All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2004

All articles published this month.

  • News

    Vossloh variety

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    VOSSLOH Group’s Locomotives business unit will be exhibiting an Am843 loco built for Swiss Federal Railways, as well as a 2700 kW MaK 2000-4BB loco, designed for use at temperatures as low as -40íC.A redesigned rail fastening system for concrete sleepers will be displayed by Vossloh Fastening Systems, as well ...

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    Trains and trams

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    ALSTOM will exhibit one of the 28 three-car Regio Citadis tram-train vehicles it is supplying to Kassel (p585). 50 similar cars have been ordered by Dutch operator HTM for the RandstadRail network between Den Haag and Zoetermeer.The youngest members of the Coradia LINT family are the 10 single-section and 18 ...

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    Track technology

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    PFLEIDERER Track Systems will be showing its range of track designs for main line and urban use, including the Rheda 2000 ballastless track being installed on the Ingolstadt - Nürnberg line and HSL-Zuid. The Rheda City and Rheda MRT variants are intended for use on metro lines and tramways, and ...

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    Track technology

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    VORTOK International will be launching its balise mounting system at InnoTrans. The mounts allow balises and other transponders to be fixed in place within minutes without having to drill into concrete sleepers.Also on show will be Rotorrail retrofit switch rollers, which do not require maintenance or lubrication. Rotorrail is in ...

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    Testing takeover

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    WITH effect from July 6 Windhoff Bahn- & Anlagentechnik GmbH took over Archinger AG, a company specialising in the development of automated non-destructive testing processes for the railway, aerospace and nuclear power industries.Archinger has supplied wheelset testing equipment to companies including German Railway and Austrian Federal Railways. The Nürnberg-based company ...

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    Springtime

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    CONTITECH Railway Engineering, ContiTech Elastomer Coatings and Calenberg Ingenieure will be exhibiting on a joint stand at InnoTrans.CRE will display primary and secondary suspensions, including air springs and rubber-to-metal bonded springs which are in service in countries that include China, India, France and Spain. The company’s multi-axial test rig allows ...

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    Steel show

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    CORUS will be launching Silent Track at the BahnBau section of InnoTrans, where the full range of the steel-maker’s rail products and infrastructure services will be on show.Developed in conjunction with Southampton University’s Institute of Sound & Vibration Research, Silent Track uses tuned dampers to tackle rail noise at source, ...

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    Security on trial

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    DURING the Republican National Convention being held in New York from August 30 to September 2, passengers using Penn Station below Madison Square Garden faced the possibility of disruption to their journeys while special security measures were enforced.Police had warned earlier that officers would be searching every commuter and inter-city ...

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    Reinforced walls

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    TWO bridge abutments and the associated wingwalls on the City Airport extension of London’s Docklands Light Railway are being constructed using the Tensar Wall System, with modular pre-cast concrete facing blocks and granular fill reinforced by layers of geogrid keyed to the wall.AMEC is using recycled crushed concrete as reinforced ...

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    PowerPack

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    VOITH Turbo will be exhibiting a PowerPack as the focal point of its stand at InnoTrans. The complete driveline includes a turbo transmission, final drive, cooling, flexible couplings, cardan shafts and an electronic control unit.Recent developments from the company that will be displayed include a transmission for smaller rail vehicles ...

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    Powering up Switzerland

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    ENOTRAC will be highlighting its work designing and commissioning traction power supplies for the Mattstetten - Rothrist new line in Switzerland.The line is designed to carry a mix of 200 km/h passenger and 4000 tonne freight trains, meaning a wide range of simulations were required to optimise the designs of ...

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    Transnordestina plans refocused

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    BRAZIL’s northeastern railway concessionaire CFN and the state governments of Pernambuco, Cear

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    Rail performance

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    VOESTALPINE Railway Systems’ stand will feature the latest products from the group’s Rail Technology, Turnout and Systems &Services divisions.Head-hardened rails up to 120 m long are produced, and the company’s plug-and-play intelligent turnout modules are designed to offer railways low life-cycle costs.

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    Passante route out to tender

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    NINE COMPANIES have prequalified for a contract to operate the first service through Milano’s Passante cross-city tunnel, which is due to open throughout on December 10 2006. Lombardia region announced on July 23 that it would issue the final invitation to tender shortly.The nine-year contract covers the operation of a ...

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    Optimised plans

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    PTV AG will be explaining how its operational and strategic consultancy services have developed to cover all service planning and optimisation tasks.The Karlsruhe-based company will present its Interplan/Select vehicle and crew scheduling software, and the Visum transport modelling database which now offers options for passenger counting.

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    Three in one

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    KNORR-BREMSE, Westinghouse Brakes and IFE will have a joint stand at InnoTrans, where they will be highlighting their range of on-train equipment. Hands-on displays and multimedia presentations will showcase Knorr-Bremse products including air supply and treatment equipment, brake controls, bogie components and hydraulics. The company offers an extensive selection of ...

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    Paying on-board

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    CHIP & PIN payments are being accepted by Atos Origin Avantix hand-held ticket machines using technology from Casio Electronics and CreditCall.The Avantix machines use EmvX CE software from CreditCall running on a Windows CE based Casio EJ300 computer, which is combined with a secure PIN pad and card reader. A ...

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    Metro watching

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    ALCATEL and Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari have successfully completed trials of real-time remote video surveillance on one of København’s driverless light metro trains. The train has been fitted with CCTV cameras and a digital video recorder for the field tests. These are linked to an on-board radio and antennae, which ...

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    North-south Stadtbahn makes progress

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    MAJOR construction works are underway in K

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    Maidenhead study

    2004-09-01T10:00:00Z

    CROSS LONDON Rail Links started a new round of public consultation for Crossrail Line 1 on August 5, following the announcement by Secretary of State for Transport Alistair Darling on July 20 that a hybrid bill could be submitted to Parliament (RG 8.04 p447). The route is now planned to ...