All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1114
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Roanoake revival
FREIGHTCAR America Inc inaugurated a new wagon manufacturing facility in Roanoke, Virginia, on June 9. The East End Shops have been leased from Norfolk Southern and extensively upgraded at a cost of $5·5m to handle the assembly of various different types of wagons.Virginia Governor Mark R Warner and NS Chairman ...
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Renfe restructures
UNDER ITS new strategy to meet competition from other operators and achieve break-even by 2009, Renfe’s Freight business unit is to cut its workforce by 20%. Of the 500 posts, 400 will be transferred to other business units.At the same time, the loco fleet is to be reduced from 443 ...
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Pointers
Tenders for Cargo Slovakia were due to be submitted by July 29 (RG 5.05 p241). Amongst the expected bidders is ÖBB subsidiary Rail Cargo Austria, which would become the third biggest carrier in Europe by volume after Railion and PKP Cargo if it added the Slovak company’s 50 million tonnes ...
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PNR study
REHABILITATION of Philippine National Railways’ Main Line South from Calamba to Legaspi moved a step closer with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on July 6.Watched by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and visiting Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka, PNR General Manager Jose Sarasola signed an accord with the President of ...
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people
On June 28 the UIC General Assembly ratified the appointment of Luc Aliadière as Chief Executive. He took over from Philippe Roumeguère on July 1.At the general meeting on June 16 Wilhelm Patzner was elected to the board of UIRR, the International Union of Combined Road-Rail Transport Companies, following the ...
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Mexico suburban to be re-tendered
THE MEXICAN government has reaffirmed its commitment to the capital’s proposed suburban rail link after both bidders were disqualified from the tendering process. Communications & Transports Secretary Pedro Cerisola insisted on July 11 that the project would not be cancelled, and said that new tenders would be called Civil engineering ...
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Metros
Canada:On June 27 Calgary city council approved the 3 km Northeast light rail extension from Whitehorn to Westwinds-McKnight (RG 1.05 p10). The C$75m route will open in 2007. The 3 km Northwest extension from Dalhousie to Crowfoot with one station will follow in 2008.On June 30 Ottawa municipality announced plans ...
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Mobile ticketing in Malaysia
MALAYAN Railway, mobile communications company Celcom and New Technology & Innovation Sdn Bhd launched My Info Train on June 2. The SMS mobile ticketing service allows passengers to obtain timetables and fares, then reserve and cancel inter-city tickets. A range of games and entertainment services is also available.’Not only is ...
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Refined refinery locos
THE LIFE of three U26C Class 34-400 locos used at the Sasol Synfuels refinery in Secunda, South Africa, is being extended in an upgrading contract awarded to DCD Dorbyl's Rolling Stock Division. An extra 15 to 20 years use is now expected from the refurbished locos, which were completed in ...
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NewsTTC to invest in trams and metro
ON JUNE 22 Toronto Transit Commission voted to buy a new fleet of up to 242 low-floor trams, as part of major upgrading of the city's ageing tram network. Commissioner Jope Milhevc said the project would give the city 'a first-class streetcar system'. TTC wants to see the first cars ...
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Intelligence
Australia:On June 24 QR announced the purchase of Melbourne-based container and logistics firm CRT Group, which specialises in plastics and food products. FreightLink began a container service between Melbourne and Adelaide on July 4, connecting with services to Darwin.Belgium:SNCB-Holding announced on June 24 that it had signed a memorandum of ...
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Italian innovation at Roma show
INTRO: Local firms had plenty to display at the Mobility & City Transport exhibition which accompanied the 56th UITP Congress in Roma
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Information on the line
IMPROVED CO-ORDINATION of customer information and communications systems is offered by the RailCom Manager system now being installed in New York by Siemens Transportation Systems. A pilot project involving 10 stations in the Netherlands is also underway.Following the terrorist attacks in September 2001, New York City Transit has started a ...
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High speed trainsets take shape
Chinese Railways has ordered three fleets of high speed trains for operation of 200 km/h regional inter-city services
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Haut-Bugey revival will speed TGVs
With aim of cutting the journey time by TGV between Paris and Genève, work is now underway to upgrade the 65 km between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde, including electrification and the re-opening of a 29 km section closed to traffic since 1992. Brian Perren reports
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Green Line joins the Trolley network
INTRO: Julian Wolinsky reports from San DiegoONE OF the final pieces of San Diego’s light rail network as envisaged nearly 30 years ago was dedicated on July 8, when an S70 low-floor LRV burst through a banner at San Diego State University station. Built at a cost of $506m, the ...
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NSB wins Gjøvikbanan tender
NORWEGIAN railway operator NSB has been awarded a 10-year contract to run passenger services on the Oslo - Gjøvik line from June 2006 until mid-2016.The 123 km Gjøvikbanan was the first inter-city route in the country to be put out to tender, as one of three pilot projects for the ...
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Getting to the point
RAPIDcollation of maintenance and status data can be achieved through the use of SmartPoint technology developed by ESA SrL of Casssari. SmartPoint uses miniature memory buttons developed to withstand extreme environments, which are attached directly to rolling stock or infrastructure components requiring monitoring. These can accommodate up to 488 digits ...
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Upgrade funding package in place
RéSEAU Ferré de France President Jean-Pierre Duport participated in a ceremony at Clermont-Ferrand on June 30 to launch upgrading work on the main line to Paris.Under an agreement between the French government, Auvergne region and Puy-de-D
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Fret SNCF on the offensive
WITH rival freight operator Connex now using RFF tracks (RG 7.05 p409), Fret SNCF is moving onto the offensive with applications for safety certificates to run trains in Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg. The first is expected imminently and the other two by the end of the year.Announcing this on June ...