All News articles – Page 329
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n Promoters of the 4500 km, A$10bn Australia Inland Rail Expressway linking Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin expect to hold a groundbreaking ceremony on October 26. This marks the start of construction of a new bridge across the Macintyre River, between Boggabilla, NSW, and Carrington, Queensland.n China’s Ministry of Railways has ...
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Publications
Modern Trains & Splendid StationsEdited by Martha ThorneA study of state-of-the-art station design, aimed at architects, designers and urban planners. With 25 drawings and 216 colour illustrations, this 160-page book focuses on the design and architecture of a number of recent projects across the world. The role of stations in ...
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Wagons for sale
FOLLOWING the merger of Brambles Industries Ltd and the support services division of GKN plc on August 7 to create the Brambles Group, the company is looking to restructure its business portfolio. Brambles Group is negotiating the divestment of its European wagon rental businesses, as it aims to focus on ...
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Training signallers through simulation
INTRO: Signalling and traffic control centres continue to grow, with the operator’s task increasingly assisted by features such as automatic route-setting and integrated train scheduling. But the size and complexity of such installations can create problems when incidents occur, making thorough preparation through training essential if staff are to manage ...
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Touch-screen ticketing
LONDON Underground ’Queue Buster’ ticket machines being built by Cubic Transportation Systems are to use acoustic-wave touch screen colour displays from Planar.The 10·4 inch TFT active matrix liquid crystal screens are based on similar designs installed on the New York and Singapore metros last year. They feature high back-lighting to ...
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Developing wheelsets for 30 tonne axleloads
BYLINE: Roger Lundén, Johan Marais and Stefan Schrader *BYLINE: * Roger Lundén is Director of Charmec, and Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics at Chalmers University of Technology in G
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Line 9 contracts awarded
ON JULY 31 the Catalunya regional government announced the award of its largest ever package of public works contracts, comprising design, construction and technical assistance for Barcelona metro Line 9 (RG 7.01 p437) worth a total of Pts119·5bn. The largest single contract worth Pts64·4bn has been awarded to a consortium ...
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Putin and Kim agree Trans-Siberian strategy
MEETING in Moscow on August 4 (p572), Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean President Kim Jong-il backed plans to connect the Korean rail network into the Trans-Siberian landbridge corridor, confirming that ’the two countries will start working on reconnecting [the two lines] in the very nearest future.’Following the accord, ...
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Sheremetyevo gets airport link
CONSTRUCTION work is due to get under way next year on a rail link to Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, following the signing of an agreement in July between Russian Railways Minister Nikolai Aksyonenko, the Vice-Premier of the Moscow City Government Iosif Ordzhonokidze and Aeroflot Director-General Valery Okulov. The decision to connect ...
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Alameda Corridor East
CALIFORNIA Transportation Commission has appropriated $153m to start construction of a second grade-separated freight corridor in the Los Angeles Basin. Running 56·3 km from East Los Angeles to Pomona, ’Alameda Corridor East’ will act as an extension of the 32 km Alameda Corridor between the city centre and the ports ...
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Alpine study group formed
DETAILED design studies and exploratory works for the Lyon - Torino rail link and base tunnel project are to get under way ’immediately’, according to Sergio Pininfarina, President of the intergovernmental commission set up to oversee the project. Meeting in Torino on July 24 to follow up the June 28 ...
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Alstom wins Firenze
ALSTOM FERROVIARIA has been selected to build and equip the first of three planned light rail lines in the Italian city of Firenze. This follows a second round of international tenders, as none of the bids lodged in July 2000 proved acceptable. Local transport operator ATAF has been allocated 240bn ...
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Amtrak restructures to cut costs
ON JULY 27 America’s National Railroad Passenger Corp announced that it will implement a corporate restructuring programme with effect from October 1, in a bid to improve its bottom line by up to US$85m a year. Amtrak plans to offer early retirement and other incentives to reduce its management ...
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Ankara extends
CONSTRUCTION of the 17·7 km Batikent - Sincan metro extension in Ankara was due to get under way on August 18, following the award of a US$151m contract to Guris Insaat ve Muhendislik. This covers civil engineering on the western extension, which will add 12 stations to the heavy metro ...
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Fines not the answer
EVERY TIME an illegal immigrant arrives in Britain, the carrier responsible becomes liable for a £2000 fine. Introduced last March, this policy prompted English Welsh & Scottish Railway to threaten to withdraw its freight services through the Channel Tunnel, which had become a favoured means of access to Britain by ...
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Jerusalem bids
On July 26 detailed tender documents for Line 1 of Jerusalem’s proposed LRT network were published by the municipality and Israel’s Transport and Finance ministries. Prequalified bidders Passim, Adanim, City Pass and Ariel now have six months to return their bids for a 30-year build-operate-transfer concession covering the 13·8 km ...
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Derailment blocks Goonyella line
FOR THE third time since the electrified heavy haul coal line linking Goonyella mine to the port of Hay Point opened in 1971, a massive derailment on July 1 closed this vital export route. This time it took Queensland Rail four days to clear the double track and repair the ...
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CTA Blue line rehabilitation
WORK is to get under way shortly on the long-awaited refurbishment of Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue line Douglas branch in the southwest of the city. On July 11 the CTA board awarded a $317m contract to Kiewit Construction and Delgado Erectors for reconstruction of the 10·6 km between Hoyne and ...
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Mineral traffic boosted
THE Cardiff-based minor works subsidiary of construction group John Mowlem & Co, Hocking Rail, has been awarded a fourth contract for work on Ghana Railway Corp’s western main line serving the port of Takoradi. The US$80000 deal follows three previous projects to assist with track rehabilitation and the acquisition of ...