All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2006 – Page 5
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Industry News in Brief
Turbo Genset was renamed Turbo Power Systems with effect from July 19.Having acquired valid acceptances in respect of 83·28% of the issued share capital, on July 24 Balfour Beatty declared its recommended cash offer for Birse Group plc to be ’unconditional in all respects.’ Birse is to be de-listed from ...
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Products in Brief
This month Prysmian Tianjin Cables Co will supply Changchun Railway Vehicles Co with the first cables to be delivered under a €11·5m contract announced in July. The cables will be used in the construction of 51 eight-car CA250 trains which Changchun is assembling in China, and an initial nine sets ...
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Breaks of gauge
Sir - There are undoubtedly many more worthwhile missing rail links to fill than Sudan - Uganda (RG 8.06 p440), not only in southern Africa but also in west Africa. The more modest proposal to extend the east African rail network to Juba seems more achievable, but if it is ...
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Breaking the ice
SAFETY in a variety of forms will be the focus of engineering consultancy Movares, whose Dutch, German and Polish branches will be exhibiting jointly. Topics to be highlighted will include risk and safety management. The company’s involvement with ERTMS will be covered in detail, along with 25 kV electrification in ...
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NewsVertical integration on the German branches
GERMANY: DB AG’s Regio Netze are joint businesses run by DB Regio and DB Netz. The model for this concept was the Kurhessenbahn in Kassel, followed by the SüdostBayernBahn based in Mühldorf, which is the largest operation to date. Then came the Schwarzatalbahn with the Oberweissbacher ...
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Getting the boot
SATEBA will be displaying a concrete turnout bearer on the joint Vossloh Cogifer and Consolis stand. The sleeper maker is working with Vossloh Cogifer to install slab track with three turnouts on a 3 km section of TGV Est, and has supplied its SAT312 booted sleepers for use on 20 ...
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Football fever fuels DB traffic boom
Buoyed up by booming business, DB AG's passenger operations are on a roll in the afterglow of the football World Cup. Board Member for Passenger Operations Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch briefs Murray Hughes in Berlin
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A ticket and a bomb test
OPERATIONAL testing of a Cubic Corp metro ticket vending machine which can detect traces of explosive residue on the hands of users was undertaken in Baltimore during June (RG 4.06 p192).A co-operative effort between the US Department of Homeland Security, Maryland Transit Administration and the state’s Department of Transportation, the ...
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Second-generation bogies to be tested on gauge-changing EMU
Researchers are testing an improved bogie design for Japan's gauge-changing EMU. Bench tests are due to be completed by the end of 2006, and trials with a second trainset will start next year
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Heavy haul bogie order
HIGH-ADHESION bogies for 110 Bo-Bo heavy-haul electric locos ordered from Toshiba and UCW Partnership for Spoornet’s Richards Bay coal line are to be supplied by DCD-Dorbyl, the company’s Rolling Stock Division announced in July.The first of the 1067mm gauge bogies will be supplied to UCW’s plant in Nigel during the ...
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Taurus bearings
TRANSFORMER oil pump bearings in ÖBB’s 332 Class 1016 and 1116 Taurus locomotives are being replaced with non-conducting hybrid bearings from NKE.Simultaneous operation of the auxiliary converter and transformer cooling oil pumps as the locos started up was causing excessive current flow in the bearings. In consultation with NKE, ÖBB ...
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Bush backs commuter rail
GOVERNOR Jeb Bush announced on August 2 plans to develop commuter rail services in central Florida under a complex deal totalling almost $1bn.The plan calls for development of a north-south route through Volusia, Seminole, Orange and Osceola counties to relieve congestion on Interstate 4. Half of the $475m cost will ...
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BA to test LRT
UNDER AN AGREEMENT signed on August 1 in the presence of President Néstor Kirchner, Alstom is to supply two LRVs for trial operations in Buenos Aires.The trials will take place on dockside tracks in the Puerto Madero redevelopment area. It is hoped that a 2 km route between Avenida Córdoba ...
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Dubai Phase II awarded
ON JULY 26 the Dubai Rapid Link consortium confirmed that it had received the formal order from the Dubai Roads & Transport Authority for construction of the second phase of the municipality’s automated metro network. Valued at 4bn dirhams, the deal forms an option on the 12·45bn dirhams Phase I ...
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Loco-hauled Intercity fleet awaits replacement
DB AG operates a large fleet of locomotive-hauled InterCity and EuroCity saloon, compartment and catering coaches dating from the 1970s. They have already been refurbished twice, and sooner or later they must be replaced.Initially, DB AG envisaged a replacement fleet of tilting trains, possibly in a joint order with the ...
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Mehdorn awaits the politicians’ verdict
INTRO: The debate about privatising Deutsche Bahn AG will reach a climax in the next few weeks. In the run-up to a decision on a stock market listing, Chris Jackson sought the views of Chairman Hartmut MehdornJackson: Herr Mehdorn, why do you want to float Deutsche Bahn AG on the ...
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Wheel-rail contact technologies: the Australian experience
BYLINE: Stephen Marich, PhDMarich Consulting Services*CONSIDERABLE advances have been made in wheel-rail contact technologies over the last 20 years. Detailed research has led to a much deeper understanding of wheel-rail contact phenomena, paving the way for operational, safety and economic improvements.Rail and wheel lives are longer, operating speeds and axleloads ...
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Trinity sells European assets
INTERNATIONAL Railway Systems announced on August 1 that it had agreed to acquire the European assets of US wagon builder Trinity Industries Inc. These include Astra Vagoane in Romania, Czech business TVS Metals, and operations in Switzerland, Slovakia and the UK. Astra Vagonka has an annual capacity of 2500 wagons ...
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Results announced
SCOTT Wilson Group issued its maiden preliminary results as a listed company on July 20. In the year to April 30 revenues totalled £197·8m, up 15% on the previous year. Pre-tax profit was up from £4·3m to £19·3m. The consultancy has a ’record order book’, and ’medium-term objectives to deliver ...