Main line rail industry news – Page 1230
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Wheel works roll-out
NEDTRAIN officially opened its upgraded running gear refurbishment plant in Haarlem on September 5. Life-expired machinery has been replaced to ensure reliability and improve productivity at the works, which processes around 4000 wheelsets every year. The decision to upgrade the wheelset and bogie plant was taken in 2001, and all ...
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Easing congestion
Next month will see a bottleneck eliminated in München. When the timetable changes on December 14, regional passenger and freight trains heading for Mühldorf will run on separate tracks thanks to construction of a 4·7 km bypass at Berg am Laim. Existing tracks through Berg am Laim station will then ...
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Speed detectors
SPEED measuring devices from Rowe Hankins use magnetic pulses to produce a signal which is proportional to speed and does not suffer from electromagnetic or radio-frequency interference. The Hall-effect probes can be retrofitted directly to a gearbox, using the cogs as a target. Where the gearbox is unsuitable, Rowe Hankins ...
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Berlin cross-city line advances
Good progress is being made with the north-south tunnel in Berlin. Due to open in 2006, the line forms the central element in the city’s ’mushroom concept’ that will see east-west and north-south main lines meet at a central interchange at Lehrter (RG 9.02 p525).The southern portal near Gleisdreieck U-Bahn ...
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HZ upgrade
CROATIAN Railways plans to put into service next month the last of a fleet of 12 first class coaches being refurbished by TZV Gredelj. The vehicles are being completely rebuilt, retaining only the original bodyshell and Wegman 26 bogies.On completion of the work, each of the 47 seats will have ...
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Evolution passes first field tests
Initial results with General Electric's low-emission diesel locomotive have confirmed the company's projections on performance, emissions and availability
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Raising loads and lowering charges
Wagons now being delivered to operators in several European countries are making use of bogies designed to minimise impact forces on the track
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F-MAN will boost wagon productivity in Europe
INTRO: An EU-funded research project will confirm the feasibility of equipping Europe’s wagon fleet with on-board tracking systems that report their location and status to a central database via the internet. This will greatly improve arrangements for tracking consignments, and for getting empty wagons where they are neededBYLINE: Eckhard Kuhla, ...
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Patience needed
ALSTOM plans to offer a 3·2m wide version of its AGV high speed train with distributed power in the bidding for the Beijing - Shanghai project. At the moment it is not clear whether Alstom will be bidding alone or as part of the EuroTrain consortium formed with Siemens to ...
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NewsNürnberg - München in one hour
Germany's second 300 km/h route, now under construction between Nürnberg and Ingolstadt, opens in 2006. Ralf Roman Rossberg reports
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Industry unites at Australian showcase
AUSRAIL Plus 2003 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from November 17 to 19 will be the first time that the members’ forum of the Australasian Railway Association joins forces with the Rail Track Association of Australia, the Australian Railway Industry Corp, the Railway Technical Society of Australasia and ...
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DB enters the final stage of reform
INTRO: German Railway is on course for a stock market listing as it reaches the final stages of restructuring begun nearly a decade agoBYLINE: Hartmut MehdornChairman, German RailwayWHEN THE railway reform programme was launched in 1994 a major step was taken in the history of Germany’s railways. Changing the old ...
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Competition drives the passenger business
INTRO: Restructuring of German Railway’s passenger operations and changes to ticketing and catering policy will help to keep DB competitive with new operators and low-cost airlinesBYLINE: Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch Board Member, Passenger TrafficDeutsche Bahn AG ON October 1, German Railway put in place a fundamental restructuring of its passenger operating ...
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Ghan contracts
A CONTRACT worth A$2·4m to build an interim passenger terminal at Darwin East Arm for The Ghan has been awarded to Northern Territory-based construction firm Sunbild. Katherine station is to be built by Norbuilt in a A$2·2m contract.Work on the stations will be completed by January, ready for the arrival ...
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OAO RZD up and running
ON October 1 Russian Railways was formally launched as a state-owned joint stock company, responsible for all operations and commercial activities formerly undertaken by the Ministry of Railway Transport. The handover followed a week of frantic activity, which began on September 23 with a special decree appointing Minister of Railways ...
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PEOPLE
Jirí Klutvor has been appointed Deputy General Manager, Commerce & Operations, at Czech Railways following restructuring on September 1 (p682). Vlastimil Nesetril becomes Deputy General Manager, Infrastructure. Vladimir Filip has been named Director of Finance, with Stanislav Brablík as Director of Economic Management, Josef Sedivy as Director of Accounts & ...
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Sweden’s railways tackle the need to attract engineers
INTRO: In recent years railways in different countries have lost status and importance, to the point that working in the industry is not considered ’cool’. Sweden’s infrastructure authority is seeking to change this perception, so that young people will want to work in the railway business in the futureBYLINE: Jan ...
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Intelligence November 2003
Africa: Services on the 1143 km line linking Abidjan and Ouagadougou were restored in September, having been suspended a year earlier because of fighting in Côte d'Ivoire. Argentina: Sefecha has introduced passenger service over a new 1·6 km branch from Resistencia to Puerto Vilelas. Construction was funded by the government ...
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Eurotunnel's plan to boost intermodal freight
While lorries carrying 15 million tonnes of freight used the Channel Tunnel in 2002, through trains carried barely a tenth of that. Richard Hope talked to Bill Dix, the executive charged with expanding rail freight to levels matching those between other EU countries