Main line rail industry news – Page 1221
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Capacity expansion flags up asset management challenges
INTRO: Attention to vehicle and track component life at high axleloads has enabled BHP Billiton Iron Ore to boost the capacity of its Mount Newman rail operationsBYLINE: Mike Darby, Peter Mutton and Graham Tew ** Mike Darby is Vice-President, Railroad, at BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd. Peter Mutton ...
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Expansion plans attract 'substantial interest'
Murray Hughes asked Eng Khaled Alyahya, President, Saudi Railways Organisation, about plans to expand the Saudi Arabian network that include transfer of SRO's core assets to the private sector
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Riyadh explores the light rail option
INTRO: North-south and east-west light rail lines have been chosen to form the pilot phase of a major public transport project in the Saudi Arabian capitalPROPOSALS for a two-line light rail network could see the first phase operational in 2009, according to Jalal A Nafakh, Director, Transportation Unit, at the ...
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Dubai poised to call construction tenders
Plans for a two-line urban rail network are being firmed up to cope with explosive demand for transport in this booming city. Murray Hughes reports
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Keep the politicians out
MAARTEN VAN EEGHEN, Director General in the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works & Water Management, warned senior executives attending the EuroRail conference at the end of January in Amsterdam to keep politics - and politicians - out of the business.In a forthright keynote presentation describing recent events and current ...
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AirTrain JFK opens for service
THE CENTENARY of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight on December 17 2003 was a significant date for aviation in North America. Opening of AirTrain JFK on the same day finally saw New York’s JFK International Airport linked to the region’s rail network.As project sponsor, the Port Authority of New ...
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More cities choose urban rail
APART FROM the well-established metro network in Tehran, where two lines are operational and a suburban line links the centre to the western satellite of Karaj, six other Iranian cities are building or planning urban rail networks. According to Siadat Mousavi, Managing Director of the newly-established Iranian Union of Urban ...
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Third rail data collection
DYNAMIC measurements of the height of a power supply rail can be taken using the DT800 data-logger, which Atkins Rail is using to identify misalignments that could potentially damage pick-up shoe gear. Fitted to the shoe of an EMU, the DT800 samples up to 130000 data points with a measurement ...
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PEOPLE
Ivor J Evans has been elected Vice-Chairman of Union Pacific Railroad, and James R Young has been elected to succeed him as President of Union Pacific Corp. They will join Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Dick Davidson in a newly-created Office of the Chairman. Robert M Knight Jr is to ...
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Consultant reorganises
UTRECHT-based engineering consultancy Holland Railconsult has announced a restructuring programme, as part of a plan to offer a range of services across the whole of Europe by 2007.Parent company Holland Railconsult Holding is now headed by Wim Jol and Gerrit Disberg, who is also President of the firm’s domestic arm, ...
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Container landbridge will assure RZD’s future prosperity
INTRO: Technical advances and more efficient operating methods are helping to boost capacity on Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway, enabling RZD to win more of the traffic between the Pacific Rim and EuropeBYLINE: Gennady FadeyevPresident, Russian Railways LtdTHE TRANS-SIBERIAN Railway is unique. For more than a century, the line has played a ...
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Northwestern mineral line awaits results of a ’bankable’ study
PROPOSALS to build a heavy haul freight line conencting Saudi Railways Organisation's existing main line with mineral deposits in the northwest of Saudi Arabia have been gestating for some time. The Communications Ministry approved in principle the construction of a new line following a World Bank study in 2000. But ...
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CFS goes underground in Damascus
INTRO: Part of the Hedjaz Railway alignment is being relocated below ground in the centre of DamascusWORK HAS started to rebuild a short section of the Hedjaz-Syrian Railway alignment in the centre of Damascus. A 4 km section between Qadam station in the southern part of the city and the ...
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Taiwan's first 700T cars rolled out
OVER 200 guests attended ceremonies at Kawasaki's Hyogo works in Kobe on January 30 to mark the roll-out of the first Series 700T trainset for Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. Among the VIPs were THSRC Chairman Nita Ing, Taiwan's Transport Minister Lin Ling-san and former Japanese Transport Minister Chikage ...
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Minatomirai line inaugurated
FEBRUARY 1 saw the start of revenue services on the 4·1 km Minatomirai metro line in Yokohama, following a ceremony on January 29. Linking Yokohama station to Motomachi-Chukagai, the line has four intermediate stations. It is worked by a new fleet of Y500 series eight-car EMUs.Through services are operated in ...
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460 locos ordered
FRENCH National Railways awarded a €836m contract for 400 diesel-electric freight locomotives to a consortium of Alstom and Siemens Transportation Systems on February 11, two days after placing a separate €170m order with Alstom for 60 Prima electric locos. As consortium leader, Alstom will supply mechanical parts for the 1600 ...
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Mytishchi link accelerated
CEREMONIES on February 14 marked the inauguration of Russian Railways’ first express commuter service, between Moscow and Mytishchi. Attending the event were RZD President Gennady Fadeyev, Moscow Mayor Jury Luzhkov, Vice-Premier Boris Alyuoshin, Transport Minister Sergei Frank and Minister of Work Alexander Pochinok.The Moscow - Mytishchi line accounts for most ...
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Alstom to refit regional EMUs
FRENCH National Railways awarded a €48m contract last month to an Alstom-led consortium for the refurbishment of Class Z2 electric multiple-units used on regional services. The deal includes follow-on options worth a total of €12m. Alstom will act as project manager and be responsible for equipment supply, bringing its share ...
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Competition will follow Korail reforms
ON FEBRUARY 10 Korean National Railroad Administrator Kim See-Ho announced at a press conference in Seoul that KTX high speed services from Seoul to Pusan and Mokpo will be launched on April 1. Speaking to VIPs and foreign correspondents in South Korea who took part in a demonstration run from ...