All Railway Gazette International articles in October 1999
All articles published this month.
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railwaygazette.com
OVER the past 21/2 years we have been developing our web information service at www.railgaz.co.uk. Gratifyingly, we have recorded a steady growth in visits, with thousands of professionals from all sectors of the rail industry registering to use the site. In order to provide an even better service to our ...
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Publications
Jane’s Urban Transport SystemsNow edited by Tony Pattison, the 1999-2000 edition of this heavyweight annual continues in its traditional style covering the world’s rail and road public transport. 388 pages are dedicated to the world’s major cities from Aachen to Zürich. The remainder of the book’s 660 pages cover manufacturers, ...
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Pointers
n Australia’s Speedrail consortium hopes to sign Heads of Agreement with the federal and New South Wales state governments by the end of this year for the A$3·7bn Sydney - Canberra high-speed line, so that construction can start during 2000.n The Transport Ministers of Bulgaria and Macedonia have agreed to ...
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PEOPLE
On September 14, the Chairman of the German Railway Supervisory Board, Dr Dieter Vogel, announced that Hartmut Mehdorn will be taking over as Chairman of the DB Management Board with effect from January 1. Formerly Chairman of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, he will succeed Dr Johannes Ludewig. At the same time, ...
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Product NEWS
BYLINE: Containers without terminalsthe container handling system developed by Swing Thru International has been designed for mounting on wagons and road vehicles, enabling intermodal traffic to be loaded or unloaded at locations without cranes or paving for reach-stackers. Available with a lifting capacity ranging from 10 to 35 tonnes, the ...
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Øresund network takes shape
AN INTEGRATED network of regional train services is being developed to link the towns and cities around the Øresund following the opening of the fixed rail link between Denmark and Sweden next year. The link was physically completed with the installation of the final bridge segment on August 14 (RG ...
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Market
Brazil: MRS Logística has ordered 270 mineral wagons from Maxion and 180 from T’Trans, under a US$20m 10-year leasing deal with Debis Finance Corp; deliveries are due by December.China: Kowloon - Canton Railway Corp has awarded Maunsell two design and construct consultancy contracts for the 11·4 km Ma On Shan ...
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Single track maglev
JUST BEFORE he left the post of Transport Minister in the German government (p626), Heinz Münterfering ruled that the Hamburg - Berlin Transrapid maglev project was to be built initially using a single track (RG 6.99 p346), with provision made for vehicles to pass - presumably a reference to a ...
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Railion stalks logistics role
DIRECTOR of DB Cargo Dr Eberhard Sinnecker and his Dutch counterpart Ed Smulders unveiled on September 16 in Duisburg the name Railion for the future merged rail freight company known until now as Rail Cargo Europe. The name will apply from January 1 2000, when the merger becomes effective. Owned ...
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Shenyang line starts
CHINESE Railways formally started construction on August 24 of the dedicated passenger railway between Qinhuangdao and Shenyang. The 422 km double-track line is due for completion in 2002, and will release capacity on the existing line for heavy freight trains.The Shenyang line is designed for 160 to 200 km/h, but ...
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Letters
On rail breaksSir - I was very interested to read the Behind the News item on rail breaks in RG 6.99 p346, which contains fascinating figures regarding rail breaks and rail replacements on the Railtrack network. You report that Railtrack expects to replace only about 0·8% of its 32000 km ...
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Lovers' labours lost
ON SEPTEMBER 14 Lovers Rail Director Mr Kienhorst announced that the Amsterdam - Haarlem Optio service would be discontinued with immediate effect. Criticising the lack of regulation for access to the Dutch network, Kienhorst also blamed Netherlands Railways for failing to co-operate by refusing to accept Lovers Rail tickets. Local ...
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La Rochelle LRT
ON August 30 Alstom Transport signed an agreement with the town of La Rochelle, the région of Poitou-Charentes and the Conseil Général of Charente-Maritime to build an experimental light rail line in the streets of the Atlantic port.The 1·6 km line will run from the Alstom plant at Aytré (p630) ...
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Wisconsin moves into Jordan
Tonnage carried by the Aqaba Railway is expected to triple by 2002 after a Raytheon-led consortium takes a 25 year lease AUGUST 18 saw the signing of an agreement under which management and operation of the 292 km Aqaba Railway in Jordan will pass to a consortium that includes Wisconsin ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: Tradegate ECA is developing an internet-based RailHub to provide automated consignment tracking and data management for the interstate rail network and associated feeder operators.Australian Rail Track Corp has lifted speeds on the Melbourne - Adelaide corridor from 80 to 115 km/h following an A$20m upgrading programme.Queensland Rail carried over ...
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Station Information Systems
Norbain SD Ltd has supplied CCTV equipment for stations on London Underground’s Northern line, enabling station staff and the central control point at Stockwell to monitor platforms, escalators, passages and station entrances. Sony SSC370P cameras, Tecton multiplexers, video recorders from Mitsubishi and JVC colour monitors were installed by Cubic Transportation ...
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Industry News
Australia: The Australian Railway Research Institute has been formed in Brisbane, run by Dr Wardina Oghanna with backing from Queensland Rail and Spoornet.Czech Republic: US investment group Bancroft Eastern Europe has taken a 70% stake in Bontrans, a joint venture with ZDB Bohumin that is to take over ZDB’s rail ...
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Inside INDUSTRY
BYLINE: Merger vote postponed Westinghouse Air Brake Co of the USA announced on August 20 that it had decided to postpone a meeting scheduled for August 23, called for shareholders to vote on the company’s proposed merger with MotivePower Industries (RG 7.99 p465). According to WABCO, the meeting was postponed ...
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Quantity not quality, as high-speed operators mark time
INTRO: The closing years of the 20th century have seen a consolidation in high-speed train performance. In our biennial survey Dr Colin Taylor finds more trains in the top categories, but no services faster than in 1997. The next leap forward will come with the start of regular operations at ...