All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1065
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Common standards regime needed to assure engineering competence
DETAILED ANALYSIS of the way the competence of individuals is assured in the UK rail industry has been undertaken by the Railway Engineers Forum, which brings together the established institutions representing civil, mechanical, electrical, signalling and track engineers. A paper published in November includes proposals that could reconcile inconsistencies in ...
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Test track speeds up
The Railway Research Institute subsidiary of Czech Railways formally marked the completion of a KC60m modernisation of a 5 km section of its Cerhenice test track on December 13. Track on the larger of the test site's two loops has been upgraded to permit conventional trains to run at 210 ...
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Vossloh IT sold
ON JANUARY 11 Vossloh Group announced the sale of its Information Technologies division to Funkwerk AG, which will take over the unit for a provisional price of k8m.In the first nine months of the 2006 fiscal year Vossloh IT reported a pre-tax loss of k9?3m. This disposal will result in ...
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Sena reopening
MOZAMBIQUE state railway authority CFM announced last month that it expected services to resume on the southern part of the Sena line ’before March’. After a 20-year hiatus caused by civil war, trains will start to carry limestone over the 90?km section from quarries at Muanza to a cement factory ...
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Reinforcing research work
TENSAR International will use Railtex to unveil the results of research into stiff polymer geogrids which has been undertaken by Network Rail and the University of Nottingham.Full-scale testing at the university looked at the influence of grid properties such as stiffness and aperture size, showing that significant reductions in track ...
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RandstadRail repairs
FOLLOWING the two derailments which disrupted RandstadRail services in November (RG 1.07 p14), operator HTM commissioned Delta Rail to track down the causes. The consultant has identified weaknesses in key components of the 60 turnouts on the Hofplein Line, which were due to be remedied by the end of January, ...
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Wheel and rail protection
ROWE Hankins Components will present a selection of equipment for on-train and trackside safety and protection. A new product on show will be an on-board intelligent Wheel Flange Lubrication System, which protects rails and flanges from excess wear, cutting noise and maintenance costs. The key elements of WFLS are a ...
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Powder River ruling
PROPOSALS by Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad to build a 420?km line into Wyoming’s Powder River Basin coalfields are back on course. A court ruling on December 28 upheld a decision by the US Surface Transportation Board granting final approval for the $6bn project, which also envisages rebuilding 965?km of ...
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Mumbai SPV
THE SPECIAL Purpose Vehicle company to build and operate Line 1 of the planned Mumbai metro network under a 35-year BOT concession was officially incorporated on December 22. Under the PPP agreement signed earlier this year (RG 7.06 p378), Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd is owned 74% by the Reliance ...
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MTS wins Tel-Aviv metro
IN A CEREMONY on December 31, Israeli Finance Minister Abraham Hirschson, Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz and representatives from the project manager NTA announced that the MTS consortium had been selected as concessionaire to develop the Tel-Aviv light metro Red Line between Bat Yam and Petach Tikvah. Headed by local firm ...
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Makkah - Madinah tenders sought
DOMESTIC AND international companies have been invited to submit tenders for construction of Saudi Arabia's planned Western Railway linking Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah. The call for tenders by Saudi Railways Organisation marks a further step in the expansion of the kingdom's rail network. The 444 km passenger line is expected ...
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Loop resignalling
CHICAGO TRANSIT Authority awarded a $48?2m contract on January 10 for resignalling the downtown Loop at the heart of the city’s elevated metro network over the next three years.Divane Brothers Electric Co is to replace the signalling and train control systems at the busy Van Buren/Wabash and Lake/Wells junctions where ...
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Loco simulator
CORYS TESS will be showing a GNER Class 91 electric loco driving simulator. The French company is supplying each of GNER’s training sites in London, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh with two simulators, representing a Class 91 loco and a diesel HST power car. All will use a database representing 160?km ...
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Riedberg light rail
PLANS FOR a light rail route to the northern suburb of Riedberg were announced by the head of Frankurt-am-Main’s Transport Department Lutz Sikorski on December 21. He said 70% of the funding for the k60m project had been secured.Riedberg will be served by a loop linking U-Bahn Route U3 at ...
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Springs last longer
CONICAL springs which have been developed by Freudenberg Schwab to integrate the functions of steel coil springs and flexible axle bearings into a single component will to be demonstrated at the Railtex exhibition in London this month (p93). The design offers a large transverse to longitudinal stiffness ratio, with a ...
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Muni opens T-Third at last
LIMITED OPERATION of San Francisco’s T-Third light rail line began on January 13, with Muni Metro offering free rides on weekends and public holidays until April 7, when full revenue services are scheduled to start. T-Third services start from Castro Street station and run through the city centre using the ...
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Lack of trains raises risk
THE NIGERIAN public is at great risk at level crossings, claims a recent article in the Lagos Vanguard, because the country's railways have been run down to the extent that trains are rarely seen. 'A moving train is a strange sight in most parts of the country ... The ...
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Jakarta projects
DETAILED design for a 14?5 km metro line in Jakarta is expected to get underway shortly, following the announcement of a loan agreement in December.JBIC is providing ?1?87bn to finance engineering services for the Jakarta MRT System Project. The metro is expected to adopt Japanese construction techniques, including the shield ...
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Toll split could keep PN intact
THE AUSTRALIAN Consumer & Competi-tion Commission holds the key to plans announced in December by Toll Holdings for a ’strategic restructure’ that would divide the group into separate infrastructure and operating businesses. If the ACCC rules in Toll’s favour, the group will be able to keep Pacific National intact.A key ...