All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2002 – Page 4

  • News

    Lubricant monitoring

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    HEATHROW Express is using remote track lubrication monitoring developed by Interfleet Technology. The installation gives direct feedback on the operation of lubricators on the Airport Curve near Heathrow. A wheel proximity switch alerts a lineside PC to the presence of an approaching train. Transducers monitor the grease pressure, and rail-mounted ...

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    Market

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    Australia: Pilbara Rail has taken delivery of three GE C44-9W locos for Hamersley Iron traffic.Brazil: CPTM of São Paulo has called tenders to prepare documentation for planning and obtaining finance for the second phase of the Capão Redondo - Embuaçu metro Line 5.Canada: GM EMD has been awarded a six-year ...

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    Metros

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    Brazil: TCBR, Vega and Dalcon have been awarded a contract to undertake outline engineering design for a 13 km elevated metro in Curitiba (RG 3.02 p117). The winning bid was R$5·82m.Canada: Montréal’s AMT has unveiled plans for a 6·2 km, six station C$700m extension of the Blue line from Saint ...

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    Orbital study

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    MARYLAND’S General Assembly has approved funding of $10·5m to start planning and environmental studies for the proposed 22·7 km orbital light rail line from New Carrollton to Silver Spring and Bethesda. It would link the outer ends of Washington Metro’s Red, Green and Orange lines, providing suburb-to-suburb connections between communities ...

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    TBTC pays off in Vancouver

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    BYLINE: Michael RichardVice-President, OperationsBritish Columbia Rapid Transit Company LtdBRITISH COLUMBIA was an early user of TBTC. Since 1986 Vancouver’s SkyTrain has been the largest driverless transit system in North America. Using SelTrac technology, it remains one of the largest fully-automated applications in the world.As operator, BC Rapid Transit Co has ...

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    PEOPLE

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    Gilles de Robien has been appointed Transport Minister in the new French government. Marc Foucault is Ministerial Advisor, Pierre Graff is Director of the Minister’s Cabinet, and Guénola de Couedic is Head of Communications. Former President of New York City Transit and Toronto Transit Commission David L Gunn took over ...

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    Pointers

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    n Communications Minister Nazmul Huda has proposed electrifying the Bangladesh Railway main lines from Dhaka to Chittagong and Rajshahi, as well as building links from Dhaka to Laksam, between Banganbandhu Bridge and Bogra and from Chittagong to Cox’s Bazar. Land sales and the recovery of 120bn taka owed by companies ...

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    PTC tests at risk

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    WORK to upgrade track and signalling over much of the Union Pacific route between Chicago and St Louis is due for completion by October. The section between Dwight and Springfield, Illinois, has been fitted with Positive Train Control and improved protection at level crossings (RG 6.00 p359), allowing line speed ...

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    Publications

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    Stations in the World by Mikio Miura and Sugie Hiroshi This photographic essay with Japanese text features images of the world's most famous stations, including Grand Central in New York, Amsterdam Centraal and London St Pancras. Reflecting the authors' wide-ranging travels, the book has pictures of Phnom Penh ...

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    Ticino S-Bahn

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    SWISS Federal Railways and Italian State Railway will take a first step in December towards creation of a regional S-Bahn network serving the cross-border region north of Milano. From the winter timetable change, local services between Mendrisio and Lugano will be increased to half-hourly, and the border stop at Chiasso ...

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    VIA stations

    2002-06-01T10:00:00Z

    VIA Rail Canada has completed the renovation of Halifax station in Nova Scotia, the eastern terminus of its Ocean service from Montréal. The rail/bus interchange has been improved, the station roof renewed and exterior brickwork restored. On May 10 VIA officially unveiled the refurbished station at Kitchener-Waterloo in southwest Ontario, ...