All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2005 – Page 2
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Track ready on Taiwan’s high speed line
Major infrastructure works and trackwork installation on Taiwan's high speed line are nearing completion and contractors are hurrying to finish the electrical and mechanical works
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Green Goats go further
RAILPOWER Technologies has signed agreements covering the production and servicing of Green Goat hybrid locomotives in Scandinavia and the British Isles, and loco assembly in the USA.Swedish Train Technology announced on July 26 that it had signed a licensing agreement for Scandinavia, following a memorandum of understanding agreed on September ...
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Freight operators shop for power
AS IT LOOKS to enter the Spanish freight market (RG 8.05 p466), Comsa Rail Transport has acquired two 1500 kW G1700BB diesel-hydraulic locomotives from Vossloh, together with two sets of bogies for each loco to permit operation on 1668mm or 1435mm gauge. The locos have obtained acceptance to operate on ...
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Finance
Germany: 15 local authorities signed an agreement on July 28 to provide €7·8m towards extending Stuttgart S-Bahn Line S1 from Plochingen to Kirchheim. The Land will provide €16·4m and the city €12·3m; opening is planned for December 2009.Japan: The government announced the sale of 600000 shares in JR Central (RG ...
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Filling a hole
RETRACTABLE steps can help passengers with mobility problems negotiate the gaps between trains and platform edges, making access possible for wheelchair users.The AGC multiple-units under construction for SNCF are fitted with passenger-operated ’gap fillers’, partially-moving steps to improve access. Pushing the button to open the door also deploys the step, ...
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Faster from Moscow to Kyiv
FOUR HOURS were cut from overnight journeys between the Russian and Ukrainian capitals with the launch of the Metropolitan Express on August 1. ’It is less than a year since Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to launch a high speed passenger train between Moscow and Kyiv’, said RZD President ...
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Exhibition focuses on infrastructure
INFRASTRUCTURE is the theme of the Infrarail exhibition, which will take place at the G-Mex centre in Manchester on September 14-16.The products and services to be shown at the sixth Infrarail event will cover all sectors of the infrastructure market, from track components and permanent way maintenance equipment to signalling ...
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Europe's fastest trains start trials
Destined to link Madrid with Barcelona at up to 350 km/h, two eight-car Velaro E trainsets are on test in Spain
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Disneyland Resort Line ready to open
CHINA: September 12 sees the opening of the Hong Kong Disneyland park at Penny’s Bay, served by a 4 km branch from Sunny Bay on MTR’s Tung Chung Line. Revenue service on Hong Kong’s first fully-automated metro began on August 1, attracting an average of 10 000 passengers/day in the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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