All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1170
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Dispute in Estonia
WE REPORTED last month that investors in Baltic Rail Services, the majority shareholder in Eesti Raudtee, had sent a Notice of Dispute to the Estonian government claiming a breach of bilateral investment treaties (RG 7.05 p394).BRS was seeking to initiate negotiations with the government, and failing this, it intended to ...
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EFC to double from mine to port
More passing loops are being built and new motive power and wagons are on order for the Carajás Railroad as a prelude to double-tracking the entire 892 km line. Murray Hughes reports from northern Brazil
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New hope for Hope Downs
THE ACQUISITION by Rio Tinto of a stake in the Hope Downs iron ore project, announced on July 1, has cleared the way for construction of a rail link to the mine. Hope Downs is due to start producing ore in 2008, and the promoting joint venture of Hancock Prospecting ...
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Knorr-Bremse factory opens
ON JUNE 29 Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems’ UK and Ireland headquarters and production facility at Melksham in Wiltshire (RG p5.05 p285) was formally opened by Managing Director Paul Johnson and Knorr-Bremse Rail AG executive board member Dr Dieter Wilhelm. The ceremony marked the completion of the relocation of the braking system ...
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Finance
Bosnia: EBRD and EIB are to provide a €140m loan for modernisation of the rail network, following the passing of a law on structural reform that separates accounting of passenger and freight operations and creates an infrastructure management company and a regulatory body.Europe: On July 13 Eurotunnel presented confidential proposals ...
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Fire Protection in Vehicles & Tunnels for Public Transport
PREPARED by the Association of German Transport Undertakings, this 504 page bilingual softback provides an overview in German and English of fire prevention and fire-fighting methods. The book is intended to help with the development and specification of new tunnel projects, and to aid the revision of practice in existing ...
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First-generation ICE fleet starts a half-life refit programme
INTRO: Ralf Roman Rossberg saw the first of 59 ICE1 trainsets being refurbished in DB's Nürnberg workshops where a €180m project to rejuvenate the fleet is getting underway SINCE the first ICE1 trainsets entered service in a blaze of publicity in 1991, each set has clocked up an ...
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Fret SNCF on the offensive
WITH rival freight operator Connex now using RFF tracks (RG 7.05 p409), Fret SNCF is moving onto the offensive with applications for safety certificates to run trains in Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg. The first is expected imminently and the other two by the end of the year.Announcing this on June ...
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Upgrade funding package in place
RéSEAU Ferré de France President Jean-Pierre Duport participated in a ceremony at Clermont-Ferrand on June 30 to launch upgrading work on the main line to Paris.Under an agreement between the French government, Auvergne region and Puy-de-D
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Getting to the point
RAPIDcollation of maintenance and status data can be achieved through the use of SmartPoint technology developed by ESA SrL of Casssari. SmartPoint uses miniature memory buttons developed to withstand extreme environments, which are attached directly to rolling stock or infrastructure components requiring monitoring. These can accommodate up to 488 digits ...
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NSB wins Gjøvikbanan tender
NORWEGIAN railway operator NSB has been awarded a 10-year contract to run passenger services on the Oslo - Gjøvik line from June 2006 until mid-2016.The 123 km Gjøvikbanan was the first inter-city route in the country to be put out to tender, as one of three pilot projects for the ...
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Green Line joins the Trolley network
INTRO: Julian Wolinsky reports from San DiegoONE OF the final pieces of San Diego’s light rail network as envisaged nearly 30 years ago was dedicated on July 8, when an S70 low-floor LRV burst through a banner at San Diego State University station. Built at a cost of $506m, the ...
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Haut-Bugey revival will speed TGVs
With aim of cutting the journey time by TGV between Paris and Genève, work is now underway to upgrade the 65 km between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde, including electrification and the re-opening of a 29 km section closed to traffic since 1992. Brian Perren reports
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High speed trainsets take shape
Chinese Railways has ordered three fleets of high speed trains for operation of 200 km/h regional inter-city services
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Information on the line
IMPROVED CO-ORDINATION of customer information and communications systems is offered by the RailCom Manager system now being installed in New York by Siemens Transportation Systems. A pilot project involving 10 stations in the Netherlands is also underway.Following the terrorist attacks in September 2001, New York City Transit has started a ...
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Italian innovation at Roma show
INTRO: Local firms had plenty to display at the Mobility & City Transport exhibition which accompanied the 56th UITP Congress in Roma
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Intelligence
Australia:On June 24 QR announced the purchase of Melbourne-based container and logistics firm CRT Group, which specialises in plastics and food products. FreightLink began a container service between Melbourne and Adelaide on July 4, connecting with services to Darwin.Belgium:SNCB-Holding announced on June 24 that it had signed a memorandum of ...
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NewsTTC to invest in trams and metro
ON JUNE 22 Toronto Transit Commission voted to buy a new fleet of up to 242 low-floor trams, as part of major upgrading of the city's ageing tram network. Commissioner Jope Milhevc said the project would give the city 'a first-class streetcar system'. TTC wants to see the first cars ...
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Refined refinery locos
THE LIFE of three U26C Class 34-400 locos used at the Sasol Synfuels refinery in Secunda, South Africa, is being extended in an upgrading contract awarded to DCD Dorbyl's Rolling Stock Division. An extra 15 to 20 years use is now expected from the refurbished locos, which were completed in ...