UK: WH Davis has supplied DB Schenker Rail with 12 hopper wagons to a new design which will enable aggregates to be delivered for Tarmac to terminals where unloading space is limited.
The 75 tonne capacity stainless steel bodies are higher above rail level than is normal for hoppers designed to discharge between the rails, enabling the load to be discharged onto a mobile conveyor inserted under the doors. T25 bogies were supplied by Axiom Rail.
AUSTRALIA: Australian Rail Track Corp has completed the Narrabri to Turrawan Line Upgrade project ahead of what it expects to be one of the largest grain harvests in years for farmers in northwest New South Wales. The A$44·7m federally funded modernisation of the 35 km route ...
RUSSIA: The first train has travelled the full 531 km length of the recently completed Pacific Railway from the Elga coking coal deposit to a port which is under construction at Cape Manorsky on the Sea of Okhotsk. The train operated on October 30-31 comprised 20 ...
