design of the late 1950s. This month IR is due to put into service the first of 20 diesels being supplied by General ...
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Dolly trolley
ON SHOW at the Hannover trade fair this year was a skate designed for dealing quickly with a damaged wheelset. Termed Dolly, the skate is intended to allow a vehicle with a defective wheelset to be moved rapidly to a workshop or depot for repair.A hydraulic jack is used to ...
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JLE reaches the Dome
THE FIRST 5·6 km of London Underground’s Jubilee Line Extension was finally opened to passengers on May 14 by British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. He welcomed ’a major milestone on the way towards completion of a brand new tube line that will prove to be a true asset to ...
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Duma ruling
FUNDING shortages in Russia are starting to affect the metro networks in major cities. So serious has the situation become that hearings were recently held in the Duma, where members heard that operating costs this year require funds totalling 4·27bn roubles, although the state budget only allocates 850m roubles. The ...
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