All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1135
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Low-emission locos on order
METRO-NORTH Railroad confirmed an order with Brookville Equipment Corp last month for the supply of 11 low-emission locomotives for use on the Shore Line East, Danbury and Waterbury branches. They will be manufactured in Brookville, Pennsylvania, for delivery in the last quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of ...
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Algeria: SNTF has awarded a consortium of Siemens and Estel a €43·5m contract to supply relay interlockings and telecoms for the 204 km line under construction from Tebessa to Ain M’Lila, and for upgrading an 8 km line between Gué de Constantine and Oued Smar, bypassing Alger.Bangladesh:To regain passengers lost ...
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Tram modernisation
TENDERS were called last month for a €25·2m contract to modernise the tramway infrastructure in the Romanian city of Arad.Bids were due by July 5 for the project, which includes rehabilitation of trackwork over 17·6route-km and repairs to the streets along which the trams operate. This accounts for around a ...
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Wires to Nanjing
ELECTRICALLY-hauled freight trains began running on Chinese Railways’ Shanghai - Nanjing main line on July 1, with the completion of wiring work on the southern section of the Beijing - Shanghai corridor.CR’s Shanghai Railway Bureau expects to operate around 20 freight trains each way per day on the 303 km ...
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Overvoltage protection
PROTECTION of staff from voltage differences, and of electrification equipment from the effects of lightning strikes and stray current, is being obtained by SNCF using ABB’s hybrid voltage limiter. It is common practice to avoid direct earthing of the rails in DC traction systems, to reduce the risk of stray ...
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Possession or ownership?
IT LOOKS as if political decisions determining the future legal status of Deutsche Bahn AG will be taken next month. But don’t expect anything simple or clear cut.At least the options are being narrowed down. A joint parliamentary committee charged by the government with investigating the privatisation of DB AG ...
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People
On July 12 Anne-Marie Idrac (below) was appointed as President of SNCF, succeeding Louis Gallois who has stepped down as head of the French national rail operator to become Co-Chairman of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. Idrac had been head of Paris transport operator RATP since 2002, and was ...
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Rail welding plant
ON JUNE 27 Lithuanian Railways’ Gelmagis subsidiary inaugurated a long-welded rail plant in Silenai, removing the need for LG to buy-in welding services from Latvia and Belarus. Geismar supplied equipment worth 20m litai for the plant in the north of the country, which employs 16 staff. In addition to supplying ...
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Subsidiaries progress RZD reforms
JULY 1 saw the formal start of operations for Russian Railways’ Federal Passenger Board, which has been established as an early priority for the third stage of the RZD reform programme.The reform of RZD’s passenger operations is based on splitting the commercial and social services into separate businesses. According to ...
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Radio silence
ALMOST EXACTLY four years ago, on June 28 2002, the California Public Utilities Commission formally approved the use of Advanced Automatic Train Control on the Bay Area Rapid Transit network in Oakland and San Francisco. Being developed for BART under a $40m contract awarded to Harmon Industries in 1998 (RG ...
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World of tickets
THALES has announced a series of metro ticketing contracts involving contactless smart card technology.Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp has awarded a consortium of Thales, LG and local company Beikong a contract to replace the existing system of paper tickets inspected at gate lines with a contactless system covering 1184 ...
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UltraCaps win out in energy storage
Richard Hope explains how double-layer capacitors have broken through the economic barriers to capturing braking energy on a Mannheim light rail vehicle
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Valencia Line 1 gets €300m upgrade
VALENCIA metro operator FGV is embarking on an upgrade programme for its 80 km Line 1, which is to receive €300m up to 2010 for improvements to infrastructure, power supplies and customer facilities, including accessibility. The train service frequency is to be doubled and 34 new trainsets are to be ...
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Phase 1 opens in Valenciennes
THE FIRST PHASE of the light rail network in the French city of Valenciennes was officially opened on June 16 by Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister of Employment and President of the greater Valenciennes authority. From June 17 to 30 the 9·5 km route with 19 stops between Dutemple and Université was ...
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Alvia cuts Madrid - Barcelona to 4h 15min
THE FASTEST journey time between Madrid and Barcelona was cut to 4h 15min on May 17 when Renfe brought its fleet of 12 Class 120 EMUs into service under the Alvia brand. Equipped with CAF’s Brava system, the self-propelled trains pass through the new gauge-changing installation at Puigverd de Lleida ...
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Market July 2006
Angola: Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co is to supply the Benguela Railway with two SDE16N locos powered by Cummins QSK60-L engines rated at 1640 kW. Bosnia: Funded by a €67·7m loan from the Spanish government, Patentes Talgo is to supply BHZJK with nine trainsets of nine cars each ...
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Intelligence July 2006
Africa: Last month Ghana's Minister of Harbours & Railways Prof Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi told the second meeting of the Joint Committee of Burkinabe & Ghanaian Railway Experts in Ouagadougou that the Canadian International Development Agency has provided funds to study the feasibility and impact of constructing a 795 km single ...
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World urban rail news July 2006
Algeria: A consortium of Semaly and Ingerop has been awarded a €9·6m contract to design, tender and supervise construction of a 9 km tramway in Constantine on behalf of Alger Metro Co. Running from Place des Martyrs to the Rhumel Industrial Zone and Zouaghi, the topography will demand substantial engineering ...
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City News July 2006
On June 6 Alstom announced that it had been awarded a €92·5m contract by the Dominican Republic's transport authority Opret to supply 19 three-car Metropolis trainsets for the 14·5 km first metro line in Santo Domingo, which is due to open in 2008.Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and UK Transport ...