All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2005 – Page 2
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Bombardier targets China with Zagato 'wow factor'
HIGH SPEED: On April 13 Bombardier unveiled a portfolio of design concepts for a future generation of high speed trains from Italian industrial stylist Zagato. Speaking at a launch event staged with Wallpaper magazine at the Salone del Mobile design fair in Milano, Bombardier Transportation President André Navarri said that ...
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Heavy haul brake
NEWYORK Air Brake Corp has received conditional approval from the Association of American Railroads for its EP-60 electronically-controlled pneumatic brake.The EP-60 is already in service in Canada, where it is used on heavy haul iron ore trains operated by Cartier Railway Co, a subsidiary of Québec Cartier Mining Co. In ...
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Vacuum brakes
MALAYSIAN national railway KTMB has ordered 20 locomotives from Dalian Loco in China which are to be fitted with air and vacuum brakes. Production of the complex integrated braking racks was subcontracted to Wabtec International.’This braking system was very unusual and needed to be custom designed’, said Wabtec International Vice-President ...
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Brakes set and tested
DESIGNED for use on new-build and refurbished locomotives, the SafeSet Wheel Style parking brake from Graham-White uses an electric motor to automate the operation of brakes. The SafeSet Wheel Style brake incorporates the same interface as the company’s lever-style handbrake, which is in service on around 250 locomotives. The brakes ...
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Record braking orders from China
KNORR-BREMSE Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge has secured orders worth over €40m to supply braking equipment for metro cars in Guangzhou and Beijing.In February the München-based firm was awarded a contract worth over €20m to supply brake equipment for the rolling stock being built for Guangzhou Metro Lines 4 and 5. This ...
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Record breakers recall the heady days
ON MARCH 24 SNCF President Louis Gallois opened an exhibition of its record-breaking trains at Bordeaux Saint-Jean station (right). Among the vehicles on display were locos CC7107 and BB9004 that respectively achieved 326 and 331 km/h in 1955 - although the plaques on each loco affirm that both reached 331 ...
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Iranian passenger demand outstrips capacity
DISTANCES between main centres are so great that most passenger services operated by Raja Trains run overnight. Fares are subsidised for social reasons, resulting in a very heavy demand estimated to be four times greater than the volume of traffic actually carried with the present service pattern. Most trains are ...
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Global changes at YSD and Rafna
REVENUE at Global Railway Industries Ltd for the year to December 31 2004 was C$34·7m, up 34% from 2003. This includes C$4·8m from Youngtown, Ohio, based YSD Industries Inc, which was purchased in April 2004. Restructuring of YSD continued into the first quarter of 2005, with an anticipated loss of ...
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MGV will check high speed network
SNCF is developing a 320 km/h test and measurement train to replace the Mélusine test car currently used to inspect France’s TGV lines. Due to be completed later this year, the train will be known as the MGV.The MGV will consist of a TGV Réseau set now being converted for ...
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Chennai launches metro plan
PLANS to develop a three-line metro network in the Indian city of Chennai were unveiled on April 12 by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms J Jayalalithaa.She told the state assembly that Delhi Metro Rail Corp had completed an initial feasibility study, and has now been asked to prepare ...
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Technology to China
VOSSLOH Information Technologies GmbH opened an office at Hangzhou in China’s Zhejian province on March 1.The Kiel-based railway technology supplier sees China as ’the biggest growth market for this company at the present time’. It says that by 2010 ’the Zhejiang provincial government alone will, with the support of the ...
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Coal line PPP
EIGHT public and private-sector organisations in China signed an agreement on April 6 to build a 200 km coal railway.The 4·1bn yuan scheme is one of the first to make use of provisions agreed in 2004 to accelerate investment in the 70000 km rail network as a means of raising ...
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Competition lifts rail's share of Swiss transalpine market
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have opened their rail networks to competition, and the impact on freight crossing the Swiss Alps has been dramatic. Last year rail increased its road+rail modal share to 65%, far higher than any other cross-border flow in Europe
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More competition on the German network
INTRO: Axel Dumann* reports on German legal changes that include transfer of responsibility for path allocation from EBA to the telecommunications regulatorON MARCH 16 the Bundestag passed extensive changes to Germany’s railway legislation, transposing three EU directives dating from 2001 into national law.The Third Law for the Amendment of Rail ...
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Danes consider hydrogen power
THE establishment of the Hydrogen Innovation & Research Centre in western Jutland has prompted the towns of Vemb, Lemvig, and Thyborøn to consider development of fuel-cell powered trains. A co-operation agreement was signed on April 7, and the first step is to estimate start-up capital and operating costs. This month ...
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Cutting fuel costs
FUEL Optimizer is a recently launched software package from FC Technologies which models the fuel consumption of trains to help minimise energy costs.Accessed by the internet, installed on an intranet or supplied on CD, Fuel Optimizer identifies optimal schedules and refuelling locations. It uses detailed route maps, and takes into ...
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Crash testing designs
INDIA’S Research Designs & Standards Organisation carried out a crash test on March 29 using a coach and a wagon ballasted to 120 tonnes with concrete.A dozen organisations are involved in a project to develop a coach design for Indian Railways which offers improved collision performance. Rites and Transportation Technology ...
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Third Railway Package creeps forward
APRIL 19 saw the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport & Tourism vote on the four-part Third Railway Package.The proposed regulation on the quality of freight services was overwhelmingly rejected, prompting CER Executive Director Johannes Ludewig to comment that ’quality in the rail freight market comes through competition and good rail ...
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CroBIT provides a European data platform
BYLINE: Eckhard KuhlaEkonsult GmbH, GermanyINTRO: Development of an international information platform will allow all parties involved in cross-border rail freight operations to share dataTHE DEMAND for international freight movement in Europe is growing apace - except in the rail mode. There are many reasons for this, but a key element ...
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Cuts in prospect
AFTER several months of consultation, Finland’s Ministry of Transport confirmed on March 27 that it had instructed state-owned operator VR to review the viability of its unprofitable passenger services.Some services could be suspended indefinitely, and other routes closed completely. ’We cannot continue with the present situation where subsidies are paid ...
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