All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1168
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Taiwan's first 700T cars rolled out
OVER 200 guests attended ceremonies at Kawasaki's Hyogo works in Kobe on January 30 to mark the roll-out of the first Series 700T trainset for Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. Among the VIPs were THSRC Chairman Nita Ing, Taiwan's Transport Minister Lin Ling-san and former Japanese Transport Minister Chikage ...
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460 locos ordered
FRENCH National Railways awarded a €836m contract for 400 diesel-electric freight locomotives to a consortium of Alstom and Siemens Transportation Systems on February 11, two days after placing a separate €170m order with Alstom for 60 Prima electric locos. As consortium leader, Alstom will supply mechanical parts for the 1600 ...
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Line 3 upgrade
LAST MONTH Madrid Metro was due to call tenders for work to increase capacity at five stations on Line 3, including the lengthening of platforms to 90m, installation of lifts and the construction of new ticket halls. Tendering for the second phase of the €120m programme, comprising a further five ...
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X2000 sets will be refurbished
Swedish national operator SJ AB announced in January that it to refurbish its fleet of 36 X2000 trainsets, at an estimated cost of SKr 500 000. The work had been postponed for financial reasons. The seven sets operated by SJ-NSB joint venture Linx were refurbished last year. To be ...
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CPR boosts adhesion with 100% Effective Friction Control
INTRO: Canadian Pacific is introducing electronically-controlled application of liquid friction modifiers to the rail top, which lowers damaging wheel/rail forces and improves adhesion when the rails are wetBYLINE: Michael RoneyGeneral Manager, Track Maintenance Canadian Pacific RailwayCANADIAN PACIFIC Railway operates across Canada and the US Northeast and Midwest through some difficult ...
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Sidetrack
200 years oldFEBRUARY 21 marks the 200th anniversary of the first journey of a steam locomotive running on rails. Richard Trevithick’s 7 tonne machine hauled five wagons, 10 tonnes of iron and 70 passengers for about 15 km on a tramway at the Pen Y Darren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil ...
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Pointers
Nigerian Minister of State for Transport Alhaji Mohammed Musahas has held discussions with China Civil Engineering Construction Co in Beijing over extending a Ccecc contract for technical assistance with refurbishment of the NRC network to include the management of rail operations.Russian Railways President Gennadi Fadeyev has agreed with Siemens Transportation ...
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Metros
Canada:Toronto Transit Commission has signed a C$7·9m contract for integrated software from IFS Applications to replace five maintenance and support systems.China:Coronet Rail Ltd has won an order to supply fishplates worth £100000 for the 3·5 km Yam O - Penny’s Bay light metro feeder line in Hong Kong.France:RATP has placed ...
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Mumbai metro plan revived
MAHARASHTRA’S Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde announced on January 10 that the regional government had approved plans to build the first phase of a heavy metro network in Mumbai over the next five years. He said Delhi Metro Rail Corp had been asked to prepare a detailed project report for an ...
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Market
China:Nokia and Shanghai Railway Communication Equipment Factory are to supply a Tetra digital radio network to Ningqi Railway Co for use from June on the Nanjing - Qidong line now under construction.France:SNCF is planning to order 60 electric locomotives from Alstom to haul push-pull services in Ile-de-France. They will be ...
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Pacific National looks north
AUSTRALIAN interstate freight operator Pacific National has ordered 13 narrow-gauge diesel locos from EDI Rail, as part of its strategy to breach Queensland Rail’s 1067mm gauge stronghold (RG 1.04 p16). Due for delivery in February 2005, the PN class locos will be similar to QR’s 4000 class locos which were ...
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Upgrading loan
RECONSTRUCTION of Venezuela’s 244 km Western rail network is expected to get underway this year, following the signing of a loan agreement to fund the work. The Ministry of Finance announced on December 16 that Finance Minister Tobias Nóbrega had signed an 11-year credit agreement with the Vice-President of China’s ...
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Laval in trouble
MONTREAL has been building a three-station extension of its Orange metro line since spring 2002. Running from Henri Bourassa station to Laval, the extension may not see revenue service even after completion in 2006 as the metro’s existing control centre has insufficient capacity.Officials at the Société de Transport de Montréal ...
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Iran’s next metro makes progress
INTRO: Iran’s principal steel city has ambitious plans to develop an urban rail networkCONSTRUCTION is forging ahead on the initial section of the metro network in Esfahan, around 325 km south of the Iranian capital Tehran. Plans for the network were drawn up in the 1990s, and a start has ...
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Raffarin sets infrastructure priorities
INTRO: Rail forms an important part of the French government’s infrastructure programme for the next 20 years. Projects to be taken forward include eight high speed schemes, and a new agency is to be created to fund infrastructure investment. Robert Preston reportsCHAIRING a meeting of the inter-ministerial planning and development ...
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Wagon hunting
HUNTING, the severe low-frequency lateral acceleration of a vehicle caused by wheel and rail wear, speed and track condition, can increase the risk of derailment, as well as damage a wagon’s payload. The RHD-2000 sensor has been developed to identify vehicles which are badly affected by hunting, allowing remedial action ...
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Houston LRT opens
OVER 15000 passengers rode Houston's 12 km Main Street light rail line in the 4h following the official dedication ceremonies on January 1, which also marked the 25th anniversary of the MTA. The first car was driven through a banner at the Fannin South Park & Ride terminal by former ...
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Upgrade on hold
ON DECEMBER 17 Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Badawi announced that the 14·5bn ringgit project to double track and electrify KTMB’s north-south trunk line had been postponed. The plan called for upgrading of the 339 km from Ipoh northwards to Padang Besar on the Thai border and the 297 ...
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Not guaranteed
STRIKE action by France’s railway unions on January 21 threw into sharp focus the long-running debate over who controls what happens on the national network. While the dispute is ostensibly about the paucity of this year’s 1% pay rise, it is also a protest against government plans to introduce minimum ...
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High speed network grows
FASTEST journey times between Madrid and Logroño were cut by 1h 15min on January 19 when Renfe introduced Altaria services to the route. Talgo cars are hauled at up to 200 km/h on the high speed line between Madrid Atocha and Plasencia de Jalón near Zaragoza, where they ...