Main line rail industry news – Page 1213
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Simpler trains wanted
MINISTER for Transport Services in New South Wales Michael Costa announced on May 3 that the state government had deferred indefinitely a decision to buy a planned third tranche of 60 Millennium EMU cars from EDI Rail (RG 9.03 p525).An entirely new ’simpler and cheaper’ design is apparently in prospect, ...
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Overhaul at Spoornet
CHIEF EXECUTIVE of Spoornet Dolly Mokgatle is promising a turnround to meet the South African government’s objective of a profitable state enterprise.Addressing the media on May 13, she said ’there is not a single moment that we as Spoornet and Transnet are not mindful of our awesome responsibility to the ...
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French freight plan is ’on target’
FRENCH National Railways announced on April 28 that the plan to rescue its rail freight business is showing early results.Deputy Managing Director, Freight, Marc Véron said the objective was to achieve 3% annual growth from 2007 onwards. Since the start of implementation at the end of last year, the main ...
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Gold Line to grow
PUBLIC consultation began last month on plans to extend the Los Angeles Gold Line east from Pasadena to Montclair. This would follow the 9·6 km extension from Union Station to East Los Angeles, on which work is expected to begin this year. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Foothill ...
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Property deal will fund Tehran Line 4
A US$836m contract for construction of Tehran Metro Line 4 was signed on May 15 by the Managing Director of Tehran Urban & Suburban Railway Co, Mohsen Hashemi, and the Managing Director of China North Industries Corp, in the presence of the city's Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Norinco was selected ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Scheidt & Bachmann is to use Trintech’s OpenPay 3000 outdoor payment terminal and PayWare card authorisation software to accept chip and PIN card payments at unattended ticket vending machines.Three air-conditioned ticket offices have opened in Shanghai dedicated to selling soft class sleeper tickets. From April 18 the number of daily ...
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Products in Brief
Saft Power Systems has secured a five-year contract with Network Rail to provide SMC2200 uninterruptible power supplies for fixed telecommunication infrastructure supplied by Alcatel.Saft Power Systems Ltd, UKReader Enquiry Number: 138On March 9 US&S India inaugurated a solid-state interlocking at Kalaikunda, completing the installation of Microlok II at eight South ...
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On-line tickets printed at home
ON MARCH 12 Belgian National Railways launched a new facility allowing passengers to book domestic rail tickets over the internet and print the travel documents using their own printer. Online payment is made by credit or debit card. The railway had developed the technology itself, and claims that it is ...
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PUBLICATIONS
Transport Projects, Programmes & PoliciesEvaluation needs and capabilitiesEditors: Alan Pearman, Peter Mackie and John NellthorpForming part of the Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences series, this volume collects together selected papers from international specialists in the application of economic evaluation to the transport sector. These were presented at a workshop ...
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Finance
Brazil:Railway projects have been allocated 4·5% of the US$13bn that the federal government is to invest through its 2003-07 transport infrastructure programme, hoping to attract a further US$13·96bn from state development bank Bndes, international funding organisations and the private sector. New legislation now allows infrastructure projects to be taken forward ...
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ERTMS tests underway
TWOTRAINS are being used to test the ERTMS equipment installed on the Roma - Napoli line. One is an ETR500 trainset, the other is formed of a pair of Class E402 locomotives coupled at each end of a set of loco-hauled test cars. During a test run in March on ...
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Torino show highlights industry developments
EXHIBITORS from 17 different countries will be attending the Expo Ferroviaria event in Torino on May 25-27, where they will present the latest developments in railway technology.The theme of the exhibition is the future of rail transport, covering the whole railway sector from high speed lines to metro and tram ...
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Giant T makes steady progress
ITALY's high speed lines are being built in the shape of a giant T with the spine stretching from Milano in the north to Napoli in the south. The bar of the T is formed by an east-west route that will link Torino to Trieste. After the final section of ...
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Market
Argentina:Under a contract worth 1·3m pesos, Luis Carlos Zonis has begun work to repair track on the network operated by Buenos Aires port authority AGP.Austria:ÖBB has awarded Kapsch TrafficCom a five-year contract to implement a train management and telephone communications system using its Mulitmedia Access IP Dispatcher technology. Bulgaria:Koncar Ellok ...
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Osaka gateway
WEST Japan Railway has announced plans to redevelop Osaka station by 2011, to create a showpiece gateway to the city. Work will begin this year on a new terminal building, designed for improved accessibility. Additional escalators and lifts will help to smooth passenger flows and simplify transfer between different services. ...
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Praha refurbishment
A CONSORTIUM including ING Real Estate Development, Supod Praha and Moravka Centrum is to refurbish Praha’s Masarykovo station at a cost of up to KC8m.CD has taken an initial 51% stake in the consortium, in exchange for providing the buildings and land. As the other partners fund the refurbishment, the ...
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Intelligence
Australia:Mining company Xstrata has announced that it will go ahead with a planned open-cast coal mine west of Rolleston in Queensland, which will include a 110 km rail link (RG 4.03 p183). To be built by QR, Abigroup, John Holland and Connell Wagner at a cost of A$230m, it ...
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Component maker bought
GLOBAL Railway Industries Ltd has completed its US$2m acquisition of the manufacturing assets of wagon component maker YSD Industries Inc. Based in Youngstown, Ohio, YSD is a major supplier of wagon doors and side panels, hopper doors, van roofs, autorack side screens and stamped gratings. In the last financial year ...