All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1297
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Portable ticket issuing
BRITISH inter-city operator Midland Main Line is to begin using SchlumbergerSema’s Avantix Mobile ticket-issuing machine this month. Based on a Pocket PC, 1500 Avantix Mobile units will replace existing portable machines on National Express Group’s nine franchises.Avantix Mobile can print magnetic stripe tickets for use with automatic barrier gates, and ...
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Southwest links open
CHINESE Minister of Railways Fu Zhihuan joined ceremonies at Guiyang on December 30 to mark the completion of upgrading work on CR’s Zhuzhou - Liupanshui line. The 1139 km electrified line connecting the industrial heart of Hunan province with the southwestern coalfields of Guizhou province has been double-tracked at a ...
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Low-noise wheel
Unveiled at WCRR was the Syope noise-reducing wheel developed by Lucchini of Italy. Trials have taken place on Italian State Railways with ETR470 and ETR500 high speed trainsets, and the first application on a commercial train will be on the Pendolino units being built for Czech Railways.Sound is damped by ...
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More maglev vehicles in Yamanashi trials
ASSESSMENT of the results from running tests carried out on Japan’s 18·4 km experimental maglev guideway near Otsuki in Yamanashi prefecture since April 1997 has prompted a further series of trials using two more vehicles due to be delivered later this year.JR Central, which is promoting the development of superconducting ...
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Market
Brazil: Holland Company has supplied a customised TrackStar road-rail track recording vehicle to MRS Logistíca. It is fitted with EH Reeves’s Laserail geometry measuring equipment.Colombia: Steer Davies Gleave has been commissioned to carry out an audit of traffic and revenue forecasts for Atlantic Railway concession holder Fenoco SA.Denmark: Porterbrook Leasing ...
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Metros
Bulgaria: Sofia Tramway is negotiating for an EBRD loan to fund the modernisation of up to 45 trams and purchase of 20 new vehicles.China: Guangzhou Metro Corp has selected Siemens’ optic fibre Open Transport Network for data transmission on Line 2, now under construction.A batch of new light rail cars ...
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NS spending trimmed
MORE MAINTENANCE and fewer major investment projects is the essence of Norfolk Southern’s capital improvement budget for 2002, announced by Chairman, President & CEO David R Goode on December 13. Planned spending totals $705m, compared with $806m in 2001.The programme provides $482m for infrastructure projects, including $366m for track and ...
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PEOPLE
Netherlands Railways President & Director-General Hans Huisinga and Director of External Relations Roy Lantain resigned on January 2, together with the company’s entire Supervisory Board under Chairman Jan Timmer. Wim Meyer has been appointed Board Chairman, and Karel J Noordzij Acting President for six months (p59).Indonesian Railway Public Corp President ...
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Pointers
n A delegation of Iraqi Transport Ministry officials was due to join Foreign Secretary Naji Sabri on a visit to Iran at the end of January to discuss proposals for construction of a Baghdad - Tehran rail link.n Swedish infrastructure authority Banverket announced on January 7 that the first Ikea ...
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Umtata upgrade proposed
SOUTH AFRICA’S Eastern Cape provincial transport department has called bids for the refurbishment of the 282 km railway to the former Transkei capital Umtata. The department’s Director for Policy & Projects Lan Situma expects to award a contract next month for a turnkey package, which would include infrastructure and signalling ...
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Publications
Nahverkehrs-Taschenbuch 2002A useful three-volume directory of the German public transport industry covering both passenger and freight. Details of operators, institutions and research centres are given in Volume I, consultants and suppliers are listed in Volume II, and Volume III is an alphabetical directory of key personnel in all sectors of ...
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Shinkansen reservations
East Japan Railway planned to launch an English-language website on January 21. Located at www.world.eki-net.com it will allow overseas customers to reserve seats on all shinkansen and Narita Express airport services up to one month before travelling. A Japanese-language site has been in operation since April last year.Passengers need ...
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Second thoughts at Roissy
BACK in 1992 Aéroports de Paris rejected a Fr410m bid from Matra to build a rubber-tyred driverless VAL mini-metro to ferry passengers between terminals at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport. Instead ADP chose Soulé’s SK-6000 cable-powered peoplemover, but after a lengthy testing period decided this was not sufficiently reliable. It called a halt ...
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CityRail gets A$273m
NEW SOUTH Wales is to invest an extra A$273m over the next four years to improve the safety and reliability of Sydney’s urban rail network. Announced by NSW Premier John Carr on December 22, the package will be targeted at lines with the greatest increase in passenger numbers and the ...
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VAG U3 automation contract
NÜRNBERG transport authority VAG awarded a €185m contract to Siemens on November 16 covering the supply of automatic train control equipment for its Rubin project. This covers the construction of a fully-automated U-Bahn Line U3, and the conversion of Line U2. The deal also includes the supply of 30 ATO-equipped ...
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DB joins the 300 km/h club
INTRO: Trial running at up to 330 km/h starts this month on German Railway’s Neubaustrecke between Köln and FrankfurtTHIS MONTH should see a specially-equipped ICE3 trainset begin test running along almost the whole length of German Railway’s first Neubaustrecke designed for commercial service at 300 km/h. Under construction since December ...
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Rio tenders metro Line 6
RIO DE JANEIRO state governor Anthony Garotinho has released funding for preliminary work on the city’s planned metro Line 6. The grant will enable the state transport ministry to call tenders shortly for consultants to undertake technical and economic feasibility studies based on preliminary engineering design work. Estimated cost of ...
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Line 6 opened
THIS MONTH is due to see the opening of the final four stations on Seoul metro Line 6. These remained uncompleted when services began on the final section of the line on December 15. Fitting out and commissioning of the four stations was delayed when contractor Shinhwa Construction went bankrupt ...
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ABC-NACO assets bought
TCF Railco Acquisition Corp is to acquire the operating assets of ABC-NACO for US$75m, subject to assumption of certain liabilities and the receipt of regulatory approval. The assets include ABC-NACO’s US Rail Products, Track Products and Rail Services units, and the stock of its European subsidiaries and Chinese joint ventures. ...
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Acela may help the cause of US high speed
THIS MONTH should see the launch of a 2h 28min timing by an Acela Express trainset between New York and Washington DC. Just 2min faster than the introductory schedule of April 2 1969 for the original Metroliner EMUs, the non-stop timing builds on the launch in December of a single ...