All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1351
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Night trains still alive
ZURICH-BASED overnight services operator CityNightLine, now part of DB Reise & Touristik’s subsidiary DB AutoZug GmbH, has turned a corner. With fares revenue up by more than 4% in 1999 at SFr56·8m, the number of passengers rose 6% to reach 394000. The company had been loss-making since its inception in ...
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TEE alliance plans tilting fleet
TENDERING is expected to start within the next three months for a fleet of around 130 tilting trainsets to operate international services between Germany, Switzerland and Austria, at an estimated cost of DM3bn. Due to enter service in 2005, the trains are to be ordered and operated by a tripartite ...
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Rolling room with a view of the Alps
INTRO: Rhaetian Railway has launched panorama cars on its Bernina Express routeMORE THAN half the passenger fleet on Switzerland’s metre-gauge Rhaetian Railway is over 30 years old. The railway’s express services are very popular, and RhB is acutely aware of the need to raise comfort standards.RhB has made a start ...
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Alstom gains control of Fiat
ON JUNE 20 Alstom and Fiat reached agreement for Alstom to take a 51% stake in the rolling stock subsidiary of the Italian company, Fiat Ferroviaria. The deal gives Alstom full access to Fiat’s tilting train technology, bogie designs and other components, and strengthens Alstom’s position in the Swiss and ...
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Integrated signalling, ATP and train radio on the Øresund Link
INTRO: Opening of the Øresund fixed link on July 2 physically connects two railways. Ensuring that trains can pass seamlessly from one to the other at up to 200 km/h required ingenuity in integrating the different signalling, communications and train protection systemsBYLINE: Konrad Hove and Niels Brejnbjerg Buch*WHEN commercial services ...
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AVE link plan
PUBLIC consultation began at the end of May for construction of a direct link between the Sevilla and Barcelona AVE lines in the southern suburbs of Madrid. The Ministry of Development has also commissioned an environmental impact study for its preferred route as part of the public enquiry process. The ...
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NEL results awaited
Sir - In RG 4.00 (p235) you reported the development of the Non-Electric Locomotive as a prototype high-speed traction unit for Amtrak. NEL is a very interesting approach introducing a powerful gas turbine producing 3140 kW for traction. However, knowing the track standard and considering the numerous sharp and irregular ...
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Sleeping beauty awakes
to carry international freightFROM THE END of next year, up to 15 freight trains a day will begin running across the south of the Netherlands and northern Belgium. The revival of the so-called ’Iron Rhine’ corridor linking Germany’s Ruhr industrial area with the port of Amsterdam follows the signing of ...
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Bratislava back
THIS MONTH is due to see the selection of a preferred option for an initial 10 km north - south metro line in the Slovak capital Bratislava. Construction of the line from Janíkov Dvor to Trnavske Moto via Suché Moto and the main station is expected to start next year ...
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SSRA backs freight ideas
ON JUNE 13 Britain’s Shadow Strategic Rail Authority announced that three groups would share grants totalling £6m for development of innovative freight and logistics services.Blue Circle, Babcock Rail and Metalair Feldbinder have been awarded £2·9m to fund a two-year trial moving cement from Hope to Ipswich in 16 W6A gauge ...
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Balkan Talgo test
CROATIAN Railways has expressed interest in purchasing a fleet of five tilting trainsets to improve journey times on its inter-city routes from Zagreb to Split and Rijeka. HZ is currently looking for sources of finance for the investment. In co-operation with the commercial arm of the Spanish embassy in Zagreb, ...
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Siegen heads bogie division
ADTRANZ has chosen the Siegen plant in Germany to head its Bogies Product Unit, which employs a total of 900 people with an annual turnover of DM500m. Responsible for design as well as production undertaken at Derby (Great Britain), Helsingborg (Sweden) and Winterthur (Switzerland), Siegen has a workforce of 300 ...
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Expressway boost
CANADIAN Pacific subsidiary St Lawrence & Hudson held a brief inauguration ceremony in Montréal’s St Luc yard on June 7 to mark the entry into service of the company’s next generation of Expressway piggyback wagons. SL&H President Jacques C
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Products In Brief
InfoVision Systems has been awarded a contract by Siemens Transportation Systems to supply technical documentation for the maintenance of Class 333 EMUs being delivered to British operator Northern Spirit (RG 5.00 p286). Documents including parts lists and training material will be accessed in electronic format by Siemens staff using InfoVision’s ...
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Hungarian builders give MÁV coaches a second lease of life
COMFORT standards for commuters in Budapest are improving with a programme of coach refurbishment being carried out by Hungarian State Railways’ former workshops at Dunakeszi, now a joint venture known as Adtranz M
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LiREx explores car technology
LIGHTWEIGHT Innovative Regional Express is the name given to a speculative prototype being developed for the German Land of Sachsen-Anhalt by Alstom LHB of Salzgitter. Intended to test a range of new technologies, the diesel-powered LiREx shares several features with the København S-Bane EMUs. Bodies will be more than 3m ...
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Refurbished Corail cars finish the tour de France
ON JULY 7 a French National Railways demonstration train formed of five refurbished Corail coaches (RG 4.00 p209) will complete a tour of 39 cities. The last call will be Lyon after a four-month itinerary that took the train all over France, including three days visiting Paris termini at the ...
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Sloppy procedures caused Glenbrook crash
JUSTICE Peter McInerney criticises management for a collective failure to train and supervise operating staff in his report on the tail-end collision which killed seven and injured 51 at Glenbrook in New South Wales on December 2 1999 (RG 4.00 p212). He says 23 factors combined to cause the accident, ...
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Izmir celebrates metro start
WITH a fanfare of music and fireworks, the Mayor of Izmir Ahmet Piristina formally opened the first stage of the city's light metro network on May 22. Other participants in the celebrations included Trade & Industry Minister Kenan Tanrikulu, Finance Minister Sumer Oral, former Mayor Burhan Ozfatura, and Izmir ...