All Railway Gazette International articles in September 1998 – Page 3
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Roi Baudoin opens
BRUSSELS metro Line 1A services were due to be extended from Heysel to Roi Baudoin with effect from the end of August. A formal ceremony inaugurating the short extension to the northwestern branch was scheduled for August 25.Trains on the line began running regularly to the new terminus on July ...
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BA ring study
THE city government of Buenos Aires has commissioned a study into a proposal for a 54 km elevated ring line around the boundary of the municipality. First proposed three years ago, the line is backed by the city’s Secretary of Public Works Nicol
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Higher wagons optimise axleloads
A study conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Association of American Railroads has proposed the use of higher, shorter wagons to optimise application of heavier axleloads.Drawing data from 22 sample coal train flows from across North America, researchers compared a standard 16m four-axle wagon with 30 tonne axleloads ...
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Mah awards LRT contracts
CONTRACTS for design and construction of two more ’LRT’ peoplemovers to feed the Singapore metro network were awarded by the island’s Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan in mid-July. The Sengkang and Punggol feeders will be built by a consortium of Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at ...
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AVE progress
WORK IS expected to get under way this month on further sections of the Madrid - Barcelona high-speed line. Infrastructure authority GIF awarded eight contracts totalling Pts77·5bn on July 30, having selected contractors on May 22 for 124·4 km of route between Chiloeches and Calatayud (RG 4.98 p253).One contract has ...
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Øresund ATP
ON AUGUST 6, Ansaldo Signal announced that its Swedish subsidiary ATSS had been selected to design and supply an interoperable automatic train protection system for the cross-Øresund EMU fleet. Under a joint contract from Swedish and Danish State Railways worth SKr30m, the equipment will be designed in conjunction with Siemens ...
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Central Asian group formed
TURKMENISTAN President S Niyazov has set up an international project group to push ahead with development of two corridors linking the Central Asian states and the Persian Gulf. His intention is to make Turkmenistan the centre of the region’s rail network.The north-south corridor will integrate the Tedjen - Sarakhs line ...
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Convertible diesels arrive in Greece
Looking to replace its varied fleet of 1435mm gauge main line diesel traction, largely built before 1975 and now suffering from poor availability, performance and fuel consumption, Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) ordered 26 Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives from ABB Henschel (now Adtranz) in 1995. Costing a total of DM210m, the Class ...
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Shortlist to run Aqaba Railway
FOURCONSORTIA have been shortlisted for a 25-year concession to operate Jordan’s 283 km 1050mm gauge Aqaba Railway, extendable by five year options. The winner will also finance the construction of extensions to El Shidiya and Wadi II under a build-transfer-operate arrangement. The government of Jordan is being advised on the ...
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Amtrak doubles Indianapolis service
On July 19 Amtrak reintroduced the Hoosier State, running three times a week between Chicago and Indianapolis. When combined with the existing Chicago - Washington DC Cardinal the new service doubles the frequency offered by Amtrak between Chicago and Indianapolis; business travellers can now spend a full day in Chicago ...
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Jinghu spearheads high-speed ambitions
CONSTRUCTION of the 1307 km Jinghu high-speed line from Beijing to Shanghai is now expected to get under way in 2000. Shen Zhijie, Director General of the High-Speed Railway Pre-Feasibility Study Office at the Ministry of Railways, announced in June that initial design work had been completed, and that the ...
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Alice in Texas
ON JULY 31 the Surface Transportation Board released Union Pacific from the emergency order it had imposed on October 31. Admitting that UP has still not restored normal service on all routes, the STB said that it could not force the railway to continue assigning business to other carriers who ...
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Conrail handover moves ahead
FORMAL control of the Consolidated Rail Corp passed to CSX and Norfolk Southern on August 22, a statutory 30 days after the Surface Transportation Board issued its written approval of the merger on July 23. With effect from this ’Control Date’, Conrail’s stock was removed from its holding trust, allowing ...
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Bringing advanced bogie technology to Europe will cut life-cycle costs
INTRO: English Welsh & Scottish Railway is due to begin operations this month with four-piece Swing Motion¨ bogies using a common secondary suspension for both axles. The aim is to reduce purchase and maintenance costs while meeting European ride quality standardsBYLINE: Steve BeckerExecutive Vice President, NACO TechnologyIn its search for ...
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Acses to speed NE Corridor
THE US Federal Railroad Administration has instructed Amtrak to install a transponder-based system to enforce adherence to permanent speed restrictions on its Northeast Corridor between New Haven and Boston. The work forms part of Amtrak’s programme to upgrade and electrify the route to accommodate 240 km/h American Flyer trainsets from ...
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EC directives seek genuine open access
PROPOSALS for three directives intended to prevent the national railways from blocking access to their tracks by competitors were launched by European Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock on July 22. He said they would ’make a major contribution to ensuring that rail can compete effectively with other forms of transport’.The first ...
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LKAB invests in 30 tonne axleloads
Swedish mining giant LKAB is investing SKr1·1bn in three new trainsets and nine locos for the Malmbanan iron ore corridor. Heavier axleloads to boost rail capacity and cut transport costs form a key element in the company's strategy to boost production from 20 to 30 million tonnes a year
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InterRail 26+ covers southern Europe
After several years of varying restrictions, the popular InterRail ticket is once again available for use throughout almost all of Europe, and by all age groups.The InterRail 26+ ticket is now accepted in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Morocco, as well as most other countries. Restrictions in availability ...
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Flumitrens to transfer on November 1
CONTROL of the Rio de Janeiro suburban rail network will pass to the private sector Bolsa 2000 consortium on November 1 under the terms of a 25 year operating concession awarded on July 15. Compañía Fluminense de Trenes Urbanos was auctioned by the Rio state government.The Bolsa 2000 consortium is ...
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Praha’s first M1 trainset handed over
ON JULY 8 the first of 22 five-car metro trainsets for the Praha metro was handed over to DPHMP at the Kacerov depot in the Czech capital. Following acceptance trials it will be unveiled to the public later this month at the Brno International Engineering Fair.DPHMP expects to have 15 ...
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