All News articles – Page 264
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Indian private line opened
VISITING the state of Gujarat on May 11, India’s Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani inaugurated a 271 km broad-gauge line in Saurashtra region, which is being built as a public-private partnership. Due to be completed next year at a cost of Rs3·7bn, the line from Surendranagar to the new ...
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Hypersonic rail tests
On April 30 a rocket-powered sled set a speed record for a rail-mounted vehicle, travelling the length of a 5 km test track in 6·04 sec at a maximum speed of Mach 8·5, about 10300 km/h. The Holloman High Speed Test Track in New Mexico is used by the US ...
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Holdings swap
CVRD of Brazil has announced that it is to transfer its 32·4% holding in the loss-making Nordeste Railway (CFN) to steel producer CSN and Taquari Participaç
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Tellier targets profit growth
INTRO: Four months after taking over as President of Bombardier Inc, Paul Tellier outlines his objectives to Chris Jackson’OUR AIM is to be the low-cost, high-quality producer, and we will move in that direction over the next few years. Even if we don’t grow our revenues, I am determined to ...
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Metra grants
LAST MONTH the US Federal Transit Administration awarded grants totalling more than $50m to Chicago commuter rail operator Metra under a November 2001 agreement to provide 60% funding for three projects costing $558m.The awards include $24m for double-tracking of the North Central line between Antioch and Franklin Park, which will ...
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LA Gold line ready to open
NEXT MONTH is due to see the opening of the 22 km Gold line between Los Angeles Union Station and Sierra Madre Villa in Pasadena. The line is now substantially complete, and was handed over to operator Los Angeles MTA on April 18 for test running and driver training. Delivery ...
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Glass roof in the wilderness
HOLLAND America Line has taken delivery of four double-deck coaches from Colorado Railcar. They were expected to enter service on McKinley Explorer land cruise operations on May 16, attached to regular Alaska Railroad passenger train services.The vehicles are 27·1m long and 5·5m high, and will operate in two pairs. Cars1050 ...
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NSW's largest tunnelling project gets underway
This month sees the launch of the first tunnel boring machine for the orbital Chatswood - Epping - Parramatta rail link connecting the northern and western suburbs of Sydney
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Standard gauge switch
PROPOSALS for a second stage of rail restructuring in Switzerland are being drawn up for discussion by the Bundesrat later this year, with a view to placing draft legislation before Parliament in 2004. Dr Max Friedli, Director of the Ministry of Transport, has proposed that ownership of 1 435 mm ...
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Slovak regional railway formed
BRATISLAVA regional authority BSK has formed a local railway company to provide services on two lines from which ZSSK has withdrawn passenger trains. BSK plans to run the 14 km Zohor - Z
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Knowledge loss follows fragmentation
NEARLY A DECADE has passed since the Railways Act 1993 instigated the world’s most dramatic break-up of a national railway. Having witnessed at first hand the chain of events that followed the destruction of British Rail, we believe it is important that other railways heed the lessons learnt so painfully.The ...
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Finding leaks
PULLMAN AC is using Spectroline refrigerant leak detection in the air-conditioning units of 110 suburban coaches operating in the UK. An ultraviolet fluorescent additive is mixed with the 18 kg of refrigerant in each vehicle. When viewed under a high-intensity UV lamp, any traces of leaks can be identified from ...
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Finance
Argentina: Under a presidential decree awaiting signature as of mid-May, provincial passenger operators FeMed (Córdoba), Sefecha (Chaco), UEPFP (Buenos Aires) and Sefepa (Río Negro) were due to receive a total of 6m pesos in emergency operating subsidy from the government in 2003, intended to cover higher fuel and spare parts ...
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FEMU to the rescue
PROSPECTS for JR Freight's M250 freight EMU (RG 5.03 p265) look encouraging given that the Japanese government has decided to impose new regulations on heavy lorries from September, forcing road haulage companies to fit speed limiters which will cut fuel supply if they exceed 90 km/h. Intended to reduce the ...
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Tranz Rail restructures to face the future
INTRO: New Zealand’s Tranz Rail has lived through two difficult years, but Managing Director Michael Beard believes that a focused reorganisation can turn the business round. The degree of success may depend on changes in the government’s transport policyDURING THE last two years Tranz Rail has withstood stock market uncertainty ...
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Moscow extends
THE 166th station on the Moscow metro network entered service on May 9, with the opening of a 4 km extension of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line westwards from Kievskaya. The new terminus at Park Pobedy is claimed to be the deepest metro station in the world, with the platforms lying 97m ...
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NewsRailbuses exploit Polish regional potential
HIGH operating costs and short, obsolete locomotive-hauled trains are features of many of the local and regional lines which form an important part of Poland's rail network. In an effort to reduce expenditure PKP announced plans to withdraw over 1000 services, but in March the threat of widespread strikes brought ...
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Engine sales up at MTU
DIESEL engine maker MTU reported a 16% growth in sales in the rail sector during 2002, with a total of 1010 engines and PowerPacks ordered. The most important contribution came from underfloor drive units for diesel multiple-units, with almost 400 PowerPack units supplied to Alstom, Bombardier and Siemens. 80 PowerPacks ...
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Dieter
CAPTION: Frogs and snakes are being provided with escape routes to prevent them becoming trapped under the infrastructure of Sweden’s Botniabanan project. Construction workers building tunnels and other structures along the line had noticed that small animals were crawling into cracks in the cement, where they were becoming stuck, ...
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Corridor start
WORK IS to begin this summer on the long-planned rail freight relief corridor through northeast France. The region of Lorraine has approved funding for its 35% stake in the €26·8m project, which will be matched by 50% from the government and 15% from RFF. The 150 km line between Longuyon ...