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Modular common rail fuel system
TO MEET the latest emissions limits for railcars in Europe, British diesel engine supplier Cummins has announced plans to modify its QSK19-R design with a modular common rail fuel system. The QSK19-R, rated at 650 to 750hp, is being fitted to the 51 three-car TransPennine Express DMUs being built by ...
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Changing the flow
WASHINGTON metro is experimenting with three seating layouts in 24 cars, aiming to provide more standing room and increase capacity without needing additional rolling stock. Existing cars have 64 to 80 seats. The first of the redesigned vehicles has four fewer seats, matching 184 cars on order from Alstom. The ...
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Modernising Montréal metro cars
THE FIRST two refurbished MR-73 metro cars were unveiled in Montréal by STM Chairman Claude Dauphin and Québec Transport Minister Michel Després on November 18. They entered service on the Orange Line the following week. Over the next three years STM will spend C$35·6m refurbishing 423 MR-73 cars, which are ...
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Trinidad tenders called
THE GOVERNMENT of Trinidad & Tobago has invited expressions of interest for the construction of two new rail routes in Trinidad, which it plans to offer as a DBOM contract. Frequent passenger services are planned to try and overcome growing congestion on the island's principal road corridors (RG 9.05 p527). ...
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Crashworthy cab cars
SOUTHERN California Regional Rail Authority is planning to replace its 42 Metrolink push-pull driving trailers with new cars, following a number of collisions with road vehicles on level crossings, one of which killed 11 people in January 2005. Part of an order for 80 to 100 cars likely to be ...
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Dutch broadband trials
NOMAD has signed a deal with Netherlands Railways, mobile and fixed line telephone operator KPN, television company RTL and content provider Heuvelman to test wireless broadband access onboard a train operating between Haarlem, Maastricht and Heerlen.Updated travel information and news will be supplied to the train at each station ...
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News in brief
On November 18 the US Congress finally approved the federal transport budget for the 2006 financial year which began on October 1. The bill provides $8·59bn for public transport, 12·3% up on 2005, including $1·34bn for fixed guideways and $1·5bn for the New Starts programme. Amtrak has been allocated $1·31bn, ...
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Passenger News in Brief
The Philippines Department of Transportation & Communications has commissioned a study to advise on the feasibility of privatising the sale of tickets for Manila’s urban rail services. Infotec has won a £1·5m contract to supply platform and ticket hall display screens to 74 London Underground stations over seven years.Zürich Transport ...
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Industry News in Brief
Invensys Rail Systems Australia has integrated its Westinghouse Signals Australia and Foxboro Transportation brands under a common trading name, Westinghouse Rail Systems Australia. IRSA will also adopt the same name.A New Zealand subsidiary of rail consultancy Interfleet Technology will begin trading from an office in Wellington this month.Skoda Transportation has ...
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Products in Brief
Following an international comparison of available packages, London Underground has selected the Crews transport resource management software from Siscog to plan and optimise the work of its drivers. Siscog, PortugalOnboard entertainment and passenger information systems can be driven by the F14 single board computer for Compact PCI systems. Based on ...
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City News in brief
Groundbreaking celebrations were held on November 18 to mark the start of construction on the Everline light metro in the South Korean city of Yongin. Connecting the Everland amusement park with the Seoul metro network, the 18·5 km fully-automated elevated line will have 15 stations. It is being built by ...
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Vented boxes
SCF Containers International has supplied an Australian freight operator with 150 vented side-door 20 ft containers for use on intermodal train services. ’These containers are the first that SCF has delivered with our unique patented waterproof vent design providing a much better travelling environment for certain types of freight’, said ...
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Boost for Concepción commuters
AS PART OF the US$155m Biovías programme to improve public transport in the greater Concepción area, Chilean State Railways (EFE) launched its Biotrén commuter network on November 24.EFE has acquired seven Class 440 EMUs from Renfe of Spain for Biotrén, which runs up to 82 trains a day on routes ...
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Whistle blowing
INTRO: SidetrackNATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe has launched a whistle-blowers’ fund, which will pay 2% of the value of recovered property to anyone providing information about theft from the company.Public Relations Officer Fanuel Masikati said rewards will be ’given to the first person giving information of theft or other criminal or ...
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Better in Boston
MASSACHUSETTS Bay Commuter Railroad is undertaking a $25m programme to modernise 162 MBTA coaches which are up to 18 years old. The Coach Reliability & Safety project will repair and replace heating, ventilation and air-conditioning equipment, toilets, scratched windows, bogies, couplers and other mechanical parts. Four vehicles will be out ...
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Nice tram batteries
TRAMS will be able to run for a short distance through Nice without overhead electrification, using power from onboard batteries to be supplied by Saft.The €2m order to supply high-power Ni-MH batteries was placed with Saft by Alstom, which is building 20 Citadis trams ready for the opening of the ...
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EIB's funding portfolio backs TENs and upgrading projects
Ivan Pilip, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, argues that better rail links are crucial for integration of the new member states into the European Union. In this interview with Murray Hughes, Pilip puts the focus firmly on upgrading and rehabilitation, although funding for rolling stock is growing in importance
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Three franchises awarded
THE UK Department for Transport has awarded three more replacement franchises which will start on April 1. They cover three London commuter networks plus long-distance services to the west of England and South Wales.On November 30 DfT confirmed that the Govia joint venture of Go-Ahead and Keolis had won the ...
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Second Avenue design contract
THE BOARD of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on November 16 to award a $150·4m contract for final design of the 3·5 km first section of the Second Avenue subway. The contract with DMJM+Harris and Arup covers the tunnels from East 92nd Street to East 62nd Street, plus stations ...
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SEITT to attract private finance
THE SPANISH Ministry of Development announced on November 30 the creation of a new state-owned company that will be responsible for the government’s land transport infrastructure projects. In addition, SEITT is to act as a conduit for private finance by raising debt on the capital markets. SEITT has been formed ...