All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2004 – Page 3
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Electrification starts in Venezuela
INTRO: After much delay, work on the final stages of Venezuela’s suburban railway linking Tuy Medio with Caracas is in handLAST MONTH was due to see electrification work start on the 43 km Tuy Medio suburban railway being built between Caracas and Cúa in Venezuela.Contracts to build the double-track standard-gauge ...
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Ventilation ducting
WESTAFLEX will be showing the latest addition to its range of noise reduction products, a flexible attenuator for use in vehicle air supply channels.The company’s Quadroquick flexible duct is made from aluminium and has a wire spiral to allow a small bend radius.
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Siemens display
SIEMENS Transportation Systems will be showing a range of rolling stock including a EuroSprinter 64 F4 four-system electric locomotive and a EuroRunner 20 diesel-electric locomotive. Mass transit rolling stock will be represented by a Praha metro car, and a Trainsguard ETCS demonstration vehicle will be displayed on the outdoor exhibition ...
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Early slab track design revived on high speed line
INTRO: Pounded by heavy traffic for 25 years on a busy main line, a trial section of ballastless track survived without maintenance, confirming that the design using prefabricated segments was well suited for high speed lines. Ralf Roman Rossberg reports’THIS DESIGN offers track stability for decades’, enthuses Peter Wegerer, Project ...
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Quatre Millions d’Euros - Le Prix de ma Liberté
by Pierre Bilger’Four Million Euros - the Price of my Freedom’ refers to a pay-off that the author, as former President of Alstom, returned to the company after he had left. This ’honour’ payment gave him the freedom to pen his thoughts on the management of France’s leading rolling stock ...
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Cutbacks mooted in Switzerland
SWISS FEDERAL Railways is facing the prospect of reducing service levels following government pressure to cut costs.When similar pressure was brought to bear last year, SBB was able to negotiate with the Ministry of Transport a package of savings amounting to around SFr300m. This included postponement of resignalling work and ...
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Empire Corridor in crisis
ON AUGUST 13 the New York state Department of Transportation filed a lawsuit against Amtrak over the railway’s failure to complete its share of the Empire Corridor upgrading programme between New York and Albany.Announced six years ago, the co-operative venture between the state and Amtrak was designed to shave 20min ...
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Ice-free contact wires
STEMMANN Technik will be displaying a tramway contact wire Non-Icing System which is helping Bremen Tramway reduce carbon and contact wire wear, damage to vehicle electronics and in-service failures.It uses compressed air to feed a pantograph-mounted hollow felt roll with glycerine via a hose. The anti-freeze is rolled onto the ...
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EAR concession takes shape
PREQUALIFICATION bids have been called by October 15 for the combined concession to operate and maintain the Kenyan and Ugandan rail networks. A memorandum of understanding was signed by the two countries at the end of July, and Canarail and International Finance Corp have been appointed as transaction advisers. Kenya’s ...
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New concession terms proposed
THE PROPOSED TERMS of new contracts for Argentina’s freight concessionaires were due to be considered at a series of three public hearings last month, starting with Ferrosur on August 19. New terms for FEPSA were due to be considered the following day, with a hearing on August 30 examining Nuevo ...
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Computers in Railways IX
CAD, Manufacture & Operation in the Railway & Other Advanced Transit SystemsThe latest volume in this series contains 100 papers which were presented at the ninth international Comprail conference earlier this year.The book’s 1020 pages include papers highlighting recent developments in the fields of maintenance, train control, design, human factors, ...
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Composite noses
COVIA will be showing designs for an aerodynamic front end being supplied to Bombardier for use on 22 Itino trainsets being built for commuter services in the Odenwald region of Germany from 2005.The Danish company has produced more than 1000 composite front ends since its first order to supply components ...
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Freight operators must embrace the competitive spirit
BYLINE: Klaus-J MeyerSecretary General European Rail Freight AssociationINTRO: Rail’s share of the European freight market has risen to 35%, and competition between major private operators and a few state-owned companies ensures cost-effective and reliable service. Non-discriminatory access applies throughout Europe. All an illusion? Not so, according to Klaus-J Meyer, Secretary ...
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We like to play competitive games - if the rules are fair
Setting up a low-cost intermodal subsidiary and actively competing in Europe's liberalised rail freight market are part and parcel of Railion's strategy to win more traffic to rail. Railion Chairman Dr Klaus Kremper briefed Murray Hughes on progress since Stinnes was integrated into the DB fold last year
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Linimo hovers close to take-off
INTRO: Test running has started on a 9 km light metro being built to serve next year’s World Expo and a research and development zone to the east of Nagoya’IN HARMONY with the environment’ proclaims the yellow flag, fluttering high above Nagoya’s main station. It is advertising the 2005 World ...
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Madrid picks Citadis
ON AUGUST 3, Alstom announced that it had been selected to supply 70 Citadis LRVs to operate the planned 31 km light rail network in Madrid. Signing of the €144·6m contract is expected this month. The cars are to be built at the company’s Spanish plant, which assembled the Citadis ...
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Chinese source
RAIL Sourcing Solutions (International) Ltd has been launched by Hong Kong’s MTR Corp, which is aiming to expand internationally its rolling stock, infrastructure, maintenance supply and sourcing services. The wholly-owned subsidiary will initially focus on Europe, North America and mainland China. According to Marketing Director Angus Stewart ’the rail industry ...
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Channel Tunnel Rail Link
This 64-page special issue of the Arup Journal covers the construction of the 109 km Channel Tunnel Rail Link, whose route was proposed by Arup in March 1990 and accepted in October 1991. The book includes a description of the route, a list of facts and figures, details of the ...
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Polish changes
SIGNING of an agreement on July 29 formally established the first regional passenger train operator in Poland. Koleje Mazowieckie is owned 49% by Polish State Railways’ regional business unit PKP Przewozy Regionalne and 51% by the Mazowieckie district administration. From the beginning of this year, regional governments have been allowed ...