All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2002 – Page 4
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Tamping by laser alignment
IMPROVED control of rail lifting when tamping pointwork is offered by an automatic laser alignment controller from Plasser & Theurer. A rotating laser transmitter unit is mounted on the lifting and lining measuring car, with the receiver fitted to the additional lifting device. During tamping, data from the laser is ...
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Corus Rail aims to grow
According to its Director, Projects, Jeremy Blake, Corus Rail Consultancy’s head office in York is now home to the UK’s ’biggest combined multi-disciplinary organisation under one roof’. Steel producer Corus aims to grow the turnover from its rail businesses ’significantly’ from the current level of £250m a year, of which ...
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South African machine ready to grind
SPOORNET’S rails are being reprofiled by two Speno 24-stone grinding machines built under licence in South Africa. Grinaker-LTA subsidiary Lennings Rail Services is using the Speno RR24M-12 and 13 rail profiling machines in the five-year contact with Spoornet. Most components were made locally for assembly and commissioning at the LRS ...
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Advanced Automatic Train Control pioneered in San Francisco
This month Bay Area Rapid Transit will put its Advanced Automatic Train Control moving block control into revenue service. Radio-based technology helps keep down installation costs in the $40m project to reduce headways and increase capacity on the busy A and M lines
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I-95 upgrade
PUBLIC consultation began at the end of April for a $6·2bn package to upgrade freight railways in the US Mid-Atlantic Corridor linking Virginia to New Jersey. A study by the I-95 Corridor Coalition has recommended a programme of 71 improvement projects to relieve bottlenecks over the next 20 years. The ...
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Line 5 signalling
VALENCIA regional government in Spain has awarded Dimetronic a €2·8m contract to install signalling, control and telecommunications equipment on the 2·5 km section of metro Line 5 from Alameda to Parque Ayora. Due to open in the spring of 2003, the branch will have intermediate stations at Aragón and Manuel ...
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Köln - Frankfurt shuttles launch 300 km/h running
Ralf Roman Rossberg reports on service plans for German Railway's high speed line between Köln and Frankfurt
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Barcelona to spend i7·3bn
ON APRIL 25 Barcelona’s city transport authority ATM approved an infrastructure plan for 2001-10 that will see 282 km of new metro, light rail and suburban routes added to the Barcelona network. The programme is costed at €7·3bn, including €104·5m for increasing capacity on Renfe’s Badalona - Mataró route and ...
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Metro Report 2002
SUBSCRIBERS will receive with this issue a copy of our annual supplement Metro Report. Non-subscribers may purchase copies separately at £30 by contacting Esco Business Services (details on p281), or using the order form on our web site www.railwaygazette.comThis year’s edition includes an analysis of light rail, tram and metro ...
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Level 2 goes live
AT 04.44 on April 27, regional passenger train 5104 from Luzern to Olten became the first timetabled train carrying fare-paying passengers to operate using ETCS Level 2 on Swiss Federal Railways. On the 35 km Level 2 pilot section between Zofingen and Sempach, all trains are now controlled from Olten ...
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Line 1 extended
TEHRAN Urban & Suburban Railway Co has opened the northern section of metro Line 1 in the Iranian capital. It runs 7 km from Darvazeh-Dolat to the suburb of Mirdamad, serving eight stations. The 8·5 km southern section, including the Line 2 interchange at Imam Khomeini, was inaugurated in August ...
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