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Relaying mechanised in Shanghai
INTRO: Among the latest track renewal machines delivered by Matisa is a P95LS for use in ChinaBYLINE: Jo
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Metros
Australia: The Victorian government has reached a settlement with OneLink, supplier of Melbourne’s troubled automated ticketing system, under which the company will receive up to A$65m towards claims of A$360m relating to alleged late changes in the initial contract. A revised contract based on performance is to be signed.Belgium: Tenders ...
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And so to Nice?
THERE was plenty for SNCF to celebrate last month when TGV Méditerranée reached its first birthday. Since opening on June 10 last year, when the best Paris - Marseille journey time was cut to just 3h (RG 7.01 p449), the line has carried 18million passengers and has increased traffic by ...
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NRC reform plan
NIGERIA’s Federal Executive Council has selected the Canadian consultancy Canac to provide technical and managerial assistance for the reform of Nigeria Railways Corp. The consultants were due to start work in June on an initial 10-month study phase valued at US$4m, which will be followed by a five-year oversight programme. ...
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People
Following last month's general election in France, Gilles de Robien has been confirmed as Minister of Public Works, Transport, Housing, Tourism & the Sea. Dominique Bussereau is Secretary of State for Transport & the Sea. Radwan Bounasserdin has taken over as President & General Manager of Lebanon State ...
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Pointers
n South African Transport Minister Dullah Omar announced on June 7 that design work for the 4·4 km extension of Cape Town’s suburban rail service to Baden-Powell Drive is to be completed this year; construction will begin in 2003.n Government officials are now preparing legislation to privatise AFE, according to ...
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Publications
2002 Public Transportation Fact Book The 53rd edition of this annual APTA publication contains statistical data on all aspects of the public transport industry in the United States, with additional information covering Canada. This 204 page book includes details of financial information, operating statistics, safety and crime, modes of travel, ...
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SBB updates
SWISS Federal Railways is to modernise 619 regional stations in a SFr340m investment programme. Working with the cantonal governments, 80 stations will be refurbished by the end of this year, and the rest by 2006. The first station to be completed is Muntelier, near Murten, which was done in June. ...
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Sidetrack
It’s a bug’s lifeVirgin Cross-Country’s highly-successful Voyager DEMU fleet has been found to be carrying some unexpected passengers. A layer of micro-organisms, called a biofilm, frequently forms in the air filters of diesel engines. These microbes are sensitive to their environment, and in the past some strains were killed off ...
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Line 1 extended
TEHRAN Urban & Suburban Railway Co has opened the northern section of metro Line 1 in the Iranian capital. It runs 7 km from Darvazeh-Dolat to the suburb of Mirdamad, serving eight stations. The 8·5 km southern section, including the Line 2 interchange at Imam Khomeini, was inaugurated in August ...
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Level 2 goes live
AT 04.44 on April 27, regional passenger train 5104 from Luzern to Olten became the first timetabled train carrying fare-paying passengers to operate using ETCS Level 2 on Swiss Federal Railways. On the 35 km Level 2 pilot section between Zofingen and Sempach, all trains are now controlled from Olten ...
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Metro Report 2002
SUBSCRIBERS will receive with this issue a copy of our annual supplement Metro Report. Non-subscribers may purchase copies separately at £30 by contacting Esco Business Services (details on p281), or using the order form on our web site www.railwaygazette.comThis year’s edition includes an analysis of light rail, tram and metro ...
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Barcelona to spend i7·3bn
ON APRIL 25 Barcelona’s city transport authority ATM approved an infrastructure plan for 2001-10 that will see 282 km of new metro, light rail and suburban routes added to the Barcelona network. The programme is costed at €7·3bn, including €104·5m for increasing capacity on Renfe’s Badalona - Mataró route and ...
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Köln - Frankfurt shuttles launch 300 km/h running
Ralf Roman Rossberg reports on service plans for German Railway's high speed line between Köln and Frankfurt
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Line 5 signalling
VALENCIA regional government in Spain has awarded Dimetronic a €2·8m contract to install signalling, control and telecommunications equipment on the 2·5 km section of metro Line 5 from Alameda to Parque Ayora. Due to open in the spring of 2003, the branch will have intermediate stations at Aragón and Manuel ...
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I-95 upgrade
PUBLIC consultation began at the end of April for a $6·2bn package to upgrade freight railways in the US Mid-Atlantic Corridor linking Virginia to New Jersey. A study by the I-95 Corridor Coalition has recommended a programme of 71 improvement projects to relieve bottlenecks over the next 20 years. The ...
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Advanced Automatic Train Control pioneered in San Francisco
This month Bay Area Rapid Transit will put its Advanced Automatic Train Control moving block control into revenue service. Radio-based technology helps keep down installation costs in the $40m project to reduce headways and increase capacity on the busy A and M lines
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South African machine ready to grind
SPOORNET’S rails are being reprofiled by two Speno 24-stone grinding machines built under licence in South Africa. Grinaker-LTA subsidiary Lennings Rail Services is using the Speno RR24M-12 and 13 rail profiling machines in the five-year contact with Spoornet. Most components were made locally for assembly and commissioning at the LRS ...
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Corus Rail aims to grow
According to its Director, Projects, Jeremy Blake, Corus Rail Consultancy’s head office in York is now home to the UK’s ’biggest combined multi-disciplinary organisation under one roof’. Steel producer Corus aims to grow the turnover from its rail businesses ’significantly’ from the current level of £250m a year, of which ...
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Tamping by laser alignment
IMPROVED control of rail lifting when tamping pointwork is offered by an automatic laser alignment controller from Plasser & Theurer. A rotating laser transmitter unit is mounted on the lifting and lining measuring car, with the receiver fitted to the additional lifting device. During tamping, data from the laser is ...