All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1393
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Modern steam serves niche markets
A Swiss company has rebuilt a main line steam locomotive in an experiment to assess the viability of a marriage between the earliest and the latest traction technology
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Metros
Argentina: Metrovías has received 12 of 30 cars for Buenos Aires Line D from Nagoya Metro, costing 25m pesos. They have been refurbished for 1·5 kV DC overhead by Osaka Sharyo Kogyo Co Ltd with electronic traction equipment.China: On March 5 Hong Kong MTR Corp awarded an HK$1·1bn contract to ...
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Millipede to the rescue
THE NEWS that the Italian government has come up with an R87m loan to help fund rehabilitation of the Matsapha - Mpaka - Goba line (p197) comes as a welcome relief to Swaziland Railways’ Chief Executive Officer Gideon Mahlalela. Freight volumes have been falling sharply, which he suggests may be ...
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A testing moment
ON March 22 Bombardier Transportation opened a US$5m test centre for passenger rail vehicles at its Plattsburgh plant in New York state. Plattsburgh engineers now have available an 800m outdoor test track fitted with a third rail power supply and two 90m indoor test sections. Among the first vehicles ...
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MTR sale
Presenting the region's budget to the Legislative Council on March 3, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Donald Tsang Yam-kuen announced that metro operator MTR Corp will be partially privatised in the next two years. The administration plans 'to privatise a substantial minority share of MTRC through a public offering', ...
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NEWS
CAPTION: A ceremony at Tokyo Central on March 13 marked the start of revenue services with the first production Series 700 shinkansen trains developed by JR Central and JR West (RG 10.98 p697). Four trains will work three Nozomi expresses each way between Tokyo and Hakata, cutting 7min off ...
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March 10 saw the restoration of rail freight services between Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina with the reopening of the line between Brasina in Serbia and Zvornik Novia in Bosnia. Common regulations for train operations were agreed by JZ and BHZJK on March 5 under the terms of a co-operation accord signed ...
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Night train revamp
German Railway is spending over DM120m in a programme to refurbish its couchette and sleeping car fleet. From the start of the summer timetable at the end of May, overnight trains will be marketed as ’DB Nachtzug’. Marketing and management will be in the hands of DB AutoZug, a DB ...
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RENFE to order rolling stock
SPANISH National Railways has been allocated Pts300bn for investment in rolling stock during the 1999-2003 Contract Programme, according to the Minister of Development. He told local representatives from Alstom, Siemens, Adtranz, CAF and Talgo at the end of February that the plan will encompass new funding sources, including leasing and ...
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Pandrol to be sold
ANNOUNCING its preliminary results for 1998 on March 16, British-based industrial and engineering congolmerate Charter plc revealed that it is to spin off its Pandrol Rail Fastenings subsidiary. Chief Executive Nigel Smith said ’a comprehensive strategic review focussing on the creation of shareholder value has resulted in the decision to ...
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PEOPLE
Dr Heinz Dürr has stepped down as Chairman of Deutsche Bahn AG. Dr Dieter Vogel has been nominated as his replacement.Juhani Kopperi has taken over as President of VR Ltd, the operating arm of Finland’s VR Group. He succeeds Erkki Hämäläinen. James R Van Epps has become Executive Manager of ...
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Publications
UIC Statistics 1997The latest edition of the UIC statistics covers, with a few exceptions, the period January - December 1997. Countries are grouped into areas such as EU, EFTA, Central/Eastern Europe/ North Africa and Middle East. The tables show network details such as electrification and double-track, traction, passenger and freight ...
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Quiet slab track
Hsc Deutschland has developed the Promak¨ PU range of embedding compounds specifically for use with slab track on light rail, metro and suburban systems. Suitable for injection by machine or pouring by hand, the elastic polyurethane compounds can help to reduce airborne and structure-borne noise as well as vibration.The thickness ...
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June 1 is Day 1
ON JANUARY 20, Norfolk Southern and CSX announced that they had set June 1 as the target date to implement their $10bn takeover and breakup of Conrail. The so-called Day 1 had been anticipated last September, but when the two railways took control of Conrail on August 23 there were ...
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25 kV on moving bridges
WITH AMTRAK’s Northeast Corridor electrification between New Haven and Boston due to come into service later this year, teams from Balfour Beatty Construction Inc and its joint venture partner Mass Electric Construction Co are currently finishing the installation of the 25 kV catenary. They faced a major challenge in wiring ...
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AC diesels head CPR investment drive
BYLINE: Rob RitchiePresidentCanadian Pacific RailwayCanadian Pacific Railway begins the last year of the 20th century with a substantially improved cost structure and profitability, a rejuvenated infrastructure, and a service level that is turning heads in the industry and winning business from our competitors. Our key operating measures - on-time performance, ...
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Alstom aims to help build a virtuous circle
INTRO: Eight acquisitions in two years have added more expertise to Alstom Transport’s armoury in the battle for domination of the world railway equipment market. Murray Hughes found that Alstom Transport President André Navarri’s philosophy was ’simply growing the business’BYLINE: André NavarriPresidentAlstom Transport PRESIDENT of Alstom Transport André Navarri was ...
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Renfe rolls out Arco and Alaris
FEBRUARY 16 saw Renfe introduce Alaris tilting trains on the Madrid - Valencia inter-city corridor. The 10 sets built by Alstom-Fiat are based on the Pendolino design, and were formerly known as IC 2000 (RG 10.98 p693). Six trains a day each way will run at up to 200 km/h, ...
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AlpTransit's first blast
A CEREMONY on February 4 marked the start of work on the 800m Sedrun access shaft for the Gotthard base tunnel. Railway Gazette International joined invited guests to witness chief engineer for the Sedrun tunnel section Jakob Blickenstorfer detonate the first explosive charges deep within a mountainside near Sedrun. A ...
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RZD launches Blue Arrow
RUSSIAN Railways has put into traffic a second ER200 high-speed train, and accelerated the premier inter-city service between Moscow and St Petersburg. Introduction of the additional 200 km/h trainset, known as the Blue Arrow, on January 14 has allowed the original ER200 to be taken out of use for a ...