All Railway Gazette International articles in November 2001 – Page 2
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Polish infrastructure handover
POLISH rail infrastructure company Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA officially started operation on October 1. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Polish State Railways holding company PKP SA, PLK will be responsible for managing the rail network, although the assets will still belong to PKP. PLK will be headed by PKP’s former ...
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Task force sets the points
ALLEGATIONS by the European Commission of anti-competitive practices by German Railway, announced on October 12, were at once refuted by DB Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn. We understand that the EC is to investigate an incident in which DB rejected a request from a competing operator to hire traction at cost price ...
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Finance
Great Britain: Porterbrook Leasing has been selected as preferred bidder to finance 700 Electrostar Class 375 EMU cars for the South Central franchise, valued at over £600m (RG 10.01 p654).Kyrgyzstan: Asian Development Bank is to provide US$100m to fund repair and modernisation of the 350 km Lugovoy - Bishkek - ...
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Kyiv facelift
UKRAINIANRailways has completed the refurbishment of Kyiv Central station, which dates from 1927. The eight-month Hr500m project involved four contractors and 5000 workers from over 70 construction companies. In addition to the repair work carried out by Ukrzaliznytsya, a new aluminium and glass-fronted terminal building has been built by Kyivmisklbud, ...
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US light rail expands
SEVERAL US cities reached key milestones in their light rail development during the last week of September. On September 28, Sacramento Regional Transit marked the start of construction on its 17·5 km extension from Mather Field Road to Folsom, which will have nine stations. Work in the Rancho Cordova area ...
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Europe follows Japan into friction stir welding
INTRO: Several hundred aluminium cars with non-fusion seams are operating in Japan, and rail vehicle manufacturers elsewhere are now grasping the economic benefits of a joining technique invented in 1991BYLINE: John Davenport, Stephan W Kallee and J Graham WyldeTWI LtdA DECADE ago, the joining technique known as friction stir welding ...
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Electrification thresholds
Sir - I read with great interest the report ’Wires added to Russian network’ (RG 4.01 p210) regarding the electrification of RZD lines, and the setting of the threshold at which electrification is justified at 20 to 25 million gross tonne-km a year.The Indian Ministry of Railways has appointed a ...
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EBA wins wider regulatory powers
INTRO: Legislative changes are set to grant Germany’s Federal Railway Office ’real teeth’, including the ability to intervene directly in negotiations over paths between operators and infrastructure company DB Netz. Murray Hughes asked EBA President Dipl-Ing Horst Stuchly about EBA’s activities, including its role as purseholder for DB’s infrastructure investment ...
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East London line go-ahead
BRITISH Transport Secretary Stephen Byers announced on October 9 that he had approved plans for a southern extension to London Underground’s East London line. A 2·5 km link to the South London line and a flyover at New Cross Gate will reconnect the line with the South Central network, enabling ...
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Dieter
CAPTION: Austrian Federal Railways has brought a new twist to the tradition of school trains, bringing the school to the passengers instead of the passengers to the school. In conjunction with Innsbruck University, ÖBB is offering daily language classes in ex-dining cars on regional services. Dieter suggests this may be ...
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Success in research demands railway-industry partnerships
INTRO: Research work is increasingly carried out by suppliers and industry, but railways still have an important role in co-ordinating innovation and the development of new ideas. It is vital that performance specifications incorporate railway experience of operations and maintenanceBYLINE: Dr Rainer SchmidbergerDirector of Research & Development,German RailwayTHE SHAPE of ...
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Cutting rail noise
CURRENTLY on trial with SNCF are tuned steel bars bonded to the web and foot of a rail by a high-integrity damage- resistant polymer, to reduce radiated noise. The absorbers can be installed on existing track or when the rails are made.Corus Rail developed the technique with Southampton University, ...
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Cross-border progress
PLANNING for construction of a standard-gauge rail link across the Pyrenees between Perpignan and Figueres moved forward on October 9, when the French government issued a Declaration of Public Utility for the line as far as the border at Le Perthus. Intended to carry both freight and passenger services, the ...
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Hybrid shunter lowers costs and emissions
RAILPOWER Technologies Corp demonstrated its first ’Green Goat’ hybrid microturbine/battery electric shunting locomotive in New Westminster, British Columbia, on September 5. The 130 tonne loco offers a 50% to 90% reduction in nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions and up to a 35% reduction in fuel consumption compared with conventional shunters.Green ...
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Freight corridor
UPGRADING WORK IS to start shortly to create a new rail freight corridor through the French region of Lorraine, following the signing of a €125m financing agreement between RFF and the regional council on September 28. The government will provide €62·5m, Lorraine €37·1m and RFF €18·3m.The 150 km line between ...
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Istanbul tunnel and metro contracts to be signed
TURKEY: The Railway, Port & Airport Construction Directorate was expected to sign a contract with Eurasia Joint Venture by the end of October, covering consultancy and engineering services for the Marmaray Bosporus rail crossing. Preparation of tender documents for the construction work is expected to take eight months, and construction ...
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NS contract delayed
NETHERLANDS Transport Minister Tineke Netelenbos has agreed to postpone the start of Netherlands Railways’ 10-year operating contract, to give the railway time to recover from its current performance problems (RG 9.01 p555). Under the deal, NS will be given a ’pre-franchise’ monopoly of the core network, with the minister reserving ...
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Ensuring consistency and continuity
INTRO: Over the past six months, the stake-holders in the European Rail Research Institute have been reviewing its long-term role in the changing shape of railway researchBYLINE: Drs Gunnar GustafssonManaging Director,European Rail Research InstituteCHANGE has become a way of life for the world’s railways, sweeping through the industry for a ...
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Forstinger favours on-rail competition ...
SPEAKING at the IRCA-UIC World Railway Congress in Wien on September 25, held jointly with the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, Austrian Transport Minister Dipl-Ing Dr Monika Forstinger announced a 30-year National Transport Plan. Of a total spend of Sch644bn, as much as Sch400bn is earmarked for rail, although ...
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Managing clients
Sir - I am a final year student on the University of Reading’s MBA course on Construction & Real Estate and I am in the early days of a dissertation entitled ’Managing the client in railway construction projects’.The hypothesis which I am seeking to prove is that the role of ...
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