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Tranz Rail slims again
THE GOVERNMENT of New Zealand announced on December 24 that it had completed the purchase of the Auckland corridor from Tranz Rail, paying NZ$75m with the balance of NZ$6m to follow once negotiations had been completed over train control, track maintenance and ’other interim services’ which Tranz Rail is to ...
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Crossrail rides again
THE CROSSRAIL project to build a regional metro under central London was officially launched on January 17 by Sir Christopher Benson, Chairman of Cross London Rail Links Ltd. A joint venture of the Strategic Rail Authority and Transport for London, the company has been allocated £154m of government funding for ...
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Koreans to accelerate high speed construction
SOUTH KOREAN President Kim Dae-Jung has instructed Transport Minister Lim In-Taik to bring forward construction of the second phase of the country’s high speed line programme by two years, with the aim of completing the Seoul - Pusan route in 2008 instead of 2010.KTX trains have been running on the ...
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LIRR commissions first M7 cars
The first of 326 Bombardier M-7 EMU vehicles purchased by the Long Island Rail Road for $700m are due to begin acceptance testing in March. The cars are brighter and more colourful than the current fleet of M-1s and M-3s, dating from the 1960s and 1970s. Following suggestions by customer ...
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Belgian M6 cars take to the rails
INTRO: Belgian National Railways expects to put its first M6 series double-deck inter-city coaches into service in MayPASSENGERS on the busy peak-hour services from Brussels to Oostende and Kortrijk are in for a treat. From mid-2002, Belgian National Railways will start to phase in the first of its M6 ...
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Line 3 changes in Delhi
THE INDIAN government is considering changes to the Delhi Metro project that would see Line 3, originally planned as a 13 km surface route from Trinagar to Nangloi, run a total of 23·5 km from Connaught Place to Dwarka. With 1·5 km underground, 2·3 km at grade and the remainder ...
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SkyTrain Line 2 opens
BRITISH COLUMBIA Rapid Transit inaugurated revenue services on the first section of Vancouver’s second SkyTrain line on January 5, serving two stations at Braid and Sapperton. The segment was handed over by the city’s Rapid Transit Project Office on December 17, allowing 10 days of trial operation before the launch. ...
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Expansion programme includes 11 km new line
BYLINE: Alejandro Nazar AnchorenaPresident, SubteSubterr
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Stub turnouts
Sir - Mention is made (RG 12.00 p836) of the installation by Switzerland’s Rigi Bahnen of a modern version of ’the stub turnout used on industrial railways in the 19th century’. Stub turnouts were also much-used by ’main line’ companies!JC Bourne clearly recorded, in 1839, stub turnouts at ’the entrance ...
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Sidetrack
Benguela birthdayONE HUNDRED years ago, in 1902, a British company was awarded a concession to build and operate a railway from the coast at Lobito Bay in Portuguese West Africa through the province of Angola. Construction started in 1903, but it took until 1931 before the Benguela Railway reached the ...
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Sidetrack
Massage servicesParis metro operator RATP recently offered passengers a free massage and a healthy snack of green tea and seaweed crackers at four stations. The initiative aimed to ’stop people for five to 10 minutes in their work day so they can take a break and chill out’, according to ...
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More roubles to be spent
REVIEWING developments on the Russian rail network in 2000, Minister of Railways Nikolai Aksyonenko noted at the annual meeting of the ministry’s board of management on December 26 that RZD carried 1300 million tonnes of freight last year, an increase of 11% over 1999. Given that both motive power and ...
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Wrong Rosco
Sir - It was with frustration that I read your review of Railtex 2000 (RG 1.01 p62), in particular the emergency evacuation device developed by Pickersgill-Kaye. You state that this is being taken forward with Angel Trains, despite our stand clearly carrying joint branding with HSBC Rail, which is the ...
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Road-rail vegetation units
Two Mercedes-Benz U1650 Unimogs with three-way tipper bodies have been adapted by Two-Way Technology for vegetation control work with Avondale Environmental Services. It has a three-point linkage which can be used with the rear rail guidance, and a removable rear spray designed to minimise drift. Two-Way Technology, United KingdomReader Enquiry ...
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Silk Road vote
CONSTRUCTION of the proposed rail link between Central Asia and China could get under way by the end of this year, following approval of the project by the Kyrgyzstan parliament in December. This established the line as the country’s top infrastructure priority. A tripartite intergovernmental commission, with representatives from Kyrgystan, ...
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SLR re-engining
SRI LANKA Railways put into service at the beginning of December the first of four refurbished diesel locos which are being rebuilt with Caterpillar 3516 engines at a cost of around Rs45m each. The Hitachi-built Class M5 locos are being rebuilt by Caterpillar’s local agent United Tractor & Equipment Ltd ...
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railwaydirectory.net
WE ARE THRILLED to announce this month that Railway Directory, for 106 years our standard reference work for the international railway industry, is now published on the internet. Railway Directory remains an essential guide to the world’s railways and their suppliers, and the web version supersedes the CD-ROM published in ...
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Web-damped rails
NOISE reductions of up to 12dB can be achieved by the use of rail damping in curves and at other critical locations. Vossloh has developed a sandwich damping system, in which rubber strips are glued to each side of the web and protected by a steel cover. Strips and covers ...
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Publications
Modelling and Simulation of General Train/Track Interaction by Clars AnderssonAn existing state-space numerical method to simulate vertical dynamic interaction between a rolling train and a railway track has been improved and extended. The extensions add three new features to the dynamic system, these being a non-linear railpad model, flexibility of ...