All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2005 – Page 2
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Pre-series Avanto starts test running
Now undergoing trial running at the Siemens test centre in Wegberg-Wildenrath is the first of 15 dual-system Avanto low-floor light rail vehicles ordered by French National Railways in 2002. Harry Hondius reports
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PKP PLK awards signalling contracts
POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK SA has awarded two contracts for main line resignalling, which will be supported by the European Union's Cohesion Fund. A €30·5m contract has been awarded to Alcatel and Kommunikacyjne Zaklady Automatyki I Teletechniki for work in the Poznan area, including computerised interlockings at six ...
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Sydney backtracks on double-deckers
FOUR groups have been shortlisted to submit detailed proposals for a contract to supply replacements for the 498 cars in Sydney’s suburban fleet of 1514 double-deckers that are not air-conditioned.They are: Aurora Rail, formed of Siemens and Commonwealth Bank; Bombardier, working with Plenary Group and Deutsche Bank; Reliance Rail, formed ...
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Ban on the Bong line
LIBERIA: Revival of the fortunes of the iron ore market has triggered the reopening of the 78 km line between the mines at Bong and the port of Monrovia in Liberia. The move means the end of a practice that saw the 1435mm gauge line kept in unofficial use since ...
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Barcelona to lease more stock
BARCELONA TRANSPORT authority ATM has signed a contract worth €65m to lease 10 Series 6000 trainsets for metro Line 1. Due to be delivered between May and December 2007, the five-car trainsets each accommodating up to 1116 passengers are to be leased for an initial term of 18 years, with ...
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Base tunnel holed through
AN EXPLOSION shook the ground at 10.52 on April 28 near the Swiss mountain resort of Kandersteg, marking the final breakthrough in construction of the 34·6 km L
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NewsBauhinia line will expand Queensland's coal exports
November should see completion of a 110 km addition to QR's extensive 1 067 mm gauge heavy haul network feeding the port of Gladstone. This is the major element in a A$335m enhancement of the Blackwater coal routes, and more investment will follow as demand rises for low-ash thermal coal
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Brasil Ferrovias restructured
THE BRAZILIAN transport ministry announced on May 6 that it had completed a recapitalisation of Brasil Ferrovias, which controlled the Ferronorte, Ferroban and Novoeste concessions.Earlier this year federal investment bank BNDES agreed to take a 31% stake in Ferronorte (RG 4.05 p181). The completed package provides an injection of R$1·5bn ...
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Broadband Thalys
21NET will be demonstrating the broadband internet access it is providing on Thalys services between Paris and Brussels in a three-month commercial test. The company is involved in a European Space Agency programme to develop bi-directional satellite communications to deliver broadband internet to high speed trains. Successful live trials of ...
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Joint company to build international link
ATA CEREMONY in Tehran on May 2 the heads of the railways in Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan signed a formal accord to build the Qazvin - Rasht - Astara line as part of the emerging North-South Corridor linking the Gulf with the Baltic Sea.At a second meeting held in Tehran ...
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Conference call
WITH all speakers now confirmed for the Railway Gazette Centenary Congress on July 1, we are in the final stages of preparation for a very special event.Topics include Switzerland’s successful national regular-interval timetable - a concept now being suggested in France by RFF; the future of signalling and train control ...
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DLR capacity expansion
DOCKLANDS Light Railway ordered 24 more articulated cars from Bombardier on April 28, as part of a programme to expand the capacity of its busiest route from Bank to Lewisham via Canary Wharf. Platforms are being lengthened so that trains can be extended from two to three cars in ...
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Jewel chips on show
CENTREPIECE of the Innovision Research & Technology stand will be three ticket machines that can read the company’s Jewel low-cost contactless ticketing chip. An Almex Optima mobile ticket machine from H
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One coach refurbishment contract
UK: Bombardier has been awarded a £17m contract by Porterbrook Leasing to overhaul and refurbish 110 MkIII coaches used by National Express Group's Greater Anglia train operating company One. Superseded by Pendolino tilting trains on Virgin West Coast services, the MkIIIs were leased by One last year to replace older ...
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Driver training contracted out
SWISS Federal Railways is to transfer its driver training activities to the specialist company Login which already trains other staff involved in public transport.From January 2006 Login will take over training of all SBB drivers. While SBB will continue to recruit and employ drivers, Login’s driver training school will be ...
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Depot contracts
MADRID regional government has awarded contracts worth a total of €181·3m for the construction of four new rolling stock depots and the expansion of an existing facility on Line 4 in the Hortaleza district. The depots are needed to service the 698 new metro cars and 70 light rail vehicles ...
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Coupler electronics
VOITH Turbo Scharfenberg has developed an electrical and pneumatic coupling system for use with AAR and Tightlock couplers. As well as protecting electrical components during coupling, it ensures reliable contacts between vehicle electronics. Voith’s E-box sits below the coupler where it is protected against heavy knocks, jolts and contamination which ...
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Cross-desert cut-off planned
WORK IS to start this year on a 1390 km line across the Ulan Buh and Badain Jaran deserts in northern China, connecting Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Xinjiang.No timetable has been announced for completion of the line, which is being managed by Chinese Railways’ regional administration in Hohhot. It is ...
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Tram crossing
CEGELEC will be showing signalling systems developed to control barrier-protected level crossings on light rail lines.The technology has been chosen for Lyon’s LEA tram route T3 which will run between Part-Dieu and Meyzieu. The route will have 26 level crossings over 14·7 km, and the high commercial speed planned for ...
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Railway: Identity, Design and Culture
by Keith LovegroveIn its own words, this book sets out to provide ’an exuberant collection of imagery depicting vintage, modern and futuristic train travel’.The identity, design and culture of the passenger train is explored in over 160 pages, with the help of 250 illustrations. Although car interiors loom large, in ...
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