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EDI Rail invests in capacity
INVESTMENT of A$5m to increase the capacity of EDI Rail’s manufacturing and testing facilities at Maryborough in Queensland was announced by Stephen Gillies, Managing Director of Downer EDI, on December 21.The nine-month programme includes rolling stock testing and commissioning facilities, weighing equipment and associated trackwork. ’These additions will provide a ...
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Closer to the border
ADIF has awarded contracts worth a total of ?224?3m for civil works on three sections between Girona and Figueres of the high speed line from Madrid to the French border. The 3?3?km from Sant Juli? de Ramis to Cornell? del Terri is to be built by Construcciones y Promociones Coprosa ...
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TTA offloads plant to Bombardier
USA: Bombardier and Transportation & Transit Associates reached an agreement at the end of November for Bombardier Transportation to acquire TTA's passenger rolling stock overhaul division for an undisclosed price. The sale includes TTA's plant at Kanona in New York state, along with associated equipment and existing overhaul contracts. TTA ...
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NewsEurostar seeks better connections
AT THE END of a year that saw revenue increase by 11·7% to £518m, and passengers carried through the Channel Tunnel rise 5·4% to a record 7·85 million, Eurostar Chief Executive Richard Brown told the Railway Study Association in London on January 10 that after HS1 opens in November 'we ...
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Gel-acid batteries
EXIDE Technologies Network Power will be exhibiting valve-regulated gel-acid batteries, a low-maintenance alternative to vented lead-acid batteries which are now in use in the UK, as well as with French, German and Swiss rail operators.Following trials, the batteries are now fitted to Networker EMUs used by British train operators Southeastern ...
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NewsAxiom Rail's first thousand
UK: A recent order by wagon builder W H Davis for 30 type AMIII bogies brings to 1 000 the total number of track-friendly suspension systems ordered by UK and Nordic operators from Axiom Rail in its first 15 months. 'In just over a year of trading this is an ...
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Automation improves real-time management
WHEN Tube Lines assumed control of maintenance and upgrading work on London Underground's Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines under the 30-year Public-Private Partnership (RG 10.06 p669), it inherited no less than 547 separate databases with information about the state of the assets. With only four or five hours available each ...
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Australian level crossing installation
AUSTRALIA: Rosehill Polymers has been awarded a contract to install its HoldFast rubber level crossing panels in Western Australia, building on its experience of installing similar rubber crossings in Victoria. The HoldFast crossings are manufactured from recycled rubber granules, offering considerable environmental advantages compared to conventional rubber products. ...
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FRA approves PTC overlay
ON JANUARY 8 the US Federal Railroad Administration formally approved the implementation of Positive Train Control on BNSF, the first such application to receive full clearance. Developed by Wabtec, the Electronic Train Management System is ’an overlay technology that augments and supplements existing train control methods’. ETMS sends vital ...
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Kars - Tbilisi agreement
THE government of Georgia was expected to approve on January 17 the construction of the long-planned Kars - Tbilisi rail link, following an agreement between the transport ministers of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey at a meeting in Tbilisi on January 12. Now costed at US$422m, the project involves construction ...
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Ore lines face open access threat
WITH THEIR own discrete networks of heavy-haul iron ore lines in Western Australia, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have expressed deep concern over a Federal Court ruling on December 18 that could see the opening up of their railways for use by rival mining companies. Fortescue Metals Group had sought ...
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Market February 2007
Australia: The Western Australia government has exercised an A$157m option with Bombardier and EDI Rail for a further 15 B-series three car EMUs (p111). The 130 km/h 25 kV units will enter service on Perth's 1 067 mm gauge network in 2009-11. China: ABB is to supply Beijing Line 4 ...
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Metros February 2007
Argentina: On January 13 Metrovias completed the first phase of a 35m pesos project to resignal metro Line D in Buenos Aires, with the commissioning of new lineside signalling. The programme is scheduled for completion in May when ATP becomes operational and control of the line is transferred to the ...
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Pointers February 2007
BNSF Railway is studying locations for a plant which would produce liquid diesel-replacement fuel from coal, using a version of the Fischer-Tropsch process which has been developed by Tenaska Inc. BNSF's 6 300 locos consumed 5·3bn litres of diesel in 2005, and a spokesman said the economic and technical feasibility ...
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Intelligence February 2007
Argentina: A consortium of Néstor Otero, Emepa and Ferrovías has won a 30-year concession to build and operate a transport interchange in Mar del Plata. Completion is expected to take 24 months at a cost of 23·5m pesos, including a station funded by the federal government. A second batch of ...
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People February 2007
Luis T?llez has been appointed Secretary of Transport & Communications in the new Mexican government.T rajano Andrade is Minister of Transport & Public Works in the government of President Rafael Correa which took officein Ecuador last month.Werner Faymann has been appointed Minister of Transport in the new Austrian coalition government. ...
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Valencia’s T2 makes progress
ON JANUARY 11 Mayor of Valencia, Rita Barber?, joined Jos? Ram?n Garc?a Ant?n, Minister for Transport & Infrastructure in the Valencia regional government, to mark the start of work on the 5?1?km southern section of Line T2 from Alicante to Nazaret. With six intermediate stations, and running partly in tunnel, ...
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Railtex 07 attracts international exhibitors to London
RAILTEX 07 will be opened by UK Transport Minister Tom Harris MP, who is due to inaugurate the exhibition at London's ExCeL exhibition centre at 11.00 on February 20. The minister will then tour the show, which has attracted almost 450 companies from 17 countries to its new venue ...
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NewsBritain grapples with main line smart ticketing
Roger Ford reviews progress with smart ticketing in the UK heavy rail market
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NewsChiltern tries mobile tickets
ON DECEMBER 14 Chiltern Railways and YourRail began a three-month trial of ticket delivery by mobile telephones, using the mobi-ticket system developed by Mobiqa for use at concerts and sporting events. During the trials Chiltern Railways' E-Day advance-purchase ticket can be booked on line 24 h ahead of travel, ...