All News articles – Page 175
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Tilting to St Petersburg
TRIALS with a Finnish Pendolino trainset between Helsinki and St Petersburg are planned in the near future.In a Letter of Intent signed on March 14, Executive Director of VR Group Tapio Simosom and Vice-President of Russian Railways Mikhail Akulov agreed to establish a joint venture to buy and operate high ...
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Metros
Australia: The New South Wales government has dropped plans to replace rail services along the Newcastle waterfront with buses, and now plans to investigate options for introducing diesel tram-trains.Brazil: In February CPTM exercised an option with an Alstom-led consortium for 48 Metropolis cars, under a contract dating from 1994. They ...
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Market
Angola: This year China Northern is to supply a further two 1500 kW diesel-electric locos with a top speed of 90 km/h.Asia: Ansaldo Signal subsidiary CSEE Transport has placed an order with Faiveley Transport for 350 odometer and tachometer units to be installed on Alstom and Kawasaki trainsets under China’s ...
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Maintenance
CAPTION: Tianjin Metro is using three-car train lifting jacks supplied by Windhoff and CNR Sifang Rolling Stock Research Institute. The steel structure was built locally, using components and controls produced in Germany
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Kolkata stations
INDIA’S Eastern Railway began transferring some long-distance services from Howrah and Sealdah to a new Kolkata station on February 20. Designed to relieve pressure on the existing stations, the Rs900m Kolkata terminal is sited on a former freight yard at Chitpore where the foundation stone was laid on May 15 ...
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Second Indo-Pakistan link open
CROSS-BORDER services between Khokhropar in Pakistan and Munabao in India were revived following the departure of the first Thar Express from Karachi at 11.00 on February 17. Railways Minister Shamim Haider and the Governor of Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan were among official guests who attended a ceremony to mark ...
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Holiday with Homaridae
BETWEEN May and October VIA Rail offers a Maritime Learning Experience on its Montréal to Halifax eastern trans-continental trains. Launched last summer, this aims to 'immerse travellers in the culture of the region and celebrate its historical richness'. On-board staff have been schooled in local history, the region's ...
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Reflections help see underground
RADAR reflective strips are laminated into the Terram PW5 geotextile, enabling ground-penetrating radar to be used to confirm that the correct depth of ballast is present after a track renewal project. The non-woven material was developed by Terram in collaboration with Network Rail, and after tests in the UK it ...
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Sarmiento goes underground
ON FEBRUARY 21 Argentina’s President Néstor Kirchner launched the tendering process for a US$300m project to build a 7·1 km four-track tunnel between Caballito and Villa Luro in Buenos Aires. Part of a level crossing elimination project on the 37 km Sarmiento commuter route between Once and Moreno, it is ...
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Tight fit on the traverser
THEARRIVAL of the five-section Cobra low-floor LRVs, which are 36m long, and the extension of 23 Tram 2000 cars to 28 m with the addition of a low-floor centre section, posed a problem for Zürich tram operator VBZ. The overhaul bays at the main workshop are laid out on either ...
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Leoliner firm sold
LEIPZIG Transport authority has sold a 51% stake in its Leoliner Fahrzeug-Bau Leipzig subsidiary to crane builder Kirow Leipzig for an undisclosed price. An additional 25% stake will be transferred in July 2008 under the terms of the agreement which was announced on January 25, and this will be followed ...
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Finished railway is waiting for trains
WHEN the second section of HSL-Zuid is completed at the end of this year, passengers hoping to ride over the new line will have some time to wait.Neither the Thalys trainsets nor the V250 EMUs ordered from AnsaldoBreda for services between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Brussels will be ready to run ...
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Exposition Line
ON MARCH 3 the Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority in Los Angeles approved a $420m design and build contract with a joint venture of FCI, Fluor and Parsons for the 13·7 km first phase of the Exposition light rail line. The deal followed the issuing of a Record of Decision ...
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Explosive machines to be tested
A TICKET vending machine which can detect traces of explosives on the hands of users was demonstrated by Cubic Corp and GE Security at the American Public Transportation Association’s annual conference in Washington DC on March 7.Built by Cubic, the ticket machine incorporates GE’s Itemiser FX fingertip trace detection analyser. ...
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Light rail expansion resumes
INTRO: With a series of legal challenges successfully resolved last year, preliminary works are now underway for the next phase of light rail development in Strasbourg. The 2007-08 programme will add 13·5 km to the CTS network, including Line E that will provide a new north-south link across the cityON ...
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Nürnberg S-Bahn expands
FOUR-TRACKING of Germany's oldest railway between Nürnberg and Fürth is the centrepiece of a €160m investment programme to expand S-Bahn services to the 38 km Nürnberg - Fürth - Erlangen - Forchheim route over the next four years. An agreement signed by DB Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn and Bayern Transport Minister ...
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Sell-out mooted in Estonia
THE ACRIMONIOUS dispute between Baltic Rail Services, the majority shareholder in Eesti Raudtee, and the Estonian government has escalated to the highest level, with Prime Minister Andrus Ansip being asked last month to answer questions on the subject in Parliament. BRS is seeking damages from the government, accusing it of ...
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Protos EMU order
AWARDED the concession to operate the Amersfoort - Ede-Wageningen line from December 2006 (RG 12.05 p756), Connexxion has ordered five two-car EMUs to operate the first electrified branch in the Netherlands to be tendered.Rather than opting for an established supplier of 1·5 kV DC rolling stock, the operator has awarded ...
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Dublin Docklands work starts
IRISH Minister for Transport Martin Cullen announced on March 9 the start of work for a new station which will serve Dublin's Docklands area. The island platform station will be served by Maynooth - Dublin commuter services from 2007, providing an alternative terminus to relieve Connolly station. Passengers will have ...
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DMU into service
BELARUS Railways has put into service the first of two diesel multiple-units ordered from Latvian manufacturer RVR at a cost of US$3m each.The end vehicles of the six-car set are powered by Zvezda engines built in St Petersburg, with Russian-built transmissions. Designed to offer a similar level of comfort to ...