All Railway Gazette International articles in November 2003 – Page 3
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Citytunnel progress
SWEDISH infrastructure authority Banverket has called bids for construction work on the three main sections of the 17 km cross-city tunnel link in Malm
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Raising loads and lowering charges
Wagons now being delivered to operators in several European countries are making use of bogies designed to minimise impact forces on the track
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Competition drives the passenger business
INTRO: Restructuring of German Railway’s passenger operations and changes to ticketing and catering policy will help to keep DB competitive with new operators and low-cost airlinesBYLINE: Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch Board Member, Passenger TrafficDeutsche Bahn AG ON October 1, German Railway put in place a fundamental restructuring of its passenger operating ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Tchas Ostrava and ZS Brno have begun a KC2·1bn modernisation of Bohumín station, to be completed in November 2005.ÖBB took over Austria’s Postbus service with effect from September 15. Over the next year Postbus operations are to be integrated with the railway’s Bahnbus network.NoordNed has installed CCTV cameras on six ...
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Products in Brief
PolyPhaser DSX series filters are being used to protect engineering and maintenance staff working on Italian high speed lines from the risk of their equipment becoming live. Similar to components used for lightning protection, the PolyPhaser surge arrestors are connected to an earthing network to dissipate dangerous currents.Smiths Interconnect - ...
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Industry News in Brief
To take advantage of next year’s expansion of the EU, Holland Railconsult has launched a Warszawa-based arm under the name Movares Polska. Further international expansion will also use the Movares brand, and the firm’s Braunschweig branch has become Movares Deutschland. A Transportation Division has been launched by FaberMaunsell, combining the ...
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‘Let us shamelessly borrow ideas from others’
INTRO: Over 700 research experts were urged to share know-how and knowledge at the sixth World Congress on Railway Research on September 28 - October 1EATING HAGGIS, quaffing whisky and other Scottish cultural activities are now familiar to much of the world’s railway research community. As host city for WCRR ...
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F-MAN will boost wagon productivity in Europe
INTRO: An EU-funded research project will confirm the feasibility of equipping Europe’s wagon fleet with on-board tracking systems that report their location and status to a central database via the internet. This will greatly improve arrangements for tracking consignments, and for getting empty wagons where they are neededBYLINE: Eckhard Kuhla, ...
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Eurotunnel's plan to boost intermodal freight
While lorries carrying 15 million tonnes of freight used the Channel Tunnel in 2002, through trains carried barely a tenth of that. Richard Hope talked to Bill Dix, the executive charged with expanding rail freight to levels matching those between other EU countries
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Marmaray tunnel bids in
TURKEY: Three prequalified consortia submitted technical bids on October 3 for construction of Istanbul's Marmaray tunnel, comprising a 1·8 km double-track submerged tube under the Bosporus together with 11·5 km of bored tunnel approaches on each side. Four groups had prequalified last year (RG 9.02 p465), but one subsequently withdrew. ...
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World Bank warning
THE World Bank has warned Bangladesh Railway that dramatic improvements in efficiency are needed if it is ’to demonstrate that it has a real role to play in the future transportation system of the country and that it can hold its market share’. Productivity of staff and rolling stock was ...
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Second AVE line opens
THE 481 km initial section of Spain’s Madrid - Barcelona high speed line was inaugurated on October 10 by King Juan Carlos, who was accompanied by Renfe President Michel Corsini and other VIPs on a special trip to Zaragoza Delicias (right). Commercial services began running at 06.40 on October 11, ...
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Industry unites at Australian showcase
AUSRAIL Plus 2003 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from November 17 to 19 will be the first time that the members’ forum of the Australasian Railway Association joins forces with the Rail Track Association of Australia, the Australian Railway Industry Corp, the Railway Technical Society of Australasia and ...
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Sweden’s railways tackle the need to attract engineers
INTRO: In recent years railways in different countries have lost status and importance, to the point that working in the industry is not considered ’cool’. Sweden’s infrastructure authority is seeking to change this perception, so that young people will want to work in the railway business in the futureBYLINE: Jan ...
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Revised package rescues Alstom
ALSTOM announced on September 23 that it had reached an agreement with its banks and the European Commission on a package to meet the company’s financial needs. The proposals were developed following the EC’s decision that a previous rescue deal announced on August 6 was inconsistent with its procedures for ...
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Alcatel wins Tube Lines resignalling
LONDON Underground infrastructure concessionaire Tube Lines announced on October 2 that it had awarded a £300m contract to Alcatel for resignalling of the Jubilee and Northern lines. Installation of SelTrac S40 communications-based train control is expected to increase ’capability’ by 22% on the Jubilee line by 2009 and 18% on ...
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Franchise deals move ahead
ON OCTOBER 20 the UK Strategic Rail Authority confirmed that it had signed a 15-year franchise agreement with Arriva Trains Ltd to operate the Wales &Borders franchise, giving Wales ’a unified railway under a single operational management structure’. Arriva will take over from National Express Group on December 7.On October ...
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Bavarian agreement
After two years of tough negotiations DB Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn and Bavarian Transport Minister Otto Wiesheu signed an agreement on September 12 covering regional rail services for a 10-year period. This will see the Land contract with DB Regio to provide local services at a total cost of €8bn. The ...
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Austerity on the French agenda
OPTIONS to improve the woeful performance of the French rail freight business were due to be presented to the SNCF board on October 22. Freight revenue in the first six months of the year was 3% down on the same period in 2002, which SNCF blamed on the poor economic ...
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Texans try again
LONG-STANDING readers may remember the Texas TGV, a proposal to build a 1000 km high speed network linking Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. This bit the dust in 1994 after Texas TGV Corp failed to raise sufficient funding for a franchise to build and operate the routes. Something similar, if ...
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