All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1156
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Double-deck DMU
SOUTH Florida Regional Transportation Authority has ordered a two-car double-deck diesel multiple-unit from Colorado Railcar for $6·9m.The move follows trials on Tri-Rail’s Miami - Fort Lauderdale - West Palm Beach service using Colorado Railcar’s prototype single-deck DMU car, as part of a demonstration tour of the USA. The authority has ...
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Danes in Sweden
MALMÖ-based DSB subsidiary Tågvärdsbolag AB has been awarded a contract to provide ticket checking and onboard services on regional and Øresund trains in Skåne from November 1 this year until June 2007.DSB already provides staff for trains running across the Øresund as far as Malm
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Cross-river study
THE GOVERNMENT of West Bengal has commissioned Delhi Metro Rail Corp to develop proposals for an east-west metro line in Kolkata, linking IR’s principal stations at Sealdah and Howrah.The 22 km line would start from Rajarhat in the east and run through Kankurgachi, Sealdah and Mankharan before tunnelling under the ...
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Spotlight on cross-border traffic
INTRO: Third East European & Asian Rail Summit at InnoTrans 2004 As part of the InnoTrans Convention, the third East European & Asian Rail Summit will be held on September 20-22. EEARS is specifically tailored towards the interests of railways in Central and Eastern Europe and in Asia. Alongside the ...
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Rites and Ircon win Sena contract
A US$175m concession to rehabilitate and operate the 575 km Sena line in Mozambique has been awarded to a consortium comprising Rail India Technical & Economic Services and Ircon International. The line links the port at Beira with the Moatize coalfields, with a 39 km branch from Vila de Sena ...
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A luta continua!
Despite financing delays and setbacks caused by cyclones and famine, a multinational concessionaire is starting to make progress with the renovation and operation of the Nacala Corridor linking Mozambique and Malawi
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Relaying train nears completion
INTRO: Matisa of Switzerland is putting the finishing touches to a P95UK track relaying train for Network Rail designed to work within the UK’s restrictive loading gaugeNEARING completion at Crissier near Lausanne in Switzerland is a giant track relaying train destined for Network Rail. Nearly 140m long, the P95UK consists ...
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NewsPrivate operators start to compete in the Polish freight market
Poland was the largest of the countries to join the European Union on May 1, and the possibility of the huge rail freight business being privatised attracted much interest. Privatisation is off the agenda for the moment, but Marek Rabsztyn and Jan Raczynski find that more than 20 new operators ...
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Two passenger companies in PKP Group
Within the PKP Group there are two national passenger operators: PKP Intercity Ltd, which ran its first trains on September 1 2001, and PKP Przewozy Regionalne Ltd which came into being on October 1 2001.PKP Intercity runs about 280 daily trains, including overnight and international services. The overnight trains from ...
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ERTMS costs must come down
’WE NOW have a defined and funded project’, SRA’s Executive Director, Technical, David Waboso declared on May 18. He was referring to the UK’s trial site for ERTMS on the Cambrian lines from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli, which was selected last year after the decision was made not to ...
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Heathrow Connect close to takeoff
TAKING SHAPE at the Siemens works in Krefeld-Uerdingen is a small build of grey EMU cars with orange doors. Quite distinct from the rows of ICE3 and ICE-T cars and ET423 and 425 EMUs for German Railway and VT642 diesel railcars for Romania, they show a marked family resemblance to ...
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Charleroi restart
WALLOON Transport Minister José Daras has unveiled a €89·4m programme to complete the light metro network in Charleroi within five years. Work on this long-stalled project began in 1970 and is believed to have cost BFr22·5bn to date.The latest proposals would see a new surface alignment to complete the city-centre ...
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Canac sold
CANADIAN National has sold Canac Inc to Salt Lake City-based Savage Companies. The sale includes Canac’s railway training, planning and infrastructure engineering services and its international consultancy, but excludes the Remote Control Division which will remain a CN subsidiary. The Remote Control Division manufactures locomotive control products including the Beltpack ...
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Praha extends Line C
JUNE 26 is due to see the opening of a 3·9 km northern extension of Praha metro Line C. Section IVC1 runs from N
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Chinese offer to build Karachi light rail
ON MAY 13 the Nazim of Karachi, Niamatullah Khan, signed an accord with Gu Zhengxie, Senior Vice-President of China National Machinery & Equipment Group, under which the Chinese company will finance and build the city’s long-planned light rail line. The ’preliminary implementation agreement’ covers construction of a 15·2 km line ...
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Industry News in Brief
Bogie and single axle suspension technology firm Powell Duffryn Rail announced on May 13 that is had been renamed Probotec Ltd, a name ’derived from Professional Bogie Technologies.’To allow for expansion, AEA Technology is to move part of its Rail Products business from Derby to its Glengarnock technology centre, currently ...
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Passenger News in Brief
CFR Calatori has awarded Hewlett Packard Romania a €22m contract to provide a computerised ticket sales and seat reservation system, which is expected to handle 86% of the Romanian operator’s sales. Russian Railways plans to introduce twice-weekly Moscow - Grozny through services from May 30, taking 46 h northbound and ...
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Products in Brief
Bombardier has bought a world-wide licence to use Prover iLock, which provides a mathematical proof of the safety of a proposed interlocking and supports the analysis of the effects of two or more simultaneous hardware failures.Prover Technology Inc, USAReader Enquiry Number: 147The Case CX135 excavator forms the basis for Crawlerrail, ...
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Fire safety boost
CHENNAI’S Integral Coach Factory has completed three prototype passenger coaches which have been designed to offer better fire resistance than existing Indian Railways rolling stock.An initial prototype was developed by Karpurthala Rail Coach Factory, following a fatal fire at Godhra in 2002. Indian Railways had decided that all new passenger ...
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Back-up signalling still needed
THE decision to install ERTMS on TGV Est (p318) is clear evidence of a firm commitment in Europe to pursue the development of ETCS technology, despite the cost. But the goal of attaining levels of reliability acceptable for commercial service remains elusive. Even on TGV Est, due to open in ...