Main line rail industry news – Page 1174
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Delhi Metro awards contract
DALAL Mott MacDonald has won a Delhi Metro Rail Corp contract worth £9m covering detailed structural and architectural design of Mandi House station on Line 3.Electrical and mechanical design is being undertaken by Delhi Metro Rail Corp, which prepared the outline structural and architectural designs. Construction of the station is ...
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Industry News in Brief
Swiss firm RMT has set up a French company, RMT France, which provides infrastructure maintenance and renewal services and project support.In May Antonin Tesarik, the Czech Republic’s First Deputy Minister for Transport, announced plans for a the creation of a joint venture between Skoda and OAO Saint Petersburg Tram-Mechanical Plant ...
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‘Reasonable’ performance
HOLLAND Railconsult Holding described its performance in 2004 as ’extremely reasonable’. Turnover in the Netherlands was better than expected, but profits of €3m were slightly down on 2004, and international results were ’somewhat less positive than had been hoped.’Operating income for the year was €134m, down from €136m in 2003. ...
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Heavy haul expertise is there to be mined
HAD SOME catastrophe struck Rio de Janeiro on June 13-16, the railway industry would have been deprived of what is arguably the world’s most valuable gathering of railway engineering expertise.Around 600 delegates attended the IHHA’s eighth conference, where around 100 technical papers were presented. The papers, and those from the ...
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RFID avoids oven collisions
LOCOMOTIVES which move wagons containing 20 tonnes of coke at 1320íC between the 132 ovens and two quenching towers at the Redcar plant of steelmaker Corus are subjected to extremely harsh conditions as the plant runs continuously every day of the year.’Each cooling operation produces 2 tonnes of steam, so ...
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Finance
Chile: EFE has secured loans worth a total of US$400m to finance electrification, signalling and telecommunications projects under its US$1bn 2003-05 investment programme. US$72m was raised through a bond issue on the local market.China: In May China Development Bank and China Railway Construction Corp signed an agreement for a 20bn ...
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Sidetrack
A small problem solvedATJUST 128 cm tall, Melbourne resident Bruce ’Giant’ Chaplin has a problem when boarding the city’s trams; he can’t reach the coin slots on ticket machines. While he can usually find a fellow passenger to drop his coins in the slot for him, this isn’t always possible. ...
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City News in Brief
On June 3 Semaly announced that it had been awarded a €8m project management contract for the development of an initial 11 km light rail line in Toulouse, in consortium with Garcia-Diaz, Sud Ouest Infra, and Urbanismes et Acoustiques. Expected to open in 2009, the 11 km Line E with ...
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Pointers
Bolivia’s Mines & Metallurgy Ministry says that bids will be called this year for construction of a 100 km rail link between iron ore deposits at Mutún and a proposed port at Puerto Busch on the Paraguay River. Argentinian competition authority CNDC is considering the proposed acquisition by Camargo Corrêa ...
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Letters to the Editor
Rail-sea connections Sir - Dick Fearn is a rail manager held in high regard by his erstwhile customers in several parts of Britain. But his comments about Rosslare in his capacity as Chief Operating Officer of Iarnród Éireann (RG 5.05 p278) are depressing and disappointing. He says 'the boat train ...
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Alstom results show recovery
’THE RESULTS we are presenting today clearly demonstrate the ongoing recovery of Alstom’, said Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Patrick Kron, following board approval on May 30 of the group’s accounts for the year to March 31 2005. ’All key indicators are in line with or better than the guidance ...
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Station Design in Brief
WSP Group is leading architects John McAslan & Partners and Chapman Taylor in a £3·9m design and development study for a £350m project to regenerate Birmingham New Street station. A new concourse is proposed for opening in 2011, with a glass roof to allow natural lighting.SNCF has commissioned Parkeon to ...
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Chipped shop
PASSENGERS travelling with London commuter operator Thameslink have begun using self-service Chip &PIN ticket vending machines supplied by Shere. The software is initially being piloted at seven stations, and roll-out at a further three is 'imminent'. All Thameslink stations will offer self-service Chip & PINmachines by the end of 2005. ...
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Metros
Canada: Following rejection of an appeal against the environmental study, Toronto Transit Commission is due to begin work next month on the C$65m St Clair Avenue West Transit Improvement Project to rebuild 6·5 km of street tramway on reserved track. China: Boring of two 4·7 km tunnels was completed on ...
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Sheltam stake
SOUTH African logistics firm Grindrod has acquired a 50% stake in Sheltam Locomotive & Railway Services, it announced on May 12. Port Elizabeth-based Sheltam owns a fleet of locos and an air charter business.Grindrod’s Landfreight Director Laurence Stuart-Hill said ’the acquisition of a 50% stake in Sheltam not only provided ...
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ServiGroup bought
ON MAY 17 Mouchel Parkman announced its acquisition of ServiGroup Ltd, which provides signalling, telecoms and power engineering services in the UK through its principal subsidiary ServiRail Ltd.Mouchel Parkman is to pay £14·98m in cash, with a further sum of up to £5·69m subject to results for the year ...
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Service subsidiaries
LEIPZIG Transport and Siemens have combined their Leipziger Fahrzeugservice-Betriebe and Leipziger Infrastruktur Betriebe subsidiaries to form IFTEC GmbH.IFTEC provides track and rolling stock maintenance and consulting, with Leipzig Transport accounting for 89% of its business. ’Collaboration with private companies has always been a component of LVB’s corporate strategy’, said Chairman ...
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Curved cladding
THECURVED facade of Hounslow East station on London Underground’s Piccadilly Line uses composite cladding from Stoakes Systems to maximise the transmission of sunlight to the station interior.The Kalwall panels offer better insulating properties than glass, with their low solar gain helping to reduce the energy consumed by air-conditioning without the ...
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Guangzhou rebuild
WORK began in May on a 100m yuan project to double the daily passenger capacity of Guangzhou’s main station.By October the current 9000m2 of waiting areas will have been increased to 14000m2.. Two additional waiting rooms are to be built, giving a total of 11 separate facilities.The station was designed ...
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Tactile path
JAPAN’S Railway Technical Research Institute has carried out testing with blind passengers to develop a national standard for the installation of tactile paving which provides a warning of platform edges. In an effort to reduce the risk of passengers falling from platforms, researchers have identified the optimal width of tactile ...