Main line rail industry news – Page 1404
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S-Bahn back
ON DECEMBER 15 S-Bahn Berlin GmbH extended its route S25 from Tegel to Hennigsdorf, reinstating a link that was severed in 1961. The restoration was approved in 1992, but encroachment on the alignment by a motorway required the construction of a new rail formation. A 2·3 km single-track section restricts ...
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TRTC readies Hsinchung line
TAIPEI Rapid Transit Corp President Richard Chen confirmed in November that the city’s third metro line would open before the end of 1998. The 7·8 km Hsinchung line combines the northern half of the Hsintien (Green) line between the Main station and Kuting and the southern section of the Chungho ...
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London’s light railway grows up
INTRO: The original Docklands Light Railway cost £77m, but Richard Hope found that total investment is approaching £1bn as a third extension nears completion - and there is more to comeBYLINE: Ian BrownChief ExecutiveDocklands Light Railway LtdBYLINE: Bill ShepherdProject ManagerLewisham ExtensionLRG ContractorsCHRISTMAS WAS DUE to see a major software upgrade ...
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Midland Turbostar debuts in May
MORE SERVICES and extra capacity on Britain’s main line from London St Pancras to Sheffield and Nottingham are planned for this summer. From the May timetable change the first 10 of 17 two-car Class170/1 Turbostar diesel multiple-units will join Midland Mainline’s 13-strong High Speed Train fleet as the workhorses of ...
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Building on a record year
INTRO: SNCF’s main line passenger business faces the challenge this year of building on the strong results of 1998. Managing Director, Passenger Services, Guillaume Pepy spoke to Robert Preston about the innovations that have fuelled growth and which he hopes will sustain the upward trendBYLINE: Guillaume PepyManaging Director, Passenger Services, ...
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Profit priority at Siemens
After recording a pre-tax loss of DM759m in the financial year which ended on September 30 1998, Siemens Transportation Systems is expecting to reduce its losses ’substantially’ in 1998-99 by further strengthening systems competence which represents a ’unique competitive advantage’. According to the Siemens annual report for 1997-98, Trans-portation Systems’ ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: On November 18 Adtranz MAV Dunakeszi Kft handed over six refurbished couchette coaches to Hungarian State Railways for use by lorry drivers travelling on Hungarokombi piggyback trains. Rolling motorway trains have a 12% market share of the 700000 lorries that cross Hungary each year
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: Western Australia’s government has set up the Rail Advisory Council to look at rail access, sale of Westrail, and access to North Quay, Fremantle, including possible double-stack operation.BHP Iron Ore was due to receive the first of six AC6000CW diesel locos from General Electric in December for use on ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: The first Gatwick Express EMU built by Alstom Transport in Birmingham to the Juniper design was due to start test running on December 18
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: The first four spans for the cable-stayed high bridge on the Øresund fixed link were in position by December 11 and the last span on the 3·7 km eastern approach was installed on December 3. The last of the immersed tube tunnel segments is to be positioned this month
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Comet completes first tunnel drive
INTRO: Construction of a 21 km automated metro in the Danish capital is well under way, with two TBMs being positioned for their second drives under the heart of the city. Andrew Hellawell visited the sites to see construction work in progressBEHIND THE quayside at Havnegade in central København a ...
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Swiss support huge rail spend
NO CLEARER signal could have been given. On November 29 the Swiss population voted by a majority of 63·5% to support a massive investment programme in their rail network. The Bern government now has a mandate to spend SFr30·5bn on rail projects over the next two decades, including the much ...
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Letters
Wrong styleSir - We were interested to read the article in your October issue on the Spanish IC2000 tilting trains (RG 10.98 p693), as Giugiaro Design was involved in the exterior design of these trains. Unfortunately the picture caption attributes this role to our competitor Pininfarina, and I would like ...
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EWS penetrates German market
ON DECEMBER 1 English Welsh & Scottish Railway dispatched its first through freight train to Germany via the Channel Tunnel. Leaving Wembley in north London at 00.07, it was scheduled to reach K
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Train ferry plan
CHINESE Railways has decided to run a train ferry across the Yangtze river at Jiang’in, east of Nanjing. Work will start on the project this year for opening in 2001. The ferry will form part of the 642 km Xinyi - Chanxing line to open up the eastern seaboard between ...
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Siemens to renew Austrian diesels
AUSTRIAN Federal Railway has selected Siemens for a Sch1·6bn contract to renew its diesel locomotive fleet over the next four years. Announcing the decision on November 26, ÖBB General Director Helmut Draxler said the railway had ’opted for a package deal’ combining both main line and shunting locos. The contract ...
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RZD tests dual-system EP10
ON NOVEMBER 20 Russia’s Ministry of Railways took delivery of a prototype EP10 dual-system electric loco from the Novocherkassk Electric Loco Works in Rostov-na-Donu. Designed to haul up to 25 coaches at a top speed of 160 km/h, the six-axle EP10 was described as RZD’s principal passenger locomotive for the ...
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CrossCountry DEMUs ordered
BRITISH operator Virgin Rail placed a £1060m order on December 9 for Bombardier to supply and maintain a fleet of 78 diesel-electric multiple-units between 2001 and 2002. The 200 km/h trains will operate Virgin CrossCountry services and Virgin West Coast's London - Holyhead route. The contract is valued at £390m ...
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Wisconsin preferred for Aqaba
ON NOVEMBER 23 Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp revealed that its international business unit had been selected as preferred bidder for a 25 year concession to operate the 283 km 1050mm gauge Aqaba Railway in Jordan. WCI is part of a consortium including Raytheon and local Jordanian investors. The decision follows ...