Main line rail industry news – Page 1390
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On April 15 Guatemala President Alvaro Arzu Irigoyen and Transport Minister Fritz Garcia-Gallont joined Ferrovias Guatemala Chairman Henry Posner III and General Manager Renato Fernandez Ravelo to celebrate the return of freight services to the 914mm gauge network after a three year break. The thrice-weekly train will haul cement 60 ...
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Cassiopeia relaunches JR East sleepers
ON April 10 East Japan Railway unveiled its Deluxe Super Night Express train at Tokyo’s Ogu depot. Marketed as Cassiopeia, the 12-car double-deck set is to enter revenue service between Ueno and Sapporo on July 16. It will run northwards on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday each week, returning on Monday, ...
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On March 23 the Denver RTD board approved another $7m for design and construction of the 3 km Central Platte Valley light rail branch. With $2m approved earlier this year, this completes the agency’s share of the $40m project, which will branch off the existing line at Auraria station. Serving ...
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Tilting ICEs enter service
ON APRIL 15 German Railway ran an introductory special train between Stuttgart and Horb to demonstrate the ICT tilting EMUs. Five of these will be allocated to inter-city services on the Stuttgart - Zürich corridor from the end of this month. With effect from the May 30 timetable change, ICTs ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: The first of 55 Class 375 Electrostar EMUs being supplied by Adtranz to Connex SouthEastern was demonstrated on the test track at Derby on April 16Photo: B MorrisonCAPTION: Alstom-LHB of Braunschweig has handed over the first of 30 LINT 27 lightweight diesel railcars for German Railway, which designates them ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Israel Railways has taken delivery of three GA-DE900AS Bo-Bo diesel shunters being supplied by Alstom Transporte of Spain. They are currently being commissioned at Haifa East depotPhoto: Steve Tish
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World Speed Survey 1999
Sir - Work has now begun on the 1999 World Speed Survey, which as usual will be based on the summer timetables. Our 1997 review prompted an above-average reader response. It seems appropriate now to reply in the hope that with help from readers we can avoid errors. These days ...
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Under or round
AT THE behest of Bavarian Transport Minister Otto Wiesheu, German Railway has been asked to examine proposals to increase capacity for cross-city services in München. Specifically, he wants DB to assess the feasibility of upgrading the southern ring linking the main station and the Ostbahnhof, with four tracks throughout and ...
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Sterling bags tourist circuits
INDIAN Railways has finally agreed terms with Sterling Resorts to operate two of its eight planned luxury tourist trains, under a profit sharing agreement (RG 2.98 p87). A memorandum of understanding signed in March after three years of negotiations provides for Sterling to own and staff the train, which will ...
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High level talk
PROPOSALS for a rail link across the Tienshan mountains to open up trade between China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have inched forward. A protocol was signed in March in Bishkek, and a group of experts is working on possible routes.One would run from Kashi in China’s Xinjiang province northwest to the ...
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Finnish infrastructure authority Ratahallintokeskus expects to call tenders this month for the extension of 25 kV electrification from Oulu to Rovaniemi and Tuomioja to Raahe. This forms part of a two-stage programme to wire the remaining trunk lines in northern Finland.CAPTION: Russian Railways’ Demikhovo EMU factory has completed a prototype ...
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Informed and entertained
Adtranz Sweden has awarded a contract to Focon Electronic Systems for the supply of luggage rack units incorporating passenger information and entertainment systems, which will be fitted to the 17 trains for Danish State Railways and 10 for Swedish State Railways that will operate over the Øresund link from next ...
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Greener toilets for ICN
Swiss Federal Railways’ ICN tilting trains (RG 12.98 p851) are being equipped with toilet systems from Protec, featuring an underfloor bioreactor. Solid and liquid effluent are first separated by a filter unit. Natural decomposition breaks down solid waste for removal at six to 12 month intervals.Liquid undergoes a sequence of ...
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Float-out eases Dutch capacity crunch
NETHERLANDS Railways has a problem. It has become a victim of its own success. Such is the growth in passenger traffic that NS Reizigers has had to adopt a number of tactics to get more seats on its trains. One important strand is refurbishment of the 1964-built four-car ’Plan T’ ...
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FNM enters privatisationend game
INTRO: With 14500 km of the National Railways of Mexico (FNM) system now operated by the private sector, FNM should see its operating role disappear by the end of this year as bids are invited for the remaining short lines. Head of Restructuring Jorge Machado outlined progress so far and ...
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Big three lead rail renaissance
INTRO: By focusing on customer service and investing in both infrastructure and new equipment, Mexico’s three major concessionaires are working to provide safe, reliable and punctual freight service and win back traffic lost to road. Senior executives from TFM, Ferromex and Ferrosur spoke to Robert Preston about the progress they ...
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Partners promise to deliver on time
BYLINE: Union Railways South has the challenge of completing the first phase of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link by October 2003. Newly-appointed Managing Director Chris Jago told Chris Jackson that a partnership with project managers Rail Link Engineering promised ’a win-win solution’ INTRO: Union Railways South has the challenge of ...
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Managing a project with many masters
INTRO: Ken Turnbull of Bechtel, who is Project Director of Rail Link Engineering, told Richard Hope how the £4bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link survived last year’s crisis, and is now running smoothly despite complex client-contractor relationships resulting from the rescue deal reached in June 1998JUST 12 MONTHS AGO, the fate ...