All Railway Gazette International articles in October 1998 – Page 2
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Bybanen design deal
KØBENHAVN’s urban development consortium Ørestadsselskabett awarded contracts at the beginning of September for design work on the next three phases of the city’s Bybanen automated metro network.Danish engineering group Carl Bro and British consultants Maunsell Ltd are to undertake detailed design of the alignment, earthworks, track and power supplies for ...
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Tilt to Cairns
QUEENSLAND Railways signed an accord on September 2 with Evans Deakin Industries for the development of two diesel-powered tilting trainsets for its coastal main line between Brisbane and Cairns. The trains will be built by EDI subsidiary Walkers Ltd of Maryborough, which supplied two six-car electric tilting trains due to ...
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Rebodied PumA cars raise comfort standards at no extra cost
BYLINE: Dipl-Ing Gerd Ahne andDipl-Ing Gerd Truckenbrodt*BYLINE: * Dipl-Ing Ahne is PumA Project Manager and Dipl-Ing Tuckenbrodt is Head of Projects at PFA GmbHON SHOW at the InnoTrans exhibition this month in Berlin will be the first production version of a PumA coach for German Railway’s regional services. The PumA ...
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Facing up to fresh challenges
INTRO: Finding ways to fund high speed services is one of the toughest issues facing delegates to the Eurailspeed congress. Read on for a guide to high speed plans and projects worldwideAS DELEGATES gather in Berlin at the end of this month for the Eurailspeed 98 congress, there is every ...
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IR traffic climbing
ISRAEL RAILWAYS Managing Director Amos Uzani participated in ceremonies at Binyamina station on August 17 to mark completion of double-tracking between Tel Aviv and Haifa. This paves the way for additional express services, with a non-stop journey time of 45 min for the 92 km. Upgrading has switched ...
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Combinos ordered
At the beginning of September the municipality of Hiroshima announced it was buying four Combino low-floor LRVs, with an option for eight more. Due for delivery in the spring of 1999, they will be supplied by Siemens in conjunction with local firm Alna Koki.The 30·5m long bi-directional cars, 2 450 ...
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Subte concession renegotiated
BUENOS Aires metro and Urquiza commuter concessionaire Metrovías has agreed a new contract with the federal government extending the 20-year term by four years to 2017 and abolishing the charges for use of infrastructure and rolling stock. Requiring approval from the parliamentary privatisation committee and the BA city council, the ...
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CTRL construction under way
THIS MONTH is due to see the start of work on the long-planned high-speed rail link between London and the Channel Tunnel. Private-sector promoter London & Continental Railways announced preferred bidders for the first civil engineering contracts on September 10. The four contracts totalling £320m will be formally signed this ...
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Prime contractor manages pilot section of Nürnberg - Ingolstadt line
INTRO: German Railway has handed management of the construction programme for the first section of the 88 km Nürnberg - Ingolstadt high speed line to civil engineering specialists Leonhard Weiss. Murray Hughes reports from NürnbergTUCKED away in the southeast suburbs of Nürnberg is a busy railway construction site. Managed from ...
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Revenue conundrum must be solved
NOTWITHSTANDING the low impact of the much-publicised Trans-European Freight Freeways, big changes are afoot on the European freight scene. There are encouraging signs, with the Community of European Railways reporting rail freight in the first three months of the year to be 9·4% up on the 1997 figures, with steady ...
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High speed on conventional lines
INTRO: Raising the maximum speed on conventional lines to 225 or 250 km/h is now feasible, depending on investment resources, the technology available and the legislative background. Much of the technical knowledge is in place to make the required advance, but translating it into a coherent overall package is proving ...
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Rival trains cut Kowloon-Guangzhou timings
August 28 saw the introduction of faster trains between Kowloon and Guangzhou, cutting journey times for the 174 km non-stop journey from 105 to 90min and bringing the promise of increased capacity on this busy route.Five round trips were providing the through service between the two cities up to that ...
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Deregulation demands portable qualifications
PRIVATISATION, deregulation and restructuring of the world railway industry have highlighted a need for recognised qualifications for staff at all levels, according to Gerard Langes, CEO of Transport & Distribution Training Australia. Addressing a seminar in London on September 10 organised by Rail Training International, he instanced a private firm ...
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Derailment detectors
BACK in 1994 Swiss Federal Railways had two lucky escapes. The first was in March when a broken axle caused a train of petrol wagons to derail and catch fire at Zürich Affoltern. Five houses were burnt down and petrol leaking into sewers exploded, blasting manhole covers into the streets; ...
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Embankment reinforcement
MONITORING under traffic conditions of an 80m embankment built in Hannover on the route to Celle using Fortrac¨ 80/30-20 geogrids from Huesker Synthetic has revealed minimal deformation in the millimetre range over a period of 12 months. Using one vertical and two horizontal inclinometers, monitoring followed approval of the geogrid ...
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éole opens in June
FRENCH National Railways confirmed at the end of August that the first phase of its cross-Paris RER Line E is to open on June 26 next year. The Est-Ouest Liaison Express (éole) will eventually connect the Est and St Lazare suburban networks, but the first phase provides for selected services ...
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Eurotunnel tries on-board fire suppression
INTRO: Sprinklers inside freight shuttle wagons are the favoured option for protecting the Channel Tunnel from the costly damage caused by the November 1996 fire. Richard Hope watched a full-scale test in a specially constructed wind tunnelPERCHED INCONGRUOUSLY on a concrete apron behind Darchem Engineering’s works in Stillington, County Durham, ...
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Shinkansen fleet expands
BYLINE: Yoshihiko SatoGeneral Manager, Transport & Rolling Stock DepartmentEast Japan RailwayFOLLOWING THE inauguration of three new routes last year, JR East has ordered extra trains to expand its Series E2, E3 and E4 fleets, and has launched a drive to refurbish older units.In March 1997 we opened the Akita mini-shinkansen, ...
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Muni metro extends
SAN FRANCISCO Municipal Railway began through services to the CalTrain terminal at 4th & King Streets on August 22, when the N-Judah route was extended from Embarcadero. The through service from Ocean Beach replaces the route E shuttle which has served the extension since January 10. Through running was delayed ...
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