All News articles – Page 273
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Locos sold
AUSTRALIAN open access freight operator Silverton Rail announced last month that it had purchased 99 locomotives and 372 wagons from Pacific National. The locos form the bulk of the locos which PN was required to sell following the merger of National Rail and Freightcorp (RG 9.02 p455).Silverton has bought nine ...
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Metros
Canada: Montréal Metro is planning to open a C$130m surveillance and control centre in 2005 to improve security.China: COWI is to assist Scott Wilson in preparing a tender design for the 1·7 km immersed tube tunnel which will carry the Sha Tin - Central line under Victoria Harbour in Hong ...
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Mid-Coast trolley
SAN DIEGO Metropolitan Transit Development Board voted on February 27 to build a further light rail line, serving the La Jolla area north of the city. The 17·2 km Mid-Coast line will start at the Old Town Transit Center and run north to the University of California-San Diego campus and ...
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Riders missing
LATER this year New Jersey Transit will open its 54·7 km South Jersey diesel light rail line. Sadly, the project looks set to be a serious drain on NJT’s finances, with farebox revenue expected to cover just 11% of estimated annual operating costs of $21·5m. Despite a planned bargain one-way ...
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Missouri Mule reprieved
THE Missouri legislature has approved an extra appropriation of $800 000 to support a twice daily passenger service between St Louis and Kansas City. Amtrak had served notice it would cease running the Missouri Mule from February 28 unless it received an additional $1·2m to cover its expenses for the ...
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Rolling news
AMSTERDAM tram passengers are now able to watch travel reports, news and information on the move. Since February 20, Mobil Info has been installed on 20 Combino trams. Eight 15 in video screens on each vehicle show ’infotainment’ programmes in 20 min cycles. Developed by Viacom Outdoor, Trend Network and ...
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Siemens wins Zürich order
SWISS FEDERAL Railways has ordered 35 double-deck EMUs from Siemens Schweiz AG for the next phase of the Zürich S-Bahn network, at a cost of SFr447m. The first unit is scheduled for delivery in October 2005, and all should be in traffic by January 2008. The air-conditioned four-car sets will ...
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PEOPLE
Having first taken up the post in 1996, Louis Gallois has been reappointed as President of SNCF for a third term, lasting five years. He represents the state on the SNCF board, together with Christian Brossier, Jean-Didier Blanchet, Bruno Bézard, Pierre-Mathieu Duhamel, Nicolas Jacquet and Didier Bureau. Jacques Maillot represents ...
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Salzburg plans U-Bahn
AS PART of its bid to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2010, the Austrian city of Salzburg unveiled on March 7 a plan to develop a U-Bahn over the next six years. The idea is to extend the existing Lokalbahn from Lamprechtshausen, which now terminates beneath ÖBB’s main station, ...
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Pointers
n Queensland Railways is to put its tilting diesel trainsets into service between Brisbane and Cairns on June 15, state Transport Minister Steve Bredhauer announced on March 13. The existing Queenslander and Sunlander services were to be merged with effect from April 1. n An intergovernmental agreement for construction of ...
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Safety prioritised
AROUND 60 % of safety and security problems caused by users of Netherlands Railways are attributed to people without tickets. With a view to tackling this situation, fines for fare dodging are to be increased, and access to platforms at some stations is to be controlled by barriers operated by ...
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Sumatra scheme proposed
THE INDONESIAN province of Riau has announced plans for a 1350 km network in northern central Sumatra. The province has allocated US$1·1bn, and commissioned a feasibility study.First phase would be a 225 km line from the terminus of the existing 1067mm gauge North Sumatra railway at Rantau Prapat to Riau’s ...
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Publications
Rail Freight Handbook 2003This A4 softback annual provides a comprehensive listing of the many organisations involved in Britain’s rail freight industry, including operators, infrastructure providers, customers and political organisations. Introductory articles by authors including Rail Regulator Tom Winsor and Network Rail Deputy CEO Ian Coucher look at issues affecting the ...
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Sidetrack
No ordinary weedYORK station car park is an unlikely location for botanical discoveries, but Dr Richard Abbott of St Andrews University has discovered a new species of plant there. He first spotted the ’scruffy-looking weed’ on a visit in 1979. On a more recent trip he noticed it had spread, ...
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Tamping tine tips
RE-TECH HandelsgesmbH and BTI-USA have jointly developed two designs of tamping tool tips, Speed Tip and Xtreme Tip. The carbide parts are designed to offer high availability and lower costs. The height and width can be made to suit a customer’s requirements, with the pad position selected to suit different ...
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Level 1 gets thumbs down
THE THREAT that Britain might be faced with a legal requirement to spend more than £6bn on installing ERTMS Level 1 or 2 on lines where trains exceed 160 km/h before it is fully developed as a reliable product, and before existing signalling is life-expired, has been lifted. On February ...
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Line 2 upgrading
BUDAPEST City Council voted at the end of January in favour of an HF53bn refurbishment of Line 2 over the next four years. The modernisation of the 30-year-old Red line will be partially funded by a 25-year HF30bn EIB loan which was approved in December. According to Mayor Gabor Demszky, ...
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Rail-Tech Europe 2003
WE ARE delighted to be supporting the Rail-Tech Europe 2003 event being staged in Utrecht on April 1-3. Organised by Europoint, Rail-Tech Europe 2003 will be held in the Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs with a three-day exhibition and a technical congress themed on noise, vibration and the environment. Day 1 of ...