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CAPTION: A delegation from the Valencia light rail project in Venezuela, led by President Luis Dias Elias (above) visited the Siemens Transportation Systems plant at Sacramento in July. To mark the occasion one of the additional SD-460 LRVs for St Louis Metrolink was painted in the livery of the similar ...
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Speedrail wins Sydney - Canberra
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard announced on August 4 that the federal and New South Wales state governments had selected the Speedrail consortium as preferred bidder for a 30-year concession to build and operate a 270 km high-speed line between Sydney and Canberra. The project is costed at around A$3·5bn. ...
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Virgin opens Euston business lounge
Virgin Rail has opened a redesigned £250000 business waiting area at London’s Euston station. It offers an expanded range of facilities to cater for passengers travelling first class on the Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow routes.Bright colours and curvaceous lines have been combined to produce an area which provides facilities ...
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NYCT to build A division control
MTA New York City Transit has selected a consortium headed by Union Switch & Signal with Syseca of Great Britain to equip a new control centre for the A division of its subway network. The work forms part of a programme to install automatic train supervision throughout the 1150 track-km ...
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Wayside inspection station pinpoints geometric faults in bogies
INTRO: By detecting alignment and tracking faults as a train passes, wheelsets suffering excessive wear caused by bogie defects can be identified before their economic life is compromisedBYLINE: Denis D’Aoust and Grigory Izbinsky*BYLINE: * Denis D’Aoust is Chief Engineer, and Grigory Izbinsky is President, Wayside Inspection Devices IncREPROFILING or ...
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Privatisation bloom withers
THERE ARE suggestions that moves to push all or part of Netherlands Railways into the private sector have moved down the agenda of the incoming government, which is formed of a coalition of liberal democrats, radical liberals and socialists. Former Transport Minister Annemarie Jorritsma is replaced by Mrs Tineke Netelenbos ...
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Shake-up in Berlin
READERS keeping a close eye on the financial press would not have been surprised by Andrew Saxe’s warning last month (RG 8.98 p541) about losses at Siemens Verkehrstechnik. It seemed that change was inevitable, and the August announcement that Dr Wolfram Martinsen will leave the post of President of the ...
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TBTC benefits prove elusive
TEN years ago British Rail conceived the idea of a massive upgrade to its West Coast main line linking London with Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, which was in need of overhaul after electrification in the 1960s and 1970s. Some slight delay was necessary while the previous government sold off ...
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Second cross-Nile line design begins
CONSTRUCTION of a third metro line in Cairo has moved a step closer with the launch of detailed design studies. Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels has awarded a US$2·5m contract for the two-year study to a consortium of Systra and Arab Consulting Engineers, which were also involved with Lines 1 ...
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Roi Baudoin opens
BRUSSELS metro Line 1A services were due to be extended from Heysel to Roi Baudoin with effect from the end of August. A formal ceremony inaugurating the short extension to the northwestern branch was scheduled for August 25.Trains on the line began running regularly to the new terminus on July ...
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BA ring study
THE city government of Buenos Aires has commissioned a study into a proposal for a 54 km elevated ring line around the boundary of the municipality. First proposed three years ago, the line is backed by the city’s Secretary of Public Works Nicol
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Higher wagons optimise axleloads
A study conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Association of American Railroads has proposed the use of higher, shorter wagons to optimise application of heavier axleloads.Drawing data from 22 sample coal train flows from across North America, researchers compared a standard 16m four-axle wagon with 30 tonne axleloads ...
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Mah awards LRT contracts
CONTRACTS for design and construction of two more ’LRT’ peoplemovers to feed the Singapore metro network were awarded by the island’s Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan in mid-July. The Sengkang and Punggol feeders will be built by a consortium of Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at ...
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AVE progress
WORK IS expected to get under way this month on further sections of the Madrid - Barcelona high-speed line. Infrastructure authority GIF awarded eight contracts totalling Pts77·5bn on July 30, having selected contractors on May 22 for 124·4 km of route between Chiloeches and Calatayud (RG 4.98 p253).One contract has ...
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Øresund ATP
ON AUGUST 6, Ansaldo Signal announced that its Swedish subsidiary ATSS had been selected to design and supply an interoperable automatic train protection system for the cross-Øresund EMU fleet. Under a joint contract from Swedish and Danish State Railways worth SKr30m, the equipment will be designed in conjunction with Siemens ...
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Central Asian group formed
TURKMENISTAN President S Niyazov has set up an international project group to push ahead with development of two corridors linking the Central Asian states and the Persian Gulf. His intention is to make Turkmenistan the centre of the region’s rail network.The north-south corridor will integrate the Tedjen - Sarakhs line ...
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Convertible diesels arrive in Greece
Looking to replace its varied fleet of 1435mm gauge main line diesel traction, largely built before 1975 and now suffering from poor availability, performance and fuel consumption, Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) ordered 26 Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives from ABB Henschel (now Adtranz) in 1995. Costing a total of DM210m, the Class ...
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Shortlist to run Aqaba Railway
FOURCONSORTIA have been shortlisted for a 25-year concession to operate Jordan’s 283 km 1050mm gauge Aqaba Railway, extendable by five year options. The winner will also finance the construction of extensions to El Shidiya and Wadi II under a build-transfer-operate arrangement. The government of Jordan is being advised on the ...
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Amtrak doubles Indianapolis service
On July 19 Amtrak reintroduced the Hoosier State, running three times a week between Chicago and Indianapolis. When combined with the existing Chicago - Washington DC Cardinal the new service doubles the frequency offered by Amtrak between Chicago and Indianapolis; business travellers can now spend a full day in Chicago ...
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Jinghu spearheads high-speed ambitions
CONSTRUCTION of the 1307 km Jinghu high-speed line from Beijing to Shanghai is now expected to get under way in 2000. Shen Zhijie, Director General of the High-Speed Railway Pre-Feasibility Study Office at the Ministry of Railways, announced in June that initial design work had been completed, and that the ...