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Mixed signals from the ministry
BRITAIN’S national railway must complete before Christmas its third major restructuring within a decade, assuming that the latest Railways Bill becomes law this month and is not derailed by a general election in May. Or maybe it is the fourth, depending whether you count the replacement in 2002 of infrastructure ...
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Puerto Montt upgrade underway
CHILEAN state railway EFE has called tenders for a contract to upgrade and maintain over eight years the 567·4route-km of its Southern Zone between San Rosendo and Puerto Montt. Bids are due by June 8, and EFE hopes to sign a contract on September 3 so that work can begin ...
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Schedule patent
REAL-TIME information management from the mining industry has been adapted by Modular Mining Systems to improve the planning, supervision and dispatching of trains on mine-to-port freight railways.In January Modular Mining Systems obtained a US patent for its Integrated Railroad System, which is combined with GPS tracking of trains to form ...
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PUBLICATIONS
Guidelines for selecting and planning a new light rail systemThis CD has been compiled by UITP in response to requests from transport authorities considering the use of light rail.The documents provide a listing of the issues involved in opening an intermediate capacity system, from the initial reviews and appraisals through ...
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Seibu scandal
AFTERSTEPPING down as President of Japan’s Seibu Railway in January, Terumasa Koyanagi was found dead on February 19, apparently the second senior manager to commit suicide after an accounting scandal hit the railway. Last October Seibu admitted that it had been falsifying its financial statements for more than 50 years. ...
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Sidetrack
From sea to seaOver the years, Sidetrack has reported on a wide range of unusual loads being moved by rail. Chinese Railways is set to join the roll of honour next year.Developers have started work on a 120m yuan luxury swimming centre at the Shijingshan Sports Centre in Beijing, where ...
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Ventilating Torino’s tunnels
TUNNELS on Torino’s VAL automatic metro are to be fitted with custom-made ventilation equipment supplied by Fläkt Woods. Announced on January 31, the order covers two parallel reversible fans for use in each of the metro’s 22 ventilation chambers, as well as silencers, diffusers and dampers. Video surveillance and smoke ...
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Torque of the town
LAST MONTH saw Nord-Ostsee Bahn begin trials with a DE2700 locomotive. The first of 12 intended to take over the Marschbahn service between Hamburg and Westerland from December, it was built for Norwegian State Railways as Class Di6 by Krupp-MAK and Siemens in the 1990s.A series of problems prompted NSB ...
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Shinkansen construction to be stepped up in 2005-06
AN AGREEMENT announced on December 16 between the government and ruling coalition parties means that investment in the construction of Shinkansen lines will rise by ´2bn in the fiscal year commencing April 1 2005. In the three previous years from 2001-02 to 2004-05 the trend has been downwards. Total ...
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Line 2 expands
CATALUNYA REGIONAL government’s construction authority GISA has awarded a contract worth €31m for civil works, tracklaying and electrification on the extension of Barcelona metro Line 2 from Pep Ventura to Badalona Centre. Work is due to start in the first quarter of 2005 for completion within 26 months. Signalling, station ...
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Lyon awards T4 and Lea contracts
FRENCH engineering consultancy Systra announced on January 14 that it had been awarded a contract for project management on the first two sections of Lyon tram line T4. Totalling 9·5 km, these sections are expected to cost €177m.The contract has been awarded by Lyon transport authority Sytral. Detailed design is ...
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Line 5 goes further
UNDER AN agreement signed on December 28 with the Ministry of Development and the regional government, Renfe’s suburban route between Valencia and Riba-roja de Túria is to become part of the FGV metro network. Involving the removal of 16 level crossings, conversion of the route from Quart de Poblet to ...
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FGC plans €602·9m spend
CATALAN regional operator FGC has unveiled a 2005-07 investment plan costed at €602·9m. On its main network serving Barcelona, €387m is to be spent on infrastructure by the regional government’s public works department, while half of the €166m allocated to operations has been earmarked for new trains and rolling stock ...
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Long-stroke buffers absorb shock
IMPACT speeds of 12 km/h or less will produce a maximum acceleration of 10m/s2 using the 1g buffer from Schwab Verkehrstechnik. Designed to UIC standards, the buffer is designed to be used instead of long-stroke impact absorbers, which can increase the cost of rolling stock by requiring heavy mountings.The buffer ...
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Kenya-Uganda accord
TRANSPORT Ministry officials from Kenya and Uganda signed an agreement at the end of December to form a dedicated fleet of container trains to operate ’seamless services’ between Mombasa and Kampala.The accord was signed in Kampala by the Permanent Secretary of Uganda’s Ministry of Works, Transport & Communications Charles Muganzi ...
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Joetsu Shinkansen fully restored after earthquake damage
THROUGH services between Tokyo and Niigata on JR East’s Joetsu Shinkansen resumed on December 28, more than two months after a train travelling at around 200 km/h was derailed by an earthquake (RG 12.04 p826).JR East has now released further details of what happened and the measures it has taken ...
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Traffic to treble again
RECORDS have been shattered again as Israel Railways Ltd clocks up yet another huge increase in passenger travel. Our correspondent reports that the total of 23 million passengers carried in 2004 was 15·3% higher than in 2003, exactly as predicted. At a press conference called to announce the 2004 figures, ...
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Software agreement
AUTOMATIC fare collection technology supplier Cubic Transportation Systems has signed an agreement to resell CODA e-Finance and CODA-XL accounting software with its Nextfare ticketing equipment. The CODA back-office software can cope with different national accounting practices, languages and currencies. According to Cubic’s Senior Vice-President of Engineering James Karam, ’e-Finance will ...
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NewsAlice - Darwin freight beats target
FREIGHTLINK, operator of the Adelaide - Darwin route in Australia, celebrated its first anniversary of hauling traffic to Darwin on January 15. Traffic in the first year amounted to around 600000 tonnes. 'We hoped to carry about 380000 tonnes in our first 12 months, so we are delighted with our ...