Main line rail industry news – Page 1168
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Tubular Track offers continuous rail support at a competitive price
INTRO: Inventor Peter Küsel wanted to ’fix the vertical stability of track’; his technique has been chosen for a 25 km section of main line being relaid in NamibiaBYLINE: Braam Le Roux*BYLINE: * Braam Le Roux is President of Dynamic Rail Services in South Africa. He was previously Chief Executive ...
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Comparing the life-cycle costs of standard and head-hardened rail
Following research by German Railway and voestalpine Schienen GmbH concluding that head-hardened rail has better resistance to wear and rolling contact fatigue defects, further studies have examined the life-cycle cost of different types of rail
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Articulated Sprinters to take over Randstad stopping services
INTRO: Harry Hondius MSc reports on the Dutch order for 18 four-car and 17 six-car trainsets destined to replace the dog-nosed T and V EMUs dating from the 1960sJULY 21 saw NS Reizigers place a €248m order with Bombardier Transportation for 18 four-car and 17 six-car EMUs to operate on ...
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People
Tium Tekie has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ethio-Djibouti Railway, replacing Abraham Habtezgi.Teresa Zwiernik has succeeded Grazyna Liberadzka as board member for EU Co-Financed Projects at Polish infrastructure manager PKP PLK. Jozef Jezewicz becomes board member for Operations, replacing Krzysztof Szwed who has stepped down for health reasons. Member ...
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SBB bought by Balfour Beatty
BALFOUR Beatty announced on August 10 that it has agreed to acquire German signalling contractor SBB for €14m, once clearance has been received from the competition authorities. The majority of SBB's work is signalling installation and renewal under framework contracts with German Railway. Based at Stassfurt near Leipzig, the company ...
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Europe's fastest trains start trials
Destined to link Madrid with Barcelona at up to 350 km/h, two eight-car Velaro E trainsets are on test in Spain
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UK government wrests back control of rail policy and funding
With the UK's Strategic Rail Authority being wound up, the government is moving to regain control over railway finances. Murray Hughes reports
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Track ready on Taiwan’s high speed line
Major infrastructure works and trackwork installation on Taiwan's high speed line are nearing completion and contractors are hurrying to finish the electrical and mechanical works
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Puerto Montt refurbishment progress
PRESIDENT OF CHILE Ricardo Lagos joined EFE President Luis Ajenjo and Mayor María Angélica Astudillo on August 5 to reopen the station at La Unión.This is the first station to be refurbished under a 2·7bn pesos programme being undertaken in preparation for reintroduction of passenger services between Temuco and Puerto ...
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CSX budget boost
ON AUGUST 11 CSX unveiled plans to expand capacity on its main lines between Chicago and Florida and between Albany and New York City.Rising demand has prompted CSX to increase its investment programme, and capital expenditure in each of the next two years is expected to total between $1·3bn and ...
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Iran - Iraq links
FEASIBILITY and cost studies for two rail links between Iran and Iraq are due to be completed next year, according to Iranian Islamic Republic Railways.RAI confirmed in July that technical design is underway for a 700m bridge across the Shatt-Al-Arab waterway to carry the planned Basra - Shalamcheh - Khorramshahr ...
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Tunnel to cut gradients
RUSSIA’s Far Eastern Railway has approved a 15bn rouble programme to improve capacity on the line from Komsomolsk-na-Amur to the Pacific ports of Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan.To be completed over the next six years, the work will include construction of a 20 km deviation to reduce the ruling gradient and ...
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High speed contracts awarded
CONTRACTS WORTH a total of €232·9m have been awarded for civil works on four sections of the Madrid - Valencia high speed line between Motilla del Palancar and Valencia, involving the construction of 46·3 km of new infrastructure. Bids have been invited for a further five sections totalling 37·3 km ...
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Freight operators shop for power
AS IT LOOKS to enter the Spanish freight market (RG 8.05 p466), Comsa Rail Transport has acquired two 1500 kW G1700BB diesel-hydraulic locomotives from Vossloh, together with two sets of bogies for each loco to permit operation on 1668mm or 1435mm gauge. The locos have obtained acceptance to operate on ...
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Madrid’s cross-city tunnel makes progress
ON JULY 27 work was completed on a 4·5 km tunnel between Atocha and Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid.The bore forms part of the new 7·5 km cross-city tunnel between Atocha and Chamartín that is being built at a cost of €320m to accommodate suburban services from 2007. A separate contract ...
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RZD unveils future locomotive designs
ON A VISIT to the All-Russian Railway Research Institute at Shcherbinka on August 4, President Vladimir Putin was shown several prototypes for the next generation of RZD motive power.The Russian President was accompanied by recently-appointed RZD President Vladimir Yakunin, who explained the railway’s urgent need to update its locomotive fleet. ...
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Out to consultation
THE ANDALUCIA regional government’s Department of Public Works & Transport has published for consultation a revised alignment for the second section of metro Line 1 in Sevilla. Running for 4·3 km from Guadaira to Los Quintos southeast of the city centre, the new alignment includes 1·6 km in tunnel.Starting at ...
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Faster from Moscow to Kyiv
FOUR HOURS were cut from overnight journeys between the Russian and Ukrainian capitals with the launch of the Metropolitan Express on August 1. ’It is less than a year since Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to launch a high speed passenger train between Moscow and Kyiv’, said RZD President ...
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Kowloon Southern Link underway
THREE contracts for construction of the Kowloon Southern Link were awarded by KCRC on August 1 at a cost of HK$3·1bn. Authorised by the Hong Kong government on June 24, the 3·8 km KSL forms an extension of West Rail from Nam Cheong to East Tsim Sha Tsui, where it ...