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Operators line up
DUTCH Minister of Transport & Waterways Annemarie Lebink has approved 19 organisations to run on the Railned network in addition to Netherlands Railways. This is part of the programme to open up the national network to competing operators, all of whom must first gain a Railned safety certificate and then ...
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MARKETPLACE
Australia: Railway Services Authority of New South Wales has called tenders for the supply and installation of help point equipment at 63 stations on the Sydney suburban network.Canada: Canadian National and General Electric have opened a Locomotive Reliability Centre at Symington Yard in Winnipeg, augmenting similar depots in Edmonton and ...
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Pontinha opened
METROPOLITANO de Lisboa has completed a 1.5 km extension of its northwestern route from Colégio Militar to Pontinha, with an intermediate station at Carnide. Started four years ago, the work has been delayed by bad weather and geological problems. Construction was contracted to the Metrogal consortium incuding Construçoes Técnicas and ...
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PEOPLE
Michael Blythe and Bruce Baird have been nominated Directors of Australia’s National Rail Corp for three years.James Struthers has been appointed Finance Director for Eurostar (UK). Linda Bohlinger has been named Executive Director of Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority in Florida. She takes over from Jeffrey D Jackson who has become ...
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Pointers
German Railway is drawing up plans for a dual-mode electro-diesel version of its CargoSprinter freight trainset; a proposal is due to go to the board of management shortly.A new California High Speed Rail Authority was created in November to develop a 1100 km network linking key cities such as San ...
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PR privatisation ’this year’
PAKISTAN Railways is to be fully privatised by the end of 1998, according to Federal Railways Minister Yaqub Khan Nasar. He said in November that the government had decided that the only solution to PR’s financial problems was ’to restructure rail transport’. Endorsing the proposals of a special committee formed ...
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Selective Train Protection
Subject to successful completion of trials, Redifon MEL is to offer the Train Protection & Warning System which has been developed for Railtrack as a cheaper alternative to full automatic train protection. TPWS builds on British Rail’s long-established Automatic Warning System which alerts the driver of a train approaching a ...
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PUBLICATIONS
Conference Papers: ÖVG Convention on Optimising Railway TrackAt this conference in Graz in September 1997 subjects discussed ranged from capacity management and track maintenance strategy on the home railway ÖBB to track inspection and maintenance planning in New York, further development of heavy load switches on Union Pacific, development of ...
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Suburban rebuild
FRENCH Railways, the Syndicat des Transports Parisiens and the Ile-de-France region are to share the cost of a Fr190m programme to rebuild the suburban section of Paris Nord station. Work to is due to begin after France hosts the football World Cup between June 10 and July 12, and is ...
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Intercity 2000 deliveries start this year
INTRO: The first of 10 tilting trainsets for Spanish National Railways’ Madrid - Valencia route will be delivered this month and enter revenue service at the end of May 1998 ORDERED on January 30 1996, the Intercity 2000 is derived from Italian Railways’ ETR460 Pendolino, and fitted with Fiat’s active ...
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ET2000 TT tests the limits of innovation
INTRO: Deutsche Waggonbau AG has built a speculative prototype of this innovative low-floor articulated electric trainset with individual powered axles for German regional servicesIN RESPONSE to a request from German Railway for innovative trains to update regional services, Deutsche Waggonbau has built an experimental two-car articulated unit packed with innovative ...
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ICE4 could have 3·3m wide bodies
GERMAN ENGINEERS are preparing to test the five-car ICE-S train (RG 8.97 p500) at up to 440 km/h on a section of the Hannover - Berlin high speed line before it opens next year. The trials are intended to validate the design concepts of the ICE3 (RG 6.97 p373), 50 ...
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Budapest to build Line 4
PREQUALIFICATION bids were called at the end of August for preliminary engineering work on the long-planned fourth metro line in the Hungarian capital. Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky later confirmed that the municipality had decided to push ahead with the project, which is now costed at HF95bn.Following earlier attempts to build ...
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Simplex adds versatile track jack
A jack with a 100mm wide base has been introduced by Simplex to its range of Pow’r Claw¨ self-contained hydraulic track jacks. The Bridge & Trestle jack is sufficiently narrow to fit between double-set sleepers on bridges. One man can lift up to 10 tonnes from the toe or the ...
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Tough times lie ahead
THERE was a time ’when we could have fun with the engineers’, mused Adtranz President & Chief Executive Officer Kaare Vagner on September 10. Not any more. With railways forcing down rolling stock prices and higher profits at the top of the Adtranz agenda, the CEO’s strategy means attacking the ...
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Desert Express rolls out in April
TRANSNAMIB’S Windhoek workshops are currently rebuilding coaches for the Desert Express landcruise that is scheduled to be launched in April. Also available for private hire, the Desert Express will depart from Windhoek on a 21h round trip to Swakopmund on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. With passengers eating and sleeping on ...
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Atlantico bids called
COSTA RICAN rail administration Incofer invited bids on August 22 for a 25-year concession to restore and operate the 300 km Ferrocarril del Atlantico (RBR97 p52). Bidders have been given three months to inspect the property and submit final tenders by November 28. Various firms are in discussion with Incofer, ...
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Quarry Bay contract awarded
HONG KONG MTR Corp announced on September 4 that it had awarded an HK$1·1bn contract to Nishimatsu Construction for civil engineering work on the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works. This includes a 1·75 km extension of the Kwun Tong line westwards to North Point station where there will be cross-platform ...
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World Speed Survey: Shinkansen regains speed honours as French cut back
In his biennial survey of the world's fastest timetabled start-to-stop trains, Dr Colin Taylor finds that Japan has regained the Number 1 spot it first won in 1965. Despite losing the lead, France continues to accelerate, with its best timings now well over 250 km/h
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More trains to beat the jams
NETHERLANDS Railways has announced plans to run additional fast passenger services from summer 1998 on routes where parallel roads are subject to acute traffic congestion. Within the Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Den Haag conurbation known as the Randstad, six to seven extra trains will operate each hour, giving a basic ...