Main line rail industry news – Page 1387
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Sidetrack
Airport is all at seaWith growth at Schiphol airport continuing (p355), its management, the airlines based there and the air traffic authority have concluded that the construction of an off-shore airport, similar to that serving Osaka in Japan, is the best solution, and is needed by 2010. Connection to the ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: On show at the Hannover fair in April was the first of a series of 350 Hirrs twin-section sliding-wall vans being supplied to GE Capital Rail Services by Bombardier Transportation DWA-Niesky. Designed to carry 65 tonnes at a maximum axleload of 23·5 tonnes, the vans are cleared to run ...
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Inside INDUSTRY
On April 29 Adtranz und Elektrizace Zeleznic Praha signed a co-operation agreement covering power supply and electrification equipment. The deal provides for joint design, planning, manufacture and marketing of products in the Czech Republic, Germany and other countries, and will give Adtranz access to EZ’s contacts in the East European ...
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Pointers
n Look for an announcement this month of the preferred bidders to control Peru’s state rail network now run by Enafer. Under a process being organised by Mercer Management Consultants, the government will retain ownership of the infrastructure, and the concessionaires will be responsible for selling timetable paths to various ...
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Alarming rise in rail breaks
BRITAIN’S Health & Safety Executive took the drastic step on April 29 of serving on Railtrack a Prohibition Notice limiting trains in the 7 km tunnel under the Severn estuary to 32 km/h. First Great Western’s inter-city services between London and South Wales were disrupted, along with those of other ...
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Passenger PORTFOLIO
In Briefn Amtrak is altering market branding for its first class service on a number of corridors. The San Diegan trains now carry Pacific Class, while in the Pacific Northwest first class is redesignated Cascade Business Class. In the run up to introduction of Acela high speed trains on ...
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Metros
Australia: New South Wales Department of Transport has invited proposals by September 24 for a smartcard ticketing system covering all public transport within the Sydney CityRail area. Canada: Toronto Transit Commission has awarded Vale-Harmon Enterprises a US$6·7m contract to supply signalling for the 6·4 km Sheppard Avenue subway, scheduled for ...
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Electrification heads RHK investment
ONE RESULT of Finland’s 1995 railway restructuring has been a marked increase in government funds for network development, which RHK Director-General Ossi Niemimuukko says is ’starting to rectify many years of under-investment compared to road spending.’ His top priority is ’bringing the core network up to modern standards’, through track ...
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Double-deckers complete IC service
FINNISH RAILWAYS is currently taking delivery of 42 double-deck coaches to expand capacity on its highly successful InterCity services launched in 1989. VR Ltd now operates eight supplementary-fare trains each way per day. Most run inwards to Helsinki in the morning and return in the evening, targeting the day-trip business ...
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PEOPLE
Swiss Federal Railways has confirmed the senior posts on its four new divisions. Reporting to the Head of Passenger division Paul Blumenthal are: Philippe Gauderon (Regional services); Vincent Ducrot (Intercity); Peter Lehmann (Client Services); Serge Anet/Thomas Portmann (Production); Hans-Kaspar Weber (Baggage and personal security) and Ferdinando Gianella (Rolling stock). ...
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Back to builder
NORWEGIAN State Railways has finally reached a settlement with Siemens about the ill-fated Type Di6 locomotives which were ordered under a NKR300m contract placed in 1992.The deal provides for Siemens to take back the 11 units delivered to NSB and to reimburse the full price. Further, it is to pay ...
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Talgo to buy Transtech
On May 12 the Finnish national steel company Rautaruukki announced that it had signed a pre-contract for the sale of its Transtech rolling stock business to Patentes Talgo of Spain. The deal is still subject to final approval by the boards of the two companies.Transtech was formed to build freight ...
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RailNoise for Windows
WS atkins Noise & Vibration has released a Windows version of its RailNoise software which calculates operational noise generated by railways and guided transport systems (RG 3.97 p189). Running under Windows 95, 98 or NT4, RailNoise 98 is available in three versions: LT for smaller projects, Standard, and Enterprise with ...
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NEWS
Spanish National Railways President Miguel Corsini signed an accord with Chilean State Railways Director-General Jaime Mondaca on April 16 for the sale of rolling stock worth Pts9bn to Chile by the end of 2002. It covers 22 Class 440R commuter EMUs, a Class 308 diesel loco, five Class 444 inter-regional ...
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Passenger PORTFOLIO
SNCF has deployed two Eurostar sets on domestic services. From March 15 the units, redesignated TGV TM, began operating from Dunkerque and Valenciennes to Paris. SNCF plans to diagram them for the Brussels - Nice service during the summerSNCF is planning to open the first phase of the Eole cross-Paris ...
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Tilting ICE launched
CAPTION: Land Prime Minister for Baden-Württemberg Erwin Teufel (left), Dr Axel Nawrocki, Director, DB Reise & Touristik (Fernverkehr), Herbert H Steffen of Siemens, Peter Witt of Bombardier DWA, and Dr Johannes Ludewig of DB celebrated the formal presentation of the first tilting ICE at Stuttgart on April 15. They are ...
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Not counting the cost of safety
SPEAKING at a press conference in Frankfurt on May 3, German Railway Chairman Dr Johannes Ludewig gave some indication of the safety measures likely to be introduced once the enquiry into the ICE disaster at Eschede on June 3 1998 is concluded. Noting that DB ’is doing everything humanly possible ...
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Open access proposal threatens profitable harmony
INTRO: Four years after the amicable separation of Finland’s rail infrastructure administration and restructuring of Finnish State Railways as a profitable commercial company, the government has decided to introduce more competition. Chris Jackson discussed the implications with RHK Director-General Ossi Niemimuukko and VR Group President & CEO Henri Kuitunen ON ...
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Storm clouds gather over WCML upgrade
FIVE YEARS have slipped by since the newly-created Railtrack launched in March 1994 a feasibility study into the upgrade of Britain’s prime inter-city route. The West Coast main line - actually a network linking London Euston with Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh - had already been scheduled by British ...