All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2002
All articles published this month.
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Not suburban
Sir - Your article ’Hillside EMU shipped to Melbourne’ (RG4.02 p208) says ’fitting out will take place at Ballarat in the Melbourne suburbs’. Well, I know that Melbourne suburbs extend quite a fair way out, but Ballarat is 118 km from Melbourne, by road or by rail. This is about ...
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West Side study
NEW YORK MTA called bids by May 1 for consultants to design a proposed extension of its Flushing subway, Line 7. The idea is to extend the existing two-track tunnel southwest from Times Square to the Jacob Javits Convention Center on 11th Avenue between 34th and 39th Streets. The project ...
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TGV traffic still rising
FRENCH National Railways’ policy to win passengers to its Grandes Lignes long-distance inter-city business is paying off. The number of journeys is 35% higher than five years ago, with turnover up by 62%.This year SNCF plans to increase TGV traffic by over 10%. By March 23 the number of journeys ...
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Tactical retreat
NETHERLANDS Railways confirmed last month that it had withdrawn from bidding for three regional rail franchises in Nordrhein-Westfalen. NS prequalified for the Sauerland, WestMünsterland and Haard concessions, but the Managing Director of the company’s International Business Group Anton Valk said NS would not be ’able to submit a sufficiently high ...
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Publications
Rail Map of Europe, 13th EditionThe Thomas Cook map of Europe’s passenger rail routes has been revised and updated to mid-2001. The main map shows the area from the Atlantic in the west to Moscow and the Crimea in the east at 1:4000000 scale. On the reverse of the sheet ...
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Vialia progress
UNDER the second phase of its Vialia programme to develop retail and leisure facilities at 16 major stations, Spanish National Railways has awarded Riofisa a contract covering A Coruña and Vigo. Metrovacesa will be building and letting new premises at Lleida and Logroño.Involving €601m of investment, Vialia has already seen ...
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Pointers
n A study into the potential for reopening the Slavonice - Fratres border crossing between the Czech Republic and Austria is underway.n Tenders will be called shortly for construction of a 38 km spur from BHP Billiton’s existing line to the iron ore deposits in Mining Area C of the ...
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PIS updated
DANISH State Railways and Banestyrelsen have introduced a new passenger information system developed by Atkins Danmark using Siemens technology. VICOS I replaces the previous EMPS technology which Atkins Danmark (formerly ScanRail Consult) helped to develop in the mid-1980s. The Windows-based VICOS I draws on automated traffic management systems, timetable ...
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Money shortage
More progress is in sight with rehabilitation of Nigeria’s 3505 km network. One hopeful sign is the appointment of Canadian consultants to help with staff training, and possibly with business management in the medium or long term. In the immediate future Nigerian Railway Corp will implement a programme to automate ...
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Metros
Brazil: Opening of Arniqueiras and Semambaia has brought to 13 the number of stations in service on Brasilia metro Line 1 (RG 5.01 p285). The network is now carrying 45000 passengers a day.Canada: Earth Tech, part of Tyco International Ltd, is to provide track design and engineering services for the ...
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Nanjing orders Metropolis
ON APRIL 16 Nanjing Metro ordered a fleet of 20 six-car metro trainsets from Alstom Transport, in partnership with Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works. They will operate on the 16·8 km north-south Line 1 from Zhangfuyuan to Sahshanjie, due to open in June 2006. Signed in the presence of Mayor ...
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Market
Australia: A consortium of Barclay Mowlem and Alstom has won a A$17m contract to build and equip the extension of Perth’s Northern Suburbs line from Currambine to Clarkson.Brazil: MRS Logística has taken delivery of an RG48 rail grinder from Loram of the USA at a cost of US$7m. The 70m ...
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Against a background of increasing concern over the safety and environmental impact of road freight using the Alpine crossings, the feasibility of carrying trailers by rail between France and Italy is to be tested using swing-tray wagons. As the first trial bores are dug for a new Mont Cenis base ...
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LUAS operator
CONNEX has been selected as preferred bidder for a five-year franchise to run the LUAS light rail network in Dublin. Minister for Public Enterprise Mary O’Rourke has cleared the way for the Railway Procurement Agency to award the operating contract under the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001.Following a tendering competition ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Bangladesh: The first 60 vehicles of an order for 100 air-braked 75 km/h container wagons built in India at a cost of US$2·7m have entered service.Brazil: Ferronorte planned to inaugurate the 90 km line from Alto Taquari to Alto Araguaia during April.China: Vietnam Railways opened an office in Beijing on ...
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Tunnel icing prevented
GEOTHERMAL energy is being used to prevent ice formation in Chinese railway tunnels, as a cost-effective alternative to insulated lagging. The heat pipe technology has been developed by Chen Zhaoming and Li Yuanjun at the Taiyuan Railway Research Institute of Science & Technology.With winter temperatures averaging around -5í C, ice ...
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High stakes in Shanghai
’THE CHOICE of the Chinese government needs to be vindicated’. This comment, and a remark that China is feeling somewhat out on a limb in its decision to pioneer ’the first commercial application of maglev technology in the world’, came from Gerhard Wahl, Vice President of Siemens Transportation Systems Group, ...
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Standard gauge trojan horse
QUEENSLAND Rail, physically separated from Australia’s standard gauge interstate network by its own 1067mm gauge, is poised to enter the national freight market. In March the newly-established subsidiary QR National bought New South Wales operator Northern Rivers Railroad, which it plans to run under the trading name Interail.With record traffic ...
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Galicia launch
SPANISH DEVELOPMENT Minister Francisco Álvarez-Cascos joined Manuel Fraga, President of the Galicia regional government, on April 1 to mark the official start of work on the first sections of the A Coruña - Vigo corridor to be upgraded. On the 6·6 km Santiago - Berdia and 10·2 km Santiago - ...