All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2005
All articles published this month.
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Iron and coal will dominate traffic flows
On the occasion of opening of Iran's new railway between Mashhad and Bafgh on May 3, RAI President Mohammad Saiednejad discussed the project with Murray Hughes in Mashhad
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'Friendship Corridor' opens up trade route from Central Asia to the Gulf
Murray Hughes travelled to Mashhad to join the ceremony marking opening by President Khatami of Iran of the Mashhad - Bafgh railway
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Modern construction methods mastered on Mashhad - Bafgh line
Iranian engineers designed and built around 1000 km of new line through difficult terrain
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One hundred years and still rolling
SURVEYING the world railway industry in mid-2005, on the occasion of our Centenary, it is clear that steel wheels on steel rails still have formidable potential for further development. In the following pages we have indulged in the luxury of looking back, with our 170-year history mapped out on ...
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Several of Brazil's freight railway concessionaires have flourished since the federal railway network was broken up in 1996. John Kolodziejski looks at progress at two of them
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1000 cars in Bangkok package
FORMAL proposals for a package of new metro lines and extensions in Bangkok totalling 94 km were submitted to the Thai government by the Mass Rapid Transit Authority on May 12.In January MRTA was authorised to begin design for two new lines and two extensions, which are expected to be ...
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Broad gauge ICE3 in sight
RUSSIAN Railways continues to prepare the ground for signing a detailed contract with Siemens for supply of high speed trains (RG 2.05 p61), with RZD President Gennady Fadeyev announcing on May 5 in Moscow that the German company will assemble the trains in Russia. Technology transfer looks set to be ...
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Open access sorted
WHEN THE state government of Victoria leased most of V/Line’s network outside the Melbourne commuter zone to Freight Australia in 1999, the issue of access by competing operators was ignored. As Minister for Transport Peter Batchelor pointed out last month when introducing his Rail Corporations (Amendment) Bill, ’no third-party operator ...
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EWS acquires bogie portfolio
BRITISH rail freight operator English Welsh &Scottish Railway announced on April 28 that it had acquired the assets of wagon suspension developer and supplier Probotec Ltd. The Cardiff-based company had been placed in administration earlier in the month.Formerly known as Powell Duffryn Rail, Probotec has 40 staff and offices in ...
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Tracking machines across borders
DANISH infrastructure manager Banedanmark has ordered tracking equipment to monitor the location and utilisation of around 700 wagons and maintenance machines.The DKr4m contract for GSM-GPS tracking technology was won by Pivotex Oy, which will begin supplying its PivoTrack package this month. PivoTrack will work across national boundaries regardless of the ...
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Heavy haul railways address a booming market
As the world's experts in heavy haul technology gather in Rio de Janeiro for the 8th IHHA Conference on June 14-16, China's insatiable demand for iron and steel is driving the pace of development on the world's heavy haul railways. Operators of iron ore lines on three continents are moving ...
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Ministers agree high speed timetable
MEETING in Lisboa on May 4, Spanish Development Minister Magdalena Álvarez and Portuguese Minister of Public Works, Transport & Communications Mario Lino confirmed the timetable for completing high speed links between the two countries. A Vigo - Porto route would open in 2009, followed by a Lisboa - Madrid route ...
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Are there better times ahead?
INTRO: The prospects for Argentina’s freight operators are set to brighten once the protracted process of renegotiating their concession contracts comes to an end, but government funding will be needed for infrastructure investment if rail is to meet its full potential. Enrique Garibotto reportsBY THE END of the 1980s the ...
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Wayside monitoring with ATSI aids wagon maintenance
The first phase of the AAR's Advanced Technology Safety Initiative has enabled wagon owners to share data on wheels exceeding impact limits, giving them the opportunity to undertake maintenance when and where it is most efficient and economical to do so
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Consulting alliance
SENECA Group and Railistics announced the formation of an alliance on May 12. The Washington DC and Wiesbaden-based companies will jointly market their complementary consultancy services, including project management, planning, analysis and organisational restructuring. The alliance will be directed by President of Seneca Christopher McCarthy and Railistics Managing Director Udo ...
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Competitive pressure may lie behind Amagasaki crash
SHOCKWAVES spread across Japan on April 25 as the country struggled to come to terms with the disastrous derailment of a heavily-loaded JR West commuter train at Amagasaki in the suburbs of Osaka.At 09.18 a seven-car Series 207 EMU forming a Commuter Rapid service from Takarazuka to Doshisha-mae derailed on ...
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Bypass approved
ON MAY 17, French Transport Minister Gilles de Robien announced the award of a Declaration of Public Utility for construction of a rail bypass around Nîmes and Montpellier.Initially designed as part of TGV Méditerranée, the 70 km line is now to be built as a mixed-traffic route, helping to keep ...
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ARTC studies train control
AUSTRALIAN Rail Track Corp has selected Lockheed Martin to assist with a A$20m technical and economic study of the potential for cab signalling based on satellite navigation and radio communications, allied to radio control of points. The contract award follows confirmation of federal funding earlier this year (RG 5.05 p246).Lockheed ...
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ASFA upgrade
RENFE Operadora and infrastructure authority ADIF have approved a joint programme to upgrade the ASFA intermittent automatic train protection system, including new in-cab displays of braking curves and target speeds. The first phase running until the end of 2006 should see a prototype developed with ASFA supplier Dimetronic Signals, which ...
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Spanish association expands
AS WELL as organising its own joint stand, the Spanish Association of Manufacturers & Exporters of Equipment & Services for the Railway Industry will be co-ordinating other Spanish exhibitors at the event.MAFEX has over 20 member companies, covering infrastructure, rolling stock, signalling, electrification, maintenance and consultancy businesses.Engineering firm Affix Electronics ...