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T’Trans steps up refurbishment business
OVER THE NEXT five years T’Trans estimates that the refurbishment market for passenger and freight rolling stock in Brazil may be worth up to US$3bn. This explains why the company is investing R$10m in a factory formerly owned by Federal Railways of Brazil in Tres Rios, converting it into a ...
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Passenger News in Brief
British inter-city operator Great North Eastern Railway is to hire out its first class lounges at major stations for use as city centre meeting rooms. GNER has also launched a range of Bistro meals, which will be served in its restaurant cars on off-peak trains.Work has begun to modernise the ...
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Industry in Brief
The Swiss-based European arm of US wagon builder Trinity Industries has acquired Slovakian manufacturer Wagonmarket. Frantisek Stup
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Products in Brief
Interfleet Technology has developed a portable monitoring and analysis unit for electrically operated carriage doors. The unit detects abnormal operation to allow fault prediction, prevention and trend analysis.The PowerPlan energy consumption and demand modelling software developed by VST Comreco Rail has been extended to include the effects of adding trackside ...
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Bridge opening
GOOD PROGRESS is being made with the dual-gauge link being built to join the two halves of Bangladesh Railway's network. Tracklaying on the 99 km route between Jamtoil, near Siraganj, and Joydepur is around 70% complete, with the head of steel reaching Tangail on the east side of the Jamuna ...
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Blue line funding
BANGKOK Metro Co Ltd, which holds the concession to equip and operate the Thai capital’s underground metro line, confirmed on May 3 that it had put together a 30bn baht funding package for authorisation by the government’s Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority.BMCL Managing Director Sombat Kitjalaksana says a foreign banking consortium ...
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Five phases of HAL research bring billion dollar savings
With the fifth phase of HAL research due for completion next year, it is clear that substantial benefits accrue from heavy axleload operation. Cumulative savings from the use of HAL techniques and equipment in North America during the 1990s are of major significance
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Niterói bidding starts
PREQUALIFICATION bids have been called by July 23 for construction of Rio de Janeiro metro Line 3. Costed at US$800m, the project was formally approved in mid-April by Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The project will be awarded as a 25-year design-build-operate concession, with an option for a further 25-year ...
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Kiley takes charge of PPP as preferred bidders are named
BRITAIN’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced on May 4 that Commissioner of Transport for London Bob Kiley would be taking over as Chairman of London Transport from May 8, with responsibility for negotiating final contracts under the government’s Public-Private Partnership package. The LT board selected two consortia on May ...
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NewsTechnology transfer - from heavy haul to passenger and back
With privatisation sweeping the world, passenger carriers are increasingly subject to the same pressures as those affecting freight railways. Heavy haul operators have invested considerable time and effort learning how to run the world's most efficient rail businesses, and their experiences should be of interest to all railway managers, including ...
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Control centre back up
Rotterdam metro operator RET has bought a Cummins CS400-5 400 kVA generating set to provide back up power for its metro traffic control centre in the event of a mains failure. Installed in a soundproofed 20ft container, the set comprises a NTA855G4 engine coupled to a Stamford Newage alternator.Microprocessor-based monitoring ...
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Australian dream is close to take-off
WORK was expected to get under way last month on the 1420 km rail link between Alice Springs and Darwin, following the assembly of a financing package for the project on April 20 (RG 5.00 p282). First proposed in 1858, a north-south rail link became a federal commitment in 1911. ...
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Queensland welcomes IHHA and AusRAIL delegates
BYLINE: Bob ScheuberChief Executive, QROn behalf of QR, I would like to welcome delegates from around the world to the 7th International Heavy Haul Conference and AusRAIL 2001, the biennial business conference of the Australasian Railway Association. Both events are being held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, the ...
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ATEC to start work in October
CONSTRUCTION of an inland rail corridor between Melbourne and Brisbane is set to get under way in October. The A$1·4bn Australian Inland Rail Expressway is intended to form the first phase of the ambitious Australian Transport & Energy Corridor linking the east coast cities with Darwin. The line is primarily ...
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Tilting TRDs arrive
SPANISH National Railways has taken delivery of the first three of seven tilting TRD DMUs ordered from CAF in May 1999 for a total of Pts3·7bn. The SIBI tilting system developed by CAF (RG 12.99 p754) is expected to be fully operational by September. Pre-programmed with route characteristics, SIBI uses ...
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Poles torn apart
JUNE 1 sees Polskie Linie Kolejowe PLK SA set up as a subsidiary company to manage Polish State Railways’ infrastructure, marking a key stage in privatisation of the 22113 route-km Polish network under legislation passed on September 8 2000. Since then, the programme has proceeded steadily, if not quite to ...
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Analytical software
NETHERLANDS Railways’ passenger business NS Reizigers has started using iTM1 software from Applix to analyse passenger traffic data. The software is being used for four principal functions: project administration; passenger flow analysis; punctuality; and sales forecasting.iTM1 allows users to manipulate information on punctuality, traffic volumes, passenger responsiveness and backgrounds, ticket ...
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Amtrak signs FEC deal
ON MAY 3 US passenger operator Amtrak announced that it had reached agreement with the Florida East Coast Railway to use the coastal route from Jacksonville to West Palm Beach. This will allow Amtrak to serve eight towns which last saw passenger trains in the mid-1960s, including the resorts of ...
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Alp lines on a roll
BOTH SWISS Federal Railways and Austrian Federal Railways reported strong growth in freight business last year. Transit traffic between Italy and other EU countries is booming, and total tonnage carried by ÖBB was up by nearly 9% at 84·7 million, with intermodal traffic increasing by 17%. Around 300000 lorries were ...
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Airtrain inaugurated
QUEENSLAND’s Premier Peter Beattie and Transport Minister Steve Bredhauer joined celebrations at Brisbane Airport’s Domestic station on May 7 to mark the opening of the state capital’s privately-promoted airport rail link. After an arriving train broke though a banner, the Premier and Airtrain Chairman Martin Kriewaldt unveiled a commemorative plaque.The ...