All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1201
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Powering up Switzerland
ENOTRAC will be highlighting its work designing and commissioning traction power supplies for the Mattstetten - Rothrist new line in Switzerland.The line is designed to carry a mix of 200 km/h passenger and 4000 tonne freight trains, meaning a wide range of simulations were required to optimise the designs of ...
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PowerPack
VOITH Turbo will be exhibiting a PowerPack as the focal point of its stand at InnoTrans. The complete driveline includes a turbo transmission, final drive, cooling, flexible couplings, cardan shafts and an electronic control unit.Recent developments from the company that will be displayed include a transmission for smaller rail vehicles ...
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Reinforced walls
TWO bridge abutments and the associated wingwalls on the City Airport extension of London’s Docklands Light Railway are being constructed using the Tensar Wall System, with modular pre-cast concrete facing blocks and granular fill reinforced by layers of geogrid keyed to the wall.AMEC is using recycled crushed concrete as reinforced ...
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Security on trial
DURING the Republican National Convention being held in New York from August 30 to September 2, passengers using Penn Station below Madison Square Garden faced the possibility of disruption to their journeys while special security measures were enforced.Police had warned earlier that officers would be searching every commuter and inter-city ...
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Steel show
CORUS will be launching Silent Track at the BahnBau section of InnoTrans, where the full range of the steel-maker’s rail products and infrastructure services will be on show.Developed in conjunction with Southampton University’s Institute of Sound & Vibration Research, Silent Track uses tuned dampers to tackle rail noise at source, ...
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Springtime
CONTITECH Railway Engineering, ContiTech Elastomer Coatings and Calenberg Ingenieure will be exhibiting on a joint stand at InnoTrans.CRE will display primary and secondary suspensions, including air springs and rubber-to-metal bonded springs which are in service in countries that include China, India, France and Spain. The company’s multi-axial test rig allows ...
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Testing takeover
WITH effect from July 6 Windhoff Bahn- & Anlagentechnik GmbH took over Archinger AG, a company specialising in the development of automated non-destructive testing processes for the railway, aerospace and nuclear power industries.Archinger has supplied wheelset testing equipment to companies including German Railway and Austrian Federal Railways. The Nürnberg-based company ...
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Track technology
PFLEIDERER Track Systems will be showing its range of track designs for main line and urban use, including the Rheda 2000 ballastless track being installed on the Ingolstadt - Nürnberg line and HSL-Zuid. The Rheda City and Rheda MRT variants are intended for use on metro lines and tramways, and ...
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Track technology
VORTOK International will be launching its balise mounting system at InnoTrans. The mounts allow balises and other transponders to be fixed in place within minutes without having to drill into concrete sleepers.Also on show will be Rotorrail retrofit switch rollers, which do not require maintenance or lubrication. Rotorrail is in ...
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Trains and trams
ALSTOM will exhibit one of the 28 three-car Regio Citadis tram-train vehicles it is supplying to Kassel (p585). 50 similar cars have been ordered by Dutch operator HTM for the RandstadRail network between Den Haag and Zoetermeer.The youngest members of the Coradia LINT family are the 10 single-section and 18 ...
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Vossloh variety
VOSSLOH Group’s Locomotives business unit will be exhibiting an Am843 loco built for Swiss Federal Railways, as well as a 2700 kW MaK 2000-4BB loco, designed for use at temperatures as low as -40íC.A redesigned rail fastening system for concrete sleepers will be displayed by Vossloh Fastening Systems, as well ...
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Better ballast spreader saves 10%
CANADIAN Pacific Railway is increasing the efficiency of its ballast spreading operations with the introduction of the PLUS train. The Programmable Linear Unloading System cuts the time needed to drop ballast, reducing possession times and minimising the impact on revenue trains.A track maintenance supervisor in a road-rail vehicle surveys a ...
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Restructuring on course for 2006
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy has undergone significant changes in the past two years, as part of a restructuring that will see all train operations and ancilliary activities privatised by 2006.Under legislation approved in July 2001, KTZ was restructured as a joint stock company in March 2002, with all shares held by ...
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Series N700 trainset takes shape
CENTRAL and West Japan Railways have unveiled a mock-up of the planned Series N700 trainset being developed for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen. JR-Central has ordered a pre-production trainset which is now under construction and due for completion in March 2005. After two years of test running, the train is ...
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BC Rail absorbed
CANADIAN National confirmed on July 14 that it had completed its C$1·1bn takeover of BC Rail under a ’partnership agreement’ with the British Columbia government. The deal had been cleared by Canada’s Competition Bureau on July 2.Under the agreement announced on November 25 2003 (RG 1.04 p6), CN is acquiring ...
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Rail production agreement
VOESTALPINE Schienen and Egyptian Iron & Steel Co signed a memorandum of understanding on June 6 for the production of rails under licence in Egypt.Part of the state-owned Egyptian Metallurgical Industries group, EISCO would use technology and technical support from Voestalpine to produce 36m rails at an upgraded heavy-section rolling ...