All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2005 – Page 3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thermal imaging
FLIR SYSTEMS will be demonstrating the ThermaCAM E320 themal imaging camera at Infrarail. The mid-range model is designed for customers who do not need the full flexibility of its P-Series cameras.The ThermaCAM E320 has a 320 x 240 pixel detector with 80mK sensitivity, and interchangeable optics.FLIR imaging equipment is being ...
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Keys to Implement Successfully Sustainable Urban Railways
TOKYO’S railways carry more than 50% of travellers in the metropolitan area, with over 60 million journeys made every day. The competing operators ’are all making profit while keeping sound management’. KISS-Rail examines how this is achieved, and how the railways have tackled the problems encountered when operating and maintaining ...
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Interface launch
NEWLY acquired by Siemens (p574), Transmitton will be launching an interface between its Cromos control software and the OnTrack package from ADT Rail Systems.The interface provides infrastructure reporting into third-party software, making it simpler to see the current status of an asset. Remote access allows faults to be diagnosed while ...
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Iran - Iraq links
FEASIBILITY and cost studies for two rail links between Iran and Iraq are due to be completed next year, according to Iranian Islamic Republic Railways.RAI confirmed in July that technical design is underway for a 700m bridge across the Shatt-Al-Arab waterway to carry the planned Basra - Shalamcheh - Khorramshahr ...
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Kowloon Southern Link underway
THREE contracts for construction of the Kowloon Southern Link were awarded by KCRC on August 1 at a cost of HK$3·1bn. Authorised by the Hong Kong government on June 24, the 3·8 km KSL forms an extension of West Rail from Nam Cheong to East Tsim Sha Tsui, where it ...
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Water and logs
RUNNING water will be used by Balfour Beatty Rail Technologies to demonstrate the way its XiTrack geocomposite ballast treatment forms a three-dimensional polymer cage around ballast.It does not fill the voids, so allowing water to drain through. The polymer accepts track movement under passing trains, rapidly returning to the desired ...
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Market
Australia: As part of BHP Billiton’s US$575m Rapid Growth Project 2 to expand the capacity of its Pilbara iron ore operations from 110million tonnes per annum to 118million tonnes by the end of 2006, Barclay Mowlem’s Rail Group will extend tracks from Bing Siding to Nelson Point Yard and modify ...
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Monitoring tools
ROWE HANKINS will show its trackside power and safety monitoring technology.The company has invested in DC test equipment for accurately calibrating high-speed circuit breakers, discriminating between breakers on the same circuit.Rowe Hankins distributes LEM products, and will be showing Relaysenz and Pointsenz, which give early warning of problems with signals ...
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Puerto Montt refurbishment progress
PRESIDENT OF CHILE Ricardo Lagos joined EFE President Luis Ajenjo and Mayor María Angélica Astudillo on August 5 to reopen the station at La Unión.This is the first station to be refurbished under a 2·7bn pesos programme being undertaken in preparation for reintroduction of passenger services between Temuco and Puerto ...
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Transperth opens Thornlie Spur
A FIFTH suburban rail service in Perth was introduced on August 7, when Western Australia’s Premier Geoff Gallop inaugurated the Thornlie Spur.The A$75m branch serves a new bus/rail interchange with park-and-ride facilities for 450 cars. It diverges from the Perth - Armadale line south of Cannington, and includes a short ...
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Trams from Oregon
DEFENCE contractor Oregon Iron Works is planning to build under licence trams similar to the Czech-made Astra vehicles in operation in Portland and Tacoma. Based in the Portland suburb of Clackamas, Oregon Iron Works has established a partnership with the Inekon Group, which manufactures the Astra in the Czech Republic. ...
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