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Chinese boost
CHINESE Railways has started double-tracking work on the 224 km Xuangcheng - Hangzhou line linking Zhejiang and Anhui provinces southwest of Shanghai. Work began in May, and is due for completion in 2005.Meanwhile, neighbouring Jiangsu province has confirmed plans for a 220 km local railway along the south bank of ...
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Jamuna bridge opens
BANGLADESH Railway was expecting to link its West and East zones with the introduction of a Rajshahi - Joydepur through service via the Jamuna bridge from June 25 (RG 6.02 p326). East of the bridge the broad gauge trains will use dual-gauge track which has been installed as far as ...
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Passenger News in Brief
The Victoria state budget includes A$7·2m for rehabilitation of the concourse of Melbourne’s Flinders Street station, A$1·3m to upgrade Jolimont station for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and A$5m for a new station at Grovedale, west of Geelong.A ceremony on May 6 marked the completion of refurbishment at Finlyandski station in ...
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Industry in Brief
The Board of Ferrovial Servicios has announced that all conditions relating to its offer for Amey plc (RG 5.03 p324) have been satisfied or waived, and the offer has been declared unconditional. Amey has applied for the cancellation of its share listing on the UK Listing Authority’s Official List with ...
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Building DMUs for extreme conditions
INTRO: Developed to provide a high quality passenger environment on very long journeys through harsh climates, DH4-1 diesel multiple-units are expected to enter service on the Tehran - Mashhad route in summer 2004BYLINE: Dr Gerhard SchmidtGeneral Project Manager, Siemens Transportation Systems Michail Voigt Sales Manager, Commuter Trains,Siemens Transportation Systems Robert ...
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Bulgaria upgrades
INVITATIONS to tender are expected to be issued in September for upgrading the first 38 km of Bulgarian State Railway’s main line from Plovdiv to Svilengrad and the frontier crossings into Turkey and eastern Greece. Tendering for the remainder of the line will follow in December. Phase 1 between Plovdiv ...
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Privatisation called off
CANADIAN National has terminated negotiations to acquire Ontario Northland Railway, blaming the provincial government’s demands for seven-year job guarantees. Ontario had hoped to privatise ONRail, which serves Northern Ontario and northwest Québec, but wanted to ensure staff received employment assurances similar to those enjoyed by civil servants. Last October CN ...
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Cantabrian studies
GIF HAS AWARDED three contacts worth a total of €5m to undertake studies for a proposed 450 km high speed line along the northern coast of Spain between Ferrol and Bilbao (RG 4.03 p180). The section from Ferrol to the boundary between the Galicia and Asturias regions has been awarded ...
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Smart card network
STOCKHOLM public transport authority AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik has awarded a SKr250m contract to ERG for the introduction of smart card ticketing across the city’s metro, suburban rail and bus network over the next two years. The Resekortet project involves upgrading the existing magnetic ticketing equipment and gates at 150 stations ...
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Carillion enters Europe
RENEWAL and maintenance contractor Carillion Rail has purchased Swedish Rail Systems Enterprenad from Heidelberg Cement Northern Europe. SRSE is one of the largest private sector rail infrastructure contractors in Sweden and Norway, with net assets of £6·2m and around 250 employees. HCNE chose to dispose of its rail maintenance and ...
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Cattron sold
FOUNDER and Chairman of Cattron Group Inc Jim Cattron has retired after 56 years, selling his interest in the industrial remote control technology business to a group of senior managers and investors led by Weatherly Private Capital LLC. RFI Investment Partners and Argosy Investment Partners have also contributed significant capital ...
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Management and research tackle rolling contact fatigue
INTRO: Rolling contact fatigue is high up the agenda of Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail. A research policy has been established, and with knowledge shared internationally, ProRail has started to modify rail composition and head profiles, and adopted a regular grinding policyBYLINE: Jeroen SmuldersProject Manager, Rolling Contact Fatigue, ProRailINVESTIGATION of a ...
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Newark contracts
ON JUNE 11 the NJ Transit board of directors awarded three contracts totalling US$90m for work on the 1·6 km extension of the Newark City Subway light rail line from Penn station to Broad Street, which is due to open in 2005. Executive Director George D Warrington said the decision ...
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Pajares tunnel contracts let
SPANISH high speed infrastructure authority GIF has now awarded all four contracts to build the 25 km Pajares base tunnel on the León - Oviedo route (RG 6.03 p345). Lot 1, covering both bores on the 10·5 km Pola de Gordón - Folledo section, has been awarded to FCC Construcción ...
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Merseyrail passes to PTE control
JULY 20 will see the control of Liverpool’s 750 VDC suburban lines passed from the UK Strategic Rail Authority to the local Passenger Transport Executive, Merseytravel. On the same day the Merseyrail Services consortium of Serco and NedRailways will take over the operation of the Merseyrail Electrics franchise from Arriva ...
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Refurbishment drives demand for seats
CARRIAGE body shells can outlive their interior furnishings by many years, making refurbishment the key to providing a quality travelling environment throughout the life of the vehicle. Seating is one of the most noticeable interfaces between passengers and trains, and the selection of appropriate designs and materials is critical. Eurostar's ...
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Mail dumps rail
ON JUNE 6 Royal Mail shocked the UK rail industry by announcing that it was ending its 10-year contract with English Welsh & Scottish Railway signed in 1996. From April 2004 all mail will be carried by air or road. Managing Director, Logistics, Paul Bateson claimed this would result in ...
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Energy saving transmission
NOW ON test on a refurbished IC3 DMU in Denmark is an innovative mechanical transmission developed by ZF Bahntechnik GmbH. The AS Rail auto-shift transmission is developed from an automotive version used in the lorry market for around five years. AS Rail is also being fitted to Danish State Railways’ ...
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EurailFreight restates the industry’s old problems
INTRO: Ralf Roman Rossberg reports from the EurailFreight event in München on May 22-23ITALIAN Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi opened the EurailFreight 2003 congress in the German city of München on May 22, launching an event intended to achieve for the freight business what EurailSpeed has done for Europe’s high speed ...
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Eurotunnel eyes Europe
ACCORDING to Bill Dix, Managing Director of Eurotunnel Freight Solutions, by 2007 his company could be in partnerships running regular intermodal services between the UK and up to 10 European countries. Conventional rail freight through the Channel Tunnel has fallen far below expectations, in marked contrast to Eurotunnel’s lorry shuttles, ...