All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2001 – Page 4

  • News

    Metros

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    Australia: Transfield Construction has started work on a 2·2 km extension of Melbourne’s Mont Albert tram line, to Station Street, Box Hill.Egypt: National Authority for Tunnels has awarded the Interinfra consortium of Alstom, Vinci, Spie and Thales a €80m turnkey contract to extend Cairo metro Line 2 for 2·5 km ...

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    Polish wheelset plant opens

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    BYLINE: Andrzej Harassek reports from WarszawaITALIAN steel group Lucchini inaugurated a new wheelset department at its Warszawa steelworks on August 29. The plant was formally opened by the President of the Polish Senate Marek Borowski, who was joined at the ceremonies by Warszawa Mayor Pawel Piskorski, Lucchini’s President Antonino Marullo ...

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    PEOPLE

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    The President of Rail World Inc Ed Burkhardt has been elected Chairman of the new Estonian Railways board (p654), and Railroad Development Corp Chairman Henry Posner III becomes a board member. Former Wisconsin Central Executive Vice President, Planning, Earl Currie becomes interim Managing Director of EVR, with former Tasrail Operations ...

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    Pointers

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    n Promoters of the 4500 km, A$10bn Australia Inland Rail Expressway linking Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin expect to hold a groundbreaking ceremony on October 26. This marks the start of construction of a new bridge across the Macintyre River, between Boggabilla, NSW, and Carrington, Queensland.n China’s Ministry of Railways has ...

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    Publications

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    Modern Trains & Splendid StationsEdited by Martha ThorneA study of state-of-the-art station design, aimed at architects, designers and urban planners. With 25 drawings and 216 colour illustrations, this 160-page book focuses on the design and architecture of a number of recent projects across the world. The role of stations in ...

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    Wagons for sale

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    FOLLOWING the merger of Brambles Industries Ltd and the support services division of GKN plc on August 7 to create the Brambles Group, the company is looking to restructure its business portfolio. Brambles Group is negotiating the divestment of its European wagon rental businesses, as it aims to focus on ...

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    Training signallers through simulation

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    INTRO: Signalling and traffic control centres continue to grow, with the operator’s task increasingly assisted by features such as automatic route-setting and integrated train scheduling. But the size and complexity of such installations can create problems when incidents occur, making thorough preparation through training essential if staff are to manage ...

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    Touch-screen ticketing

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    LONDON Underground ’Queue Buster’ ticket machines being built by Cubic Transportation Systems are to use acoustic-wave touch screen colour displays from Planar.The 10·4 inch TFT active matrix liquid crystal screens are based on similar designs installed on the New York and Singapore metros last year. They feature high back-lighting to ...