All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1209
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Italian-based company Grandi Stazioni has won a public tender for a long-term lease and refurbishment of Praha’s Hlavni station, and the stations at Karlovy Vary and Mari
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Break-up delayed
PLANS TO restructure Austrian Federal Railways have been gestating for years, but until now no transport minister has been prepared to grasp the nettle. In mid-December plans surfaced for a dramatic restructuring programme, together with suggestions that it could be rushed through parliament before Christmas so that the first stage ...
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NewsSubway contract won with help from Brazil
Alstom signed a contract on October 31 to supply MTA New York CityTransit with 660 cars to the R160 design. Options could add another 1040 cars
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Block trains revised
GERMAN Railway’s freight arm DB Cargo is relaunching its unit train business from January 1, in an attempt to fight back against the growing number of open access carriers now operating in Europe. The package was announced on November 25, having been drawn up in detail following DB’s decision to ...
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PPP bidders indemnified
THE LONG-RUNNING battle between the government and London’s Mayor, Ken Livingstone, over the Public-Private Partnership for London Underground’s infrastructure took another twist on December 4. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling announced that the preferred bidders for the three infrastructure companies (Infracos) and their financial backers would be offered ’an indemnity against ...
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International best practice supports local experience
INTRO: Keolis is now operating more than a dozen urban and regional rail services in five European countries. Drawing on local expertise and partnerships, the group is seeking to spread best practice between contracts and franchises with very different structures and levels of risk transferBYLINE: Bruno Auger and Benoît Chevalier ...
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Benelux metro line inaugurated
INTRO: Harry Hondius reports from RotterdamON NOVEMBER 4 the Dutch Minister of Transport formally opened the 11·8 km Benelux extension of the Rotterdam metro network. The route is worked as an extension of the Caland line from Marconiplein through Schiedam Centrum and the Benelux tunnel under the Nieuwe Maas river ...
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Separation benefits
IN CONTRAST to the separation of infrastructure and operations prevalent in Europe, a slightly different kind of split is planned in Israel. Under an agreement reached by the economic committee of the Knesset, within the next six months Israel Railways Ltd may be established as an independent state-owned company separated ...
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ZSR restructuring bears fruit
INTRO: The transformation of Slovak Railways from a single organisation into two joint-stock companies has seen new contractual relationships established with the state. Progress in the first year includes a smaller payroll and a long-needed boost in investment BYLINE: Ing Ladislav DimunDeputy Director-General, Technical Development,Slovak Republic RailwaysEXACTLY ONE year ago, ...
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Generator bearings
AMONG products unveiled at Railtex 2002 in Birmingham was an integrated generator bearing (below). Two versions have been designed, one rated at 5W and another at 100W. Schweinfurt-based FAG, now owned by INA, originally developed the high-power version as part of the Febis project to test EP braking on freight ...
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Dinant - Athus electrified
On November 20 Belgian National Railways officially reopened the 130 km Dinant - Athus line to freight, after an eight-year programme of reconstruction and electrification. The line speed has been raised to 120 km/h, offering a 28min journey time saving for passenger trains worked by Class 41 DMUs. The line ...
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Doors for Athens
ATTIKO Metro cars being built in South Korea are to have external sliding plug door panels, controls and peripherals from Vapor Rail. Doors for 126 vehicles will be provided by the Montréal-based subsidiary of Wabtec Corp under a US$6m contract with Korean rolling stock builder Rotem. The cars will boost ...
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Movia cars arrive in Guangzhou
The first of 154 Movia metro vehicles being built for Guangzhou Line 2 were flown to China in November
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Another Belgian compromise
ROYAL OPENING of the 63 km Leuven - Ans high speed line on December 10 (p7) foreshadowed the launch five days later of faster Thalys services between Brussels and K
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Anchors away
NORTH DOWNS Tunnel on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link has a sprayed concrete primary lining, with a waterproof membrane fixed to the outer shell. This is held in place by over 800000 CR930T nails with 800mm PVC washers supplied by ITW Construction Products.The tunnel’s fire main is supported by 18000 ...
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Alstom wins BNSF deal
BURLINGTON Northern Santa Fe has awarded a contract worth US$420m to Alstom for maintenance of 434 locomotives over a period of 12 years. Signed on November 4, the deal covers the maintenance of SD70MAC locomotives supplied by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. The locos will be maintained at the ...
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Airport extension will transform BART patronage
INTRO: With ridership forecast to grow by 20%, the long-awaited opening of the Bay Area Rapid Transit extension to San Francisco International Airport is expected to usher in the most significant reordering of travel patterns since BART carried its first passengers in 1972. William D Middleton reportsDUE TO OPEN within ...
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Cost-cutting and more subsidy are back on the agenda
THE WINDOW of opportunity for major long-term investment in the UK’s railways is closing fast. The string of badly-needed infrastructure projects that would relieve bottlenecks and expand the business is being pushed aside - we understand that the Strategic Rail Authority’s updated Strategic Plan due this month is unlikely to ...
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Line 5 awaits traffic surge
INTRO: All-day service is being launched on Line 5 of the São Paulo metro, but the line will not reach its full potential until it reaches the city centre. Murray Hughes reports from Brazil’s largest cityGIVEN THAT 18·1 million people live in the São Paulo metropolitan area, three metro lines ...
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Systra wins Delhi Line 3
IN THE run-up to opening of the first section of Line 1 at the end of last month, on December 9 Delhi Metro Rail Corp named Systra SA as design and project management contractor for Line 3. Design of the 23 km route has been split into two contracts, which ...