Main line rail industry news – Page 1207
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Alstom ruling awaited
The European Commission is expected to announce its verdict on Alstom’s restructuring plan on July 7, two days ahead of the company’s annual general meeting.Discussions on the restructuring of the company have continued since the basis of an agreement was brokered between French Minister of Finance Nicolas Sarkozy and European ...
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Finance
Bulgaria: On May 19 BDZ raised €30m through what Transport & Communications Minister Nikolai Vassilev described as the largest issue of corporate bonds in Bulgarian history. The proceeds will fund repairs to 3620 wagons.China: Asian Development Bank is providing a technical assistance grant of US$400000 for a review of the ...
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Industry News in Brief
Corus announced on June 15 that it will invest £20m in its Scunthorpe steelworks in the UK. Addition of a second degassing unit and a third ladle furnace will increase production of rail bloom to 500000 tonnes a year. All bloom for the company’s rail mills at Workington and Hayange ...
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Products in Brief
Weighing 27 kg, the Weldbaby portable 40to 165A welder can be carried to a lineside worksite by one person. Its Honda four-stroke engine has an auto-idle facility and consumes around 1 litre of unleaded petrol per hour. In addition to welding, Weldbaby can be used to supply power to ...
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Western Railway goes out to study
HELLENIC RAILWAYS has called bids for detailed engineering design on the first phase of the proposed rail network intended to open up the western side of the country. Under an agreement signed by former Transport Minister Christos Verelis and EU Transport & Energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio, the Western Railway ...
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Sidetrack
DieterCAPTION: Barely three months after South Korea’s first high speed line opened, Korail is apparently faced with the prospect of replacing the fixed second class seats in its KTX trainsets, after passengers objected to the idea of travelling backwards. The first class vehicles were fitted with rotating seats from the ...
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Publications
Regulatory Reform of Railways in RussiaExperts in rail regulation examine the restructuring of Russia’s vital rail sector in this report from the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, which was prepared as part of a wide programme of co-operation in regulatory reform between the OECD and the Russian government. The ...
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A screen for every need
A GROWING range of information display screen technologies is now available, each offering its own advantages and disadvantages in particular situations. Light emitting diodes account for the majority of the displays supplied by Infotech, as they offer high reliability, long life expectancy, low maintenance, excellent legibility and low cost of ...
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OSE receives new diesel locos
NEXT MONTH is due to see the delivery of the final four of 10 additional Class 220 main line diesel locos which OSE has ordered from Bombardier. The first three arrived at the Rentis depot in Athens on November 24 last year, and three more during January.Rated at 2000 kW, ...
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Mobile washer
THE Speedy Wash range of self-contained mobile brush carriage washing machines has been launched in North America. Already in use in Europe, the fully mobile Speedy Wash machines can be operated on any platform or compacted surface, eliminating the need for a dedicated washing bay by bringing the washer to ...
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Low trailer
KING Rail has unveiled a prototype low-height rail trailer for transporting materials and plant around worksites at up to 32 km/h. The unit has a rated capacity of 20 tonnes.The prototype is 5m long, but the modular construction allows 4m and 6m versions to be offered. All are 2·5m wide ...
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Custom-designed rail loaders
UNLIKE most similar machines, the T10000FS and T4300FS rail loaders from Colmar are specially designed for railway maintenance, rather than converted from vehicles designed for other applications. In particular, they are suitable for use while trains are passing on adjacent tracks, and they can operate in tunnels and other restricted ...
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Ljubljana seminar examines the challenge of cost-effective freight
INTRO: Murray Hughes reports from the rail freight seminar organised by the International Railway Congress Association in the Slovenian capital on May 27-29Strategic Plan promises a high returnSLOVENIAN Railways announced at the IRCA seminar details of its long-term strategic plan that runs to 2010. This envisages that freight traffic volume ...
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Bombardier accelerates plant closures
BOMBARDIER has announced that it will not re-open its mothballed US rolling stock assembly plant at Barre in Vermont, and is to sell the site.Opened in 1981 to help meet the Buy America requirements of federally-funded US rolling stock contracts, the plant was mothballed in November 2002 on the completion ...
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Capacity warning
SURFACE Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober sent a letter on June 10 to each US Class I railway asking for a report on its plans to handle the expected increase in traffic in the autumn. Nober said he recognised that railways were already carrying an extraordinary volume of freight while ...
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Supersite will advance techniques of wayside monitoring
Developed by the Wayside Monitoring Alliance, the Supersite condition monitoring station is designed to provide comprehensive data on passing wagons, using root cause analysis and predictive maintenance to prevent small defects leading to major problems
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Electrification enters the final phase
AROUND 80% of electrification work has been completed on Hellenic Railways’ trunk line between Athens and Thessaloniki, and the project is due to be finished by the end of 2005.If that date is met, nearly 10 years will have elapsed since signature of the contract to wire the 517 km ...
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Cutting rail wear on the Circle Line
INTRO: A London Underground project team examined ways of improving rail lubrication on the Circle Line. Metronet Rail has adopted a focused approach as part of its preventative maintenance regime, delivering a major improvement in rail replacement ratesATTHE BEGINNING of May, work began on a major programme to relay the ...