Main line rail industry news – Page 1128
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A nine-coach Virgin Trains Pendolino train has received an all-over advertising livery to promote the Warner Bros Pictures film Superman Returns. The vinyls supplied by Halo Rail combine marketing images and slogans from the film and the train operator, the wording conceding the train is only ’almost faster than a ...
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CM2006 to examine thewheel-rail interface
BYLINE: Peter Mutton and Dr Bill Thomas*Co-Chairmen, CM2006BYLINE: * Peter Mutton is Associate Director of the Institute of Railway Technology at Monash University in Melbourne. Dr Bill Thomas is General Manager, Rolling Stock Engineering, at Queensland RailINTRO: The Seventh International Conference on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems in ...
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MAX manages maintenance
FERTILISER supplier Agrium has become the first user of the Maintenance MAX wagon fleet management package developed by GE Equipment Services. The Calgary-based firm has adopted the system to increase its understanding and control of the costs of maintaining its fleet of 100 fertiliser hoppers. Maintenance MAX draws on experience ...
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Passenger News in Brief
On July 14 the Orco Omikron subsidiary of Orco Property Group signed a KC1·1bn contract with Czech infrastructure owner SZDC for the commercial development of 27ha of land at Praha-Bubny station. Toll Rail plans to withdraw The Overlander between Wellington and Auckland from September 30. citing increased costs and falling ...
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Screening PATH passengers
PASSENGERS at Exchange Place station in Jersey City are being screened for weapons and explosives in the second phase of the Rail Security Pilot project being managed by the US Department of Homeland Security. Earlier this year the first phase of the pilot scheme tested X-ray checks of baggage.ProVision ...
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BA to test LRT
UNDER AN AGREEMENT signed on August 1 in the presence of President Néstor Kirchner, Alstom is to supply two LRVs for trial operations in Buenos Aires.The trials will take place on dockside tracks in the Puerto Madero redevelopment area. It is hoped that a 2 km route between Avenida Córdoba ...
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Cleaner engine to be launched
CUMMINS will be using InnoTrans to exhibit its Stage 3A/Tier 2 QSK60-L locomotive engine for the first time. Developed for arduous main line freight and passenger loco applications, it has an output range from 1492 to 1940 kW. Available from January 2007, the 60litre engine meets the US Environmental Protection ...
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Speeding safety alerts nationally
DISSEMINATION of warnings about safety-related problems with rolling stock, plant and other equipment is being accelerated with the commissioning of a near real-time secure website and database, developed by Interfleet Technology on behalf of Britain’s Rail Safety & Standards Board.Replacing a fax-based system which could take hours to distribute National ...
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Siemens show
RECENTLY builtrolling stock from Siemens will form the largest single outdoor display. The German firm will be displaying three cars of a Spanish Velaro high speed train (right), a 54m long GT12N Budapest Combino Plus tram, a double-deck S-Bahn car from Zürich and an ÖBB Class 1216 triple-system electric locomotive. ...
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Sitting comfortably
GRAMMER will be presenting two new seating ranges at InnoTrans, designed for use on inter-city and regional trains.The modular IC3000 seat for long distance travel allows customers to select from a range of options to specify a seat tailored to their market. The two sizes of table offered include one ...
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Promising Poland
STADLER has announced plans to establish a subsidiary to carry out final assembly of rail vehicles in Poland. The Swiss rolling stock manufacturer said it believes Poland possesses ’a rich railway tradition’ and considers it to be ’a very interesting and promising market with a market potential of over 1000 ...
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In Brief
Amtrak has proposed converting the New York - St Albans Vermonter service to DMU operation for a three-year demonstration project, saving the state $4·2m in subsidies because of lower fuel and crew costs. Under the proposal Vermont Agency of Transportation would buy five DMU cars from Colorado Railcar with a ...
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Drive shafts
KTR Kupplungstechnik GmbH will be showing a range of drive shaft couplings designed to improve traction reliability and simplify assembly. The torsionally-flexible Rotex coupling with curved-tooth splines compensates for shaft misalignment and damps vibrations; service lives of more than 1millionkm have been achieved. A new application to be highlighted at ...
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Making lighter rail vehicles
FIBERLINE Composites staff are travelling to Berlin with samples of GRP composite fairings and other components of the sort the company has supplied to AnsaldoBreda for use on Los Angeles light rail vehicles.’As part of our continuous efforts to cut weight, we are keeping an eye on developments elsewhere in ...
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The Railways, the Market and the Government
by John Hibbs et alECONOMISTS examine UK rail privatisation in this monograph from the Institute of Economic Affairs, arguing that it has proved more successful than is widely believed. Eight chapters analyse the industry structure adopted in the 1990s, describe subsequent changes and restructuring, and look towards the future. A ...
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Under the Alps by caravan
CARAVANS and motor homes can cross Austria’s Tauern mountains by rail, following last month’s introduction of lower-floor rolling motorway vehicles on the Tauern tunnel shuttle service between Mallnitz and B
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Breaks of gauge
Sir - There are undoubtedly many more worthwhile missing rail links to fill than Sudan - Uganda (RG 8.06 p440), not only in southern Africa but also in west Africa. The more modest proposal to extend the east African rail network to Juba seems more achievable, but if it is ...
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Funding cutbacks threaten German regional revival
The 1994 reform of German Railway transferred responsibility for local and regional rail services from the federal government to the Länder. Traffic blossomed as investment flowed into new trains and better services, but Ralf Roman Rossberg reports that a financial axe threatens to undermine the success of the last 10 ...
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Loco-hauled Intercity fleet awaits replacement
DB AG operates a large fleet of locomotive-hauled InterCity and EuroCity saloon, compartment and catering coaches dating from the 1970s. They have already been refurbished twice, and sooner or later they must be replaced.Initially, DB AG envisaged a replacement fleet of tilting trains, possibly in a joint order with the ...