Main line rail industry news – Page 1346
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Market October 2000
Brazil: Carajás Railway has ordered 550 ore hopper wagons of 130 tonne capacity from local builder Amsted Maxion. China: Huanghua port has ordered two tandem wagon tipplers for export coal from Germany's Krupp Fördertechnik. Germany: DB has signed a letter of intent with Adtranz to buy a further 24 Class ...
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Advanced current collection
GERMAN Railway is currently working with its principal suppliers and the German Aerospace Research Centre on the development of a next-generation current collector. The Ultra design uses electronic control to regulate the contact pressure, improving performance at high speeds. Reliable contact at 400 km/h will only require a force of ...
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Plovdiv - Svilengrad upgrading
BULGARIAN State Railway is to call tenders shortly for upgrading of its 156 km main line serving the southeast of the country, at an estimated cost of US$340m. Modernisation of the Plovdiv - Svilengrad route is due to start early next year for completion by June 2005. The line forms ...
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Lirex offers taste of future commuting
Starting point for development of the experimental Lirex train were the wide-bodied København suburban trains developed in the late 1980s and 1990s by Linke-Hofmann-Busch in Salzgitter, now part of the Alstom group (RG 1.96 p19). Featuring similar short bodies with 2+3 seating and self-steering Kerf bogies with two independent wheels, ...
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White Seagulls serve Kyushu
PREMIER services on JR Kyushu’s main line between Hakata and Nagasaki are now operated by the company’s fourth design of air-conditioned limited express EMU. The Series 885 Kamome or Seagull units are derived from the Series 883 sets used on the Hakata - Oita run. With a top speed of ...
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Polymeric insulator
AT THE REQUEST of infrastructure maintenance contractor GTRM, a 25 kV polymeric post insulator has been developed specifically for use in upgrading catenary for 200 and 225 km/h operation on Britain’s West Coast main line. Once the polymeric insulator has been approved by Railtrack, it will be used to replace ...
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Train times by WAPphone
Railtrack announced on August 3 the launch of a timetable enquiry service for users of WAP mobile phones. Following an agreement with software company Kizoom, the estimated 500000 users of WAP phones in Great Britain can now access Railtrack’s well-established internet service at www.railtrack.co.uk/i.wml. They will also be able to ...
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Light rail back on the map
One of the most astonishing policy reversals since Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott published his Transport White Paper two years ago is his new enthusiasm for light rail. Transport 2010 notes that only Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and the West Midlands have lines in operation outside London - ’far fewer than ...
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Finance
FinanceArmenia: US$15·2m has become available for repairs to track and rolling stock as a result of a $40m transport credit awarded to the government in July by the World Bank.Belgium: A further loan worth 112·5m euros towards the construction of high speed routes from Brussels to Antwerpen and Liège has ...
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Iron Rhine the wrong way
Sir - Your report on the Iron Rhine in RG 7.00 p437, apart from the confusing layout making it hard to read, was also misleading and, in places, erroneous. The last through train - a piggyback service from Antwerpen to the Ruhr - ran on May 31 1991. The river ...
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Metros
Canada: Toronto city council has given its approval for TTC to sell and lease back all 372 T1 metro cars being supplied by Bombardier Transportation. The transaction is expected to generate savings of between C$50m and C$80m over the 50-year life of the cars.China: With the breakthrough of the 8 ...
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PEOPLE
Mihai Necolaiciuc has been appointed General Manager of Romanian infrastructure operator CFR SA in succession to Viorel Simut; he was formerly Manager of CFR’s Iasi region. Miss Anca Boagiu has taken over as Transport Minister, succeeding Traian Basescu who has become Mayor of Bucuresti.Alexander S Misharin has been appointed Senior ...
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Prescott promises £60bn spending bonanza
BRITAIN’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has unveiled plans for a massive increase in public and private investment in rail over the next 10 years. Presenting Transport 2010 on July 20, Prescott set a target of lifting passenger-km on the national network by 50% and freight tonne-km by 80% by ...
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Lilyfield inaugurated
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr opened the 3·1 km Sydney light rail extension on August 13, serving stations at Glebe, Jubilee Park (above), Rozelle and Lilyfield;. Following a former SRA NSW freight railway alignment, the extension cost A$20m to build. NSW Transport Minister Carl Scully confirmed at the opening ...
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Sacramento LRVs
Sir - In Metro Report 2000 p17 you refer to 40 high-floor LRVs being built for the Sacramento Regional Transit District. These cars are being built by CAF with traction equipment from Alstom, not Siemens. Siemens-Duewag supplied the first two orders of Sacramento LRVs, with 26 being delivered in 1985-86 ...
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Market
Argentina: The Emepa workshops in Chascomús are due this month to begin refurbishing 34 coaches for Uepfp, the operating company established by the province of Buenos Aires.Australia: ANI Bradken has ordered 240 sets of air braking equipment and bogie-mounted TMX brakes from Wabco Freight Car Products for wagons to run ...
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Alicante light rail opens
SPAIN’s Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana has launched an initial light rail service in the resort of Alicante. The 1 km segregated alignment runs from Puerta del Mar via Albufuerta to the FGC station at Marina, from which some LRVs continue over the Denia line as far as Lucentum. Next ...
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Blue line’s rolling birthday party
TOCELEBRATE the 10th anniversary of the light rail Blue line between Los Angeles and Long Beach on July 14, LAMTA rolled out two of its P-865 LRVs repainted in the livery of the historic Pacific Electric interurban network which once plied the same corridor. With assistance from the Electric ...
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Africans build rail trolleys
MALAWI bus manufacturer PEW handed over its first locally-built maintenance gang trolley in July to the local rail operator Central East African Railways, which was awarded a 20-year franchise to run the Malawi network last summer. Owned by Kamwayi Corp, PEW mainly builds minibuses for countries in southern ...