Main line rail industry news – Page 1138
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SBB Cargo restructured its domestic wagonload services on May 29. The Fokus project cuts the number of locations served to 323, which SBB says retains 96% of traffic with around 5150 wagons handled every day; services are also provided to 90 depots on Switzerland’s independent railways. SBB Cargo no longer ...
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Head of Jordan’s Executive Privatisation Authority Dr Mohammad Abu Hamour said last month that Aqaba Railway Corp will be privatised within the next year.China has completed a feasibility study for a 340 km railway linking Dali in Yunnan province with Ruili on the border with Myanmar. Work could begin shortly ...
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France’s biggest renewals project
RELAYING the 80 km of double-track main line between Les Aubrais and Vierzon constitutes ’the biggest regeneration worksite ever undertaken in France’, according to RFF.When Transport Minister Dominique Perben visited Saint-Jean-le-Blanc on May 22, the work was nearly finished. Completion was planned for June, and a programme of improvements along ...
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Market July 2006
Angola: Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co is to supply the Benguela Railway with two SDE16N locos powered by Cummins QSK60-L engines rated at 1640 kW. Bosnia: Funded by a €67·7m loan from the Spanish government, Patentes Talgo is to supply BHZJK with nine trainsets of nine cars each ...
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Intelligence July 2006
Africa: Last month Ghana's Minister of Harbours & Railways Prof Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi told the second meeting of the Joint Committee of Burkinabe & Ghanaian Railway Experts in Ouagadougou that the Canadian International Development Agency has provided funds to study the feasibility and impact of constructing a 795 km single ...
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Valley Metro Rail has allocated $6·3m to be spent on public art at stations on the 30 km light rail line under construction in Phoenix. Proposals include pre-Columbian figures and bridge lighting which will change as trains pass over. Campbell station will have a gateway consisting of 32 steel arcs ...
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World urban rail news July 2006
Algeria: A consortium of Semaly and Ingerop has been awarded a €9·6m contract to design, tender and supervise construction of a 9 km tramway in Constantine on behalf of Alger Metro Co. Running from Place des Martyrs to the Rhumel Industrial Zone and Zouaghi, the topography will demand substantial engineering ...
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Waving its ’legs’ like an giant insect above visitors to the VDEI show in Münster (RG 6.06 p339) was the Menzi Muck A91 4x4 Plus road-rail machine. Each road wheel is on an independently-movable hydraulic leg, and with the aid of spiked supports and its jib the machine can climb ...
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Railbus refurbishment
THE FIRST Czech Railways Class 814/914 two car-DMU to be rebuilt from a Class 810 by Pars Nova Sumperk re-entered service between Otrokovice, Zlín and Vizovice on May 25. Branded ’Regionova’, the unit is the first series rebuild, following on from a prototype completed last September (RG 12.05 p757).The cars ...
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Caterpillar progress
CATERPILLAR Inc announced on May 16 that it would acquire Progress Rail Services Inc from One Equity Partners for $425m in cash, $375m in stock and stock and assumption of $200m of debt. JP Morgan Chase buy-out unit OEP had acquired Progress Rail for $438m in 2005.Progress Rail has around ...
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GE plans Kazakh assembly plant
GENERAL ELECTRIC announced on May 16 that is to build a plant in Kazakhstan with the capacity to assemble up to 150 Evolution Series locomotives a year for countries in the former Soviet Union. The following day the Kazakh Prime Minister and the US ambassador laid a ceremonial first brick ...
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Finland - Russia stock upgrade
RUSSIAN Railways has introduced a business class car and restaurant coach on the Tolstoi overnight service between Helsinki and Moscow from June 15.Designed by RZD and Zirkon, the air-conditioned business class car has four compartments, each with a private shower and a DVD player. The restaurant car has separate bar ...
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To Toronto with reluctance
AN ELECTRO-DIESEL works locomotive being built for the Toronto Transit Commission by ARVA Industries will feature switched reluctance drive from the Drive Systems Group of Texas-based company LeTourneau. According to the US firm the Toronto locomotive will be first to use switched reluctance motors. These have coils in the stator ...
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NewsSpotting trouble
USA: BNSF Railway is enlisting railway enthusiasts to help prevent attacks by terrorists and others bent on disrupting the transport network. Since the September 11 attacks, some enthusiasts have complained of harassment by railway police while taking photos of trains and otherwise enjoying their hobby, despite enthusiast groups arguing ...
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Climbing the Andes with dual-fuel power
Following successful trials at an altitude of 4781 m above sea level, Ferrocarril Central Andino of Peru is converting seven locomotives to run on compressed natural gas and diesel fuel, reducing both emissions and the fuel bill
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Products in Brief
A 4 tonne capacity rail lifting grip developed by ABZ is currently being tested in service in Germany, to assess its performance with rough handling and in a dirty working environment. The clamp automatically engages when lowered onto a rail to be lifted onto wagons during track renewal.ABZ Handels, GermanyThe ...
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A procurement strategy to transform Russia's motive power
A programme has been launched to develop modern motive power to replace Russia’s ageing traction fleet. Boris Lukov reports on a strategic agreement between Russian Railways and Transmash Holding Group that will see hundreds of new locomotives of up to 14 types delivered over the next five years
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IRIS sets the quality standard
Dipl-Ing Guido Huke, Managing Director of Railistics GmbHDipl-Ing Jörg Friedel is responsible for quality management consultancy MAY 18 saw the formal introduction of a new set of international standards for the rail industry, allowing equipment manufacturers to apply to a certification body of their choice rather than go through direct ...