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Dining in style
AUSTRIAN Federal Railways has returned to traffic the first four of 45 dining cars which are being refurbished at a cost of €100000 per vehicle by ÖBB Technische Services GmbH in Simmering.Refurbishment was required because ’the majority of our dining cars no longer corresponded with the wishes of our customers ...
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Driving from the desktop
DEMAND for visual and interactive ways of teaching railway rulebooks is being met by FAAC with its Simulation-Based Training package. SBT bridges the gap between traditional video-aided classroom teaching and realistic but expensive full-size cab simulators.SBT is intended for use in initial, refresher and remedial driver training and assessment, and ...
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NewsDarwin traffic takes a hit
THERE were further developments at the end of February affecting the Adelaide - Alice Springs - Darwin route in Australia. Northline, Freightlink's second-biggest customer, decided to withdraw some of its business and tender to have it carried by road again. Freightlink Chief Executive John Fullerton put a brave face on ...
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Darling starts Trent Valley quadrupling
UK TRANSPORT Secretary Alistair Darling participated in a ceremony at Lichfield on February 22 to mark the start of work to quadruple a 19·3 km section of the West Coast Main Line between Tamworth and Armitage.Network Rail has set up a dedicated team to manage the two-year project, now costed ...
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Hipertrack cuts noise and vibration
TRIALS have been taking place near Foggia in Italy with two types of ballastless track that suggest it may be possible to dispense with special noise mitigation and vibration reduction measures. Part of the High Performance Rail Track research project, the tests were carried out under the Strategic Rail Research ...
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Flowing with the currents
Adequate insulation between tram rails and the buried stray current mat on the Nottingham Express Transit tramway was confirmed using a fault finding technique developed by Radiodetection and Carillion.A Radiodection PCM transmitter was used to inject a 4Hz electrical signal into the rail under test, with a magnet used to ...
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NewsMoU puts ERTMS on course for delivery
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Brussels on March 17 paves the way for rapid deployment of ETCS on priority corridors across Europe
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Signalling contracts
ITALIAN infrastructure manager RFI has awarded two contracts totalling €180m to Ansaldo Segnalamento Ferroviaro for resignalling work on the national network.The larger contract, valued at €136m, covers the installation of SCMT automatic train protection and supervision equipment on routes in the Genova, Milano, Verona and Napoli regions. ASF will supply ...
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Contractors hurry to finish HSL-Zuid
INTRO: With 98% of civil engineering work for the HSL-Zuid project complete, tracklaying on the southern section of the 300 km/h line will be finished by the end of 2005. Wim Knopperts, Director, Project & Infra Management of the HSL Project Organisation, briefed Murray Hughes WORK ON the first high ...
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Circular revival
ON MARCH 8, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz inaugurated limited services on a section of the Karachi Circular Railway, which is being progressively reopened after a decade-long closure (RG 12.05 p816).The Governor of Sindh Province Dr Ishratul reviewed arrangements for the revived service the previous week. Pakistan Railways has contracted ...
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Chubu’s Centrair rail link takes off
FEBRUARY 17 saw the formal opening of the new Central Japan International Airport, located on a new island in Ise Bay, 35 km south of Nagoya. Centrair is connected to the city centre by a new express rail service using Meitetsu’s Tokoname Line. Aichi Prefecture is hosting this year’s World ...
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Celebration Congress
THE Hipertrack project (left) could reduce the need for lineside noise barriers on high speed lines, according to the Fraunhofer Institute. If so, this would represent a major step forward in track design, which we have chosen as one of several railway technology topics to be discussed at our Centenary ...
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CDG Express tries a new route
REVISED proposals for the planned express rail link between Paris Est and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport were unveiled to local municipalities by Réseau Ferré de France on February 4. The target is to have the line opening in 2012, to support the Paris bid to host that year’s Olympic Games.CDG Express is ...
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CAF profits increase
SPANISH train builder CAF made a pre-tax profit of €17·4m in 2004, an increase of 21% on 2003. EBITDA was €32·6m, and net profit was €14m. Sales in 2004 totalled €578m, up 16·8% on the previous year, with the Spanish domestic market accounting for 44% of sales. Contracts awarded during ...
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Industry News in Brief
ABB has reported earnings before interest and taxes of $1·1bn for 2004, up from $537m in 2003. Income was $201m, $980m up on 2003.Icon Polymer Group has invested £75000 in a Berstoff Rotocure machine which can produce rubber sheets up to 1·6 m wide for gangway diaphragms.CKD Kutn
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Passenger News in Brief
Indian Railways Catering & Tourism Corp and Intrex India have introduced Itz Cash pre-payment cards to provide access to on-line booking to customers without credit cards. FS launched its second TrenOK low-cost passenger service (RG 1.05 p13) on March 15, with tickets for the 5h trip between Roma and Bari ...
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Training in Brief
Indian Railways’ Vadadara staff college is to host training courses for staff from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.From April 1 Britain’s Centre for Rail Skills will become part of GoSkills, the Sector Skills Council set up to cover the passenger transport industry. It will identify sources of funding for ...
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Private boxes in prospect
AT THE END of February Indian Minister of Railways Laloo Prasad Yadav published an unashamedly populist budget for IR’s 2005-06 financial year, with no fares increases at all and no rise in freight rates. Freight tariffs are, however, to be heavily simplified, with rates for 4000 different types of traffic ...
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East-west box test
BIDDING to win more freight traffic between China and Europe from ocean shipping, a trial container train was run from Hohhot to Frankfurt last month.Dispatched from the Inner Mongolian city on March 1, the train arrived in Frankfurt-am-Main on March 17 after a 9814 km journey. The westbound train carried ...
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BNDES to take stake in Ferronorte
LAST MONTH Brazilian federal investment bank BNDES was expecting to complete a deal to take a 31% stake in Ferronorte, by converting debt and providing new resources, with the aim of increasing capacity on the soya export corridor between Alto Araguaia and the port of Santos.Under the terms of an ...