All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1261
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Italian-based company Grandi Stazioni has won a public tender for a long-term lease and refurbishment of Praha’s Hlavni station, and the stations at Karlovy Vary and Mari
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IE orders CAF inter-city stock
IARNRóD éireann has ordered 67 inter-city coaches from CAF for €117m. Due to enter service from autumn 2005, they will be suitable for 200 km/h running, and feature a streamlined design with a new livery. They will operate in nine-car push-pull trains, formed of six standard class carriages, one buffet, ...
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More capacity in cross-city tunnel
GERMAN Railway is to install LZB inductive train control in its 4·2 km cross-city S-Bahn tunnel in München, to increase capacity from 24 to 30 trains/h in each direction. This will entail closing the tunnel between Hauptbahnhof and Ostbahnhof from Saturday evenings until Monday mornings from January 11 until November ...
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Climate chamber simulates snow and sun
Ralf Roman Rossberg reports on the opening of the rolling stock climate chamber in Floridsdorf that replaces older facilities at Wien Arsenal
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Zhuhai closer
WORK IS expected to get underway this year on a 139·8 km railway serving the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone in southern China. Costed at 21bn yuan, the line is being promoted by the Guangdong Provincial Development Planning Commission, which completed a detailed feasibility study in December. Construction work is expected ...
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Communications underground
TUNNELS on the Italian national rail network operated by RFI are being fitted with radio communications from Teko Telecom. Teko offers a range of 88MHz to 2GHz analogue and digital radio communications equipment for use in tunnels. These can be controlled remotely as well as locally, and offer GSM-R, TETRA, ...
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High speed contracts let
THE SPANISH CABINET has given its approval for construction authority GIF to call tenders for civil works on 11 km at the southern end of the Madrid - Valladolid high speed line between Fuencarral and Tres Cantos. Divided into two lots, work is expected to take 24 months within a ...
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UIC launches timetable database
ON DECEMBER 3 the International Union of Railways unveiled the Merits project to develop a European timetable database. Unveiled just ahead of the timetable change on December 15, Merits allows around 30 operators to exchange timetable data electronically. Any participating railway can access the timetable of any other. The database ...
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Hallandsås deal
SWEDISH rail infrastructure authority Banverket awarded a contract on November 8 to a joint venture of Skanska and Vinci of France for completion of the troubled 8·5 km Hallandsås tunnel. The double-track bore is intended to form part of the West Coast main line upgrading between Göteborg and Malmö. ...
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Fire detection
SEVEN stations on Rotterdam metro’s Benelux line (p20) have been fitted with fire detectors from Apollo. There are over 400 Apollo XP95 analogue addressable smoke detectors and manual call points, with beam detectors to protect platforms and waiting areas. A CEL Discovery control panel with a graphical display is used. ...
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Metro duty-planning improved
BILBAO Metro is planning its train schedules using ILOG’s Solver and CPLEX software. It is used as part of a planning package designed to simplify the rostering of drivers and producing exact work shift calendars adapted to the real service needs. Supplied by Thales Information Systems, the system relies on ...
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North East Line ready to open
INTRO: Revenue services are about to start on Singapore’s North East Line. Advances in technology since the island’s first heavy metro routes were built have permitted the use of full automationBYLINE: Tai Chong ChewSenior Director, Projects & Engineering,Land Transport Authority THE FIRST quarter of 2003 will see the opening of ...
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Tenerife gets EIB funding
METROPOLITANO de Tenerife SA has been granted a €138m European Investment Bank loan to finance the island’s planned 16·7 km light rail network. Promoted by Tenerife Island Council, the project forms part of the Special Territorial Plan for the Tenerife metropolitan area, and will connect the towns of Santa Cruz ...
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Parcels EMU plan
JAPANESE parcels delivery company Sagawa Express Co has announced plans to switch its trunk hauls between Tokyo and Osaka to rail in early 2003. As well as cutting exhaust emissions, the move is intended to mitigate the effects of requirement limiting Japanese lorries to 90 km/h from next September.The traffic ...
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Pioneer of separation finds the experiment could unravel
EVEN THE most ardent supporters of separating infrastructure and operations must surely be wondering about their policy following revelations in early December that serious financial problems were affecting the passenger business in Sweden. It was here in 1988 that the first moves were made towards separation when Swedish State Railways ...
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Tohoku Shinkansen extended
CEREMONIES were held at Hachinohe station on December 1 to mark the inauguration of a further section of Japan’s Tohoku Shinkansen. Participating in the tape-cutting were JR East President Ohtsuka and the Governor of Aomori prefecture Mr Kiamura. The inaugural Hayate train 2 to Tokyo was then dispatched at 06.55 ...
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Faster to Malpensa
FERROVIE Nord Milano has taken a further step towards its goal of a 30min journey time for the Malpensa Express airport service. Contracts were awarded at the end of November for relocation underground of the route at Castellanza and associated works to complete double-tracking between Saronno and the airport junction. ...
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Finance
Canada: In the fourth quarter of 2002, CN took charges against earnings totalling C$252m, resulting from a new method of accounting for personal injury claims in the USA and severance costs for 1146 staff. Net income for the quarter was expected to be down on the C$296m recorded in 2001.Czech ...
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Zürich Phase III funded
THE BOARD of Swiss Federal Railways voted on November 29 to allocate SFr115m towards the third phase of the Zürich S-Bahn expansion programme. The canton of Aargau has already approved its share of the SFr202m project cost, and the balance will come from the cantons of Zürich, Thurgau and St ...
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Gijón tunnel
AS PART OF THE Metrotrén Asturias project (RG 1.02 p9), the Spanish Ministry of Development is to call tenders for the construction of a 3·54 km tunnel under the centre of Gijón. Starting at a depth of 20m below the existing Renfe terminus, the tunnel will run to Viesques with ...