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n Chinese Vice-Minister of Railways Sun Yongfu has announced plans to build a second rail link to Tibet. Work on the 1600 km Kunming - Lhasa line would begin after completion of the Qinghai route in 2007.n India’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the construction of a 68·2 ...
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n Chinese Railways expects to order 4500 new locomotives over the period of the 10th five year plan (2001-05), of which 75% will be electric. Dalian Rolling Stock Plant is expected to build 20 SS4 electric locos in 2001.n The Indonesian Communications Ministry has announced plans to construct 190 km ...
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Shinkansen programme revived
THE Japanese government has decided to accelerate the current programme of high speed line construction as part of measures to aid the country’s economic recovery. Budget plans for the financial year starting on April 1, agreed in December, envisage a start of work on the outstanding sections of two long-planned ...
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Publications
Modelling and Simulation of General Train/Track Interaction by Clars AnderssonAn existing state-space numerical method to simulate vertical dynamic interaction between a rolling train and a railway track has been improved and extended. The extensions add three new features to the dynamic system, these being a non-linear railpad model, flexibility of ...
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Web-damped rails
NOISE reductions of up to 12dB can be achieved by the use of rail damping in curves and at other critical locations. Vossloh has developed a sandwich damping system, in which rubber strips are glued to each side of the web and protected by a steel cover. Strips and covers ...
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railwaydirectory.net
WE ARE THRILLED to announce this month that Railway Directory, for 106 years our standard reference work for the international railway industry, is now published on the internet. Railway Directory remains an essential guide to the world’s railways and their suppliers, and the web version supersedes the CD-ROM published in ...
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SLR re-engining
SRI LANKA Railways put into service at the beginning of December the first of four refurbished diesel locos which are being rebuilt with Caterpillar 3516 engines at a cost of around Rs45m each. The Hitachi-built Class M5 locos are being rebuilt by Caterpillar’s local agent United Tractor & Equipment Ltd ...
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Silk Road vote
CONSTRUCTION of the proposed rail link between Central Asia and China could get under way by the end of this year, following approval of the project by the Kyrgyzstan parliament in December. This established the line as the country’s top infrastructure priority. A tripartite intergovernmental commission, with representatives from Kyrgystan, ...
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Road-rail vegetation units
Two Mercedes-Benz U1650 Unimogs with three-way tipper bodies have been adapted by Two-Way Technology for vegetation control work with Avondale Environmental Services. It has a three-point linkage which can be used with the rear rail guidance, and a removable rear spray designed to minimise drift. Two-Way Technology, United KingdomReader Enquiry ...
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Wrong Rosco
Sir - It was with frustration that I read your review of Railtex 2000 (RG 1.01 p62), in particular the emergency evacuation device developed by Pickersgill-Kaye. You state that this is being taken forward with Angel Trains, despite our stand clearly carrying joint branding with HSBC Rail, which is the ...
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More roubles to be spent
REVIEWING developments on the Russian rail network in 2000, Minister of Railways Nikolai Aksyonenko noted at the annual meeting of the ministry’s board of management on December 26 that RZD carried 1300 million tonnes of freight last year, an increase of 11% over 1999. Given that both motive power and ...
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Sidetrack
Benguela birthdayONE HUNDRED years ago, in 1902, a British company was awarded a concession to build and operate a railway from the coast at Lobito Bay in Portuguese West Africa through the province of Angola. Construction started in 1903, but it took until 1931 before the Benguela Railway reached the ...
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Sidetrack
Massage servicesParis metro operator RATP recently offered passengers a free massage and a healthy snack of green tea and seaweed crackers at four stations. The initiative aimed to ’stop people for five to 10 minutes in their work day so they can take a break and chill out’, according to ...
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Stub turnouts
Sir - Mention is made (RG 12.00 p836) of the installation by Switzerland’s Rigi Bahnen of a modern version of ’the stub turnout used on industrial railways in the 19th century’. Stub turnouts were also much-used by ’main line’ companies!JC Bourne clearly recorded, in 1839, stub turnouts at ’the entrance ...
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China speeds up again
CHINA: October 21 saw the introduction of Chinese Railways’ 2001-02 national timetable, implementing a further network- wide increase in train speeds. Vice- Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun announced that passenger train speeds would be raised from 120 to 140 and 140 to 160 km/h, following the completion of upgrading ...
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Line 3 opens to Canyelles
SEPTEMBER 21 saw the inauguration of the 2·4 km extension of Barcelona metro Line 3 to Canyelles. Serving the populous district of Nou Barris, the extension has intermediate stations at Mundet and Valldaura. The line has been built over the past three years at a cost of €84·1m; the Generalitat ...
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Railtrack enters administration
ON OCTOBER 7 the operator of Britain’s national railway network entered administration, after the High Court granted a Railway Administration Order at the request of Transport Secretary Stephen Byers. Alan Bloom, Chris Hill, Scott Martin and Mike Rollings of Ernst & Young were appointed ’joint special railway administrators’, charged with ...
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African wagon
KWIK Fab Projects has developed a low-cost, low-maintenance wagon for 40ft or smaller containers, aimed at metre and Cape gauge railways with limited resources. Designed to cost the same as a similar second-hand refurbished vehicle, drop side, stanchion and hopper models of the EA01 are available.Steel parts are protected from ...