All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2003 – Page 4
-
News
PEOPLE
Aurangzeb Khan (left) has become General Manager of Pakistan Railways on the retirement of Iqbal Samad Khan. Gulrez Hasmey has become Chief Commercial Manager, Freight, succeeding Nazir Ahmad who was appointed Additional General Manager Freight on the retirement of Mian Abdul Qayyum. Muhammad Aslam has been appointed Chief Personnel Officer, ...
-
News
Timetable planner
VIRIATO is a timetable planning and co-ordination tool designed to handle the increasing numbers of parties involved in modern service planning processes. Different timetable proposals can be generated and stored for comparison, using common data for the train specifications. Train graphs can be produced, and the software is available in ...
-
News
Pointers
Pending the completion of track repairs between Santo Tomé and Santa Fe, Trenes de Buenos Aires expects to begin operating a weekly service between the Argentinian capital and Santa Fe this month. The first train ran as far as Santo Tomé on August 1. On board was Transport Secretary Ricardo ...
-
News
PUBLICATIONS
Trans-Canada Rail Guideby Melissa Graham’If we cannot export the scenery, we shall have to import the tourists’, said the General Manager of Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. The surviving trans-Canadian train services remain popular tourist attractions, and no other mode of travel so well conveys a sense of the country’s ...
-
News
Puigcerdà upgrade
TENDERS are to be called for track and overhead line equipment renewal works on the 17·8 km Borgonyà - Ripoll section of Renfe’s Barcelona - Puigcerdà route, within a budget of €18·3m. Expected to take 22 months to complete, work will include drainage improvements, relaying with long-welded UIC54 rail on ...
-
News
Watching the wheels
SPANISH National Railways is using four Multirail in-sleeper wheel force measuring units supplied by Schenck Process, following the completion of three months of testing.Developed from established technology used to measure the weight of trains passing at low speeds, Multirail is able to highlight wheel flats and other faults on trains ...
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Page4
- Next Page