Main line rail industry news – Page 1270
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Lyon launches Lea and Leslys
PUBLIC CONSULTATION began on September 2 for the planned conversion of the former Est de Lyon railway into a high-capacity interurban light rail line. The President of Rh
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NJ triple opening
NEW JERSEY Transit was due to launch a through service from its Boonton line to New York’s Penn Station on September 30, with the completion of the Montclair Connection. As well as the 457m link connecting the Boonton and Montclair lines, the project included 8 km of electrification and construction ...
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Wien buys MoMo cars
WIEN City Transport has ordered 25 six-car trains worth €192m from a consortium headed by Siemens. They are to be used on Lines U1 and U2, and will be among the first to be built to the MoMo modular concept (RG 8.00 p473).The order represents the first tranche of rolling ...
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Millennium line complete
VANCOUVER’S Skytrain expanded further on August 31 when Line 2, also known as the Millennium line, was formally opened between Broadway-Commercial and Columbia by British Columbia’s Transport Minister, Judith Reid, in a ceremony at Lougheed Town Centre station. There are 14 stations on the new line including the two that ...
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‘Light rail’ ready in Beijing
THE OPENING to passengers of the trial section of the 41 km ’light rail’ line through Beijing’s northern suburbs was scheduled for September 28, after final commissioning runs that commenced 24 days earlier had been completed. Designated Line 13 on the capital’s planned metro network, this is the first to ...
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LIRR tests M-7
ON SEPTEMBER 5 Long Island Rail Road General Manager David J Elliott took guests for a demonstration trip between Jamaica and Manhattan with the first Bombardier-built Class M-7 commuter EMU. Acceptance testing of the prototype is expected to be completed this month, allowing series deliveries to begin at the rate ...
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CARE selected for Docklands
CITY Airport Rail Enterprises is the preferred bidder to design, finance, build and maintain for 30 years the latest 4·4 km extension to London’s automated Docklands Light Railway. DLR says it expects contracts to be signed in mid-December, with work starting in January.Capital cost of the project that will see ...
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Scully backs LRT
NEW South Wales Transport Minister Carl Scully announced in August a feasibility study that could see Sydney’s 6·6 km light rail line extended through the city centre to Circular Quay, where the cross-harbour ferries dock. The network could possibly be expanded to other routes, to replace bus services after a ...
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Ankaray bidding
ANKARA metro operator EGO expects to call new bids shortly for civil engineering works and E&M equipment on the northeast extension of the 9 km Ankaray light rail line from Dikimevi to Siteler and Onder. Construction bids for these Phase 2 works were originally invited in 2000 and submitted on ...
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Courts fuel insurance worries
MORE than four years after a resilient wheel broke up at nearly 200 km/h, killing 101 people on June 3 1998 when a derailed ICE1 brought down a road overbridge at Eschede, three professional engineers found themselves in the dock at Celle on August 28. Volker Fischer and Joachim Thilo ...
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Short-term franchises are back
NEWS that Govia, a joint venture of Keolis and The Go-Ahead Group, has had its proposed 20-year South Central franchise commuted to seven years or less by the Strategic Rail Authority (p606) effectively marks the end of plans for more long-term franchises in Britain. Chiltern Railways has the sole 20-year ...
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Victoria to renegotiate Melbourne contracts
THREE YEARS after they were awarded by the state government of Victoria, all five franchises for the operation of passenger trains and trams in and around Melbourne had effectively collapsed by the end of August. The three operators, National Express, Connex and Yarra Trams, faced unsustainable losses if the 12 ...
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Parcels express
DHL is working up plans to operate 300 km/h trains moving standard air-freight containers between Brussels, Amsterdam, K
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EDI sales at record high
ON August 26 Australia’s Downer EDI announced record revenue of A$2·4bn for the year ended on June 30, with profits after tax up at A$56·4m compared with A$45·5m in 2001. Turnover for the rail division soared by 145% to A$428·4m; this represented 16·5% of the business.Downer EDI Managing Director Stephen ...
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Rolling motorway suffering
AUSTRIAN Federal Railways has reported record results for 2001, with tonnes carried up from 84·7 million in 2000 to 86·4 million and the number of passengers higher at 183·3 million compared with 182·7 million. Grants from federal government were up by 1·7% at €1·14bn, with operating profit down by nearly ...
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Better service on line
WE ARE pleased to announce that Railway Gazette International is now offering a weekly update of our on-line railway information service, www.railwaydirectory.net Frequent changes in staff, organisation and business structures make it hard to keep track of all developments in the worldwide railway market, but railwaydirectory.net is now better able ...
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Turboliner starts testing
RUNNING TRIALS have finally started with the prototype RTL-III Turboliner train, one of seven being rebuilt to run at 200 km/h along the Empire Corridor between Albany and New York City. The first trip to Manhattan’s Penn Station on August 27 was declared ’very successful’ by New York State Department ...
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D78 modernised
A LONDON Underground District line vehicle has been modernised as a prototype for a programme to refurbish the fleet of D78 stock under the Public-Private Partnership (RG 6.02 p317). Creactive Design was commissioned to implement the modernisation, in partnership with LU's Train Modification Unit. Ventilation has been improved by ...
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Independent testing at Wildenrath
RAIL Test Ltd was set up in July to offer independent testing and trial services at Wegberg-Wildenrath Test Centre in Germany. A contractual agreement provides for use of facilities and infrastructure at the Siemens-owned site by other firms including Alstom and Bombardier.The partners in Rail Test are the Institute of ...