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Bridge inspection platform
THE BCR 100 bridge inspection and repair platform provides ready access to the underside of multi-track spans, avoiding the need for hanging scaffolding, or permanent rails supporting a travelling platform for inspecting each structure. The machine was designed specifically to meet a requirement set by substantial new bridges being erected ...
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Blue line partnership
BANGKOK Metro Co Ltd has selected the Nippon-Euro Subway Consortium as a partner in its 25-year concession to build and operate the city’s Blue line heavy metro. Tunnelling is already well advanced for the 20 km line between Hualampong and Bang Sue, which is scheduled to open in 2004. The ...
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Four bidders in HSL Zuid race
AS SOON AS registration closed at 15.00 on September 15, Netherlands Transport Minister Tineke Netelenbos confirmed that four consortia had applied for the concession to operate services on HSL Zuid. The four groups were given until 10.00 on October 2 to submit formal qualification documents.The international field includes a mix ...
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Better productivity would help
REPEATED cries from German Railway Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn about the poverty of his company have brought a favourable response from Transport Minister Reinhard Klimmt. Speaking at the opening of the InnoTrans exhibition on September 12 in Berlin, Klimmt confirmed that he would be allocating additional investment funding to DB worth ...
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Asturias triangle
VISITING Gijón in August, Spanish Minister of Development Francisco Álvarez Cascos, Renfe President Miguel Corsini and his Feve counterpart Eugenio Damboriena unveiled plans for a regional and commuter network designated Metrotrén de Asturias.Designed to reduce road congestion in the triangle linking Gijón, Oviedo and Avilés, the scheme envisages closer integration ...
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AEA buys NSTO
AEA Technology Rail of Great Britain announced on August 25 the purchase of Nederlandse Spoorwegen Technisch Onderzoek, the technical research division of Netherlands Railways. AEA is paying 3m guilders for NSTO, which is based in Utrecht and has 125 staff. The company is to be renamed AEA Technology Rail BV ...
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RailWorks takes AAI rail
On September 6 RailWorks Corp of the USA announced that it had purchased the Transportation Systems Group of United Industrial Corp, owner of AAI Corp. The AAI plant in Maryland is to be leased by RailWorks, which has assumed the four contracts worth a total of US$200m currently being undertaken ...
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Madrid network to top 300 km
PROPOSALS to build a further 68 km of metro lines in the Spanish capital, taking the network to over 300route-km, were unveiled by the Consorcio de Transportes de Madrid at the end of August. The strategic plan for 2003-10 focuses mainly on the northern and eastern parts of the city.Together ...
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3D infrastructure survey
OmniSurveyor3D technology will be used to make a complete three dimensional survey of Britain’s 16660route-km network, following Railtrack’s award of a contract to software and system design house Omnicom Engineering. It follows completion of a survey of the West Coast Main Line, as part of the preparations for the current ...
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Highlights from InnoTrans 2000
OVER 800 exhibitors crammed six halls of Berlin’s trade fair grounds on September 12-15 at InnoTrans. Outside, on 2 km of track laid between the halls and in sidings beyond, around 50 items of rolling stock, some of which had been kept under wraps for unveiling at the show, drew ...
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Market October 2000
Brazil: Carajás Railway has ordered 550 ore hopper wagons of 130 tonne capacity from local builder Amsted Maxion. China: Huanghua port has ordered two tandem wagon tipplers for export coal from Germany's Krupp Fördertechnik. Germany: DB has signed a letter of intent with Adtranz to buy a further 24 Class ...
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Train times by WAPphone
Railtrack announced on August 3 the launch of a timetable enquiry service for users of WAP mobile phones. Following an agreement with software company Kizoom, the estimated 500000 users of WAP phones in Great Britain can now access Railtrack’s well-established internet service at www.railtrack.co.uk/i.wml. They will also be able to ...
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ZSR renewals
SLOVAK Republic Railways announced in July that it plans to invest SK21bn in modernisation of its rolling stock over the next five years. With 64% of its coaches and 80% of wagons more than 20 years old, replacement or refurbishment is becoming essential.ZSR is about to call tenders for 20 ...
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Track recording trolley
ENGINEERING Technology 2000 has developed the Autograph track geometry measuring trolley, a battery-powered self-propelled unit which records at up to 4 km/h. It can be dismantled for transport in the boot of a car. Operated by remote control, the Autograph is equipped with an on-board PC in a weatherproof housing ...
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Publications
Stadtbahn in Deutschland: Innovativ - Flexibel - AttraktivWritten by the German Association of Transport Undertakings and sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building & Housing, this comprehensive study reviews light rail developments in Germany over the past 30 years. With text in German and English, the 490 pages include ...
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Russians press on with reform
AT THE end of August the Board of Russia’s Ministry of Railways expected to authorise implementation of the second stage of the national railway reform programme. The ’Concept of Structural Reforms of the Russian Railways’ was formally approved by government in 1998 (RG3.98 p138), and this has now been substantially ...
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PR sets tight upgrading timetable
SEPTEMBER 15 sees the formal inauguration of a new Marketing Department at Pakistan Railways, one of a range of initiatives launched by Chairman Lt-Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi at the request of the government. The department is intended to put PR’s activities onto a more commercial basis, including the leasing out ...
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Pointers
n Look for Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and his Malawi counterpart Bakili Muluzi to launch officially the Nacala Corridor this month, to encourage development along the Blantyre - Nacala line now operated by concessionaire Central East African Railway.n Vietnam Railways has launched a five-year investment plan valued at 5700bn dong; ...
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Plovdiv - Svilengrad upgrading
BULGARIAN State Railway is to call tenders shortly for upgrading of its 156 km main line serving the southeast of the country, at an estimated cost of US$340m. Modernisation of the Plovdiv - Svilengrad route is due to start early next year for completion by June 2005. The line forms ...
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PEOPLE
Mihai Necolaiciuc has been appointed General Manager of Romanian infrastructure operator CFR SA in succession to Viorel Simut; he was formerly Manager of CFR’s Iasi region. Miss Anca Boagiu has taken over as Transport Minister, succeeding Traian Basescu who has become Mayor of Bucuresti.Alexander S Misharin has been appointed Senior ...