Main line rail industry news – Page 1285
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Line 5 signalling
VALENCIA regional government in Spain has awarded Dimetronic a €2·8m contract to install signalling, control and telecommunications equipment on the 2·5 km section of metro Line 5 from Alameda to Parque Ayora. Due to open in the spring of 2003, the branch will have intermediate stations at Aragón and Manuel ...
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False hopes not raised
ANYONE expecting Australia’s federal government to have lent support to plans for a high speed line linking Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane would have to be pretty naive or plain optimistic. Having damned the VFT and Speedrail projects in the past, the government said on March 27 that it would ...
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Products in Brief
High Performance Display Systems has launched a portable plug-and-play full-colour LED display for text and video imagery and signage.Ultra-Tech Enterprises Inc has introduced Cab Signal Master, a microprocessor-based device for providing track and speed restriction data during testing of on-board signalling equipment.Altrix Heathcare is supplying mouth swab drug testing kits ...
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Industry News in Brief
On March 21 German civil engineering firm Philipp Holzmann requested the start of insolvency proceedings. Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank and HypoVereinsbank rejected a rescue plan.Dellner Couplers AB of Sweden is building a new factory at Gdynia in Poland. The SKr35m factory will open this summer, and is expected to employ up ...
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Finance
Brazil: The Spanish government is providing €17m of investment capital to CAF, which is due to spend €190m under a 20-year concession to operate the Salvador metro and supply rolling stock (RG 11.99 p691).Europe: The EU is to contribute €175000 towards a study to determine the economic benefit of reopening ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Ascom has supplied disposable contactless ticketing for RATP to use on the Orlyval airport peoplemover link in Paris.The TranSys consortium has installed 50 ’Queuebuster’ credit and debit card ticket vending machines at London Underground stations in a £4m contract.On April 5 VIA Rail announced it was prepared to continue operation ...
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Metros
Brazil: Opening of Arniqueiras and Semambaia has brought to 13 the number of stations in service on Brasilia metro Line 1 (RG 5.01 p285). The network is now carrying 45000 passengers a day.Canada: Earth Tech, part of Tyco International Ltd, is to provide track design and engineering services for the ...
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Market
Australia: A consortium of Barclay Mowlem and Alstom has won a A$17m contract to build and equip the extension of Perth’s Northern Suburbs line from Currambine to Clarkson.Brazil: MRS Logística has taken delivery of an RG48 rail grinder from Loram of the USA at a cost of US$7m. The 70m ...
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Pointers
n A study into the potential for reopening the Slavonice - Fratres border crossing between the Czech Republic and Austria is underway.n Tenders will be called shortly for construction of a 38 km spur from BHP Billiton’s existing line to the iron ore deposits in Mining Area C of the ...
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Network Rail launches £9bn Railtrack bid
The Company Limited by Guarantee intended to succeed Railtrack as owner of the British railway infrastructure launched a formal bid for Railtrack plc on March 25. This was lodged with Railtrack Group, and a copy was sent to administrators Ernst & Young. Chairman Ian McAllister said he hoped to reach ...
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Paducah closes
US DIESEL loco remanufacturer VMV Paducahbilt ceased operation on April 2 and made all 240 staff redundant. Company officials blamed a steadily shrinking order book, resulting from US and Canadian railways buying large numbers of new locos, and the transfer of work to low-wage plants in Mexico. VMV’s owner, a ...
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Vialia progress
UNDER the second phase of its Vialia programme to develop retail and leisure facilities at 16 major stations, Spanish National Railways has awarded Riofisa a contract covering A Coruña and Vigo. Metrovacesa will be building and letting new premises at Lleida and Logroño.Involving €601m of investment, Vialia has already seen ...
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Contracts sold
UNITED Industrial Corp is selling two rolling stock refurbishment contracts awarded to its AAI subsidiary to Alstom Transportation Inc for US$21·4m. One covers overhaul of 100 Baltimore metro cars, which began in mid-2000 and is scheduled for completion next year. The other is for the renovation of 160 New Jersey ...
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Mole cuts ballast faster
infrastructure maintenance contractor Jarvis Rail has introduced a 44 tonne self-propelled excavator able to cut a swathe of ballast up to 3800mm wide and 600mm deep in one pass. Supplied by mining equipment manufacturer DBT, the Mole has been adapted for rail use by Jarvis Rail’s On-Track Machines division. The ...
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Thermal camera spots faults
LONDON Underground infrastructure company Sub-Surface Lines has bought two FLIR ThermaCAM PM695 hand-held thermal imaging cameras, which are being used to locate water ingress and drainage problems in tunnels and ballast. Areas of water seepage are picked up as cold spots. Using uncooled microbolometer FPA detectors with nearly 77 000 ...
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Not suburban
Sir - Your article ’Hillside EMU shipped to Melbourne’ (RG4.02 p208) says ’fitting out will take place at Ballarat in the Melbourne suburbs’. Well, I know that Melbourne suburbs extend quite a fair way out, but Ballarat is 118 km from Melbourne, by road or by rail. This is about ...
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PIS updated
DANISH State Railways and Banestyrelsen have introduced a new passenger information system developed by Atkins Danmark using Siemens technology. VICOS I replaces the previous EMPS technology which Atkins Danmark (formerly ScanRail Consult) helped to develop in the mid-1980s. The Windows-based VICOS I draws on automated traffic management systems, timetable ...
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Ikea launches furniture 'pipeline'
Swedish-based Ikea Rail AB is one of the first private companies to have bought train paths across two borders. Richard Hope finds out how the train will cover 1044 km in three countries at an average speed of 65 km/h, using three drivers and two locomotives
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Pullman car flies in
As part of its new corporate headquarters building, Kansas City Southern built an open-air trainshed. On April 13 the 1928-built Pullman car Harry S Truman was craned into position on a 24 m length of track, where it will be open to public view. From September the vehicle will be ...
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Settlement deal
BRITAIN’S Association of Train Operating Companies has awarded SchlumbergerSema an £80m, 17-year contract to design, build and operate information technology for the rail settlement system. Due to become operational on April 1 2003, it will handle the apportionment of annual revenues totalling £3·5bn.Known as Latest Earnings Networked Nationally Over Night, ...