All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1111
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Water and logs
RUNNING water will be used by Balfour Beatty Rail Technologies to demonstrate the way its XiTrack geocomposite ballast treatment forms a three-dimensional polymer cage around ballast.It does not fill the voids, so allowing water to drain through. The polymer accepts track movement under passing trains, rapidly returning to the desired ...
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Kowloon Southern Link underway
THREE contracts for construction of the Kowloon Southern Link were awarded by KCRC on August 1 at a cost of HK$3·1bn. Authorised by the Hong Kong government on June 24, the 3·8 km KSL forms an extension of West Rail from Nam Cheong to East Tsim Sha Tsui, where it ...
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Iran - Iraq links
FEASIBILITY and cost studies for two rail links between Iran and Iraq are due to be completed next year, according to Iranian Islamic Republic Railways.RAI confirmed in July that technical design is underway for a 700m bridge across the Shatt-Al-Arab waterway to carry the planned Basra - Shalamcheh - Khorramshahr ...
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Interface launch
NEWLY acquired by Siemens (p574), Transmitton will be launching an interface between its Cromos control software and the OnTrack package from ADT Rail Systems.The interface provides infrastructure reporting into third-party software, making it simpler to see the current status of an asset. Remote access allows faults to be diagnosed while ...
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Keys to Implement Successfully Sustainable Urban Railways
TOKYO’S railways carry more than 50% of travellers in the metropolitan area, with over 60 million journeys made every day. The competing operators ’are all making profit while keeping sound management’. KISS-Rail examines how this is achieved, and how the railways have tackled the problems encountered when operating and maintaining ...
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Thermal imaging
FLIR SYSTEMS will be demonstrating the ThermaCAM E320 themal imaging camera at Infrarail. The mid-range model is designed for customers who do not need the full flexibility of its P-Series cameras.The ThermaCAM E320 has a 320 x 240 pixel detector with 80mK sensitivity, and interchangeable optics.FLIR imaging equipment is being ...
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Track ready on Taiwan’s high speed line
Major infrastructure works and trackwork installation on Taiwan's high speed line are nearing completion and contractors are hurrying to finish the electrical and mechanical works
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Green Goats go further
RAILPOWER Technologies has signed agreements covering the production and servicing of Green Goat hybrid locomotives in Scandinavia and the British Isles, and loco assembly in the USA.Swedish Train Technology announced on July 26 that it had signed a licensing agreement for Scandinavia, following a memorandum of understanding agreed on September ...
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Freight operators shop for power
AS IT LOOKS to enter the Spanish freight market (RG 8.05 p466), Comsa Rail Transport has acquired two 1500 kW G1700BB diesel-hydraulic locomotives from Vossloh, together with two sets of bogies for each loco to permit operation on 1668mm or 1435mm gauge. The locos have obtained acceptance to operate on ...
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Finance
Germany: 15 local authorities signed an agreement on July 28 to provide €7·8m towards extending Stuttgart S-Bahn Line S1 from Plochingen to Kirchheim. The Land will provide €16·4m and the city €12·3m; opening is planned for December 2009.Japan: The government announced the sale of 600000 shares in JR Central (RG ...
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Filling a hole
RETRACTABLE steps can help passengers with mobility problems negotiate the gaps between trains and platform edges, making access possible for wheelchair users.The AGC multiple-units under construction for SNCF are fitted with passenger-operated ’gap fillers’, partially-moving steps to improve access. Pushing the button to open the door also deploys the step, ...
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Faster from Moscow to Kyiv
FOUR HOURS were cut from overnight journeys between the Russian and Ukrainian capitals with the launch of the Metropolitan Express on August 1. ’It is less than a year since Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to launch a high speed passenger train between Moscow and Kyiv’, said RZD President ...
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Exhibition focuses on infrastructure
INFRASTRUCTURE is the theme of the Infrarail exhibition, which will take place at the G-Mex centre in Manchester on September 14-16.The products and services to be shown at the sixth Infrarail event will cover all sectors of the infrastructure market, from track components and permanent way maintenance equipment to signalling ...
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Europe's fastest trains start trials
Destined to link Madrid with Barcelona at up to 350 km/h, two eight-car Velaro E trainsets are on test in Spain
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Disneyland Resort Line ready to open
CHINA: September 12 sees the opening of the Hong Kong Disneyland park at Penny’s Bay, served by a 4 km branch from Sunny Bay on MTR’s Tung Chung Line. Revenue service on Hong Kong’s first fully-automated metro began on August 1, attracting an average of 10 000 passengers/day in the ...
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Dieter
CAPTION: Airline entrepreneur Moritz Suter, founder of Crossair and more recently charter airline Hello, has said he is considering financing privately-operated smoking cars on inter-city services when Swiss Federal Railways becomes entirely non-smoking in December. ’If SBB doesn’t go along with my plan then it will lose important customers ...
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RZD unveils future locomotive designs
ON A VISIT to the All-Russian Railway Research Institute at Shcherbinka on August 4, President Vladimir Putin was shown several prototypes for the next generation of RZD motive power.The Russian President was accompanied by recently-appointed RZD President Vladimir Yakunin, who explained the railway’s urgent need to update its locomotive fleet. ...
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ETCS delays threaten HSL-Zuid
WHAT TYPE of train, we wonder, will Dutch operator High Speed Alliance use on the HSL-Zuid high speed line when it opens in April 2007? Or will the line open at all on that date? The reason we ask is an acknowledgement by HSA last month that the 12 Type ...
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Tunnel to cut gradients
RUSSIA’s Far Eastern Railway has approved a 15bn rouble programme to improve capacity on the line from Komsomolsk-na-Amur to the Pacific ports of Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan.To be completed over the next six years, the work will include construction of a 20 km deviation to reduce the ruling gradient and ...
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NJT eyes cross-Hudson expansion
PROPOSALS for a new $6bn rail tunnel under the Hudson River were approved by the New Jersey Transit board of directors on July 27. Starting from Secaucus, the tunnel would run south of the existing tubes to a new terminus below Macy’s department store at 34th Street in Manhattan, which ...