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Pandrol has developed a lifting collar to speed handling of concrete sleepers fitted with the Fastclip fastening system. Fitted on the shoulder without disturbing pre-fitted Fastclip pads or insulators, the welded steel collar self-locks as the sleeper is lifted.Pandrol UK LtdReader Enquiry Number 144
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Brazil: The Supervía consortium has begun operating Rio de Janeiro’s Flumitrens commuter network under a 25-year concession (RG 9.98 p567). Trains, stations, track and signalling will be upgraded over the next three years using a US$180m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank.Canada: Bombardier has selected a site in Burnaby, British ...
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Australia: CFCL Australia Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Chicago Freight Car Leasing Co, has purchased 13 ex-Australian National 2240 kW EL class locos, which it plans to refurbish for long-term lease to a freight or passenger operator.Sinclair Knight Merz has acquired the Engineering Services Group from Victoria’s Public Transport Corp.Brazil: ...
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Uzbek investment starts
JAPANESE trading group Marubeni Corp has ordered 25 inter-city coaches from Bombardier’s DWA Ammendorf plant at a cost of DM40m. The order is the first step in a programme to renew the Uzbek Railways fleet, which includes over 500 vehicles supplied by DWA prior to the break-up of the Comecon ...
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CAPTION: Switzerland’s Furka Oberalp Bahn inaugurated a 48000 m2 workshops, maintenance depot and rolling stock servicing complex at Glisergrund near Brig on December 11, replacing cramped facilities in the town centre at a cost of SFr70mCAPTION: Italian State Railways’ infrastructure unit ASA Rete has taken delivery of an ultrasonic test ...
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CAPTION: The last four of 48 Class 440 EMUs rebuilt by Renfe’s Valladolid workshops for CPTM in São Paulo were shipped from Vigo in December. The units have new cabs, three 2m wide doorways on each side, and the floor height now matches Brazilian platforms
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CAPTION: On December 20 Hong Kong’s MTR Corp unveiled its first Tsuen Wan line EMU refurbished by A Goninan & Co under a HK$1bn mid-life modernisation programme. The unit, which was ceremonially ’handed back’ by the contractor at Tsuen Wan depot two days earlier, is the first of 95 sets ...
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Australia: QR is to upgrade its Rockhampton - Townsville line for 20 tonne axleloads and 100 km/h freight operation between mid-1999 and 2002 at a cost of A$240m. Concrete sleepers will be supplied by Austrak and Rocla.Clyde and Bluebird rail are refurbishing five ex-AN diesel locos for Great Northern Railway, ...
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Riding the ICT
ON DECEMBER 17 Railway Gazette International was invited to sample the ICT high speed tilting train on a special trip from Frankfurt Airport station. This was the first time that passengers had been carried on the five-car ICT test formation.Speed on the run to Darmstadt and Mainz was limited with ...
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ICF restructures
THIS MONTH is due to see the start of a restructuring at the European intermodal and refrigerated freight co-operative Intercontainer-Interfrigo. The aim is to link costs and revenues directly, and focus attention on the quality of service provided by the 29 partner railways. ICF will become a holding group, and ...
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Poles upgrade IC
Polish State Railways is planning to introduce a range of improved long-distance trains under the banner Inter City Plus. PKP is to launch the first train, the Kilinski, between Warszawa and Poznan at the request of the Poznan Trade Fair company. Two more services (the Lech and Warta) will also ...
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Historic US stations revitalised
On December 11 Florida’s Ocala station was formally reopened after a $2m refurbishment as a multi-modal transport hub with rail, bus and taxi services. The 1917-built structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was restored using funding from state, local and federal sources to become the ...
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High-speed network starts to grow
INTRO: Financing and construction of the Belgian high-speed network has had to evolve to meet changing circumstances. But work is now under way on almost every element in the jigsaw, with completion of the northern and eastern branches envisaged by 2005BYLINE: Ir Johan MeynsChief ExecutiveTUC Rail SAALL ACROSS THE rolling ...
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Turf track for a greener ride
As part of the ongoing modernisation of tram routes in Dresden, turf track supplied by Sedra Asphalt Technik is being installed in several locations. The Sedra¨ Turf Track system is based on surrounding the rail with Sedrapur¨ filler blocks, made of a mixture of materials including polyurethane and recycled matter ...
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Finnish orders
ON JANUARY 12 Finnish Railways Ltd announced that it had ordered a further 20 Sr2 electric locos from Adtranz at a cost of FM450m. The last of the initial build of the Lok 2000-derived design was expected to enter service last month, and the new build will follow in 2001-03. ...
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Microfelt oil filters
BTR Environmental Ltd is supplying oil filters for 90 6DZC-1000/144A diesel engines being built by Anglo-Belgian Corp. The six-cylinder units each rated at 1150 kW are being supplied for diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives ordered from Siemens by Belgian National Railways (RG 8.97 p499).Incorporating Vokes Microfelt cartridges in synthetic, positively spaced and ...
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ERTMS on Neubaustrecke
GERMAN RAILWAY’s Nürnberg - Ingolstadt Neubaustrecke will be the first high-speed line in Europe to be equipped from new with ERTMS/ETCS Level 3 transmission-based train control. On January 4 DB Netz AG announced that DB’s project management subsidiary Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit had awarded a DM120m contract for electrification, signalling ...
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Freight mergers herald the end of Europe’s national railway structures
INTRO: DB Cargo Director Dr Eberhard Sinnecker has a vision of European rail freight where multinational competing networks are fed by short lines in a pattern that mirrors the US railroads. Murray Hughes met Sinnecker in Mainz and found him determined to sweep away the national structures that he believes ...
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Scissor table eases engine handling
To handle 3m long combined engine and transmission units weighing 3 tonnes which power the Class 168 DMUs, Adtranz has installed a twin scissor lifting table from Wilmat Handling at Aylesbury depot. Adtranz built the trains for Chiltern Railways and is also responsible for maintenance.The electrically-powered lift runs on ...
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Dual-system network
THE GERMAN city of Braunschweig has unveiled proposals for two dual-system light rail routes, using existing DB tracks. One would link serve Gifhorn and Uelzen, whilst the other would run from Wipshausen to Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. Future extensions could see LRVs running over DB tracks as far as Helmstedt, Goslar and Bad ...