All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1134
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First part of Kashmir line on course to open next year
One of India's most ambitious civil engineering projects takes a US$2·5bn railway deep into the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir
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No interest for the creditors
EUROTUNNEL effectively declared itself insolvent on July 13, after last-ditch negotiations failed to reconcile conflicting interests among its creditors that were blocking agreement on a debt restructuring plan. Chairman & Chief Executive Jacques Gounon had already lodged papers on July 11 with the commercial courts in Paris for a Procédure ...
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Czech profit
ROLLING stock builder CKD Vagónka has reported a profit after tax of KC47m for 2005. The company’s sales for the year totalled KC1·15bn, almost double the 2004 figure of KC604m when the firm made a loss of KC100m.In 2005 the Ostrava-based firm became part of the Skoda Holding group (RG2.05 ...
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Czech franchising
HAVING retained responsibility for inter-regional trains when the specification and funding of loss-making local services was passed to regional authorities in 2005, the Czech Ministry of Transport has awarded incumbent CD a contract to operate Liberec - Pardubice trains from December. The other bidders to operate the 161 km route ...
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Czech orders
SKODA Transport has won two framework contracts for the supply of low-floor trams to two Czech cities over the next decade.Praha transport operator DphmP plans to acquire up to 200 cars in 2009-18 at a cost of KC12·2bn, or €2·1m a vehicle. These are expected to be the Porsche-designed Type ...
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Das Fachwort in Verkehr
THIS is the updated third edition of a German-language dictionary of public transport terms first published in 1964. It explains around 800 words from Abfertigen to Zweckverband in its 264 pages, and includes a listing of French and German equivalents. ISBN 3-87094-665-2.k24·80 from Alba Fachverlag, Postfach 110150, D-40501 Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
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Underground daylight
FULL-SPECTRUM lighting recreating 90% of the range of sunlight is being installed on 423 Montréal metro cars during the refurbishment of the 1970s-built vehicles.’Cool white fluorescents are depressive’, said Bernard Pepin, a colour specialist who advised operator STM on the refurbishment programme. ’These full-spectrum lights, on the other hand, have ...
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Dieter
In an effort to attract gamblers to their casinos in Atlantic City, Borgata, Caesars and Harrah’s have agreed to finance the operation of weekend New Jersey Transit passenger services from New York.The casinos will pay $15m for the acquisition of eight double-deck coaches and will provide a $4m annual ...
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Rail expansion dominates Taiwan’s urban transport plans
ON JUNE 26 President Su Tseng-chang of Taiwan presided over groundbreaking ceremonies in Taoyuan County for the 51·5 km rail link between Taipei and Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport (RG 2.06 p58). Expected to cost NT$93·6bn to complete, the line is supposed to be partially financed from a special package of ...
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East Side tunnelling
A JOINT venture led by a division of Spanish civil engineering company Dragados has been awarded a tunnelling contract valued at nearly $428m for work on Long Island Rail Road’s East Side Access project. Due for completion in about six years, the project will bring LIRR trains into a new ...
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Eco-station opens
LIVERPOOL South Parkway station was officially opened on July 14, linking together the former Allerton and Garston stations with an integrated booking office and a bus station offering connections to John Lennon Airport. Environmental considerations took a high priority, with rain water collection to save 700000litres of mains water a ...
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Protos EMU prototype ready to roll
DUE TO be unveiled at the InnoTrans show in Berlin next month is the Protos EMU, also designed for the European regional market. The Protos concept is being developed by Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau, which has just been acquired by Russia's Transmash Holding Group (RG 4.06 p174). Last year FTD won an ...
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Fitting filtration
AN EXPERIMENTAL exhaust gas filtration system is to be fitted to a Fret SNCF BB69400 diesel locomotive, one of 160 locos which Socofer is producing through the modernisation of BB69000 and BB66400 locos with a general overhaul and engine retrofit.SNCF has ordered the exhaust gas filtration system from Swiss firm ...
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Finance
Africa: The Indian government has granted a US$7·1m line of credit to fund the purchase of a loco and 12 metre-gauge coaches for use on services between Dakar in Sénégal and Bamako in Mali from August 2007.Canada: Transport Canada has announced C$2·1m of operating funding to continue CN subsidiary Algoma ...
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PPPs to fund TGVs
FRENCH infrastructure manager RFF announced on July 20 that it had appointed financial advisors to assist with the development of PPP funding packages for three major investment projects (RG 11.05 p668).Royal Bank of Canada’s Capital Markets division has been selected to put together the PPP for the Nîmes - Montpellier ...
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Gearless motor
A GEARLESS 110 kW traction motor developed by Siemens is undergoing trials at the Wegberg-Wildenrath test facility, where it is fitted to a former München U-Bahn car. Siemens claims an efficiency of 96% for the Syntegra permanent magnet synchronous drive. As it does not have gears it produces less ...
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Light rail go-ahead for Ottawa
OTTAWA city council voted on July 12 to approve the contract for construction of the city’s planned north-south light rail line, clearing the way for work to begin later this year. The 29·7 km route will link Barrhaven with the University of Ottawa, serving 23 stations. The DBOM concession contract ...
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Golmud – Lhasa railway inaugurated
CHINA: Premier Hu Jintao presided at ceremonies on July 1 to mark the official opening of the 1 142 km line from Golmud in Qinghai to Lhasa in Tibet. Cutting the ribbon at Golmud station, Hu told an audience of 2600 people gathered in the station square that ‘the project ...
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Interlocking orders
INDIAN RAILWAYS has awarded two contracts to Union Switch & Signal India for the installation of electronic interlocking equipment on two routes as part of its network-wide signalling and safety upgrading programme.The bigger contract covers the supply of Microlok-II interlockings for 14 stations on the Northeast Frontier Railway’s Rangiya Division ...