All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2005 – Page 2
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Vossloh buys track
BY THE END of this month Pfleiderer AG expects to complete the sale of its Track Systems division to Vossloh AG. The companies have not disclosed financial details of the August 2 transaction.The sale of its concrete sleeper and slab track business completes a strategic realignment at Pfleiderer, which is ...
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A rail vision for the capital
Forecasting that peak demand on the UK capital’s commuter railways is set to grow by 30% over the next 20 years, Transport for London’s Managing Director, London Rail, Ian Brown explained to Robert Preston how a package of major projects, upgrades and smaller schemes should deliver the extra capacity
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Smart card hold-up
ALLISNOT well, it seems, with the smart card intended for use on most public transport across the Netherlands. The OV-Chipkaart project is being led by the Trans Link Systems consortium grouping Netherlands Railways, the transport operators in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Den Haag and regional bus operator Connexxion. A contract worth ...
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Scanners to check freight trains
THE US Department for Homeland Security is to spend $10m on a pilot project designed to prevent terrorists from bringing bombs or chemical weapons within a few hundred metres of the Capitol, where the US Congress meets.To be completed in 18 months, the project is driven by a desire to ...
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In and out of China
BEIJING ECI International will be exhibiting at Infrarail for the first time. The Chinese firm will be highlighting the range of products it is able to supply to export customers, and explaining how it can help provide access to the expanding Chinese market.Products on offer run from castings and forgings ...
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Specialised sleepers combat sand
INTRO: Trials in Namibia have proved that using specialised sleepers to elevate the rail foot above the ballast bed can keep the rail head free of wind-blown sandBYLINE: Prof Dipl-Ing Dr techn Klaus RießbergerGraz University of Technology, AustriaWessel SwanepoelChief Engineer, TransNamibTRADITIONAL ballasted track was not designed for use in the ...
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TransPennine Express DMU starts commissioning trials
Siemens is testing the first 160 km/h TransPennine Express Desiro DMU in Wegberg-Wildenrath before delivery to the UK
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Comparing the life-cycle costs of standard and head-hardened rail
Following research by German Railway and voestalpine Schienen GmbH concluding that head-hardened rail has better resistance to wear and rolling contact fatigue defects, further studies have examined the life-cycle cost of different types of rail
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Tubular Track offers continuous rail support at a competitive price
INTRO: Inventor Peter Küsel wanted to ’fix the vertical stability of track’; his technique has been chosen for a 25 km section of main line being relaid in NamibiaBYLINE: Braam Le Roux*BYLINE: * Braam Le Roux is President of Dynamic Rail Services in South Africa. He was previously Chief Executive ...
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Jerusalem concession signed
A SIGNING ceremony was held at the offices of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on July 17 to mark financial close for the 28-year concession to build the Jerusalem light rail network. Transport Minister Meir Shitrit and the then Finance Minister Benyamin Netanyahu participated in the event, along with Jerusalem's ...
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Out to consultation
THE ANDALUCIA regional government’s Department of Public Works & Transport has published for consultation a revised alignment for the second section of metro Line 1 in Sevilla. Running for 4·3 km from Guadaira to Los Quintos southeast of the city centre, the new alignment includes 1·6 km in tunnel.Starting at ...
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Vancouver contract signed
CONSTRUCTION of a 19 km automated light metro from Vancouver to Richmond and Vancouver Airport is expected to start this month. Completion is scheduled for the end of 2009, ready for Vancouver to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. On August 2, TransLink's project management subsidiary Ravco confirmed that it had ...
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Cooler work
FIVE cooling sets are being delivered to Vossloh España by Voith Turbo each month, for use in the construction of 160 four-axle 1000 kW shunting locos for SNCF.The packages include the cooler, fan, hydrostatic drives, hydrostatic drive motor fan, compensation tank and complete control technology. The double-circuit cooling systems include ...
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Madrid’s cross-city tunnel makes progress
ON JULY 27 work was completed on a 4·5 km tunnel between Atocha and Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid.The bore forms part of the new 7·5 km cross-city tunnel between Atocha and Chamartín that is being built at a cost of €320m to accommodate suburban services from 2007. A separate contract ...
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Cross-country cuts
MUCH hot air has been expended in recent months over plans by French National Railways to withdraw a number of inter-regional passenger services. Matters came to a head on August 16 when strike threats obliged SNCF to backtrack on earlier announcements and say that no firm decision had been taken.SNCF ...
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NJT eyes cross-Hudson expansion
PROPOSALS for a new $6bn rail tunnel under the Hudson River were approved by the New Jersey Transit board of directors on July 27. Starting from Secaucus, the tunnel would run south of the existing tubes to a new terminus below Macy’s department store at 34th Street in Manhattan, which ...
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Tunnel to cut gradients
RUSSIA’s Far Eastern Railway has approved a 15bn rouble programme to improve capacity on the line from Komsomolsk-na-Amur to the Pacific ports of Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan.To be completed over the next six years, the work will include construction of a 20 km deviation to reduce the ruling gradient and ...
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ETCS delays threaten HSL-Zuid
WHAT TYPE of train, we wonder, will Dutch operator High Speed Alliance use on the HSL-Zuid high speed line when it opens in April 2007? Or will the line open at all on that date? The reason we ask is an acknowledgement by HSA last month that the 12 Type ...
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RZD unveils future locomotive designs
ON A VISIT to the All-Russian Railway Research Institute at Shcherbinka on August 4, President Vladimir Putin was shown several prototypes for the next generation of RZD motive power.The Russian President was accompanied by recently-appointed RZD President Vladimir Yakunin, who explained the railway’s urgent need to update its locomotive fleet. ...
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Dieter
CAPTION: Airline entrepreneur Moritz Suter, founder of Crossair and more recently charter airline Hello, has said he is considering financing privately-operated smoking cars on inter-city services when Swiss Federal Railways becomes entirely non-smoking in December. ’If SBB doesn’t go along with my plan then it will lose important customers ...
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