All Railway Gazette International articles in May 1998 – Page 2
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Imperial Express heads east
From May 3 tourists will be able to travel in luxury between Praha and Budapest with the inaugural run of a land cruise programme by the Imperial Railway Co. Sleeping cars from the Hungarian Presidential train have been married to a pair of Wagons-Lits Dining Cars to form a luxury ...
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Two railways test dual-system Tractis
INTRO: A fleet of 60 high performance 3 kV DC or 25 kV AC locomotives being built by GEC Alsthom for Belgian National Railways will replace units dating from the 1950s and 1960s. Another 20 locos are on order for Luxembourg National RailwaysBYLINE: Harry Hondius MSc EngBY THE START of ...
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Via safety drive
VIA Rail Canada has launched a drive to improve its safety management, following the completion of a four-month investigation by two international experts on March 20. The wide-ranging, independent review was commissioned following a derailment of Via’s premier train, the Canadian, near Biggar, Saskatchewan, last September. Conducting the study were ...
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Development line strategy
THREE NEW RAILWAYS totalling around 1300 km may be built to open up the potentially prosperous interior of northeast Peru, between the Andes Cordillera and Brazil’s Amazon basin. A multi-sector committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the prime minister to look at the practicality of building the lines ...
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DB plans night train revival
GERMAN Railway’s long distance passenger business has charged its DB Autozug GmbH subsidiary with developing night services so that they run at a profit.Autozug’s main responsibility until now has been to develop Germany’s motorail services, for which it is refurbishing couchettes and sleeping cars (RG 4.98 p232). Karl-Dietrich Reemtsema, Head ...
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Two contracts for Line H
THE Buenos Aires city government expects to call tenders towards the end of this month for a contract covering civil works on its Line H metro project. The 10·3 km route from Retiro to Nueva Pompeya will be largely in tunnel (RG 1.98 p10), and Secretary of Production & Services ...
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Contact wire tracking by laser
PLASSER & Theurer has supplied a contact wire measuring system to Austrian Federal Railways that uses laser scanning technology to determine the position of the wire with an accuracy of
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STB considers the unthinkable
IT SEEMS that Union Pacific is not out of the soup yet. Indeed, some of the stories reaching our offices would suggest that progress towards solving the fearsome congestion problems that followed UP’s merger with Southern Pacific is far from encouraging. Take, for example, the one about a train of ...
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Building the Nafta Railway
INTRO: Kansas City Southern has moved from a 2750 km regional carrier to a 16000 km international network, ideally placed to tap the expanding opportunities generated by the North American Free Trade Agreement BYLINE: Michael R HavertyPresident & Chief Executive OfficerKansas City Southern RailwaySIGNING OF the North American Free Trade ...
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Steady workload at Brush
ON MARCH 16 British intermodal operator Freightliner Ltd presented its first Class 57 diesel locomotive at Brush Traction’s Falcon works in Loughborough, lowering an American engine into a Class 47 now undergoing conversion. Brush has a contract to rebuild six Class 47s which it delivered to British Rail 30 years ...
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New Minister of Railways boosts Chinese investment
JUST 10 days after taking over as China’s Minister of Railways on March 18, Fu Zhihuan announced at a conference in Beijing that rail investment would be stepped up by 30% this year from 34·9bn to 45bn yuan. Spending on construction and upgrading over the next five years will be ...
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Izmir electrification bids
TURKISH State Railways was due to call tenders last month for the electrification of 79 route-km of double-track lines radiating from the port of Izmir, at a cost of around US$35m. Bids are expected to be opened in July or August. TCDD is looking to award a turnkey contract for ...
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Tunnel link bidders told to keep trying
LONDON & Continental Railways has been given until May 29 to come up with a satisfactory proposal for building the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott told Parliament on March 27 that he was extending the March 31 deadline (RG 4.98 p207) by two months.LCR and ...
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BHP picks ECP brakes
BHP Iron Ore is to start installing electronically-controlled air brakes on 240 wagons for its Mount Newman mineral railway in Western Australia, using radio to transmit braking signals along the train. It has selected EPx Direct Braking equipment and TrainTalk radio technology from GE Harris Railway Electronics of Florida. ...
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More discounts and better service
FRENCH National Railways has changed its portfolio of discounted fares. This follows an initial step last June, when SNCF simplified its basic fares structure and launched two railcards designed to attract young people to travel by train. The latest changes are being made after a market research campaign in November ...
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Berlin interchange rebuilt as Stadtbahn reopens
FROM May 24 German Railway reinstates full services over the 9 km Berlin Stadtbahn between Zoo and Hauptbahnhof, which from the same day reverts to its former name of Ostbahnhof. All four tracks, reconstructed using a ballastless design (right), will return to service, with main line and S-Bahn trains each ...
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Freeways expose the freight barriers
INTRO: Although Terffs exist on paper and trains have operated since January, genuine customers bringing new business to rail are in short supply. Richard Hope explains what is going on and where it might all be leadingTRANSPORT Commissioner Neil Kinnock has made the transfer of freight from road to rail ...
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Plasser to roll-out multi-purpose ballast machine
Shortly to roll out of one of Plasser & Theurer’s Linz factories is the first AFKM automatic track control unit. Designed for use behind a ballast train, it integrates ballast ploughs, a ballast storage hopper and a dynamic stabiliser in a single machine. Plasser estimates that the AFKM will achieve ...
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Investment surge tackles the backlog
INTRO: The railway laboratory is four years old. In the time since Railtrack was set up, Britain’s railway network has been split up, sold off, and in some cases recombined. The hiatus in investment which threatened to kill the indigenous supply industry has given way to a flood of orders ...
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Airport line ticketing
AUTOMATIC ticket checking equipment is shortly to be installed at stations on Norway’s Gardermobanen route to Oslo airport, due to open in October. Supplied by Dassault Automatismes et Telecommunications in partnership with ICL, the equipment is similar to that previously installed at Eurostar stations with a magnetic stripe reader for ...
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