All News articles – Page 158
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AEA out of rail
On August 11 AEA Technology announced that it was to focus on environmental consultancy, and had entered into a conditional agreement to sell its rail business to investment firm Vision Capital.As well as AEA’s rail activities in Britain, France, Spain and the Netherlands, the deal includes energy-sector companies Kinectrics. ESI ...
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East African concessions make progress
AFRICA: This month is due to see the transfer of operations on Tanzania Railways Corp's 2707 km metre-gauge network to Rites under a 25-year concession. The transfer is being partially funded by the World Bank and African Development Bank. Tanzania's Minister for Infrastructure Basil Mramba explained in Dodoma on August ...
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High speed network to expand again
AT A briefing in Nürnberg on August 8-9 DB AG unveiled its plans for the future development of ICE services. Priority for new line construction goes to a link from Frankfurt to Mannheim that would bridge the 80 km gap between the K
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Electronic brain aids the eye
INTELLIGENT video surveillance products for railway stations and other large public areas such as car parks and sports stadia are to be marketed jointly by Bull and Keeneo under a technical and commercial agreement signed in June.Keeneo is a spin-off company from Inria, the French National Institute for Research in ...
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Fresh air under London
Powerful ventilation forms a key part of the safety systems in the Channel Tunnel Rail Link tunnels
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Kolkata airport rail link opened
INDIA’S first airport rail link was inaugurated at the end of July, when Kolkata Circular Railway services were extended from Dum Dum to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport.Construction of the airport branch was approved in December 2002 by former Railways Minister Nitish Kumar. Out-turn cost is put at Rs870m, against ...
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Speeding safety alerts nationally
DISSEMINATION of warnings about safety-related problems with rolling stock, plant and other equipment is being accelerated with the commissioning of a near real-time secure website and database, developed by Interfleet Technology on behalf of Britain’s Rail Safety & Standards Board.Replacing a fax-based system which could take hours to distribute National ...
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Under the Alps by caravan
CARAVANS and motor homes can cross Austria’s Tauern mountains by rail, following last month’s introduction of lower-floor rolling motorway vehicles on the Tauern tunnel shuttle service between Mallnitz and B
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Results announced
SCOTT Wilson Group issued its maiden preliminary results as a listed company on July 20. In the year to April 30 revenues totalled £197·8m, up 15% on the previous year. Pre-tax profit was up from £4·3m to £19·3m. The consultancy has a ’record order book’, and ’medium-term objectives to deliver ...
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Trinity sells European assets
INTERNATIONAL Railway Systems announced on August 1 that it had agreed to acquire the European assets of US wagon builder Trinity Industries Inc. These include Astra Vagoane in Romania, Czech business TVS Metals, and operations in Switzerland, Slovakia and the UK. Astra Vagonka has an annual capacity of 2500 wagons ...
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Wheel-rail contact technologies: the Australian experience
BYLINE: Stephen Marich, PhDMarich Consulting Services*CONSIDERABLE advances have been made in wheel-rail contact technologies over the last 20 years. Detailed research has led to a much deeper understanding of wheel-rail contact phenomena, paving the way for operational, safety and economic improvements.Rail and wheel lives are longer, operating speeds and axleloads ...
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Loco-hauled Intercity fleet awaits replacement
DB AG operates a large fleet of locomotive-hauled InterCity and EuroCity saloon, compartment and catering coaches dating from the 1970s. They have already been refurbished twice, and sooner or later they must be replaced.Initially, DB AG envisaged a replacement fleet of tilting trains, possibly in a joint order with the ...
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Mehdorn awaits the politicians’ verdict
INTRO: The debate about privatising Deutsche Bahn AG will reach a climax in the next few weeks. In the run-up to a decision on a stock market listing, Chris Jackson sought the views of Chairman Hartmut MehdornJackson: Herr Mehdorn, why do you want to float Deutsche Bahn AG on the ...
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Dubai Phase II awarded
ON JULY 26 the Dubai Rapid Link consortium confirmed that it had received the formal order from the Dubai Roads & Transport Authority for construction of the second phase of the municipality’s automated metro network. Valued at 4bn dirhams, the deal forms an option on the 12·45bn dirhams Phase I ...
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BA to test LRT
UNDER AN AGREEMENT signed on August 1 in the presence of President Néstor Kirchner, Alstom is to supply two LRVs for trial operations in Buenos Aires.The trials will take place on dockside tracks in the Puerto Madero redevelopment area. It is hoped that a 2 km route between Avenida Córdoba ...
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Bush backs commuter rail
GOVERNOR Jeb Bush announced on August 2 plans to develop commuter rail services in central Florida under a complex deal totalling almost $1bn.The plan calls for development of a north-south route through Volusia, Seminole, Orange and Osceola counties to relieve congestion on Interstate 4. Half of the $475m cost will ...
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Taurus bearings
TRANSFORMER oil pump bearings in ÖBB’s 332 Class 1016 and 1116 Taurus locomotives are being replaced with non-conducting hybrid bearings from NKE.Simultaneous operation of the auxiliary converter and transformer cooling oil pumps as the locos started up was causing excessive current flow in the bearings. In consultation with NKE, ÖBB ...
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Heavy haul bogie order
HIGH-ADHESION bogies for 110 Bo-Bo heavy-haul electric locos ordered from Toshiba and UCW Partnership for Spoornet’s Richards Bay coal line are to be supplied by DCD-Dorbyl, the company’s Rolling Stock Division announced in July.The first of the 1067mm gauge bogies will be supplied to UCW’s plant in Nigel during the ...
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Second-generation bogies to be tested on gauge-changing EMU
Researchers are testing an improved bogie design for Japan's gauge-changing EMU. Bench tests are due to be completed by the end of 2006, and trials with a second trainset will start next year
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A ticket and a bomb test
OPERATIONAL testing of a Cubic Corp metro ticket vending machine which can detect traces of explosive residue on the hands of users was undertaken in Baltimore during June (RG 4.06 p192).A co-operative effort between the US Department of Homeland Security, Maryland Transit Administration and the state’s Department of Transportation, the ...