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Market
Brazil: China’s Ziyang loco works was due this month to ship 20 units to Brazil. Beijing wagon works is also reported to be interested in entering this market.Bulgaria: BDZ expects to invite bids by the end of this year for 125 locomotives, 11000 wagons and 1000 km of track materials ...
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Metros
China: Berger Group of the USA has been selected to conduct a feasibility study of a 25 km light rail route linking the Shanghai metro network with the Songjiang development zone. One route option would run via Pudong airport.France: A new station on RER Line A at Val d’Europe-Serris-Montévrain is ...
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Small-profile point motor
THE LATEST point machine from Alcatel is designed to be integrated into a sleeper, allowing a greater degree of pre-assembly and reduced installation time. The L826H is an electro-hydraulic unit with variable stroke, making it virtually maintenance-free. It is currently on test with German Railway on pointwork supplied by ...
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Railtex show moves to new venue
RAILTEX: Halls 1 and 2 of the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham will be hosting Railtex 2000 from November 21 to 23. Organisers Mack Brooks Exhibitions are expecting over 500 exhibitors at what has become Britain's largest rail industry event, which last year attracted a total of 8534 visitors. We ...
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PEOPLE
A new board has been appointed for South African Rail Commuter Corporation following the departure of Chairman John Edwards and Managing Director Wynand Burger. Peter Malungani chairs the new team, with Ben van der Ross as acting Managing Director and board members Willem Burger, Jerry Makokoane, Omega Shelembe and James ...
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Pointers
n Spain’s Andalucía region has proposed that the Ministry of Development takes back responsibility for infrastructure spending on the east-west routes that the region has supported since 1985. A regional passenger service may emerge when Andalucía negotiates a new agreement with Renfe from January 2001.n Turkish Transport Minister Enis Oksuz ...
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Programme software solution
RAILTRACK’s System Engineering Manager Brian Halliday uses Doors management software from Quality Systems & Software to co-ordinate the various facets of the route modernisation. In particular, it is essential to manage the interfaces between the various projects on the ground, Virgin, SSRA, the Office of the Rail Regulator, and the ...
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Stop those spills
ENVIRONMENTAL protection against spills of oils and dangerous chemicals is available using lightweight Track Collector modules being introduced to Europe by CBI Engineering A/S of Denmark. Developed in North America, the moulded track pans can be laid around existing sidings and easily removed for inspection of the soil. Moulded edge ...
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Highlights from InnoTrans 2000
OVER 800 exhibitors crammed six halls of Berlin’s trade fair grounds on September 12-15 at InnoTrans. Outside, on 2 km of track laid between the halls and in sidings beyond, around 50 items of rolling stock, some of which had been kept under wraps for unveiling at the show, drew ...
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Market October 2000
Brazil: Carajás Railway has ordered 550 ore hopper wagons of 130 tonne capacity from local builder Amsted Maxion. China: Huanghua port has ordered two tandem wagon tipplers for export coal from Germany's Krupp Fördertechnik. Germany: DB has signed a letter of intent with Adtranz to buy a further 24 Class ...
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3D infrastructure survey
OmniSurveyor3D technology will be used to make a complete three dimensional survey of Britain’s 16660route-km network, following Railtrack’s award of a contract to software and system design house Omnicom Engineering. It follows completion of a survey of the West Coast Main Line, as part of the preparations for the current ...
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Madrid network to top 300 km
PROPOSALS to build a further 68 km of metro lines in the Spanish capital, taking the network to over 300route-km, were unveiled by the Consorcio de Transportes de Madrid at the end of August. The strategic plan for 2003-10 focuses mainly on the northern and eastern parts of the city.Together ...
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RailWorks takes AAI rail
On September 6 RailWorks Corp of the USA announced that it had purchased the Transportation Systems Group of United Industrial Corp, owner of AAI Corp. The AAI plant in Maryland is to be leased by RailWorks, which has assumed the four contracts worth a total of US$200m currently being undertaken ...
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AEA buys NSTO
AEA Technology Rail of Great Britain announced on August 25 the purchase of Nederlandse Spoorwegen Technisch Onderzoek, the technical research division of Netherlands Railways. AEA is paying 3m guilders for NSTO, which is based in Utrecht and has 125 staff. The company is to be renamed AEA Technology Rail BV ...
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Asturias triangle
VISITING Gijón in August, Spanish Minister of Development Francisco Álvarez Cascos, Renfe President Miguel Corsini and his Feve counterpart Eugenio Damboriena unveiled plans for a regional and commuter network designated Metrotrén de Asturias.Designed to reduce road congestion in the triangle linking Gijón, Oviedo and Avilés, the scheme envisages closer integration ...
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Better productivity would help
REPEATED cries from German Railway Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn about the poverty of his company have brought a favourable response from Transport Minister Reinhard Klimmt. Speaking at the opening of the InnoTrans exhibition on September 12 in Berlin, Klimmt confirmed that he would be allocating additional investment funding to DB worth ...
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Four bidders in HSL Zuid race
AS SOON AS registration closed at 15.00 on September 15, Netherlands Transport Minister Tineke Netelenbos confirmed that four consortia had applied for the concession to operate services on HSL Zuid. The four groups were given until 10.00 on October 2 to submit formal qualification documents.The international field includes a mix ...
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Blue line partnership
BANGKOK Metro Co Ltd has selected the Nippon-Euro Subway Consortium as a partner in its 25-year concession to build and operate the city’s Blue line heavy metro. Tunnelling is already well advanced for the 20 km line between Hualampong and Bang Sue, which is scheduled to open in 2004. The ...
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Bridge inspection platform
THE BCR 100 bridge inspection and repair platform provides ready access to the underside of multi-track spans, avoiding the need for hanging scaffolding, or permanent rails supporting a travelling platform for inspecting each structure. The machine was designed specifically to meet a requirement set by substantial new bridges being erected ...