All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2002 – Page 3
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Cross-city tunnel funded
GERMAN Railway is to go ahead with plans to build a 4 km cross-city tunnel in Leipzig. An agreement securing state and Land funding was signed in mid-March by Transport Minister Kurt Bodewig, DB Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn, Land Minister Dr Kajo Sommer and Leipzig Mayor Wolfgang Tiefensee. Total cost of ...
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Drive data logging
GERMAN Railway VT611 and VT612 Regio Swinger DMUs are using a data logger developed by Voith Turbo and Augsburg-based Dalog GmbH. Permanently installed on the final drive, the logger provides a comprehensive picture of the causes of problems.Using integrated GPS, diesel-hydraulic drives in almost any location can be monitored from ...
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Settlement deal
BRITAIN’S Association of Train Operating Companies has awarded SchlumbergerSema an £80m, 17-year contract to design, build and operate information technology for the rail settlement system. Due to become operational on April 1 2003, it will handle the apportionment of annual revenues totalling £3·5bn.Known as Latest Earnings Networked Nationally Over Night, ...
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DMU order signed
ROMANIAN passenger rail operator CFR Calatori has confirmed its order for 120 two-car diesel multiple-units to be supplied by Siemens Transportation Systems. Under the terms of a provisional agreement signed in July 2001 (RG 8.01 p533), the first vehicles are due to be delivered in November this year. Siemens announced ...
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Dual gauge test site opens
LAST MONTH Spanish high speed construction authority GIF was due to begin using a test site built on 16 km of disused alignment between Medina del Campo and Olmedo northwest of Madrid. The 14·1 km section of dual 1435mm and 1668mm gauge track cost €24m. The facility will also test ...
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Laval extension underway
ON MARCH 20 the Prime Minister of Québec Bernard Landry inaugurated work on the extension of Montréal’s rubber-tyred metro to the neighbouring municipality of Laval. Other participants included Transport Minister Serge Ménard, Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt and the Managing Director of Agence Métropolitaine de Transport Florence Junca-Adenot. Due to open ...
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False hopes not raised
ANYONE expecting Australia’s federal government to have lent support to plans for a high speed line linking Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane would have to be pretty naive or plain optimistic. Having damned the VFT and Speedrail projects in the past, the government said on March 27 that it would ...
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Finance
Brazil: The Spanish government is providing €17m of investment capital to CAF, which is due to spend €190m under a 20-year concession to operate the Salvador metro and supply rolling stock (RG 11.99 p691).Europe: The EU is to contribute €175000 towards a study to determine the economic benefit of reopening ...
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Ikea launches furniture 'pipeline'
Swedish-based Ikea Rail AB is one of the first private companies to have bought train paths across two borders. Richard Hope finds out how the train will cover 1044 km in three countries at an average speed of 65 km/h, using three drivers and two locomotives
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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 - ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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