All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2003 – Page 4
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PEOPLE
Michael Ward has been named Chairman & CEO of CSX Corp in place of John Snow, who resigned to become US Secretary of the Treasury (RG 1.03 p19). Ward was previously President of CSX Transportation.Alex Hynes has been appointed Senior Economist at the UK’s Office of the Rail Regulator. He ...
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Sprinter refit progresses
NEARING completion at Bombardier’s Randers works is a Sprinter EMU for Netherlands Railways, being refurbished as a prototype for a mid-life fleet refit under a 200m guilders contract awarded in July 2001 (RG 8.01 p503). The unit was dispatched to Denmark in April 2002, and is due to re-enter service ...
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PUBLICATIONS
Le Grand Livre du TGVby Claude Soulié and Jean TricoireThis French-language 350-page hardback about France’s high speed lines and the trains that run on them is informative and comprehensive. Starting with the world speed records of 1955 and trials in the early 1970s using the gas turbine powered TGV001, the ...
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Road rail shunter
TNT Logistics has put into service a Mercedes-Benz Unimog U400 road-rail shunter at its warehouse in Staffordshire to handle wagonloads of spare parts arriving by rail from Germany. The vehicle is equipped with automatic couplers and a front-mounted brush for site cleaning at the rail terminal or warehouse.Unimog, United KingdomReader ...
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Rapid recording
THE EFFECTS on the track geometry of rail wear and sleeper movement can be measured at up to 30 km/h using DataTaker DT800. Track twist angles are measured every 3m, and transmitted to a laboratory by GSM network. Readings are compared with previous measurements to establish if the angle meets ...
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Somport study
SPAIN’s Ministry of Development has awarded AEPO a contract worth €809911 to study the technical feasibility of reopening the 7·9 km Somport tunnel under the Pyrenees, closed to rail traffic since 1970. To be completed within 20 months, the study will also consider the remodelling required at Canfranc to ...
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