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Going private
WITH NO sign of the capacity crunch easing on Chinese Railways (RG 7.04 p396), the government is looking urgently at measures to accelerate investment as a means of raising capacity.One option being explored is to sanction the use of private capital for railway construction as part of a sweeping reform ...
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Giving warning
SCHWEIZER Electronic AG will be exhibiting examples of its relocatable worksite warning equipment, designed to alert track maintenance gangs to the presence of approaching trains.The firm’s Minimel95-HSF radios can be used to operate warning horns on double track lines. The Minimel95-AW126 offers three different sound levels, meaning that warnings can ...
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Praha remodelling gets going
AUGUST 1 saw the formal start of work on a major remodelling of the main line tracks through the centre of Praha. Due to be completed by December 15 2010, the Nové Spojení (New Connection) project will completely remodel the connections between Praha's major stations at Hlavní, Masarykovo, Liben, ...
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Trains to measure geometry
IMAGEMAP is supplying Network Rail with 15 optical track geometry measurement systems to be mounted on the bogies of trains running in commercial service. The order follows a successful pilot scheme using a system fitted to a Chiltern Railways diesel multiple-unit. This has been measuring the track geometry between London ...
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Slovaks plan freight sale
PLANS to privatise rail freight operations in Slovakia were announced last month by the Minister of Transport, Post & Telecommunications Pavol Prokopovic. As a first stage, the national rail operator ZSSK is to be restructured later this year into two separate companies, a joint stock freight company Zeleznicn
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Russian leasing fleet
BRUNSWICK Rail Leasing has announced plans to establish a Russian leasing fleet of around 10000 wagons valued at US$500m by 2008.The first 250 mineral wagons of a batch of 500 being built at Stakhanovsky Wagon Plant have been handed over to Voskresensk-based fertiliser firm FoaAgro, which has signed a five-year ...
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Expanding Goats
RAILPOWER Technologies announced on August 4 the signing of a memorandum of understanding with United Goninan Ltd to market Green Goat diesel-battery hybrid shunting locomotives across Australia and southeast Asia. 'We feel confident to move ahead with this technology. We believe it has considerable potential in Australia and southeast Asia ...
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Warszawa EMU unveiled
THIS MONTH, the Warszawa Suburban Railway (WKD) expects to put a PESA Bydgoszcz electric multiple-unit into revenue service on its line linking Warszawa with Grodzisk Mazowiecki. Delivered to the capital in June, the Class EN95 was custom-designed for the 35 km route, which is electrified at 600V DC. ...
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Electrification starts in Venezuela
INTRO: After much delay, work on the final stages of Venezuela’s suburban railway linking Tuy Medio with Caracas is in handLAST MONTH was due to see electrification work start on the 43 km Tuy Medio suburban railway being built between Caracas and Cúa in Venezuela.Contracts to build the double-track standard-gauge ...
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Ventilation ducting
WESTAFLEX will be showing the latest addition to its range of noise reduction products, a flexible attenuator for use in vehicle air supply channels.The company’s Quadroquick flexible duct is made from aluminium and has a wire spiral to allow a small bend radius.
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Siemens display
SIEMENS Transportation Systems will be showing a range of rolling stock including a EuroSprinter 64 F4 four-system electric locomotive and a EuroRunner 20 diesel-electric locomotive. Mass transit rolling stock will be represented by a Praha metro car, and a Trainsguard ETCS demonstration vehicle will be displayed on the outdoor exhibition ...
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Early slab track design revived on high speed line
INTRO: Pounded by heavy traffic for 25 years on a busy main line, a trial section of ballastless track survived without maintenance, confirming that the design using prefabricated segments was well suited for high speed lines. Ralf Roman Rossberg reports’THIS DESIGN offers track stability for decades’, enthuses Peter Wegerer, Project ...
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Quatre Millions d’Euros - Le Prix de ma Liberté
by Pierre Bilger’Four Million Euros - the Price of my Freedom’ refers to a pay-off that the author, as former President of Alstom, returned to the company after he had left. This ’honour’ payment gave him the freedom to pen his thoughts on the management of France’s leading rolling stock ...
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Cutbacks mooted in Switzerland
SWISS FEDERAL Railways is facing the prospect of reducing service levels following government pressure to cut costs.When similar pressure was brought to bear last year, SBB was able to negotiate with the Ministry of Transport a package of savings amounting to around SFr300m. This included postponement of resignalling work and ...
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Empire Corridor in crisis
ON AUGUST 13 the New York state Department of Transportation filed a lawsuit against Amtrak over the railway’s failure to complete its share of the Empire Corridor upgrading programme between New York and Albany.Announced six years ago, the co-operative venture between the state and Amtrak was designed to shave 20min ...
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Ice-free contact wires
STEMMANN Technik will be displaying a tramway contact wire Non-Icing System which is helping Bremen Tramway reduce carbon and contact wire wear, damage to vehicle electronics and in-service failures.It uses compressed air to feed a pantograph-mounted hollow felt roll with glycerine via a hose. The anti-freeze is rolled onto the ...
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EAR concession takes shape
PREQUALIFICATION bids have been called by October 15 for the combined concession to operate and maintain the Kenyan and Ugandan rail networks. A memorandum of understanding was signed by the two countries at the end of July, and Canarail and International Finance Corp have been appointed as transaction advisers. Kenya’s ...
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New concession terms proposed
THE PROPOSED TERMS of new contracts for Argentina’s freight concessionaires were due to be considered at a series of three public hearings last month, starting with Ferrosur on August 19. New terms for FEPSA were due to be considered the following day, with a hearing on August 30 examining Nuevo ...
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Computers in Railways IX
CAD, Manufacture & Operation in the Railway & Other Advanced Transit SystemsThe latest volume in this series contains 100 papers which were presented at the ninth international Comprail conference earlier this year.The book’s 1020 pages include papers highlighting recent developments in the fields of maintenance, train control, design, human factors, ...