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Products in Brief
EAO has developed a double-sided glass-mountable LED illuminated push button for internal train doors.London Underground has ordered 400 tubs of Wipems disposable biocidal wipes from Chela Ltd. They will be used to remove sticky acidic exudate from cable insulation.Canac is to upgrade Beltpack loco remote control units used by Canadian ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Delta Airlines and SNCF have agreed a code-share deal on TGV services from Paris Charles-de-Gaulle Airport to Angers, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon Part-Dieu, Nantes, Poitiers, Rennes and St Pierre-des-Corps (Tours).Swissair Group has formally confirmed its agreement to sell its Restorama and Rail Gourmet catering subsidiaries to Compass Group, along with ...
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Building up worn wheels
WORN wheel profiles can be restored using an automatic welding station supplied to Ghana by ESAB. Filler material is welded in place, then the wheel ground to its original profile. Unlike reprofiling with a lathe, unworn material is not lost, and so there is no reduction in wheel diameter.Both wheels ...
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Tokyo smart card starts
EAST Japan Railway inaugurated Suica contactless smart cards at 424 stations in greater Tokyo on November 18. The railway developed the smart cards with Sony.Two types are currently available. The first is a season ticket, with a stored value of up to ´10000. The costs of any extra journeys made ...
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Cubic wins smart card contracts
PASSENGERS in Maryland and Chicago are to use smart cards supplied by Cubic Transportation Systems following the award of two separate contracts.Maryland Transit Administration has awarded Cubic a $38·3m contract to supply smart card ticketing across the state. The cards will be valid on metro and light rail services in ...
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Chinese metros keep growing
GUANGZHOU Metro Corp officially began construction of its third line on December 26, following approval of the project by the State Planning Committee on December 16 (RG 4.01 p211). The 32 km line linking Guangzhou Dong station and Panyu is expected to open in 2005.On December 14 the China National ...
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Dubai metro closer
CONSTRUCTION work is expected to start next year on an urban rail network in Dubai. Director-General of the Municipality Qassim Sultan announced on December 22 that two routes had been selected for the first phase of a network which could be extended to the adjacent emirates of Sharjah and Abu ...
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Easy electrical contacts
FOLLOWING trials at a number of locations in Switzerland, Swiss Federal Railways has approved the use of newly-developed contact discs and strips to ensure good electrical connections to rails.Kago discs and strips are intended for use at locations where welding is prohibited or drilling is impossible because of restricted space, ...
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ÖBB fits radio remote control
FITTINGof Redacom radio remote control to 20 Austrian Federal Railways Class 1044 locomotives began in December, and another 70 units may be equipped later. Redacom was developed to meet the need for improved radio control of remote locomotives in tunnels without the need to install repeater stations or other fixed ...
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Co-ordination is key to subway resignalling
INTRO: New York City Transit has embarked on a 20-year programme to resignal its entire 370 km subway network using Transmission-Based Train Control. Parsons Transportation Group is providing engineering and programme management services to NYCT, and Chris Jackson discussed the state of progress with Parsons Vice-President Alan Rumsey DECEMBER 4 ...
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High spending DB tidies up its structure
GERMAN Railway announced on December 21 that it had ordered a further build of 40 Class ET425 EMUs from Bombardier and Siemens for €184m. Due for delivery between April and November 2003, they will be used on the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn network scheduled to open at the end of that year. ...
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Decision time in Switzerland
ON JANUARY 21 Swiss Federal Railways announced that a letter of intent for contracts worth SFr210m had been sent to an Alstom-led consortium to equip the 45·1 km Mattstetten - Rothrist line with ETCS Level 2. The decision follows tests with a pilot installation between Olten and Luzern (RG 12.01 ...
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EC declares ’state of emergency’
HOT ON THE HEELS of last September’s White Paper on Transport from the European Commission (RG 10.01 p651) comes a further set of measures intended to inject entrepreneurial drive into the European railways. Published on January 23, the Second Railway Package bundles together five legislative proposals and a series of ...
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Siemens to take over ICE depot
SIEMENS Transportation Systems has signed a letter of intent with German Railway and the Land of Bavaria to keep open the Nürnberg ICE maintenance facility. DB had planned to close the depot as part of a workshop rationalisation strategy. It is now to be taken over by Siemens, on undisclosed ...
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Dieter
CAPTION: Midland Metro users literally got the goat in December, when they found one wandering around the platform at West Bromwich. They were even more surprised when the animal ran on board the next tram. While some intrepid passengers sat stroking the goat, the vehicle was driven to the depot, ...
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Metro refurbishment pays dividends
INTRO: Private sector concessionaire Metrovías has let contracts worth US$700m under a comprehensive investment programme designed to win back passengers to the metro network in Buenos Aires. Traffic has grown by 78% since the concession beganBYLINE: Juan OrdoñezExecutive Vice-PresidentMetrovíasTURNING what had traditionally been a loss-making activity into a profitable and ...
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Dr Yellow UK
RAILTRACK is to invest heavily in automated infrastructure monitoring as part of its new engineering strategy following the Hatfield derailment in October 2000 (RG 12.00 p810). Technical Director Richard Middleton stressed last month that this ’is all about measuring and monitoring and verifying the condition of the infrastructure. We have ...
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Dual-mode LRVs ordered
REGIONALBAHN Kassel GmbH announced on December 21 that it had ordered 28 dual-system light rail vehicles to work regional services. These will be operated in conjunction with city tram operator Kasseler Verkehrsgesellschaft, enabling through services from electrified and non-electrified local rail routes onto the city centre tram network.Alstom Transport will ...
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Electrification upgrade
CROATIAN Railways awarded design contracts on December 12 for renovation and upgrading of electrification equipment on its two sections of the Budapest - Sarajevo - Ploce Corridor Vc, which total 129 km. VPS Design of Zagreb will be responsible for the northern section linking Beli Manastir on the Hungarian border ...
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Electronic seat reservations
VIRGIN Trains’ Pendolino and Voyager trains are fitted with VMS2000 Electronic Seat Reservation equipment. This automatically retrieves data from the national reservations system and displays it above the seat, removing the need for paper labels.In the past data has had to be manually uploaded to electronic displays. Using a dual-processor ...