All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1389
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Tasman is early
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Chairman Jim Lawson announced on April 5 that the $327m, 12·2 km Tasman West light rail line in San Jose, California, will open for revenue service on December 20. He said that the first extension since the initial 38·6 km route was completed in 1991 ...
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Economic growth is spur to expansion
INTRO: CB Transportes is using its business acumen to turn round run-down railways in Latin America. The company is operating successfully in Chile and Bolivia and is seeking more opportunities to expandBYLINE: Gonzalo Grebe NFinance Manager, CB Transportes SAOVER THE last decade commerce within the southern cone of Latin America ...
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Tilting ICEs enter service
ON APRIL 15 German Railway ran an introductory special train between Stuttgart and Horb to demonstrate the ICT tilting EMUs. Five of these will be allocated to inter-city services on the Stuttgart - Zürich corridor from the end of this month. With effect from the May 30 timetable change, ICTs ...
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FNM enters privatisationend game
INTRO: With 14500 km of the National Railways of Mexico (FNM) system now operated by the private sector, FNM should see its operating role disappear by the end of this year as bids are invited for the remaining short lines. Head of Restructuring Jorge Machado outlined progress so far and ...
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Informed and entertained
Adtranz Sweden has awarded a contract to Focon Electronic Systems for the supply of luggage rack units incorporating passenger information and entertainment systems, which will be fitted to the 17 trains for Danish State Railways and 10 for Swedish State Railways that will operate over the Øresund link from next ...
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New entrants scoop LRV orders
SPANISH rolling stock builder Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles has been selected as preferred bidder to supply 54 light rail vehicles to Sacramento’s Regional Transit District. CAF bid US$124·9m compared to US$142m from local firm Siemens Transportation Systems which supplied RT’s 36 original cars. Other bidders were Kinki Sharyo of ...
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Smart freight on the way
EUROPEAN freight trains are set to benefit from electronic braking controls. Trials in North America have demonstrated the advantages in terms of longer trains and higher productivity, and last year more than a dozen pilot projects were under way, including several revenue applications (RG 2.98 p95).On March 24 German Federal ...
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Greener toilets for ICN
Swiss Federal Railways’ ICN tilting trains (RG 12.98 p851) are being equipped with toilet systems from Protec, featuring an underfloor bioreactor. Solid and liquid effluent are first separated by a filter unit. Natural decomposition breaks down solid waste for removal at six to 12 month intervals.Liquid undergoes a sequence of ...
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High level talk
PROPOSALS for a rail link across the Tienshan mountains to open up trade between China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have inched forward. A protocol was signed in March in Bishkek, and a group of experts is working on possible routes.One would run from Kashi in China’s Xinjiang province northwest to the ...
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Launch on hold
CELEBRATIONS were planned in Lisboa for April 25. The day marked the 25th anniversary of the 1974 coup when Portugal’s Junta of National Salvation replaced dictatorship rule dating back to 1933, and it had also been chosen for the launch of a long-awaited rail service. For the first time trains ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: Adtranz-Pafawag of Wroclaw rolled out the first of 42 EU11 electric locos for Polish State Railways’ 3 kVDC routes in March. The last eight dual-system EU43s with 15 kVAC capability was due to be completed last month (inset)
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CAPTION: The first of 55 Class 375 Electrostar EMUs being supplied by Adtranz to Connex SouthEastern was demonstrated on the test track at Derby on April 16Photo: B MorrisonCAPTION: Alstom-LHB of Braunschweig has handed over the first of 30 LINT 27 lightweight diesel railcars for German Railway, which designates them ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Israel Railways has taken delivery of three GA-DE900AS Bo-Bo diesel shunters being supplied by Alstom Transporte of Spain. They are currently being commissioned at Haifa East depotPhoto: Steve Tish
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: The Federal government has shortlisted three investment banks to advise on the planned privatisation of National Rail Corp, which is expected to raise around A$500m later this year.Great Southern Railway introduced a Sydney - Alice Springs Ghan on April 11. Traction for the passenger service is provided by National ...
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NJ Transit tests investments
On MARCH 22 New Jersey Transit held the first demonstrations of its Hudson-Bergen light rail line through Jersey City. One of the new Kinki Sharyo low-floor cars took invited guests on a 10 min trip along the 4 km test section from the Caven Point maintenance depot via Richard and ...
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Milano launches light metro
DETAILED planning has started for a fourth metro line in Milano. The 15 km route running from the southwest to the east of the city will serve a heavily-used bus corridor and relieve pressure on the parallel Line 1 between Cadorna and Pagano-Bisceglie. It will be totally underground.Metropolitana Milanese is ...
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Russian port links progress
LAST MONTH was due to see the completion of new lines totalling 100 km serving ports on Russia’s Taman peninsula. Under a national strategy to develop ports on the Azov and Black seas, RZD is building links from the Krasnodar - Kavkaz line at Vyshesteblevskaya to Taman on the southern ...
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Mutiny in the Mall
RICHARD WHITE has a problem. As General Manager of the Washington DC’s metro network, now nearing completion after 23 years, he saw a 70% increase in train failures in March and April compared to February. At the same time, daily ridership hit an all-time-high of 617000 passengers on April 7. ...
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Managing a project with many masters
INTRO: Ken Turnbull of Bechtel, who is Project Director of Rail Link Engineering, told Richard Hope how the £4bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link survived last year’s crisis, and is now running smoothly despite complex client-contractor relationships resulting from the rescue deal reached in June 1998JUST 12 MONTHS AGO, the fate ...
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Mandurah plan
PROPOSALS for an 82 km outer-suburban rail link between Perth and Mandurah have been endorsed by the Western Australia state government. Costed at A$940m, the line would bypass the existing commuter line through Fremantle to serve the rapidly-growing southern outer suburbs of Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah.State Premier Richard Court proposed ...