All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1131
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Questions remain over THSRC start-up
TEST running on Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp’s 346 km line between Taipei and Kaohsiung is being stepped up as the revised October 31 deadline for completion creeps nearer.Demonstration runs for politicians and journalists have been staged, but information about planned service levels, fares and timings remains vague. It is ...
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Screening PATH passengers
PASSENGERS at Exchange Place station in Jersey City are being screened for weapons and explosives in the second phase of the Rail Security Pilot project being managed by the US Department of Homeland Security. Earlier this year the first phase of the pilot scheme tested X-ray checks of baggage.ProVision ...
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People
Taiwan’s Minister of Transport & Communications Kuo Yao-chi announced her resignation on August 7, her post being filled temporarily by Vice-Minister Tsai Duei.Nikolai Rudkovski has been appointed Minster of Transport & Communications in Ukraine. Vladimir Kozak, formerly head of freight forwarder Lemtrans, has been appointed Director General of Ukrainian Railways.Former ...
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Promising Poland
STADLER has announced plans to establish a subsidiary to carry out final assembly of rail vehicles in Poland. The Swiss rolling stock manufacturer said it believes Poland possesses ’a rich railway tradition’ and considers it to be ’a very interesting and promising market with a market potential of over 1000 ...
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Rail work
CAREER Point in hall 4.1 aims to provide a simple and direct way for students, groups of school pupils and other newcomers to the rail industry to find out about the range of employment possibilities in the sector.Companies including Alstom. Balfour Beatty, Bombardier, Goldschmidt Thermit Group, Knorr-Bremse, AWV Leipzig, Siemens ...
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Rail.One shows track technology
RE-BRANDING of Pfleiderer Track Systems as Rail.One has been completed following its acquisition by AXA Private Equity in April (RG 6.06 p361), and the track supplier will be using InnoTrans to present its new name and its focus on rail infrastructure technology.Work began last month on the installation of the ...
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Ropeless trick
WINDHOFF Bahn- und Anlagentechnik GmbH will be unveiling details of a 300m test track which it will use to demonstrate a concept for a ropeless trolley able to shunt rakes of stock weighing up to 450 tonnes. A hydraulic lifting assembly will raise one axle on one vehicle, creating sufficient ...
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Steering security
ON SEPTEMBER 28 the steering committee of UIC’s recently-formed Security Platform will meet to finalise its programme of activities to co-ordinate the organisation’s approach to railway security.Creation of the Security Platform was approved by the UIC General Assembly in Montréal on June 7-8, and will build on UIC’s previous work ...
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Siemens show
RECENTLY builtrolling stock from Siemens will form the largest single outdoor display. The German firm will be displaying three cars of a Spanish Velaro high speed train (right), a 54m long GT12N Budapest Combino Plus tram, a double-deck S-Bahn car from Zürich and an ÖBB Class 1216 triple-system electric locomotive. ...
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Sidetrack
Hong Kong’s MTR Corp is exploiting the increased the headways between off-peak trains, by using the spare capacity for advertising. A ’Spectacular Mobile Showcase’ vehicle can be hauled between service trains, giving advertisers a new way to attract the attention of passengers waiting at stations. MTR’s Chief Executive Officer, European ...
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Swedish support signed
VOITH Turbo’s Rail Service Centre has secured its first service contract with Bombardier Transportation in Sweden.The agreement runs in parallel with Bombardier’s own contract to service a fleet of Itino DMUs until 2012, and covers heavy maintenance of drivelines as well as responsibility for logistics, repairs and work under warranty. ...
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Spring testing
REGULAR testing of parabolic and coil springs can be undertaken cost-effectively using the Spring Test Press developed by Ulbrich.It has an automatic assembly line to handle large and unwieldy parabolic springs, and automatically records data on spring force, bending and longitudinal elongation, storing the results on computer for easy comparison ...
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Timetables, timings and tickets
INIT will be showing its integrated suite of planning and scheduling software which assists with the real-time optimisation of timetables. Demonstrations of the Mobile-ITCS tram and bus fleet management package will show how the computer-aided service restoration features can be used to minimise disruption to operations.MobileStopinfo can be used to ...
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NewsWaterloo & City on schedule for September 1 re-opening
London Underground's PPP contractor Metronet reports good progress with its programme to upgrade the 2·4 km Waterloo & City Line, which has been closed to traffic since April 1. Track relaying and signalling enhancements will cut journey times and increase capacity between Waterloo and Bank
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Air cargo trial will pioneer hub-and-spoke operation
Andrew Sharp, Director General of the International Air-Rail Organisation, looks at plans to operate high speed freight services to and from Leipzig/Halle airport
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NewsEIB provides €10bn for PEIT
UNDER AN AGREEMENT signed in Madrid on July 4 by its President Philippe Maystadt, the European Investment Bank is to provide up to €10bn in 2007-13 to support the Spanish Ministry of Development's PEIT strategic infrastructure and transport investment plan. PEIT has a total budget of €249bn for 2005-20, of ...
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Line 15 proposed
SHANGHAI’s city planners have announced their intention to develop another north-south metro line across the rapidly-growing conurbation.Due to be completed after 2010, Line 15 will connect the Shanghai University campus in Baoshan with the Purple Bamboo Industrial Park in Minhang. The final alignment has not been settled, but the line ...
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Intelligence August 2006
Bangladesh: Work will begin this month to convert the metre gauge line between Joydepur and Kamlapur station in Dhaka to dual metre and 1676mm gauge by October 2007. A contract awarded to Chinese company First Metallic Construction Co in January 2000 failed because of financial complexities, so BR ...
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Metros August 2006
Algeria: Alstom is to supply 29 Citadis trams for the 16·3 km light rail line planned for Alger (RG 7.06 p378). Brazil: São Paulo state governor Claudio Lembo inaugurated Chacara Klabin station on Line 2 of the city's metro on May 9. Designed by Semaly to provide an interchange with ...