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Smart freight on the way
EUROPEAN freight trains are set to benefit from electronic braking controls. Trials in North America have demonstrated the advantages in terms of longer trains and higher productivity, and last year more than a dozen pilot projects were under way, including several revenue applications (RG 2.98 p95).On March 24 German Federal ...
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Greener toilets for ICN
Swiss Federal Railways’ ICN tilting trains (RG 12.98 p851) are being equipped with toilet systems from Protec, featuring an underfloor bioreactor. Solid and liquid effluent are first separated by a filter unit. Natural decomposition breaks down solid waste for removal at six to 12 month intervals.Liquid undergoes a sequence of ...
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High level talk
PROPOSALS for a rail link across the Tienshan mountains to open up trade between China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have inched forward. A protocol was signed in March in Bishkek, and a group of experts is working on possible routes.One would run from Kashi in China’s Xinjiang province northwest to the ...
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Launch on hold
CELEBRATIONS were planned in Lisboa for April 25. The day marked the 25th anniversary of the 1974 coup when Portugal’s Junta of National Salvation replaced dictatorship rule dating back to 1933, and it had also been chosen for the launch of a long-awaited rail service. For the first time trains ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: Adtranz-Pafawag of Wroclaw rolled out the first of 42 EU11 electric locos for Polish State Railways’ 3 kVDC routes in March. The last eight dual-system EU43s with 15 kVAC capability was due to be completed last month (inset)
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CAPTION: The first of 55 Class 375 Electrostar EMUs being supplied by Adtranz to Connex SouthEastern was demonstrated on the test track at Derby on April 16Photo: B MorrisonCAPTION: Alstom-LHB of Braunschweig has handed over the first of 30 LINT 27 lightweight diesel railcars for German Railway, which designates them ...
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Israel Railways has taken delivery of three GA-DE900AS Bo-Bo diesel shunters being supplied by Alstom Transporte of Spain. They are currently being commissioned at Haifa East depotPhoto: Steve Tish
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Australia: The Federal government has shortlisted three investment banks to advise on the planned privatisation of National Rail Corp, which is expected to raise around A$500m later this year.Great Southern Railway introduced a Sydney - Alice Springs Ghan on April 11. Traction for the passenger service is provided by National ...
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NJ Transit tests investments
On MARCH 22 New Jersey Transit held the first demonstrations of its Hudson-Bergen light rail line through Jersey City. One of the new Kinki Sharyo low-floor cars took invited guests on a 10 min trip along the 4 km test section from the Caven Point maintenance depot via Richard and ...
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Milano launches light metro
DETAILED planning has started for a fourth metro line in Milano. The 15 km route running from the southwest to the east of the city will serve a heavily-used bus corridor and relieve pressure on the parallel Line 1 between Cadorna and Pagano-Bisceglie. It will be totally underground.Metropolitana Milanese is ...
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Russian port links progress
LAST MONTH was due to see the completion of new lines totalling 100 km serving ports on Russia’s Taman peninsula. Under a national strategy to develop ports on the Azov and Black seas, RZD is building links from the Krasnodar - Kavkaz line at Vyshesteblevskaya to Taman on the southern ...
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Mutiny in the Mall
RICHARD WHITE has a problem. As General Manager of the Washington DC’s metro network, now nearing completion after 23 years, he saw a 70% increase in train failures in March and April compared to February. At the same time, daily ridership hit an all-time-high of 617000 passengers on April 7. ...
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Managing a project with many masters
INTRO: Ken Turnbull of Bechtel, who is Project Director of Rail Link Engineering, told Richard Hope how the £4bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link survived last year’s crisis, and is now running smoothly despite complex client-contractor relationships resulting from the rescue deal reached in June 1998JUST 12 MONTHS AGO, the fate ...
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Mandurah plan
PROPOSALS for an 82 km outer-suburban rail link between Perth and Mandurah have been endorsed by the Western Australia state government. Costed at A$940m, the line would bypass the existing commuter line through Fremantle to serve the rapidly-growing southern outer suburbs of Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah.State Premier Richard Court proposed ...
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Argentina: The government is to call tenders for the design, construction and operation over 30 years of a rail link between the centre of Buenos Aires and Ezeiza Airport, with the fastest journey time over the 40 km not to exceed 40min. Initial proposals include an extension of metro Line ...
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Real progress, but more is needed
PUBLIC HEARINGS called this month by the Productivity Commission will seek views on the way railway reform is being handled in Australia. A draft report was published by the Commission on March 30, and its final report is due in August. Despite huge changes in the way government owned railways ...
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Network with revenue potential
ECI Telecom has supplied a US$5m Syncom SDH telecommunications network to Singapore MRT. Linking 60 stations with trackside optic fibre cabling, it can transmit information at speeds of up to 400gigabits/sec. It supports SMRT’s telephone network and also carries data and pictures from station CCTV cameras to the control room.The ...
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On April 15 Guatemala President Alvaro Arzu Irigoyen and Transport Minister Fritz Garcia-Gallont joined Ferrovias Guatemala Chairman Henry Posner III and General Manager Renato Fernandez Ravelo to celebrate the return of freight services to the 914mm gauge network after a three year break. The thrice-weekly train will haul cement 60 ...
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Finnish infrastructure authority Ratahallintokeskus expects to call tenders this month for the extension of 25 kV electrification from Oulu to Rovaniemi and Tuomioja to Raahe. This forms part of a two-stage programme to wire the remaining trunk lines in northern Finland.CAPTION: Russian Railways’ Demikhovo EMU factory has completed a prototype ...