All Railway Gazette International articles in May 1997 – Page 3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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