Main line rail industry news – Page 1122
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RandstadRail repairs
FOLLOWING the two derailments which disrupted RandstadRail services in November (RG 1.07 p14), operator HTM commissioned Delta Rail to track down the causes. The consultant has identified weaknesses in key components of the 60 turnouts on the Hofplein Line, which were due to be remedied by the end of January, ...
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Riedberg light rail
PLANS FOR a light rail route to the northern suburb of Riedberg were announced by the head of Frankurt-am-Main’s Transport Department Lutz Sikorski on December 21. He said 70% of the funding for the k60m project had been secured.Riedberg will be served by a loop linking U-Bahn Route U3 at ...
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TRAX expands
UTAH Transit Authority began work on January 8 to build a 1?6?km extension of Salt Lake City’s TRAX light rail network from the existing city-centre terminus to a new intermodal interchange where it will connect with the FrontRunner commuter rail route, Amtrak and both local and inter-city buses. Serving one ...
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Muni opens T-Third at last
LIMITED OPERATION of San Francisco’s T-Third light rail line began on January 13, with Muni Metro offering free rides on weekends and public holidays until April 7, when full revenue services are scheduled to start. T-Third services start from Castro Street station and run through the city centre using the ...
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Valencia’s T2 makes progress
ON JANUARY 11 Mayor of Valencia, Rita Barber?, joined Jos? Ram?n Garc?a Ant?n, Minister for Transport & Infrastructure in the Valencia regional government, to mark the start of work on the 5?1?km southern section of Line T2 from Alicante to Nazaret. With six intermediate stations, and running partly in tunnel, ...
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Third Railway Package goes to the vote
INTERNATIONAL passenger services in Europe are on course to be opened up to competition from 2010 following a vote in the European Parliament on January 18 after the second reading of the Third Railway Package. But a proposal supported by the Transport Committee for domestic services in the EU15 to ...
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Toll split could keep PN intact
THE AUSTRALIAN Consumer & Competi-tion Commission holds the key to plans announced in December by Toll Holdings for a ’strategic restructure’ that would divide the group into separate infrastructure and operating businesses. If the ACCC rules in Toll’s favour, the group will be able to keep Pacific National intact.A key ...
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Glattalbahn opens its first section
TWO MOUNTAINS and a lake have long-constrained the city of Zürich. As a result, urban development has focused on the lower-lying areas towards the northeast, around the airport and the towns of the Glatt valley. These are served by several S-Bahn routes, but it became apparent during the 1990s that ...
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EDI Rail invests in capacity
INVESTMENT of A$5m to increase the capacity of EDI Rail’s manufacturing and testing facilities at Maryborough in Queensland was announced by Stephen Gillies, Managing Director of Downer EDI, on December 21.The nine-month programme includes rolling stock testing and commissioning facilities, weighing equipment and associated trackwork. ’These additions will provide a ...
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TTA offloads plant to Bombardier
USA: Bombardier and Transportation & Transit Associates reached an agreement at the end of November for Bombardier Transportation to acquire TTA's passenger rolling stock overhaul division for an undisclosed price. The sale includes TTA's plant at Kanona in New York state, along with associated equipment and existing overhaul contracts. TTA ...
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Test track speeds up
The Railway Research Institute subsidiary of Czech Railways formally marked the completion of a KC60m modernisation of a 5 km section of its Cerhenice test track on December 13. Track on the larger of the test site's two loops has been upgraded to permit conventional trains to run at 210 ...
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Vossloh IT sold
ON JANUARY 11 Vossloh Group announced the sale of its Information Technologies division to Funkwerk AG, which will take over the unit for a provisional price of k8m.In the first nine months of the 2006 fiscal year Vossloh IT reported a pre-tax loss of k9?3m. This disposal will result in ...
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Market February 2007
Australia: The Western Australia government has exercised an A$157m option with Bombardier and EDI Rail for a further 15 B-series three car EMUs (p111). The 130 km/h 25 kV units will enter service on Perth's 1 067 mm gauge network in 2009-11. China: ABB is to supply Beijing Line 4 ...
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Metros February 2007
Argentina: On January 13 Metrovias completed the first phase of a 35m pesos project to resignal metro Line D in Buenos Aires, with the commissioning of new lineside signalling. The programme is scheduled for completion in May when ATP becomes operational and control of the line is transferred to the ...
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Pointers February 2007
BNSF Railway is studying locations for a plant which would produce liquid diesel-replacement fuel from coal, using a version of the Fischer-Tropsch process which has been developed by Tenaska Inc. BNSF's 6 300 locos consumed 5·3bn litres of diesel in 2005, and a spokesman said the economic and technical feasibility ...
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Intelligence February 2007
Argentina: A consortium of Néstor Otero, Emepa and Ferrovías has won a 30-year concession to build and operate a transport interchange in Mar del Plata. Completion is expected to take 24 months at a cost of 23·5m pesos, including a station funded by the federal government. A second batch of ...
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Powder River ruling
PROPOSALS by Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad to build a 420?km line into Wyoming’s Powder River Basin coalfields are back on course. A court ruling on December 28 upheld a decision by the US Surface Transportation Board granting final approval for the $6bn project, which also envisages rebuilding 965?km of ...
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FRA approves PTC overlay
ON JANUARY 8 the US Federal Railroad Administration formally approved the implementation of Positive Train Control on BNSF, the first such application to receive full clearance. Developed by Wabtec, the Electronic Train Management System is ’an overlay technology that augments and supplements existing train control methods’. ETMS sends vital ...
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Kars - Tbilisi agreement
THE government of Georgia was expected to approve on January 17 the construction of the long-planned Kars - Tbilisi rail link, following an agreement between the transport ministers of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey at a meeting in Tbilisi on January 12. Now costed at US$422m, the project involves construction ...
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Cautious expansion
IARNR?D ?IREANN is making a major effort to expand its freight business in 2007, after several significant flows were lost in 2006.The company is to expand its business with logistics firm Norfolk Line, increasing the frequency of its Ballina - Waterford trainload container service to three trains a week. I? ...