All Railway Gazette International articles in May 1997
All articles published this month.
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Sidetrack
Steaming backWITH a national electricity shortage following the run-down of the Chernobyl nuclear plant and soaring prices for imported oil, Ukrainian Railways has resorted to traditional motive power for trains in the Dniepropetrovsk coalfield and around Lviv in the west of the country. Hungarian-built steam locos mothballed in the 1960s ...
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SBB restructures from within
INTRO: Swiss Federal Railways has completed the largest restructuring programme in its history, without the help of external consultants. Impetus for reform came from within SBB and from recent European and national legislation BYLINE: Hans-Jurg SpillmannSecretary General, Swiss Federal Railways SBB has just completed an extremely complex process of reform ...
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Punggol tenders
SINGAPORE’s Land Transport Authority has called tenders for design, supply and installation of trackwork on the planned 20 km North East line and the 6·4 km Changi Airport branch off the existing MRT East line. The NEL package also includes trackwork for the Sengkang depot, which will accommodate a fleet ...
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Publications
Railways & Renewable Energy SourcesThe Community of European Railways’ response to a European Commission Green Paper on Energy for the Future notes that electrified railways can harness a wide variety of renewable energy sources, and suggests that the creation of a high-speed rail network in Europe by 2010 will reduce ...
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TER prototypes take to the rails
INTRO: The first of two pre-production TER regional diesel trainsets for French National Railways was unveiled at Orléans on March 26NINE of France’s 20 région presidents attended the ceremonies at Orléans station on March 26 to mark the arrival of French National Railways’ first TER diesel trainset. Their presence was ...
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RT preferred to RS
ON MARCH 17 the Californian city of Folsom abandoned plans to buy RegioSprinter diesel railcars for a commuter rail line in favour of an extension to Sacramento Regional Transit’s electric light rail network. RT has agreed to build the 12 km link from Sunrise Boulevard to Folsom by 2000 at ...
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People
Mr Henri Kuitunen has been named President & Chief Executive Officer of VR Group Ltd. He replaces Mr Panu Haapala, who became President on January 1, but died suddenly on March 15. Mr Albert Vilalta has been appointed President of the Spanish rail infrastructure authority GIF. Mr Francisco Ballesteros ...
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Quiet please, noise testing
AERODYNAMIC testing of noise generated by shinkansen trains can now be undertaken in Japan Railway Technical Research Institute’s new wind tunnel at Maihara-cho. Work has already been carried out on JR West’s Series 500, and testing of components such as pantographs has proved particularly useful.Measuring the noise generated by air ...
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Market
Australia: Western Australia’s government has provided funding for Westrail to increase it’s order for locos being supplied by Clyde to a total of 19 standard gauge 4000hp locos, and 11 narrow gauge 3000hp locos.Germany: Hessische Landesbahn has ordered 15 low-floor GTW2/6 DMUs from Deutsche Waggonbau and Adtranz for DM45m; they ...
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Utah makes TRAX
APRIL 10 saw a formal sod-turning ceremony for the TRAX light rail line in Salt Lake City. This followed the award of contracts by Utah Transit Authority on March 26 for conversion of the existing railway between the city centre and the southern suburb of Sandy (RG 10.96 p645). Carter-Burgess/Jacobson ...
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Tamshui line opens
TAIPEI Mass Rapid Transit System formally opened its Tamshui heavy metro line on March 28. Running northwest from Taiwan Railway Administration’s Main Station in the heart of the capital to the suburban town of Tamshui, the line largely follows the alignment of a former narrow-gauge branch. The first contracts for ...
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Letters
Airport trainsSir - We should like to correct the picture caption in RG 3.97 p141 about rolling stock for Hong Kong’s Airport Railway.At the end of 1994, the Mass Transit Railway Corporation awarded a contract to Adtranz-CAF Joint Venture for the delivery of 23 trains for Hong Kong. The leader ...
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Stand-alone island
TASMANIA's 780 km narrow-gauge freight railway looks set to be the top seller in next month's sale of the remnants of the Australian National Railways Commission. Freed from the burdens of mainland cost structures, and benefiting from AN's A$1bn debt write-off, the vertically-integrated self-contained operation is seen as a nice ...
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Intelligence
CAPTION: Italian State Railways received the first of 20 Class E412 three-system locomotives at a ceremony in the Vado Ligure works of Adtranz. Present were Rolling Stock supremo Mario Moretti and Transport Minister Claudio Burando. Able to run in Austria and Germany, the 200 km/h locos are also able to ...
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Intelligence
CAPTION: Union Carriage & Wagon has rolled out the first of 44 three-car stainless steel EMUs for KTMB’s Komuter services on Kuala Lumpur suburban routes. Three-phase traction equipment is supplied by GEC AlsthomCAPTION: Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen formally opened a new rolling stock assembly works for Adtranz at Berlin Pankow ...
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Intelligence
Brazil: Brazil Rail Partners (RG 5.96 p256) has signed a contract to manage operations on the Ferronorte railway. Although the federal government has allocated US$120m to finish the road/rail bridge across the Paran
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Integrated infrastructure monitoring
TRACKWATCH integrated monitoring systems are designed to log all signalling activity, enabling failures to be located and potential problems to be identified. Suitable for mobile use or permanent installation at level crossings and large interlockings, the modular concept has been developed by Solartron.Isolated measurement pods are connected to spare signal ...
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Industry
Great Britain: London & Continental Engineering, the Channel Tunnel rail link design and management consortium, has been renamed Rail Link Engineering.Thrall Car has announced plans to build wagons in Great Britain; Wisconsin Central subsidiary EWS plans to order up to 500 wagons each year.Malaysia: On March 20 Ansaldo Signal announced ...
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JR West tests the limits of independence
INTRO: As the second JR company to achieve a listing on the Tokyo stock market, JR West is beginning to sever the links that tie it to government control. Chairman Masataka Ide was interviewed by Murray Hughes in OkayamaWhen JR WEST was listed on the Tokyo stock market on ...