All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1164
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Deal defers access charge hike
control period. The rest will be added to the company’s Regulatory Asset Base for CP4 starting on April 1 2009, and repaid out of future access charges. Winsor emphasised on March 10 that the reprofiling was conditional on the first issue of bonds under NR’s securitisation programme being completed by ...
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Kinetic energy storage wins acceptance
The ability of KESS to support line voltage, regenerate braking energy and provide uninterrupted supplies at stations has now been demonstrated on urban railways in London, New York, Lyon and Tokyo
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NewsEurostar abandons Project Jupiter
Plans to form a single company tentatively called Eurostar International that would have managed the train service between London, Paris and Brussels as a unified operation were formally abandoned by the Boards of SNCF, SNCB and London & Continental Railways on March 12. Originally SNCB had intended to take a ...
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Renfe’s i4bn train bonanza
MEETING on March 3, the board of Spanish National Railways approved what the company describes as its largest-ever rolling stock order, a fleet of 40 high speed trains that is costing a total of €1·6bn. Talgo and Bombardier are to supply 30 high speed trains for €1·17bn, including maintenance over ...
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IE plans €3bn Dublin upgrade
PLANS TO UPGRADE and integrate rail services in the greater Dublin area were presented to Ireland's Parliamentary Transport Committee by Iarnród Éireann Managing Director Joe Meagher at the end of February. The €3bn package envisages development of frequent commuter services to nearly all towns within 100 km of the ...
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North American Freight Car Market - 2004
David Burns and Toby KolstadThe two principals of Rail Theory Forecasts have compiled a 280-page book intended as a comprehensive source of information for investors contemplating the freight rolling stock market in North America. This market study assesses historical production of all products and commodities shipped by rail and also ...
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Record number of exhibitors expected at 2004 event
Even though the opening of the fair is still a good six months away, the InnoTrans 2004 railway technology fair in Berlin is already breaking virtually every record. The net display space of around 29500 m2 booked for InnoTrans 2002 has already been matched. InnoTrans spokesman Wolfgang Wagner says "two ...
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ÖBB adopts ETCS Level 1
INTRO: Following completion of a 65 km pilot scheme between Wien and Nickelsdorf, Austrian Federal Railways has decided to install ETCS Level 1 train control across its 2500 route-km trunk network over the next decadeAugust Zierl and Friedrich CernyÖBB Signal- und SystemtechnikWITHIN THE next couple of months, trains using the ...
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Korail picks Level 1
SOUTH Korea’s two conventional main lines from Seoul to Pusan and Taejon to Mokpo are to be equipped with ETCS Level 1 automatic train protection and cab signalling by the end of 2006, under a contract announced on March 9.Korail has selected a consortium led by Taejung Electric Construction Co ...
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TTC promised C$1bn
AS PART of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Toronto’s first subway line on March 30, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty were due to announce a C$1bn package to fund renovation of the network over the next five years. The province’s share was approved ...
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Delhi Metro extends Line 1
MARCH 31 is due to see the start of revenue service on the third section of Delhi Metro Line 1, following energisation of the overhead line for test running on March 8. At the same time, the number of trains in operation will be increased from seven to 16, allowing ...
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Talking underground
KYIV metro passengers will be able to use mobile telephones at 38 below-ground stations following an agreement for the deployment of GSM-over-IP equipment.Proximus LLC has signed a contract with Kyiv Metro to lease the communications infrastructure and space to install the equipment, which will be subleased to mobile network operators ...
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Tenerife starts work
ON FEBRUARY 12 Metropolitano de Tenerife SA announced the award of civil works contracts for the 12·3 km light rail route that will connect Santa Cruz with La Laguna (RG 1.03 p10). MTSA Vice-President Víctor Pérez said that the project was entering ’a decisive phase’, with €91·8m of contracts awarded ...
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Sidetrack
Newfoundland tunnelNEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador Premier Danny Williams has announced a C$352000 study into the feasibility of a rail tunnel linking the island and the Canadian mainland.Replacing a seasonal ferry service, electric shuttle trains would carry road vehicles through the immersed tube tunnel across the Strait of Belle Isle between Green ...
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Renfe restructures
IN PREPARATION for the separation of operating and infrastructure functions under legislation passed last year (RG 12.03 p756), the Spanish National Railways board approved on January 27 the restructuring of its freight activities.The Freight and Intermodal business units are being merged into a single Freight unit that will form part ...
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Projects relaunched
TURKEY’S Ministry of Transport has drawn up a revised strategy designed to ensure that many long-planned but stalled rail projects can move off the drawing board. No less than 13 schemes could benefit from this initiative which would see around US$15bn invested by 2020.The projects include the 260 km line ...
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Pointers
Congolese Minister for Planning Pierre Moussa expects to sign contracts shortly for the privatisation of the 509 km Congo-Ocean Railway between Brazzaville and Pointe Noir. Shortlisted consortia NLPI-Spoornet, Sheltam-Mvela, Rites and Comazar-SNCF International were due to present their final technical bids in January.Look for Mozambique national railway CFM to announce ...
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Schedule planning
AMTRAK has begun using TrainPlan software from Vossloh IT to identify scheduling conflicts during its timetable development process. TrainPlan allows Amtrak to use a single national database for all train schedules, helping to ensure data integrity and removing the risks of errors being introduced if information is transferred between databases. ...