All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2002 – Page 2
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Bilbao grows
REVENUE services were launched on the first section of Bilbao Metro Line 2 on April 13. Running from a junction with Line 1 at San Inazio to Urbinaga, the 5·8 km initial section of Line 2 tunnels under the Nervión river to reach the intermediate stations at Gurutzeta Cruces, Ansio, ...
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Costa Blanca LRT
VALENCIA regional government in Spain has awarded two contracts to upgrade and electrify 10 km of FGV’s Alacant - Dénia route between Finca Adoc and Salesianos, as part of a project to introduce dual-mode LRT services as far as Altea (RG 2.02 p66). A consortium of Azvisa, Contra and Mancobra ...
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Smart wagon bogies
BY THE end of the year the first prototype lightweight ’Leila’ bogies should be on test. With financial support from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research, Berlin Technical University is developing a new bogie design for smart freight wagons. Weighing around 4 tonnes, the bogies are being developed in conjunction with ...
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Rails start to go boldly
What NASA describes as the ’first space railroad’ has been installed on the International Space Station. An initial 13m section of track was delivered by the shuttle Atlantis in April, and a further 100m is due to be added during the next two years.A transport vehicle runs along the ISS’s ...
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Euregiobahn pushes the boundaries
TECHNICAL, political and administrative frontiers are also barriers to the success of international passenger services. So it is interesting to follow the progress of German Railway subsidiary Regionalbahn Rheinland GmbH. The company has teamed up with several partners in the Rhein-Maas region to develop a network of local services, linking ...
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Branch concessions
Spoornet has started to lease out lines with limited traffic, as part of a strategy to restore its General Freight Business to profitability. GFB accounts for around 70% of the company’s annual revenues. According to CEO Zandile Jakavula, a task force has been set up to look at the viability ...
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Theme park branch opens
A DOUBLE-TRACK branch 15·3 km in length between Pinto and San Martín de la Vega south of Madrid has been officially opened by Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, President of the regional government. Forming Route C-3a of Renfe’s Madrid suburban network, the new electrified line has cost €85m to build, including one ...
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Products in Brief
High Performance Display Systems has launched a portable plug-and-play full-colour LED display for text and video imagery and signage.Ultra-Tech Enterprises Inc has introduced Cab Signal Master, a microprocessor-based device for providing track and speed restriction data during testing of on-board signalling equipment.Altrix Heathcare is supplying mouth swab drug testing kits ...
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Industry News in Brief
On March 21 German civil engineering firm Philipp Holzmann requested the start of insolvency proceedings. Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank and HypoVereinsbank rejected a rescue plan.Dellner Couplers AB of Sweden is building a new factory at Gdynia in Poland. The SKr35m factory will open this summer, and is expected to employ up ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Ascom has supplied disposable contactless ticketing for RATP to use on the Orlyval airport peoplemover link in Paris.The TranSys consortium has installed 50 ’Queuebuster’ credit and debit card ticket vending machines at London Underground stations in a £4m contract.On April 5 VIA Rail announced it was prepared to continue operation ...
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Roca bucks the trend
WITH the national economy effectively bankrupt, we reported in RG 2.02 (p61) that Argentina’s railways were in big trouble. Suburban operators Metropolitano and Ferrovías have both filed for bankruptcy protection. The government provided a cash injection to Fepsa in March to pay the wage bill and save the dismissal of ...
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Thermal camera spots faults
LONDON Underground infrastructure company Sub-Surface Lines has bought two FLIR ThermaCAM PM695 hand-held thermal imaging cameras, which are being used to locate water ingress and drainage problems in tunnels and ballast. Areas of water seepage are picked up as cold spots. Using uncooled microbolometer FPA detectors with nearly 77 000 ...
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Pullman car flies in
As part of its new corporate headquarters building, Kansas City Southern built an open-air trainshed. On April 13 the 1928-built Pullman car Harry S Truman was craned into position on a 24 m length of track, where it will be open to public view. From September the vehicle will be ...
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Platte Valley celebration
DENVER Regional Transportation District formally inaugurated its 2·9 km Central Platte Valley Spur on April 5. Public services began the following day, with celebrations at the Union Station terminus. Branching off the initial route near 10th & Osage, the $46m branch serves the area west of the city centre. It ...
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Investment drives western China rail expansion
With traffic forecast to grow by 9% a year until 2010 as the focus of national economic development turns west, over 125bn yuan will be invested to expand China’s western rail network in the next five years. By 2005 CR is due to complete 3000 km of new line, double-track ...
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Paducah closes
US DIESEL loco remanufacturer VMV Paducahbilt ceased operation on April 2 and made all 240 staff redundant. Company officials blamed a steadily shrinking order book, resulting from US and Canadian railways buying large numbers of new locos, and the transfer of work to low-wage plants in Mexico. VMV’s owner, a ...
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Rolling stock evolves to meet the demands of a competitive market
The arrival of a vigorous market economy means that Chinese Railways is facing growing competitive pressures. This is forcing the pace of change in the design and development of traction and rolling stock as the strategic emphasis swings towards a commercially profitable railway
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Metrorail misery continues
DISSATISFACTION with South Africa’s Metrorail commuter operations appears to be growing (RG 4.02 p174). Pretoria - Johannesburg services were halted for 5h on April 3 when commuters, angered by timetable changes, blockaded the tracks at Bosman Street station, adjacent to Pretoria’s main station. A week later several coaches were set ...
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Contracts sold
UNITED Industrial Corp is selling two rolling stock refurbishment contracts awarded to its AAI subsidiary to Alstom Transportation Inc for US$21·4m. One covers overhaul of 100 Baltimore metro cars, which began in mid-2000 and is scheduled for completion next year. The other is for the renovation of 160 New Jersey ...
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Franchise renewal creeps forward
WHILE the future of Britain’s rail infrastructure remains uncertain, the Strategic Rail Authority is slowly pushing on with re-letting the short term passenger train operating franchises which are due to expire in 2003-04. Final bids were submitted on April 3 for the new Trans Pennine Express franchise to provide inter-city ...
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