Main line rail industry news – Page 1196
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Australia: EDI Rail has signed a contract to supply BHP Billiton Iron Ore with 13 GM-EMD SD70ACe diesel-electric locomotives of 4300hp, spares and support, with options for more. Delivery will be in late 2005. Bulgaria: On December 7 BDZ announced it had selected Siemens for supply of 25 DMUs. Two ...
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Long Dragon to offer fire retardant panels
AN AGREEMENT for the joint development of composite components for train interiors has been announced by GE Advanced Materials and China Railway Long Dragon New Composite Materials Co.The high-strength panels, ceilings, floors and sidewalls will be made by China’s largest interior component maker using Rail-Lite composites supplied by Azdel, a ...
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Spanish association
ANEWassociation for Spanish manufacturers and exporters of railway equipment and services has been established in co-operation with Renfe and Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior. Members of MAFEX are Aceralia, AEA Technology Global, Amurrio, Ferrocarril y Equipos, Felguera Melt, Fundiciones Garbi, Getinsa, Guivisa, Hicasa, Ineco, ITK Ingenieria, Jez Sistemas Ferroviarios, KLK ...
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Tamping with a Cobra
COBRA TT is the latest version of a the Cobra handheld tamper from Atlas Copco. The machine is powered by a petrol engine, so it does not require a hose and is highly portable for rapid deployment on operational railways.Though originally designed for tamping, Cobra TT can also be used ...
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Up at Alstom
ANNOUNCED on November 18, Alstom’s first-half results showed that orders received by Alstom Transport in the first six months of the 2004-05 financial year amounted to €2·9bn, an increase of 74% compared with the same period in 2003-04, when orders had been particularly low.Sales at €2·5bn were up by 8%, ...
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Lloyd’s registers growth
RAIL business at Lloyd’s Register ’grew very strongly’ in the 12 months to June 30, Executive Chairman David G Moorhouse announced on November 24.The group’s Energy & Transportation division income was up 4% on the previous year. Within the division Oil & Gas income grew 5%, Industry fell 5%, and ...
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Metro car logistics
ALSTOM has outsourced to Exel management of the supply chain for the delivery of around 1000 types of component worth £50m required for 87 cars Alstom is to build for London Underground’s Jubilee Line.The components include wheelsets, air-conditioning and control systems, which will be brought from the suppliers to Exel’s ...
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On the decks
EXPANSION joints in concrete and steel bridges in Italy and Portugal have been waterproofed using Sentinel Algaflex TW reinforced elastomer sheet. Sentinel Algaflex TW is designed for use with the supplier’s Eliminator and Hytec bridge deck waterproofing, and it has a continuous upper surface to prevent any ingress of ballast ...
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Products in Brief
Netherlands Railway is replacing existing polyester coach interior cladding with sheets made of Xantar, an unfilled blend of polycarbonate and ABS which is extruded into sheets and then vacuum-formed in combination with a co-extruded PVDF protective layer. DSM Engineering Plastics, NetherlandsCoronet Rail’s two-part rail end-post can be used to replace ...
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Anti-collision trials
INDIA’S Konkan Railway is carrying out trials of Raksha Kavach on-board and lineside anti-collision devices over its 760route-km network, covering 53 stations and 107 level crossings of which 27 are unstaffed. The ACDs are linked through intelligent real-time networks which detect and exchange data about which track a train is ...
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Keeping it quiet below Berlin
Building a main line railway under the heart of Berlin demands the highest standards of vibration and noise prevention. The answer is to use concrete slabs supported on polymer bearings
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Integral ballast recycling contributes
INTRO: Development of ballast cleaning machines with integral recycling of used ballast is helping to reduce the cost of disposal, and is becoming an important tool in the track maintenance business as legislation on waste disposal takes effectBYLINE: Rudolf Becker and Patrick Vierlinger*RECYCLING of used ballast merits high priority ...
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ERTMS development reaches the critical point
With installation of ETCS Level 1 underway in several countries, feedback from pilot projects is helping to fine-tune the technical specifications for Level 2. Growing pressure to upgrade the railways of eastern Europe may trigger the high-volume orders needed to make ERTMS cost-effective
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Cross-border revival
MEETING in Islamabad on December 2-3, officials from the Pakistan and Indian railways boards agreed to reopen a second rail route between the two countries.The metre-gauge link between Khokhrapa in Sindh province and Munaba in Rajasthan has been out of use since 1965. According to PR Board Secretary Zaeem Ahmed ...
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SNCB budget set
LAST MONTH the board of Belgian National Railways approved a €1·48bn investment programme for 2005. The bulk of the money, €814·6m, will come from the government, and €80m from the Brussels RER fund. Another €6·5m will be raised through the Diabolo PPP project. Infrabel expects to spend €473·4m on ...
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NewsClass 455 suburban EMU refurbished
UK: On November 23 South West Trains returned to service the first two of its 91 Class 455 inner-suburban EMUs which are being refurbished at Bombardier’s Ashford works. The mid-life refurbishment project will be completed in March 2008. The £67m cost is being funded by Porterbrook, and ...
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Three Railway Packages herald uncertainty across the continent
The ongoing liberalisation of Europe's railway sector is mandated by a series of directives and regulations from the European Union. Chris Jackson looks at the legislative programme and current proposals that will drive further change
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People in the News - January 2005
Pavel Sury has been named Director of Czech Railways' Brno region, succeeding Frantisek Raska who has replaced V? clav Padevet as Director of Safety Inspection. Milan Fryc has replaced Jirí Kol? r as director of the Ustí nad Labem region, and on December 1 Ursula Broschov? took over from ...
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Intelligence
Australia: Queensland has amended its rail safety investigation laws to match national standards, retrospectively dated to cover the diesel tilt train derailment north of Bundaberg on November 16 (p16).QR has increased capacity on its Cairns - Melbourne intermodal services by 50% with the introduction of new rolling stock, and the ...
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Assembly deal
THE MANAGEMENT board of Spanish National Railways approved an agreement with Siemens on November 30 that provides for the company to assemble rail vehicles in the railway’s workshops at Valladolid and M