Main line rail industry news – Page 1249
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Pointers
n Vietnam’s Minstry of Transport & Communications has announced that work will begin this year on a 5 km railway extension from Halong to the new Cai Lan deep water port in Quang Ninh province, at a cost of 281bn dong.n AustralAsia Railway Corp now expects to complete construction of ...
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Market
Czech Republic: Citing high prices, CD has abandoned a tender to acquire 20 tri-voltage locomotives to operate at up to 230 km/h (RG 3.03 p123). Denmark: Interfleet Technology has assisted Railion Denmark in tendering and drawing up contracts for maintenance of its 43 locos and 1500 wagons.France: SMC Rail and ...
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Web planning
NATIONAL Rail Enquiries has launched an on-line journey planner for Great Britain. Replacing a Railtrack facility, www.nationalrail.co.uk/planmyjourney provides timetable and fare information. It does not offer ticket sales, but provides links to established internet ticketing agents Qjump and TheTrainLine.On March 4 the Finnish Railways web site www.vr.fi began selling tickets ...
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VIA revenue up
INCREASING passenger numbers contributed to improved financial results at VIA Rail Canada during 2002. The Crown Corporation’s revenue for 2002 was C$270·8m, an increase of 90% since 1990. In the same period passenger numbers have risen by over half a million. Last year brought an increase of 116000 passengers to ...
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Road-rail conversions
LH GROUP has set up a road-rail division, which will supply guidance systems to convert road vehicles for rail use, and lease vehicles to engineering contractors. LH Access Technology will benefit from engineering designs purchased from the now-defunct Two Way Technology, from which LH has also recruited a number of ...
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Steady growth at Arup
CONTNUED steady growth in turnover was seen at Arup during 2002. Overall turnover for the period to March 31 this year exceeded £400m, with profits of over £20m. There was a 17% increase in global turnover, 3% increase in profit, and a stable profit margin of 5%, despite an 11% ...
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Australian boost
Barclay Mowlem Construction Group reported strong performance in 2002, with turnover up by 24% to A$823m and an operating profit of A$19·8m. Managing Director David Hudson attributed the success to the ’particularly robust’ Australian construction business. Barclay Mowlem is a partner in the ADrail joint venture building the Alice Springs ...
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Leasing takeover
CIT Rail Resources has acquired rolling stock lessor Flex Leasing Corp. The San Francisco-based firm’s 7200 general-purpose freight wagons, worth around $400m, bring CIT Rail Resources’ total fleet to 54000 vehicles, with an average age of seven years. Along with 550 locos, the wagons are leased to railways across the ...
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Statio metropolitana
AS PART of a public art project by Michael Pinsky, signs at Wallsend station on the Tyne & Wear Metro have been translated into Latin. Around 1 900 years ago, Wallsend was the site of a fort at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall, marking the northernmost limit of the ...
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Praha recovers
THE LAST of Praha metro’s stations closed by floods in August 2002 were reopened in March. Rehabilitation, funded by a European Investment Bank loan, has included repairs to tunnels, escalators and safety systems, as well as a large amount of general cleaning up. Through running on Line B, the most ...
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Keeping up the power
SAFT-AEG Industrial Systems has introduced an Uninterruptible Power Supply design for railway use. The 25 kV traction supply is used as the main power source, with the local utilities as back-up. If both power supplies are lost at once the battery can provide power for 10 min. Up to four ...
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The writing’s off the wall
PAINT or ink scrawled across signs coated with K20209 AntiGraf film cannot stick to its fluoropolymer surface, and instead ’floats’, making removal with spirit-based solvents a simple task. The 50
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First Engineering boost
REPORTING its results for the year to January 4 2003 on March 25, Peterhouse Group announced a 21% increase in turnover from £369m to £447m and 6% growth in profit to £16·7m. Executive Chairman David Jackson said the group had ’completed the final strategic moves’ in its transformation from a ...
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Moving paper mountains
SWISS Federal Railways is replacing paper documentation and hand-written notes issued to drivers with 4000 Psion Teklogix netBook portable computers. SBB drivers were issued with the netBooks in mid-December, replacing an estimated 40 tonnes of paper.Supplied by Excom, the netBooks use Locomotive Electronic Assistant software custom-designed for railway use by ...
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NS conversion
NEDTRAIN’S Haarlem works is currently refurbishing 257 inter-city coaches built for NS by Talbot (now Bombardier) at Aachen in the 1980s. A batch of 22 second class BKD inter-city coaches will be rebuilt as driving trailers, with the former kitchen and van area replaced by a new cab with an ...
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A tale of two cities - more electronics and more software
This month sees the world's two largest track maintenance exhibitions take place just five days apart on different continents. David Burns highlights the latest developments that jetsetters can compare at the Railway Engineering Maintenance & Supply Association show in Dallas and the German Railway Engineers' Association (VDEI) exhibition in Münster
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Stanislav Jovanovic explains how software developed by ERRI in 1991-98 is increasingly being used in Europe, North America and Australia to plan maintenance and renewal over long periods, based on the observed and forecast condition of track elements
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Publications
Jubilee Line Extension: From Concept to CompletionBob MitchellThis major reference work provides a record of all aspects of the 10-year project to extend London Underground’s Jubilee line from Green Park to Stratford. The planning and political procedures are traced from the emergence of the first proposals in 1943, through the ...
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Reaching high
HARSCO Corp divisions SGB and Harsco Track Technologies have worked together to develop a rail-mounted elevating hydraulic platform to replace ladders or scaffolding when working on overhead electrification. It has a working height of 12·1m, reach of 5·5m, 359í slew and 180í platform rotation. The four-wheel rough terrain chassis has ...
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Applying proactive maintenance on CTRL
INTRO: The Channel Tunnel Rail Link will need maintenance standards ’an order of magnitude higher’ than on the rest of the UK network. Chris Jago, Managing Director of Union Railways South, briefs Murray Hughes on plans to maintain Britain’s first 300 km/h railway’IF THE NAKED EYE can see an irregularity ...