All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2003 – Page 2
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Showcase metro opened in Madrid
ANYONE SEEKING advice on how to cut the cost of tunnelling and build a metro at a politically attractive price should attend the 55th UITP Congress in the Spanish capital on May 4-8. The President of Madrid Metro Manuel J Melis will outline to delegates his successful policy of building ...
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Leasing takeover
CIT Rail Resources has acquired rolling stock lessor Flex Leasing Corp. The San Francisco-based firm’s 7200 general-purpose freight wagons, worth around $400m, bring CIT Rail Resources’ total fleet to 54000 vehicles, with an average age of seven years. Along with 550 locos, the wagons are leased to railways across the ...
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Keeping up the power
SAFT-AEG Industrial Systems has introduced an Uninterruptible Power Supply design for railway use. The 25 kV traction supply is used as the main power source, with the local utilities as back-up. If both power supplies are lost at once the battery can provide power for 10 min. Up to four ...
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KCS and TFM to merge
ONAPRIL 21 Kansas City Southern and Grupo TMM of Mexico announced that they had reached agreement to merge their three railways, KCSR, Texas Mexican Railway and TFM SA de CV, under the control of a single holding company, NaftaRail, which will be quoted on the New York StockExchange. The deal ...
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Irish strategic review
A STRATEGIC review of Ireland's railway network was published on April 3. Prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton, it is said to be the first report since the founding of the Irish State in 1922 to recommend an extensive rebuilding and revitalisation of the national network. Transport Minister Seamus Brennan ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Canada: Work is to begin this month on a C$4m station at St Basile le Grand on AMT’s Montréal - Mont St Hilaire line. It is expected to open in September.France: On April 1 Secretary of State for Transport Dominique Bussereau formally opened the Dijon-Bourgogne intermodal terminal which was first ...
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Reaching high
HARSCO Corp divisions SGB and Harsco Track Technologies have worked together to develop a rail-mounted elevating hydraulic platform to replace ladders or scaffolding when working on overhead electrification. It has a working height of 12·1m, reach of 5·5m, 359í slew and 180í platform rotation. The four-wheel rough terrain chassis has ...
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Hayate sets Joetsu record
A JR EAST Hayate E2-1000 trainset has achieved a new Japanese speed record for a production train of 362 km/h. A series of night-time trials on the Joetsu Shinkansen culminated on April 6 when 360 km/h was sustained on several occasions, beating the previous record of 345 km/h for a ...
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Ibarra seeks Line H funds
HEAD OF THE Buenos Aires city government Aníbal Ibarra was in Europe at the end of March, seeking to secure funding for the Argentinian capital’s ambitious programme to build four new metro lines and extend existing routes (RG 2.02 p89). As well as the European Investment Bank and UBS, ...
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IR plans funded
ASIAN Development Bank has approved funding for a further tranche of projects in Indian Railways’ Golden Quadrilateral upgrading programme for the lines linking Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Mumbai. Newly approved are: third tracks between Ghaziabad and Aligarh (Rs23·8bn) and between Kurdaand Barang (Rs13·3bn), doubling of Raichal - Guntakal (Rs13·6bn) and ...
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Paris projects roll forward
ON APRIL 5 a public enquiry closed for the first section of a planned orbital tram route round the south of Paris. Running for 7·9 km between Pont de Garigliano and Porte d’Ivry, the €185·2m line is due to be completed by 2006. Known as the Tramway Maréchaux Sud because ...
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Finance
Angola: Transport Minister Andre Luis Brandao has announced plans to invest US$4bn on railway rehabilitation. Spoornet has submitted a bid to undertake the work and manage the network; US and European companies are also reported to have expressed interest.Argentina: Under the rescue package agreed in February (RG 4.03 p190), Metrovías ...
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Federal funds GO
TORONTO’s GO Transit is to get its first federal funding since inception in 1966 in a deal agreed on March 26. The federal government will contribute C$435m to a five-year C$1·2bn capacity-expansion project which will bring additional peak-hour trains and all-day service to several routes. The federal money must be ...
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Fare riposte
NOT BEFORE time, French National Railways has responded to the threat of low-cost airlines creaming off a slice of its inter-city business. From March 31 it introduced a range of low-priced promotional fares marketed as Prem’s, with at least 10000 second class seats a day offered on 500 long-distance services. ...
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Eurotunnel looks at freight
’FRANCE is clearly a country where things have to change in the coming months’, Jean-Arnold Vinois told the Railway Forum in London on April 15. The man driving rail reform at DG TREN in Brussels was referring to the obligation to facilitate open access for freight on Terfn routes from ...
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JR Freight tests intermodal EMU
NOW UNDERGOING trials in Japan is a lightweight freight electric multiple-unit. Developed by JR Freight, the M250 is intended to compete against road haulage for high-value freight moving between Tokyo and Osaka. If successful, the train will join JR Freight’s loco-hauled container trains on the 1067mm gauge conventional Tokaido main ...
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Eco-procurement will Prosper
APRIL 8 marked a further step towards proper recognition of environmental considerations in European rail industry procurement policy. Delegates at a two-day meeting in Paris approved standard specifications for rolling stock developed in the UIC-funded Procedures for Rolling Stock Procurement with Environmental Requirements project. Prosper provides a set of harmonised ...
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Slinger speeds relaying on double track
INTRO: Richard Hope reports on a cheap and simple developmentAN ECONOMICAL way of mechanising the renewal of track by lifting sections up to 270m long straight out of the ballast has been devised by Jarvis, which currently owns and operates around 55% of all on-track plant in the UK.Jarvis commissioned ...
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Dieter
CAPTION: Canadian Pacific was given the task of transporting an all-glass squash court from Chicago to Edmonton in time for this month’s Canadian Championships. Worth C$225000, the 1 tonne court belongs to the Women’s International Squash Players’ Association and is hired out for televised matches. The court was dismantled and ...
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Evolutionary development offers steady rise in machine output
Nearly every machine emerging from the Linz works of Plasser & Theurer is built to an individual specification. This makes it easy to incorporate improvements whenever they are developed
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