Main line rail industry news – Page 1123
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Israeli expansion continues
ISRAEL: On January 2 Israel Railways marked the start of construction of Ofakim station on the new direct line between Ashkelon and Beer-Sheva. Participating in the stone-laying ceremony were Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, ISR General Manager Ofer Linchevsky and Mayor of Ofakim Avi Asraf. Costed at US$400m, the 63 km ...
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High speed tenders
ON DECEMBER 26 Spanish infrastructure authority ADIF announced the award of two contracts to undertake civil works between Legutiano and Escoriatza on the Vitoria branch of the high speed network connecting it with Bilbao and San Sebasti?n.A 5?km section is to be built by a joint venture of Comsa and ...
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PPP projects garner interest
PLANS TO finance French infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships are attracting attention, confirmed Transport Minister Dominique Perben on December 20, six days after RFF formally invited expressions of interest for its first scheme.The infrastructure manager is consulting on the PPP concession to design, install, operate and maintain GSM-R digital radio ...
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Makkah - Madinah tenders sought
DOMESTIC AND international companies have been invited to submit tenders for construction of Saudi Arabia's planned Western Railway linking Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah. The call for tenders by Saudi Railways Organisation marks a further step in the expansion of the kingdom's rail network. The 444 km passenger line is expected ...
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Swiss order low-floor centre cars
SBB has placed an order worth SFr262m with Bombardier for 140 low-floor centre cars to upgrade its NPZ EMU fleet.The vehicles will replace older coaches that were refurbished as intermediate cars to lengthen the two-car EMU sets after they were built in the 1980s. The Bombardier vehicles are being delivered ...
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Sena reopening
MOZAMBIQUE state railway authority CFM announced last month that it expected services to resume on the southern part of the Sena line ’before March’. After a 20-year hiatus caused by civil war, trains will start to carry limestone over the 90?km section from quarries at Muanza to a cement factory ...
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Closer to the border
ADIF has awarded contracts worth a total of ?224?3m for civil works on three sections between Girona and Figueres of the high speed line from Madrid to the French border. The 3?3?km from Sant Juli? de Ramis to Cornell? del Terri is to be built by Construcciones y Promociones Coprosa ...
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People February 2007
Luis T?llez has been appointed Secretary of Transport & Communications in the new Mexican government.T rajano Andrade is Minister of Transport & Public Works in the government of President Rafael Correa which took officein Ecuador last month.Werner Faymann has been appointed Minister of Transport in the new Austrian coalition government. ...
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First leather seats
UK inter-city operator First Great Western has unveiled the first trailer coaches to be refurbished by Bombardier at its Derby plant under a £63m programme to overhaul the 53-strong IC125 HST diesel fleet. The first fully-refurbished trainset was officially unveiled with a Plymouth - London special train on January 17. ...
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Australian level crossing installation
AUSTRALIA: Rosehill Polymers has been awarded a contract to install its HoldFast rubber level crossing panels in Western Australia, building on its experience of installing similar rubber crossings in Victoria. The HoldFast crossings are manufactured from recycled rubber granules, offering considerable environmental advantages compared to conventional rubber products. ...
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Signalling under control
THE Union Switch & Signal Microlok Object Controller is a programmable microprocessor device used for vital or non-vital control and indication of lineside devices such as points, signals, or other equipment. The device was launched by US&S at the AusRail exhibition in Brisbane in November 2006 as a low cost ...
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Loco simulator
CORYS TESS will be showing a GNER Class 91 electric loco driving simulator. The French company is supplying each of GNER’s training sites in London, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh with two simulators, representing a Class 91 loco and a diesel HST power car. All will use a database representing 160?km ...
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Cutting edge
WELDING and cutting equipment makers ESAB and Truflame will be exhibiting standard and automated tools, consumables and protective clothing on a joint stand. ESAB’s Railtrac BV semi-automatic rail and crossing repair welding machine will be on show, along with a Mobilemaster IV portable wire feed unit and OK15.43 gasless cored ...
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Clean up
EUROCHEMI will be highlighting LocoWash 304, a train cleaning agent for application by washing plants, hand or brush which can be rinsed off to provide a streak-free gloss finish. LocoWash 181 is a soluble organic acid specifically designed to remove from train exteriors the iron deposits and rust stains produced ...
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Gel-acid batteries
EXIDE Technologies Network Power will be exhibiting valve-regulated gel-acid batteries, a low-maintenance alternative to vented lead-acid batteries which are now in use in the UK, as well as with French, German and Swiss rail operators.Following trials, the batteries are now fitted to Networker EMUs used by British train operators Southeastern ...
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Display of displays
INFOTEC’s LED Low Power Technology customer information displays will be linked to power meters to demonstrate the savings in energy costs which can be obtained through the use of energy- efficient displays.Also on show at Railtex will be LCD and TFT displays, as well as Infotec’s LED Low Power Technology ...
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Wheel and rail protection
ROWE Hankins Components will present a selection of equipment for on-train and trackside safety and protection. A new product on show will be an on-board intelligent Wheel Flange Lubrication System, which protects rails and flanges from excess wear, cutting noise and maintenance costs. The key elements of WFLS are a ...
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Reinforcing research work
TENSAR International will use Railtex to unveil the results of research into stiff polymer geogrids which has been undertaken by Network Rail and the University of Nottingham.Full-scale testing at the university looked at the influence of grid properties such as stiffness and aperture size, showing that significant reductions in track ...
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Railtex 07 attracts international exhibitors to London
RAILTEX 07 will be opened by UK Transport Minister Tom Harris MP, who is due to inaugurate the exhibition at London's ExCeL exhibition centre at 11.00 on February 20. The minister will then tour the show, which has attracted almost 450 companies from 17 countries to its new venue ...
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Lack of trains raises risk
THE NIGERIAN public is at great risk at level crossings, claims a recent article in the Lagos Vanguard, because the country's railways have been run down to the extent that trains are rarely seen. 'A moving train is a strange sight in most parts of the country ... The ...