Main line rail industry news – Page 1146
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Letter
African gaugesSir - May I venture some observations on the letter from John Gilbert concerning rail connections in Sudan (RG 3.06 p124)?There would be no through link from Egypt, as there is no line south from Aswan to Atbara. A fast, modern, standard gauge line from Cairo to Khartoum would ...
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Short line's sweet success
SOUTH CENTRAL Florida Express is using RMI's mCrew interface for remote train crew reporting, allowing the short line to manage a fleet of wagons used in the time-critical movement of harvested sugar cane from parent company US Sugar's fields to the Clewiston and Bryant mills. Staff operating the elevators ...
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Billing costs cut
FRETSNCF is using ILOG’s JRules software to create a new pricing system as part of a major IT modernisation programme, which aims to increase sales flexibility and billing transparency while reducing costs. JRules is being used to automate and streamline pricing for freight traffic worth around €1·82bn a year, and ...
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Murder on the oriental express
THE SUICIDE of a Taiwan Railway Administration ticket clerk on March 23 marked a tragic twist in a bizarre tale of sabotage on the South Link railway between Taitung and Kaohsiung. Over the past two years, six separate incidents have seen track fastenings removed in Pingtung county. On June ...
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Industry News in Brief
Spanish train builder CAF recorded a consolidated net profit after tax of €18·1m in 2005, up 29% on 2004. Turnover was up 18% to €680·8m, and cash flow after taxation reached €23·3m, an increase of 19%. Orders in hand at December 31 2005 stood at €2·7bn, with 27% of this ...
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Pointers
Work on the part-built 6·8 km metro line in the Brazilian city of Salvador was expected to resume in April, after a seven-year suspension. The government has allocated US$120m so that the consortium of Camargo Corrêa, Andrade Gutierrez and Siemens can complete the line by the end of 2007. Bahia ...
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Passenger Portfolio
On April 9 Compass Group announced it had agreed the sale of its station, on-train, airport and service station catering concession business Select Service Partner to private equity firm EQT. The sale includes Rail Gourmet (RG 12.04 p830).CAPTION: Last month a parade of inflatable penguins at JREast’s main station in ...
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Metros
Algeria:Entreprise du Métro d’Alger has awarded a consortium of Systra and RATP Développment a contract to follow up design studies and fit-out fixed equipment on the 11 km Alger metro phase 1 between Tafourah Grande Poste and Haã El Badr.Canada:Following testing of two prototypes, Toronto Transit Commission has confirmed a ...
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People
Masatake Matsuda stepped down as Chairman of JR East from April 1, becoming a senior advisor to the company. His place was taken by Mutsutake Otsuka, formerly President of the railway. Vice-President Satoshi Seino became President & CEO, and Tetsujiro Tani was appointed Executive Vice-President for planning, IT, ...
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Ansaldo IPO
FINMECCANICA SpA’s initial public offering of the Ansaldo STS SpA business was fully exercised in March, with the sale of 60 million shares at €7·80 each. Trading on the Milano exchange began on March 29. The IPO comprised 52·17 million shares, representing a 52·17% stake in the rail unit, plus ...
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Intelligence May 2006
Argentina: ALL Mesopotamica has received the first of four General Motors GT18MC locomotives which will be put into service this year. The ex-Spoornet locos are being transferred from ALL's 1000mm gauge operation in Brazil. Canada: RailAmerica transferred ownership of the right of way of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway to ...
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Gleeson MCL sold
CONSTRUCTION group Morgan Sindall has acquired the Gleeson MCL subsidiary of MJ Gleeson Group for £23·3m. Gleeson MCL has experience of building and refurbishing non-track assets including stations and bridges for customers including London Underground, Network Rail and local authorities.Morgan Sindall plans to rebrand Gleeson MCL as the Morgan Est ...
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Simulation possibilities expand
RECENT customers of simulator maker Corys TESS include railways in Turkey, India and the Netherlands, and the Grenoble-based company is currently upgrading to the latest capabilities simulators used by operators in France and Britain.Turkish State Railways’ Eskisehir training school is to take delivery of a full-motion cab simulator later this ...
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Balkan co-operation
KONCAR Inem and Gosa have signed an agreement to restore past co-operation in the production of rolling stock, under which the Croatian firm will supply electrical equipment for passenger vehicles to be built by the Serbian company.Gosa’s rolling stock factory in Smederevska Palanka is currently building 30 freight wagons for ...
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Kazakhstan plant
TRANSMASH Holdings and Russian Railways announced plans to produce rolling stock in Kazakhstan following a meeting with Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov in late February. The Russian firms plan to set up an assembly plant in Kazakhstan, and gradually localise vehicle production. Transmash Director-General Mikhail Khromov said active efforts are underway ...
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Sydac enters Europe
ADELAIDE-based simulator maufacturer Sydac has won a second rail contract in Europe, to supply First ScotRail with two cab simulators in a deal worth almost £1m. Sydac has been supplying simulation and training equipment to the Australian rail and defence sectors for the past 15 years, and entered the European ...
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Passengers in a box
DURING April Dorsey station on the Camden Line in Baltimore was equipped with a 20ft shipping container housing walk-through explosives and metal detectors supplied by Smiths Group.The USA’s Transportation Security Administration wants to know whether the container can process large numbers of passengers without requiring them to empty their pockets ...