Main line rail industry news – Page 1262
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Metro duty-planning improved
BILBAO Metro is planning its train schedules using ILOG’s Solver and CPLEX software. It is used as part of a planning package designed to simplify the rostering of drivers and producing exact work shift calendars adapted to the real service needs. Supplied by Thales Information Systems, the system relies on ...
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Pointers
n Canadian National Railway says it will invest C$30m in Ontario Northland if its bid for the company is accepted. ON is currently owned by the Province of Ontario.n Watch for SBB Cargo to order 18 dual-voltage locomotives this month to haul cross-border services to and from Italy.n Russian Railways ...
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Finance
Canada: In the fourth quarter of 2002, CN took charges against earnings totalling C$252m, resulting from a new method of accounting for personal injury claims in the USA and severance costs for 1146 staff. Net income for the quarter was expected to be down on the C$296m recorded in 2001.Czech ...
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Climate chamber simulates snow and sun
Ralf Roman Rossberg reports on the opening of the rolling stock climate chamber in Floridsdorf that replaces older facilities at Wien Arsenal
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Inside Industry
Talgo arrives in Kazakhstan THROUGH its German subsidiary Talgo Deutschland GmbH, Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Patentes Talgo SA has formed a 50:50 joint venture in Kazakhstan with local maintenance company Remvagon. Known as Tulpar-Talgo, it is expected that the new company will maintain Talgo trainsets operated by Kazakhstan Railways under ...
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Products in Brief
Exterior and interior information and seat reservation LCD, LED and TFT displays are being supplied to Siemens by Focon, for installation on high speed trains being built for German Railway.MTM Power Messtechnik Mellenbach’s SMM DC/DC 50W converter series has been designed for use in on-board power systems on rail vehicles.Tertio ...
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Passenger Portfolio
Ticketing change in Germany GERMAN RAILWAY is now selling all long-distance tickets priced at €21 or more online, with credit card payment. The launch was timed to coincide with the introduction of market-priced fares on December 15 (RG 2.02 p98). Tickets are sent by post at no extra charge to ...
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Metros
Australia: The first four of 59 Siemens Combino trams (RG 4.02 p178) ordered by M>Tram were put into service on the Melbourne University - Glen Iris Route 6 on November 30.China: Siemens and Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology are to supply Sicas interlocking and LZB 700M continuous ATC for ...
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Market
Brazil: Siemens is to maintain 10 Class 3000 four-car EMUs for CPTM of São Paulo under a five-year contract worth €9·5m.China: Barclay Mowlem (Hong Kong) Ltd has won a five-year contract to maintain the infrastructure on MTR’s Tseung Kwan O line from July. An option would extend the contract by ...
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Doors for Athens
ATTIKO Metro cars being built in South Korea are to have external sliding plug door panels, controls and peripherals from Vapor Rail. Doors for 126 vehicles will be provided by the Montréal-based subsidiary of Wabtec Corp under a US$6m contract with Korean rolling stock builder Rotem. The cars will boost ...
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Communications underground
TUNNELS on the Italian national rail network operated by RFI are being fitted with radio communications from Teko Telecom. Teko offers a range of 88MHz to 2GHz analogue and digital radio communications equipment for use in tunnels. These can be controlled remotely as well as locally, and offer GSM-R, TETRA, ...
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Anchors away
NORTH DOWNS Tunnel on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link has a sprayed concrete primary lining, with a waterproof membrane fixed to the outer shell. This is held in place by over 800000 CR930T nails with 800mm PVC washers supplied by ITW Construction Products.The tunnel’s fire main is supported by 18000 ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Italian-based company Grandi Stazioni has won a public tender for a long-term lease and refurbishment of Praha’s Hlavni station, and the stations at Karlovy Vary and Mari
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More capacity in cross-city tunnel
GERMAN Railway is to install LZB inductive train control in its 4·2 km cross-city S-Bahn tunnel in München, to increase capacity from 24 to 30 trains/h in each direction. This will entail closing the tunnel between Hauptbahnhof and Ostbahnhof from Saturday evenings until Monday mornings from January 11 until November ...
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Grid success
NOTTINGHAM University’s School of Civil Engineering has won the Royal Society’s £250000 Brian Mercer Innovation Award for its research into reinforcement of ballast using polymer meshes. The award will fund research staff, an experimental facility and test rig.This testing facility will feature a three-sleeper section of track. It will use ...
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GSM-R testing
LATEST addition to the Willtek Communications range is the 4202R mobile tester for use with GSM-R radios, telephones and peripherals.In addition to standard measurements for mobile telephone testing and alignment, the 4202R supports incoming and outgoing group calls at various priority levels. It simulates a network, initiating test calls to ...
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Airport extension will transform BART patronage
INTRO: With ridership forecast to grow by 20%, the long-awaited opening of the Bay Area Rapid Transit extension to San Francisco International Airport is expected to usher in the most significant reordering of travel patterns since BART carried its first passengers in 1972. William D Middleton reportsDUE TO OPEN within ...
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ZSR restructuring bears fruit
INTRO: The transformation of Slovak Railways from a single organisation into two joint-stock companies has seen new contractual relationships established with the state. Progress in the first year includes a smaller payroll and a long-needed boost in investment BYLINE: Ing Ladislav DimunDeputy Director-General, Technical Development,Slovak Republic RailwaysEXACTLY ONE year ago, ...
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Alstom wins BNSF deal
BURLINGTON Northern Santa Fe has awarded a contract worth US$420m to Alstom for maintenance of 434 locomotives over a period of 12 years. Signed on November 4, the deal covers the maintenance of SD70MAC locomotives supplied by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. The locos will be maintained at the ...