Main line rail industry news – Page 1185
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Flowing with the currents
Adequate insulation between tram rails and the buried stray current mat on the Nottingham Express Transit tramway was confirmed using a fault finding technique developed by Radiodetection and Carillion.A Radiodection PCM transmitter was used to inject a 4Hz electrical signal into the rail under test, with a magnet used to ...
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Sidetrack
DieterNot the whole storyOUR Swiss cartoonist was fortunately not strolling across the Place Saint-Laurent in Lausanne on February 22, when tunnelling work for the city’s rubber-tyred M2 metro project brought about the collapse of a section of the square. Parts of the area had to be cordoned off, residents were ...
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Chubu’s Centrair rail link takes off
FEBRUARY 17 saw the formal opening of the new Central Japan International Airport, located on a new island in Ise Bay, 35 km south of Nagoya. Centrair is connected to the city centre by a new express rail service using Meitetsu’s Tokoname Line. Aichi Prefecture is hosting this year’s World ...
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Driving from the desktop
DEMAND for visual and interactive ways of teaching railway rulebooks is being met by FAAC with its Simulation-Based Training package. SBT bridges the gap between traditional video-aided classroom teaching and realistic but expensive full-size cab simulators.SBT is intended for use in initial, refresher and remedial driver training and assessment, and ...
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CDG Express tries a new route
REVISED proposals for the planned express rail link between Paris Est and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport were unveiled to local municipalities by Réseau Ferré de France on February 4. The target is to have the line opening in 2012, to support the Paris bid to host that year’s Olympic Games.CDG Express is ...
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Publications
End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of America’s Passenger Trainsby Joseph VranichIf you thought that Amtrak had some redeeming features, you will have forgotten them by the time you reach the end of this well-researched book.Author Joseph Vranich, a former Amtrak public affairs spokesman ...
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Metros
China: Alcatel has won a €9·8m contract to provide communications for the planned Line 9 in Shanghai. The 31 km route between SongJiang and YiShan Road with 12 stations will open in 2009.France:On February 28 Reims council approved a €281m plan for an initial tram line running 10 km from ...
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Market
Argentina:National Railway Equipment Co of the USA is supplying four rebuilt GM-EMD G12 locomotives to Fepsa. Originally manufactured for National Railways of Mexico, they have received 1676mm gauge bogies and the Qtron fault diagnosis system.Chile:EFE has signed a US$180m contract with a consortium of Sice-Enyse and Cam to upgrade electrification, ...
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Reorganised divisions
WESTINGHOUSE Rail Systems Ltd has been restructured to reflect ’the quite different needs of main line and mass transit customers’, who will now be served by distinct commercial divisions.The two customer-facing profit centres will be supported by resources operating across both, including research and development. An export team has been ...
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Stuck down in the underground
FAST curing and fire retardance are offered by the Tredfast 4004 two-part epoxy adhesive which is being used to hold down floor coverings at London Underground stations. The adhesive will bond to metal, wood and concrete substrates with an initial hardening time of 4 h, making it suitable for rapid ...
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Training in Brief
Indian Railways’ Vadadara staff college is to host training courses for staff from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.From April 1 Britain’s Centre for Rail Skills will become part of GoSkills, the Sector Skills Council set up to cover the passenger transport industry. It will identify sources of funding for ...
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Rails to be rolled in Scunthorpe
CORUS announced on February 17 that rail production will be transferred from its Workington plant to Scunthorpe steelworks by November 2006.The steelmaker is to spend £130m at Scunthorpe, creating a rail production facility at the existing section mill, as well as an on-site service centre offering rail in lengths of ...
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Dining in style
AUSTRIAN Federal Railways has returned to traffic the first four of 45 dining cars which are being refurbished at a cost of €100000 per vehicle by ÖBB Technische Services GmbH in Simmering.Refurbishment was required because ’the majority of our dining cars no longer corresponded with the wishes of our customers ...
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Television on the subway
MARTA has signed a 10-year contract with Atlanta-based company The Rail Network for the installation of five 15 inch flat digital television screens in each of the 338 Atlanta metro cars. Television news programmes will be updated four times daily, and there will be three music channels. An information channel ...
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NewsWhich way to the airport?
Do airports need dedicated express shuttle trains, or should services be aimed at all rail users? Proposed changes to London's Gatwick Express are just one part of an international debate, which is complicated by local politics and geography.
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RandstadRail starts to take shape
Work is getting underway on a €1bn conversion of two heavy rail corridors serving Rotterdam and Den Haag into metro and light rail routes that will start operation next year. Harry Hondius MSc reports
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BAA invests in rail so cars don't choke airport growth
A quarter of air passengers already use rail to access London's three major airports. Vernon Murphy, Managing Director of BAA Rail, told Richard Hope that only a high-quality dedicated shuttle to the city combined with an expanding web of multi-purpose trains will entice more travellers out of their cars
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Contractors hurry to finish HSL-Zuid
INTRO: With 98% of civil engineering work for the HSL-Zuid project complete, tracklaying on the southern section of the 300 km/h line will be finished by the end of 2005. Wim Knopperts, Director, Project & Infra Management of the HSL Project Organisation, briefed Murray Hughes WORK ON the first high ...