Main line rail industry news – Page 1178
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Systems integrators talk
REPRESENTATIVES of the three big rolling stock manufacturers will be making a series of presentations at the Expo Forum.Senior Vice President of Technology at Alstom Transport François Lac
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Brasil Ferrovias restructured
THE BRAZILIAN transport ministry announced on May 6 that it had completed a recapitalisation of Brasil Ferrovias, which controlled the Ferronorte, Ferroban and Novoeste concessions.Earlier this year federal investment bank BNDES agreed to take a 31% stake in Ferronorte (RG 4.05 p181). The completed package provides an injection of R$1·5bn ...
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Joint company to build international link
ATA CEREMONY in Tehran on May 2 the heads of the railways in Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan signed a formal accord to build the Qazvin - Rasht - Astara line as part of the emerging North-South Corridor linking the Gulf with the Baltic Sea.At a second meeting held in Tehran ...
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Market
Argentina: Coal mining company YCRT has called tenders for four locos and 60 wagons for its 750mm gauge railway between Río Turbio and Río Gallegos in Patagonia, where movements resumed last month.Australia: Barclay Mowlem has been awarded an A$2m contract to install a new crossover as part of the Bondi ...
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Consulting alliance
SENECA Group and Railistics announced the formation of an alliance on May 12. The Washington DC and Wiesbaden-based companies will jointly market their complementary consultancy services, including project management, planning, analysis and organisational restructuring. The alliance will be directed by President of Seneca Christopher McCarthy and Railistics Managing Director Udo ...
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Gangways and mouldings
HÜBNER is to show a range of products for the rail and bus sectors, including gangways, windows designed for easy replacement and door surrounds which include electrical safety switches.The Kassel-based firm has supplied complete gangway units including bellows, articulation and turntables for Sirio trams built by AnsaldoBreda for Bergamo, Milano ...
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Modular ticket vending machines
HÖFT & WESSEL will display a selection of modular ticket machines, both staff-operated and self-service.Flexible and modular designs allow the machines to be customised to suit an operator’s needs. Options include touch-screen or push-button interfaces, internet links to timetables and other information and a wide choice of ticket layouts. Different ...
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End of train deliveries
CANADIAN National has placed a US$5m order with Wabtec for over 500 TrainLink ATX ES end-of-train devices to allow drivers to apply the brakes from both front and rear of trains simultaneously.An integrated GPS unit is provided for tracking and control. Rather than use a battery, TrainLink ATX ES is ...
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Coupler electronics
VOITH Turbo Scharfenberg has developed an electrical and pneumatic coupling system for use with AAR and Tightlock couplers. As well as protecting electrical components during coupling, it ensures reliable contacts between vehicle electronics. Voith’s E-box sits below the coupler where it is protected against heavy knocks, jolts and contamination which ...
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Broadband Thalys
21NET will be demonstrating the broadband internet access it is providing on Thalys services between Paris and Brussels in a three-month commercial test. The company is involved in a European Space Agency programme to develop bi-directional satellite communications to deliver broadband internet to high speed trains. Successful live trials of ...
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Tram crossing
CEGELEC will be showing signalling systems developed to control barrier-protected level crossings on light rail lines.The technology has been chosen for Lyon’s LEA tram route T3 which will run between Part-Dieu and Meyzieu. The route will have 26 level crossings over 14·7 km, and the high commercial speed planned for ...
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Technology presented
INIT will make two presentations on June 7. In the morning Vice-President, Sales, Albrecht Simons will consider that it is ’time for an integrated vehicle IT’. This will be followed in the afternoon by a presentation from Chief Sales Officer Dr Jürgen Greschner on ’From Analogue to Digital: GPRS or ...
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Lidl offer sells out
A DB promotional offer at Lidl supermarkets offering cut-price tickets for travel anywhere in Germany was virtually sold out within one hour of the tickets going on sale on May 19.Queues formed before the shops opened as would-be passengers rushed to buy the tickets from 2600 Lidl outlets. For just ...
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Stadler’s profitable year
STADLER describes 2004 as ’a very profitable business year’ in its annual financial statement issued on April 26.Consolidated sales of SFr556m for the year were 25% ahead of projections, and significantly above the 2004 figure of SFr322m. The number of employees at the company’s plants in Bussnang, Altenrhein and Pankow ...
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French plan
FRET SNCF has licensed a customised version of MultiRail Enterprise Edition for developing and updating its planning of wagon movements.The software is being adapted to suit local requirements, including translation into French and integration with SNCF’s existing computer systems. Support and deployment is expected to take six months, with a ...
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Hidden telephone helps get help
PEOPLESAFE uses mobile telephone technology concealed within an identity badge to provide customer-facing staff with the means to contact a control centre without needing to use a conventional mobile phone.As well as offering a panic button service, the control centre can record conversations for use when prosecuting abusive or violent ...
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Smarter ticketing
SMART Card Alliance has established a Transportation Council to promote the use of standards-based smart card payment in the transport industry.It is one of several councils being established by the association to focus on use of smart cards in particular industries. The Alliance will work with the American Public Transportation ...
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Workshop opens
RELCO Locomotives Inc has completed a locomotive rebuilding and servicing facility at Albia in south east Iowa. Complementing the company’s existing facility at Minooka, Illinois, the 40ha site contains a main locomotive shop, a self-contained blast and paint shop, office space and 3 km of track. The 8400m2 main locomotive ...
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Penalty fare postponed
NETHERLANDS Railways’ passenger business NS Reizigers has decided to postpone until October the introduction of a new penalty fare scheme, designed to discourage passengers from boarding trains without tickets. At present passengers can purchase tickets from train staff at a premium, but under the new proposals the penalty fare surcharge ...
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Jewel chips on show
CENTREPIECE of the Innovision Research & Technology stand will be three ticket machines that can read the company’s Jewel low-cost contactless ticketing chip. An Almex Optima mobile ticket machine from H