All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2005 – Page 3
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Danish noise
NOISE, vibration and machinery dynamics consultancy Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe has been acquired by Lloyd’s Register. There are over 40 specialist staff at the Danish firm, which has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lloyd’s Register Group but operates independently and retains its name and corporate identity. Managing Director John Ødegaard said ...
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Smartcard deal
DENMARK is set to become the second country in Europe to introduce a national smartcard ticket accepted by all rail, metro and bus operators. The Travel Card project is being managed by Rejsekort A/S, a joint venture company set up by all Danish public transport operators. On September 13 Rejsekort ...
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Downer EDI profit up despite rail fall
ENGINEERINGservices group Downer EDI Ltd reported a 28% increase in profit after tax to A$104m for the year to June 30 2005. Overall turnover was up from A$3·42bn in 2004 to A$3·97bn, but the Rail division’s contribution fell from 12·0% to 9·1%.’This is our eighth successive year of earnings and ...
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Dieter
Taipei Smart Card Corp and Swiss watchmaker Swatch have begun selling wristwatches containing an embedded smart chip, allowing passengers to use the timepieces to pay for metro and bus fares in the Taiwanese capital. TSCC said 11000 of the NT$1600 watches would be on sale by the start of this ...
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Dispatching software upgrade
ON AUGUST 22, Union Switch & Signal announced that it had entered into ’one of the largest software agreements in railroad history’, to upgrade train planning and computer-aided dispatching for Union Pacific.As well as implementing its Next Generation Computer Aided Dispatch System across the 53000 km UP network, US&S will ...
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Driver’s errors fox investigators
ON SEPTEMBER 6 the Aircraft & Railway Accidents Investigation Committee submitted an interim report into the crash of a JR West Series 207 EMU at Amagasaki on April 25 (RG 6.05 p299) to Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa. The report highlighted the driver’s unusual behaviour but did not explain what may ...
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Nordic Rail highlights northern Europe
JÖNKÖPING is once again hosting the Nordic Rail exhibition, and on October 4-6, eyes will turn to developments in the rail industries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.The region’s suppliers will be present to highlight their products and services, while exhibitors from further afield will be heading to southern Sweden ...
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Terminal expanded
SWISS intermodal operator Hupac held celebrations on September 9 to mark the expansion of its Busto Arsizio-Gallarate terminal near Milano. Italian Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi and his Swiss counterpart Moritz Leuenberger participated in the event.Hupac has invested SFr75m to increase capacity from 15 to 23 train pairs per day. There ...
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Finance
Germany: On September 16 Sachsen-Anhalt Transport Minister Dr Karl-Heinz Daehre confirmed a further €3·3m of Land funding towards the 8·5 km extension of the metre-gauge Harz Railway from Gernrode to Quedlinburg. Work on the €6m project officially began on April 18 for completion in mid-2006.Iran: The Islamic Development Bank has ...
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International focus on the value of speed
INTRO: eurailSpeed 2005 will examine the latest developments and the future outlook for high speed railways, focusing on the main theme of High Speed Rail - Railways’ Leading Asset for Customers and SocietyEurailspeed 2005, the 5th World High Speed Rail Congress, will be held in Milano, Italy, on November 7-9. ...
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Network Rail found guilty over Hatfield
FINES totalling millions of pounds may be imposed on Network Rail and Balfour Beatty this month, after the jury in the eight-month Hatfield trial found NR guilty of offences under Section 37 of the Health & Safety at Work Act on September 6.At the same time, the jury found three ...
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Stadler’s good half
CONTINUING growth in turnover and yield was reported by Stadler for the first half of 2005. Consolidated half-yearly sales of SFr274m were up from the 2004 figure of SFr231m, and the company is expecting an annual turnover for the current year of SFr600m, 22% above budget. Staff numbers are up ...
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RZD reform makes good progress
INTRO: The process of reforming Russian Railways to meet the needs of a market-based economy is well advanced, with institutional separation complete, growing private investment in rolling stock and significant competition in the freight marketBYLINE: Anna G BelovaVice-President, Russian RailwaysLouis S ThompsonPrincipal, Thompson, Galenson & AssociatesRUSSIA is a country of ...
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Illuminating report
REQUIREMENTS for emergency lighting on trains have been identified in a report compiled under the leadership of AEA Technology Rail and published by Britain’s Rail Safety & Standards Board.The project identified safety benefits using feedback from passengers involved in accidents where lights failed. These include helping passengers protect themselves and ...
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Nanjing metro inaugurated
ON SEPTEMBER 3 Nanjing became the sixth Chinese city with an operational metro, when the first section of Line 1 was formally inaugurated by the Governor of Jiangsu province Liang Bao-Hua. The governor was joined at the inauguration by Nanjing mayor Jiang Hong-Kun, local Party Secretary Li Yuan-Chao, and Nanjing ...
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Intelligence
China: Work began on August 26 to add a fourth track on the 147 km line between Guangzhou and Shenzhen at a cost of 4·74bn yuan. This will allow services to be increased from 100 to 137 per day, and it is expected that traffic will rise from 27million to ...
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João Pessoa upgrades too
WORK is expected to start shortly on upgrading tracks for passenger services in the Brazilian city of João Pessoa. A limited diesel-hauled suburban service has been operating for some time over the 28 km between Cabedelo on the coast and the inland suburb of Santa Rita, serving seven intermediate ...
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Recovering from Katrina
HERCULEAN efforts have been made by railways in the US Gulf Coast region to restore services in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina on August 29.Once the storm had passed, pre-positioned maintenance-of-way gangs swung into operation, restoring track and signals wherever possible. However, major ports such as ...
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Kazan metro opens
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin became the first passenger to ride the Kazan metro when it opened on August 27. He was joined for the 1·2 km trip from Kremlyovskaya to Ploschad Tukaya by Tatarstan's premier Mintimer Shamiyev and Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Judrina, and the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev ...
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La Paz light metro out to tender
ON AUGUST 31 Mayor of La Paz Juan Del Granado formally launched a bidding for a 35-year concession to build and operate a 10·6 km elevated light metro route in the Bolivian capital.Expected to cost US$73m to build, the route would run from Cotacota in the south to Calle Colón ...
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