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Vossloh IT sold
ON JANUARY 11 Vossloh Group announced the sale of its Information Technologies division to Funkwerk AG, which will take over the unit for a provisional price of k8m.In the first nine months of the 2006 fiscal year Vossloh IT reported a pre-tax loss of k9?3m. This disposal will result in ...
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Sena reopening
MOZAMBIQUE state railway authority CFM announced last month that it expected services to resume on the southern part of the Sena line ’before March’. After a 20-year hiatus caused by civil war, trains will start to carry limestone over the 90?km section from quarries at Muanza to a cement factory ...
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Reinforcing research work
TENSAR International will use Railtex to unveil the results of research into stiff polymer geogrids which has been undertaken by Network Rail and the University of Nottingham.Full-scale testing at the university looked at the influence of grid properties such as stiffness and aperture size, showing that significant reductions in track ...
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RandstadRail repairs
FOLLOWING the two derailments which disrupted RandstadRail services in November (RG 1.07 p14), operator HTM commissioned Delta Rail to track down the causes. The consultant has identified weaknesses in key components of the 60 turnouts on the Hofplein Line, which were due to be remedied by the end of January, ...
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Wheel and rail protection
ROWE Hankins Components will present a selection of equipment for on-train and trackside safety and protection. A new product on show will be an on-board intelligent Wheel Flange Lubrication System, which protects rails and flanges from excess wear, cutting noise and maintenance costs. The key elements of WFLS are a ...
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Powder River ruling
PROPOSALS by Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad to build a 420?km line into Wyoming’s Powder River Basin coalfields are back on course. A court ruling on December 28 upheld a decision by the US Surface Transportation Board granting final approval for the $6bn project, which also envisages rebuilding 965?km of ...
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Mumbai SPV
THE SPECIAL Purpose Vehicle company to build and operate Line 1 of the planned Mumbai metro network under a 35-year BOT concession was officially incorporated on December 22. Under the PPP agreement signed earlier this year (RG 7.06 p378), Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd is owned 74% by the Reliance ...
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Makkah - Madinah tenders sought
DOMESTIC AND international companies have been invited to submit tenders for construction of Saudi Arabia's planned Western Railway linking Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah. The call for tenders by Saudi Railways Organisation marks a further step in the expansion of the kingdom's rail network. The 444 km passenger line is expected ...
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Loop resignalling
CHICAGO TRANSIT Authority awarded a $48?2m contract on January 10 for resignalling the downtown Loop at the heart of the city’s elevated metro network over the next three years.Divane Brothers Electric Co is to replace the signalling and train control systems at the busy Van Buren/Wabash and Lake/Wells junctions where ...
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Loco simulator
CORYS TESS will be showing a GNER Class 91 electric loco driving simulator. The French company is supplying each of GNER’s training sites in London, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh with two simulators, representing a Class 91 loco and a diesel HST power car. All will use a database representing 160?km ...
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Riedberg light rail
PLANS FOR a light rail route to the northern suburb of Riedberg were announced by the head of Frankurt-am-Main’s Transport Department Lutz Sikorski on December 21. He said 70% of the funding for the k60m project had been secured.Riedberg will be served by a loop linking U-Bahn Route U3 at ...
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Springs last longer
CONICAL springs which have been developed by Freudenberg Schwab to integrate the functions of steel coil springs and flexible axle bearings into a single component will to be demonstrated at the Railtex exhibition in London this month (p93). The design offers a large transverse to longitudinal stiffness ratio, with a ...
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Muni opens T-Third at last
LIMITED OPERATION of San Francisco’s T-Third light rail line began on January 13, with Muni Metro offering free rides on weekends and public holidays until April 7, when full revenue services are scheduled to start. T-Third services start from Castro Street station and run through the city centre using the ...
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Lack of trains raises risk
THE NIGERIAN public is at great risk at level crossings, claims a recent article in the Lagos Vanguard, because the country's railways have been run down to the extent that trains are rarely seen. 'A moving train is a strange sight in most parts of the country ... The ...
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Jakarta projects
DETAILED design for a 14?5 km metro line in Jakarta is expected to get underway shortly, following the announcement of a loan agreement in December.JBIC is providing ?1?87bn to finance engineering services for the Jakarta MRT System Project. The metro is expected to adopt Japanese construction techniques, including the shield ...
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Toll split could keep PN intact
THE AUSTRALIAN Consumer & Competi-tion Commission holds the key to plans announced in December by Toll Holdings for a ’strategic restructure’ that would divide the group into separate infrastructure and operating businesses. If the ACCC rules in Toll’s favour, the group will be able to keep Pacific National intact.A key ...
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High speed tenders
ON DECEMBER 26 Spanish infrastructure authority ADIF announced the award of two contracts to undertake civil works between Legutiano and Escoriatza on the Vitoria branch of the high speed network connecting it with Bilbao and San Sebasti?n.A 5?km section is to be built by a joint venture of Comsa and ...
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Hanoi tram revival underway
CHAIRMAN of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Quoc Trieu officially launched the construction of the first modern light rail line in the Vietnamese capital at a groundbreaking ceremony on December 27.Work began at the site of the maintenance depot and operations control centre in Tu Liem district, west of the ...
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Steel line handover
NIGERIA's first standard-gauge railway passed into private hands on January 11, when the 327 km Central Railway was transferred to Global Infrastructure Nigeria Ltd under a 20-year concession from the Bureau of Public Enterprises. Isolated from NRC's 1 067 mm gauge main lines, the Central Railway was conceived as an ...
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Third Railway Package goes to the vote
INTERNATIONAL passenger services in Europe are on course to be opened up to competition from 2010 following a vote in the European Parliament on January 18 after the second reading of the Third Railway Package. But a proposal supported by the Transport Committee for domestic services in the EU15 to ...