All News articles – Page 397
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Of modules and maintenance
INTRO: In the midst of turmoil, the railway supply industry is trying to change the rules of the game. Andrew F Saxe* reviews the performance of the major players over the last 12 monthsIn a dramatic year for the railway supply industry, two of the major suppliers reported large losses, ...
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Metros
China: MTR Corp has awarded CITIC Guo Hua International Contracting (Overseas) Ltd a HK$160m contract to provide the power supply system for the Tseung Kwan O extension. Shinryo Corp is to supply the tunnel environmental control system under a HK$189m contract and trackside auxiliaries for HK$91m. Kowloon-Canton Railway Corp has ...
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Product NEWS
Sprinter corrects spot faultsPlasser & Theurer has developed the Unimat Sprinter tamper for the correction of spot faults, defects of around nine to 15 sleepers in length which typically occur at a rate of 20 per 100 km per year, according to the manufacturer. An on-board computer running Win-ALC Sprinter ...
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NS rethink
WITH expressions of interest for the operation of international high-speed services on HSL-Zuid due by August 18 (RG 7.99 p426), Netherlands Transport Minister Tineke Netelenbos revealed last month that she was now minded to allow Netherlands Railways to enter the bidding. However, this would be on condition that NS gives ...
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PEOPLE
Edward A Burkhardt has resigned as Chairman, President, & Chief Executive Officer of Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp with effect from August 31 (p481). He is succeeded by Thomas F Power Jr, WC’s Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for the past 12 years. J Reilly McCarren becomes President & ...
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Rhine-Rhône route set
A PREFERRED route for the first phase of the planned TGV Rhine-Rhône line was announced on July 5. The so-called 'barreau Est' option was agreed unanimously by a committee set up to develop the project and report back to the French Ministry of Transport. The decision paves the way for ...
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Sidetrack
INTRO: Hothouse specialThis summer is hot on the Baltic coast. Last month German Railway’s regional subsidiary DB Regio introduced a dedicated DiscoZug to carry young people to and from a regular Weekend Party in the Heizhouse discotheque at Parchim. According to DB Regio, the DiscoZug offers ’Fun und Action’. It ...
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Nanjing Line 1 started
CONSTRUCTION work has finally started on the first line of the long-planned metro for the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. The 16·8 km Line 1 will run north-south across the city centre, and is costed at 5·4bn yuan.Proposals for the metro were approved by the National Planning Commitee in mid-1994 ...
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Bahn 2000 tunnel
CEREMONIES were held at Gorgier-St Aubin on May 27 to mark completion of Swiss Federal Railways’ latest Bahn 2000 upgrading project. The 2250m long Sauges tunnel is the longest of four for the double-tracking of 10·5 km between Neuchatel and Yverdon. SBB Infrastructure Director Pierre-Alain Urech told the guests that ...
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Ticket offices to go by 2010
IN THE FACE of protest from consumer organisations and staff, NS Reizigers has postponed to 2010 the closing of staffed ticket offices across its network. Under a programme costed at 50m guilders, NS had hoped to replace these offices by 2003 with ticket vending machines, redeploying staff to assist passengers ...
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Building the 21st Century Talgo
INTRO: With nearly 50 years of operating experience, Patentes Talgo is now developing the Talgo XXI trainset, featuring diesel or electric power cars with gauge-changing capability. The latest Series 7 cars will also form the basis of a high-speed train aimed at the Spanish marketBYLINE: Francisco de LorenzoChief Executive OfficerPatentes ...
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Valencia Line 5
THE Valencia regional government has awarded the Iberinsa consultancy a Pts300m contract to undertake project development for the proposed Line 5 of the city’s metro network. With 2·5 km in tunnel and the remainder running as light rail on the surface, this 4·7 km route would connect Alameda on Line ...
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Active suspension trials head research objectives
THIS MONTH should see Alstom and French National Railways conclude a programme of trials with a TGV modified to demonstrate that ride comfort can be significantly improved in the 300 to 350 km/h speed range. Four cars of a TGV Réseau set have been fitted with a form of active ...
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Adtranz gets two years to move into profit
UNVEILING a full-size mock-up of the Innovia peoplemover at the City Transport exhibition in Toronto (right), Adtranz President & CEO Rolf Eckrodt confirmed on May 24 that the company was relying on its modular product platform strategy to return the business to profit within the next two years.Officially known as ...
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DLR ticketing agreement
On June 9 Schlumberger announced that it had been selected to supply a new ticketing network for London’s Docklands Light Railway, following the rapid growth in patronage over the past seven years. The package includes 92 new vending machines at 36 stations, linked to a Windows NT-based central management system ...
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Alstom’s first year success
PRESENTING Alstom’s first annual accounts following flotation last June, Chairman & CEO Pierre Bilger told his board of directors on May 25 that the year to March 31 1999 had been ’a year of solid results’. He highlighted the ’benefits of Alstom’s focus on the high-margin segments of its ...
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SNCF tests Aquazole
French National Railways has begun trials of Aquazole, developed by ELF Antar France to reduce diesel emissions. The fuel is being used by Class 8000 and 63500 shunting locomotives based at La Villette depot outside Paris Est, where local residents have complained about high levels of atmospheric pollution.Aquazole is an ...
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Bay Area signs smart card deal
THE LARGEST smart-card fare collection contract yet awarded in North America was signed by San Francisco’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission on May 27. The 10-year turnkey agreement with Motorola’s Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division and the ERG Group provides for the installation of a smart card ticketing system that may eventually cover ...