All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1298
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Variable supports speed Pendolino production
FACED with the need to turn out up to eight vehicles a week for Virgin’s West Coast Pendolino fleet, Alstom Transport has remodelled its assembly lines at Washwood Heath. At peak production, Pendolino cars will be moving down four parallel lines, and Alstom was keen to minimise intermediate handling.The car ...
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Pacific Surfliner rides the rails
INTRO: Julian Wolinsky reports from Los AngelesON JUNE 1 Amtrak West unveiled its Pacific Surfliner service, which is to replace California’s present San Diegans as new stock is phased in over the next year. A 558 km ceremonial run from San Diego to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara marked ...
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NS restructures
NETHERLANDS Railways is to restructure its senior management with effect from August 1, when Chairman Rob den Besten retires. He will be succeeded by a five-strong directorate, comprising new Chairman Hans Huisinga and directors for Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Internal & External Relations.The Commercial sector will be responsible for marketing ...
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Market
Australia: Australia Southern Railroad has purchased 16 Class 422 locomotives of 2000hp from FreightCorp of New South Wales, to haul construction trains on the Alice Springs - Darwin line.CFCL Australia has ordered 50 container wagons from MacRail Ltd for A$5m. Capable of carrying three 20ft containers at speeds up to ...
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Malmö tunnel modelling
AS PART OF the design process for the Citytunneln project in Malmö, a new route under the city centre linking Central station and the Øresund fixed link including 4 km of twin-bore tunnels 20 m below ground, Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe was commissioned to model the ground-borne noise and vibration likely ...
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Pressure monitoring for point machines
A MONITORING system based on pressure sensing developed by Smith Industries Hydraulics Company (SIHC) for its own clamp lock point machines has been approved by Railtrack for use across the British main line network. Analysis of the variation of current, time and pressure within the clamp lock system revealed that ...
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Island link restored
GERMAN Transport Minister Richard Klimmt joined celebrations in Wolgast on May 26 to mark the reconnection of the Baltic island of Usedom to the national rail network after a gap of 55 years. Also on board the special train were the President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Harald Ringstorff and German Railway’s Board ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: Australian Wheat Board Ltd has selected Wisconsin Central subsidiary ATN Access to haul 300000 tonnes of grain from its new Dimboola terminal to Melbourne’s Appleton Dock. Four L Class locos will haul 44 grain hoppers being delivered from China. ATN is establishing a servicing depot at McIntyre Loop outside ...
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Industry News
Europe: Engineering consultancies Holland Railconsult and TransTeC of Germany have agreed to co-operate in their respective domestic markets and elsewhere.Malaysia: Time Salam Engineering has been purchased by Noblemax Resources for 18m ringgits. Now known as Emrail Sdn Bhd, the company undertakes the design and construction of trackwork, signalling and civils, ...
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Industry News
France: After making a loss of Fr81·7m in 1998, Arbel-Fauvet-Rail has reported a profit of Fr2·3m on a turnover of Fr596m for 1999, due in part to increased productivity at its Douai plant following restructuring. The AFR product range now includes a freight bogie for axleloads of 25 tonnes.Great Britain: ...
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Hannover S-Bahn opens
GERMAN Railway officially launched its latest S-Bahn network in Hannover on May 27, ahead of the start of public services with the summer timetable change the following day. It accounts for around DM1·6bn of the DM2bn investment made by DB and the Land of Nidersachsen in preparation for the opening ...
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Single route grows into a network
WHEN the 471 km AVE line from Madrid to Sevilla opened on April 20 1992, high-speed rail travel was a novelty for Spain. Who dreamt then that Spain would now be committed to construction of a national high-speed network? Yet work on Madrid - Barcelona route is well advanced and ...
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Israelis flock to the trains
RECORDS are tumbling month by month as passenger traffic continues to boom on Israel Railways. Director-General Amos Uzani announced on June 12 that for the first time more than 1 million passengers had been carried in May, a 50% rise on May 1999. In the first five months of this ...
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Fledgling MThB spreads its wings
INTRO: Using open access rights available under the 1999 Swiss railway reform, Mittelthurgau Railway is rapidly expanding its freight activities in partnership with other railways and businesses. Its innovative and flexible approach has taken competitors by surpriseBYLINE: Dr Ursula WidmerDeputy Director, Mittelthurgau RailwayWHEN THE Swiss Parliament promulgated laws authorising the ...
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Five more years of maglev tests needed
CENTRAL JAPAN Railway has announced a ’technical development plan’ for its superconducting maglev test line near Ohtsuki in Yamanashi prefecture. JR Central says that the Maglev Technological Practicality Evaluation Committee concluded in March that ’the Superconducting Maglev technology has the practicality for an ultra-high-speed mass transport system’, but it is ...
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Finance
Great Britain: Anglia Railways has signed a leasing agreement with HSBC Rail covering 13 Class 86 locomotives, 93 MkII coaches and 13 driving trailers until the end of the current franchise in 2004. The lease includes a C2 overhaul programme worth £14m to be completed by the end of 2000.Singapore: ...
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FEVE launches second Transcant
SPANISH metre-gauge operator FEVE has introduced a second rake for its Transcant
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New York freight tunnel favoured
CONSTRUCTION of a rail tunnel under New York harbour has been recommended by a study into improved freight links around New York City. The study also recommended the revival of car floats to carry wagons across the harbour. Only one barge operation remains, and its market share is tiny. Much ...
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Eurostar escape
FEW PEOPLE would dispute that the 501 passengers and 16 crew on Eurostar 9047 from Paris to London on June 5 had a lucky escape when their train derailed at around 250 km/h at Croisilles on the TGV Nord line near Arras in northern France. No-one was seriously hurt, but ...