Main line rail industry news – Page 1179
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Optimisers integrated
CARMEN Systems has acquired Australian software and operations research company Opcom Pty Ltd. The technologies of the two companies are being integrated, and Carmen Systems plans to continue to support Opcom products.From offices in Brisbane and London, Opcom has supplied optimisation software and services to customers including SNCF, RailCorp CityPendeln ...
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Wayside monitoring with ATSI aids wagon maintenance
The first phase of the AAR's Advanced Technology Safety Initiative has enabled wagon owners to share data on wheels exceeding impact limits, giving them the opportunity to undertake maintenance when and where it is most efficient and economical to do so
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NewsSteel boom will drive MRS Logística past the 100 million tonne level
Several of Brazil's freight railway concessionaires have flourished since the federal railway network was broken up in 1996. John Kolodziejski looks at progress at two of them
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November should see completion of a 110 km addition to QR's extensive 1 067 mm gauge heavy haul network feeding the port of Gladstone. This is the major element in a A$335m enhancement of the Blackwater coal routes, and more investment will follow as demand rises for low-ash thermal coal
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Conference call
WITH all speakers now confirmed for the Railway Gazette Centenary Congress on July 1, we are in the final stages of preparation for a very special event.Topics include Switzerland’s successful national regular-interval timetable - a concept now being suggested in France by RFF; the future of signalling and train control ...
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Whole-life planning to optimise heavy haul rail infrastructure
A 310 km heavy haul railway is planned to link unexploited iron ore deposits in the Pilbara with export facilities at Port Hedland. Careful planning will minimise the life cycle costs of the infrastructure
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Freight interface simplified
DB Systems has selected ILOG JViews to create the user displays for its Cargo Disposition Fahrzeuge application which is used to schedule freight trains throughout Germany. CDIF monitors every locomotive in the Railion fleet, allowing decisions to be made about scheduling and deployment. The previous system relied on tables of ...
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One coach refurbishment contract
UK: Bombardier has been awarded a £17m contract by Porterbrook Leasing to overhaul and refurbish 110 MkIII coaches used by National Express Group's Greater Anglia train operating company One. Superseded by Pendolino tilting trains on Virgin West Coast services, the MkIIIs were leased by One last year to replace older ...
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Siemens shells in Sacramento
BOZANKAYA LLC will take over as North American supplier of steel bodyshells for Siemens’ SD series of light rail vehicles from this summer. A newly-formed US subsidiary of a German firm, Bozankaya has leased a building in Sacramento near Siemens’ LRV assembly plant. Shells were formerly made by SuperSteel Schenectady ...
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Are there better times ahead?
INTRO: The prospects for Argentina’s freight operators are set to brighten once the protracted process of renegotiating their concession contracts comes to an end, but government funding will be needed for infrastructure investment if rail is to meet its full potential. Enrique Garibotto reportsBY THE END of the 1980s the ...
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UITP returns to Roma
INTRO: ’Public Transport 2020: Making the Connection - People - Environment - Business’ is the theme for the 56th World Congress of the International Association of Public TransportHaving previously staged its biennial World Congress in Roma in 1928 and 1971, UITP’s return to the Italian capital on June 5-9 marks ...
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Heavy haul railways address a booming market
As the world's experts in heavy haul technology gather in Rio de Janeiro for the 8th IHHA Conference on June 14-16, China's insatiable demand for iron and steel is driving the pace of development on the world's heavy haul railways. Operators of iron ore lines on three continents are moving ...
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Railway: Identity, Design and Culture
by Keith LovegroveIn its own words, this book sets out to provide ’an exuberant collection of imagery depicting vintage, modern and futuristic train travel’.The identity, design and culture of the passenger train is explored in over 160 pages, with the help of 250 illustrations. Although car interiors loom large, in ...
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Competitive pressure may lie behind Amagasaki crash
SHOCKWAVES spread across Japan on April 25 as the country struggled to come to terms with the disastrous derailment of a heavily-loaded JR West commuter train at Amagasaki in the suburbs of Osaka.At 09.18 a seven-car Series 207 EMU forming a Commuter Rapid service from Takarazuka to Doshisha-mae derailed on ...
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Private line to serve Zambian mines
THE ZAMBIAN government has formalised an agreement with the private-sector Northwest Railways Ltd to build a new line serving the country's Northwest province. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on April 25 by Communications & Transport Minister Abel Chambeshi and former Vice-President Enoch Kavindele, now Chairman of Woodgate Holdings and ...
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High speed to Guadalajara
PROPOSALS to develop a network of high speed passenger railways in Mexico moved forward at the end of April, when the Ministry of Communications & Transport appointed Systra to assist with drawing up tenders for the first route. The Mexican government has been developing its strategy since 2002, and expects ...
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Bypass approved
ON MAY 17, French Transport Minister Gilles de Robien announced the award of a Declaration of Public Utility for construction of a rail bypass around Nîmes and Montpellier.Initially designed as part of TGV Méditerranée, the 70 km line is now to be built as a mixed-traffic route, helping to keep ...
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EMUs ordered
PLANS to order a fleet of dual-system EMUs reached fruition on May 9, when Mumbai Railway Vikas Corp confirmed the award of a Rs9·25bn contract to Siemens. The deal is being supported by the World Bank as part of a major upgrading and expansion of the Mumbai suburban network.Siemens India ...
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French freight first
JUNE 13 is due to see the start of open-access freight train operations on the French national rail network, when Connex subsidiary CFTA Cargo starts hauling international traffic between France and Germany.Connex announced on April 26 that CFTA Cargo had been awarded a contract by Belgian limestone supplier Lhoist, to ...
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EWS set to follow
UK FREIGHT operator EWS announced last month that it would order ’at least 360’ wagons during 2005 to be used ’in Britain and mainland Europe’. At present EWS operates solely within Britain, although it shares with SNCF exclusive rights to haul rail freight through the Channel Tunnel. Last year EWS ...