All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2005 – Page 4
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Metro maintenance matters
PLASSER & Theurer will be focusing attention on its track maintenance and measuring machines built specifically for use on urban railways.The 08 Metropolitan series of tamping machines is designed for use on tightly-curved lines with third-rail electrification, and features low-emission diesel engines and catalytic converters for use in tunnels. Examples ...
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Market
Argentina: Coal mining company YCRT has called tenders for four locos and 60 wagons for its 750mm gauge railway between Río Turbio and Río Gallegos in Patagonia, where movements resumed last month.Australia: Barclay Mowlem has been awarded an A$2m contract to install a new crossover as part of the Bondi ...
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Nantes tries tram-train
PROPOSALS to reopen the 64 km railway between Nantes and Châteaubriant as a tram-train route were unveiled for public consultation by the Pays-de-la-Loire region last month. This paves the way for a detailed planning study costing €4m.To be completed by the end of 2009, the project will see the restoration ...
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NRC shortlist
NIGERIA’s Bureau of Public Enterprises has shortlisted nine consortia to tender for a contract to provide consultancy services for the planned privatisation of Nigerian Railways Corp.Around 20 companies had submitted expressions of interest before the deadline on April 20. Of these, four were disqualified for non-compliance. According to BPE, the ...
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Workshop opens
RELCO Locomotives Inc has completed a locomotive rebuilding and servicing facility at Albia in south east Iowa. Complementing the company’s existing facility at Minooka, Illinois, the 40ha site contains a main locomotive shop, a self-contained blast and paint shop, office space and 3 km of track. The 8400m2 main locomotive ...
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Philippine revivals take shape
TENDERS are to be called by the end of July for reconstruction of the Phividec rail network on the Philippine island of Panay.The Chairman of Philippine Investment & Development Corp Ofelia Bulalong announced on May 11 that work would start this year for completion in 2007, with the aim of ...
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Technology presented
INIT will make two presentations on June 7. In the morning Vice-President, Sales, Albrecht Simons will consider that it is ’time for an integrated vehicle IT’. This will be followed in the afternoon by a presentation from Chief Sales Officer Dr Jürgen Greschner on ’From Analogue to Digital: GPRS or ...
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Stadler’s profitable year
STADLER describes 2004 as ’a very profitable business year’ in its annual financial statement issued on April 26.Consolidated sales of SFr556m for the year were 25% ahead of projections, and significantly above the 2004 figure of SFr322m. The number of employees at the company’s plants in Bussnang, Altenrhein and Pankow ...
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UITP returns to Roma
INTRO: ’Public Transport 2020: Making the Connection - People - Environment - Business’ is the theme for the 56th World Congress of the International Association of Public TransportHaving previously staged its biennial World Congress in Roma in 1928 and 1971, UITP’s return to the Italian capital on June 5-9 marks ...
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Siemens shells in Sacramento
BOZANKAYA LLC will take over as North American supplier of steel bodyshells for Siemens’ SD series of light rail vehicles from this summer. A newly-formed US subsidiary of a German firm, Bozankaya has leased a building in Sacramento near Siemens’ LRV assembly plant. Shells were formerly made by SuperSteel Schenectady ...
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Smarter ticketing
SMART Card Alliance has established a Transportation Council to promote the use of standards-based smart card payment in the transport industry.It is one of several councils being established by the association to focus on use of smart cards in particular industries. The Alliance will work with the American Public Transportation ...
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Thais talk tough
AT A MEETING in Bangkok on May 9, State Railway of Thailand Governor Chitsanti Dhanasobhon was given 30 days to report back to the transport and finance ministers with a plan to turn round SRT’s financial performance.Senior managers had put forward plans that envisaged SRT’s 44bn baht debt being written ...
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