Main line rail industry news – Page 1134
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World of tickets
THALES has announced a series of metro ticketing contracts involving contactless smart card technology.Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp has awarded a consortium of Thales, LG and local company Beikong a contract to replace the existing system of paper tickets inspected at gate lines with a contactless system covering 1184 ...
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Always informed
STAFF in ticket offices and depots need to be kept informed of unexpected incidents which bring changes to service patterns, and this requires near-instant communication across an operator’s business. But pagers and mobile phones get turned off if staff see the messages as a low priority, multiple text messages go ...
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Japanese increase Russian wagon building capacity
NIPPON Sharyo and its export trading partner Sojitz Group have announced a ´200m contract to provide engineering support to Russian rolling stock manufacturer Promtractor-Vagon.Under the deal announced in June, the Japanese companies will supply equipment and advise on the layout of the wagon assembly plant which is to be built ...
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Carriage connected by Qinetiq
WIRELESS internet equipment developed by Qinetiq is being tested on a Virgin Trains Pendolino trainset. The Connected Carriage system provides a moving train with national coverage at up to 49 MB/sec by combining multiple wide-area networking methods, including bi-directional satellite links and pre-WiMAX proprietary technology. Wi-fi hotspots are provided throughout ...
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Low-emission locos on order
METRO-NORTH Railroad confirmed an order with Brookville Equipment Corp last month for the supply of 11 low-emission locomotives for use on the Shore Line East, Danbury and Waterbury branches. They will be manufactured in Brookville, Pennsylvania, for delivery in the last quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of ...
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Pets and children onboard
PASSENGER feedback has inspired the design of areas for pets and children onboard Finnish inter-city coaches which are to receive a facelift this summer. On July 14 VR returned to service the first of 28 IC double-deck carriages which have been modernised by Riihim
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Overvoltage protection
PROTECTION of staff from voltage differences, and of electrification equipment from the effects of lightning strikes and stray current, is being obtained by SNCF using ABB’s hybrid voltage limiter. It is common practice to avoid direct earthing of the rails in DC traction systems, to reduce the risk of stray ...
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City NEWS
New Mexico’s Rail Runner Express commuter rail service was inaugurated on July 14, with trains initially running between Albuquerque and Highway 550 station in Sandoval County. Services are expected to be extended to Belen in September, with nine stations open by the end of this year, and to reach Santa ...
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Finance
Africa: The Indian government has granted a US$7·1m line of credit to fund the purchase of a loco and 12 metre-gauge coaches for use on services between Dakar in Sénégal and Bamako in Mali from August 2007.Canada: Transport Canada has announced C$2·1m of operating funding to continue CN subsidiary Algoma ...
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Intelligence August 2006
Bangladesh: Work will begin this month to convert the metre gauge line between Joydepur and Kamlapur station in Dhaka to dual metre and 1676mm gauge by October 2007. A contract awarded to Chinese company First Metallic Construction Co in January 2000 failed because of financial complexities, so BR ...
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Das Fachwort in Verkehr
THIS is the updated third edition of a German-language dictionary of public transport terms first published in 1964. It explains around 800 words from Abfertigen to Zweckverband in its 264 pages, and includes a listing of French and German equivalents. ISBN 3-87094-665-2.k24·80 from Alba Fachverlag, Postfach 110150, D-40501 Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
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Market
Algeria: SNTF has awarded a consortium of Siemens and Estel a €43·5m contract to supply relay interlockings and telecoms for the 204 km line under construction from Tebessa to Ain M’Lila, and for upgrading an 8 km line between Gué de Constantine and Oued Smar, bypassing Alger.Bangladesh:To regain passengers lost ...
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Out for the count
UTAH Transit Authority has awarded INIT a contract to count passengers boarding and alighting from light rail vehicles in Salt Lake City.INIT will equip 41 of the city’s LRVs with its fully-automatic Mobile APC counters, and UTA has an option covering a further 28 cars. The infrared counters pass passenger ...
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Metros August 2006
Algeria: Alstom is to supply 29 Citadis trams for the 16·3 km light rail line planned for Alger (RG 7.06 p378). Brazil: São Paulo state governor Claudio Lembo inaugurated Chacara Klabin station on Line 2 of the city's metro on May 9. Designed by Semaly to provide an interchange with ...
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Fitting filtration
AN EXPERIMENTAL exhaust gas filtration system is to be fitted to a Fret SNCF BB69400 diesel locomotive, one of 160 locos which Socofer is producing through the modernisation of BB69000 and BB66400 locos with a general overhaul and engine retrofit.SNCF has ordered the exhaust gas filtration system from Swiss firm ...
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Coupled up to Cook
WILLIAM Cook Rail has acquired the coupler business of Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Ltd, and is relocating it to the William Cook Rail headquarters in Leeds.The principal products of Sheffield Forgemasters are the AAR Type F coupler widely used on freight stock, the Type H Tightlock used on multiple-units and hauled ...
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Tough times at AEA
REPORTING its results for the year to March 31, on June 8 AEA Technology announced an adjusted operating loss of £2·1m at its Rail division, compared with a loss of £0·6m in 2004-05. Turnover was £46·7m, down from £59·8m in 2004-05.’Significant and necessary change’ in the Rail business over the ...
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Czech profit
ROLLING stock builder CKD Vagónka has reported a profit after tax of KC47m for 2005. The company’s sales for the year totalled KC1·15bn, almost double the 2004 figure of KC604m when the firm made a loss of KC100m.In 2005 the Ostrava-based firm became part of the Skoda Holding group (RG2.05 ...
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Rail welding plant
ON JUNE 27 Lithuanian Railways’ Gelmagis subsidiary inaugurated a long-welded rail plant in Silenai, removing the need for LG to buy-in welding services from Latvia and Belarus. Geismar supplied equipment worth 20m litai for the plant in the north of the country, which employs 16 staff. In addition to supplying ...