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West Coast upgrade cut back as costs soar
BRITAIN’S troubled West Coast Main Line upgrading programme suffered another setback on October 9 when the Strategic Rail Authority issued for consultation a document confirming that Virgin would not be able to run its fleet of 53 Pendolino tilting trainsets at 225 km/h until some indefinite future date when the ...
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TEDA plans automated metro
CONTRACTS have been awarded for construction of an automated metro in the Chinese province of Tianjin. The 50 km Binhai New Development Area Rail Rapid Transit is expected to open in 2005. It will connect the city centre with the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) on the coast near Tanggu, ...
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Mineta backs transit and Amtrak
INTRO: Julian Wolinsky reports from APTA’s 2002 Public Transportation Expo in Las VegasMORE THAN 15000 attendees and 750 exhibitors converged on the Las Vegas Convention Center last month for the American Public Transportation Association’s 2002 International Public Transportation Expo. Keynote speaker at the opening session on September 23 was US ...
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Iberian cross-border accord
ON OCTOBER 3 after an inter-governmental summit in Valencia, the transport ministers of Portugal and Spain announced that tenders would be called early next year for studies to determine the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of a high speed line from Madrid to Lisboa and Porto. The contract will be ...
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IC4 takes shape
UNDER construction at the AnsaldoBreda plant in Napoli is the first IC4 inter-city trainset for Danish State Railways. The 83 articulated four-car DMUs have been designed in co-operation with Pininfarina, and will have a top speed of 200 km/h. Intended to operate in multiple with up to five sets, they ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2002 report
Over 30000 trade visitors converged on the InnoTrans event at the end of September in Berlin, attracted by 1045 exhibitors from 30 countries. Numerous contracts and acquisitions were announced, and hundreds of new products were on display. In this special report from Berlin we offer a selection of industry news.
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Turboliner starts testing
RUNNING TRIALS have finally started with the prototype RTL-III Turboliner train, one of seven being rebuilt to run at 200 km/h along the Empire Corridor between Albany and New York City. The first trip to Manhattan’s Penn Station on August 27 was declared ’very successful’ by New York State Department ...
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Sidetrack
Cake time in CaliforniaMid-September was a good time to be in California, especially if you like the sweeter things in life. Birthday cakes were evident in both San Francisco and Sacramento, as two local transport operators celebrated notable anniversaries. During a board meeting on September 12, past and present BART ...
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Tranz Rail still in the soup
MANAGING Director of Tranz Rail Michael Beard promised on September 12 that the company’s ’change programme’ would deliver benefits in the 2003 financial year. Announcing results for the 12 months to June 30, Beard said ’the company’s historical business model was not sustainable’. He was responding to concerns about the ...
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Putting slab track to the test
INTRO: GIF’s dual-gauge test track between Medina del Campo and Olmedo includes a 120m section of experimental slab track designed by Balfour Beatty. Keith Barrow reports that practical tests show the design is behaving in line with theoretical modelsFOR SIX MONTHS trains have been operating at up to 240 km/h ...
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Publications
Planner’s Guide to APMs.With a growing demand for liveable, sustainable cities, planners are looking for better ways to configure and manage urban areas. As automated peoplemover technology matures, the concept can be harnessed to link major developments with railway or metro stations, or to provide a more environmentally friendly alternative ...
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NJ triple opening
NEW JERSEY Transit was due to launch a through service from its Boonton line to New York’s Penn Station on September 30, with the completion of the Montclair Connection. As well as the 457m link connecting the Boonton and Montclair lines, the project included 8 km of electrification and construction ...
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Rolling motorway suffering
AUSTRIAN Federal Railways has reported record results for 2001, with tonnes carried up from 84·7 million in 2000 to 86·4 million and the number of passengers higher at 183·3 million compared with 182·7 million. Grants from federal government were up by 1·7% at €1·14bn, with operating profit down by nearly ...
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Merseyrail train refurbishment
A DEAL worth £32m has been signed to refurbish the 59 three-car Class 507 and 508 electric multiple-units leased to Arriva Trains Merseyside by Angel Trains. The vehicle interiors will be improved and engineering modifications carried out to improve performance.Alstom Transport is to undertake the refit at Eastleigh, in conjunction ...
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Market
Australia: The Smartpos consortium of Cubic Transportation System, EDS, Philips, Delairco and Commonwealth Bank has been selected as preferred bidder for a 10-year contract to supply and operate a contactless smartcard system for the greater Brisbane area. ERG has been selected to upgrade existing equipment before the new system is ...
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Real-time train management
Ponta de Madeira. GPS is used to establish train location, with differential ground stations at strategic locations to provide automatic corrections. The computerised control centre uses workstations with touch-screen graphics consoles, whilst ruggedised processors have been supplied for on-train equipment. The system is designed to integrate legacy equipment such as ...
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Real-time train management
BRAZILIAN iron-ore mining company CVRD has put into service a real-time Rail Management System on its 900 km heavy haul Caraj
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Nürnberg - Leipzig restarts
GERMAN Transport Minister Kurt Bodewig launched work on the Erfurt West section of the Nürnberg - Leipzig high speed route on September 11. One of several major investment schemes designated as a national reunification project, the line ran into funding difficulties that led to work being halted in 1999 (RG ...
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Lyon launches Lea and Leslys
PUBLIC CONSULTATION began on September 2 for the planned conversion of the former Est de Lyon railway into a high-capacity interurban light rail line. The President of Rh