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NewsEurotunnel acts to recapture freight
WITH through rail freight in the first nine months of 2007 down to just 1·16 million tonnes, Eurotunnel has slashed and simplified its pricing in a bid to avoid the 'complete disappearance' of this traffic, once forecast to reach 10 million tonnes a year. The changes announced on October ...
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Crying out loud
FOLLOWING the successful deployment of 65 units last year, Netherlands Railways has purchased a further 110 Minivox portable public address units from Anchor Audio for use by station staff in emergencies or power cuts. NS required a PA device which would not obstruct the users' view, and so adopted ...
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Station news in brief
On August 28 Sound Transit broke ground for Mukilteo station, a multi-modal interchange in Washington state which will be linked to Seattle by Sounder commuter rail, bus and ferry services when it opens next year.Mace Ltd and Travel Point Trading have launched Station Solutions, a joint venture focused on providing ...
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München lounge reopens
THE DB Lounge at München's main station has been reopened after a 10-week refurbishment programme costing €400 000.The lounge has been enlarged, and a 26-seat first class area created where passengers are offered drinks, snacks, and free wi-fi access. The work was undertaken under a programme to upgrade DB's ...
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NewsParis projects prosper despite diversity
Over the past 15 years Paris has opened four orbital light rail lines, providing links between the city's radial metro and RER corridors. But the four routes exhibit a high degree of technical incompatibility, reports Harry Hondius
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#railtec 2007: innovations for mobility without borders
THE HIGHEST priority is being attached to mobility without borders, by railway technology manufacturers as well as by operators and policymakers. This topic will therefore take centre-stage at #railtec2007 in Dortmund on November 12-14. This unique conference and fair is the central networking platform for European mobility. Last ...
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Cold-flexible glass keeps passengers dry
WHILE inter-city trains race past on the outer tracks of the recently-quadrupled mainline (RG 9.07 p570), since June 10 stopping trains between Utrecht and Amsterdam have been calling at a new Utrecht Zuilen station, where passengers from the northern suburbs can shelter beneath a curved glass roof over the island ...
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Going further with near-field
TRANSPORT for London is using Blackfriars underground station for a three-month trial of passenger information provision using near field communication. NFC technology has been embedded in 19 'touchpoint' posters at the station as part of the Visualization of Real-Time Transport Interchange project developed by TfL, Imperial College London's Internet Centre ...
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NewsMarseille builds a network
To ensure that 95% of its residents are no more than 25 min and a single change away from the centre, the French city of Marseille is building a light rail network and extending its metro, as Laurent Charlier reports
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Capacity is the key as Banverket moves to a higher level
Sweden's infrastructure manager has replaced a regional structure with national operations and projects divisions, in a bid to focus on getting the most out of its network. Operations Director Björn Östlund explained to Chris Jackson the significance of the move
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Hyderabad metro shortlist
THE provincial government of Andhra Pradesh is expected to call tenders shortly to build a three-line metro in Hyderabad. The Indian Minister for Urban Development Ajay Maken has given the regional government permission to draw up a shortlist of technical bidders to build the 66·4 km network. The Empowered Group ...
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Chinese test stand tested
NOVEMBER is due to see the commissioning of an advanced multi-function bogie test plant at China Southern Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp's Sifang works in Qingdao. Being supplied by Swiss precision hydraulics specialist Nencki AG, the unit is the third, and most advanced, bogie test stand that the company has ...
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NewsTransmash Holding consolidation
RUSSIAN rolling stock maker Transmash Holding has completed the consolidation of its holdings in various businesses under a project which was launched in 2006 to simplify the corporate structure. At the end of August the Federal Financial Markets Service registered six additional share issues by Transmash Holding Group, which has ...
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NewsMorocco to order Duplex TGVs
MOROCCO: The dream of high speed trains in North Africa moved a step closer on October 22, when Alstom Transport announced that it had been selected to supply a fleet of 18 TGV Duplex trainsets to Moroccan national railway ONCFM. Subject to final negotiations, the order is ...
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US leasing acquisitions
SUMITOMO subsidiary SC Rail Leasing America acquired leasing firm Southern Illinois Railcar Co and its affiliate Ohio Ag Terminals during September. Established in 1990 with the acquisition of 10 grain wagons from Soo Line, SIRC has grown to manage more than 2 500 wagons, mainly covered hoppers, and also provides ...
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NewsNice: Trams return to the Côte d'Azur
The first of three planned tram lines in Nice on the Côte d’Azur is due to be opened by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on November 24, restoring urban rail services to the city after a gap of 55 years. Murray Hughes reports
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Urban rail news in brief
With the aim of opening the second light rail line in Santa Cruz de Tenerife towards the end of 2008, the island council hopes to award construction contracts for the €45m project before the end of this year. Services will run from Tíncer to the existing route at Taco, leaving ...
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Getting it right at China's mega-stations
Pedestrian flow modelling is enabling informed design decisions during the construction of huge new stations in Beijing and Guangzhou