All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1300
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SSRA backs freight ideas
ON JUNE 13 Britain’s Shadow Strategic Rail Authority announced that three groups would share grants totalling £6m for development of innovative freight and logistics services.Blue Circle, Babcock Rail and Metalair Feldbinder have been awarded £2·9m to fund a two-year trial moving cement from Hope to Ipswich in 16 W6A gauge ...
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Bratislava back
THIS MONTH is due to see the selection of a preferred option for an initial 10 km north - south metro line in the Slovak capital Bratislava. Construction of the line from Janíkov Dvor to Trnavske Moto via Suché Moto and the main station is expected to start next year ...
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Sleeping beauty awakes
to carry international freightFROM THE END of next year, up to 15 freight trains a day will begin running across the south of the Netherlands and northern Belgium. The revival of the so-called ’Iron Rhine’ corridor linking Germany’s Ruhr industrial area with the port of Amsterdam follows the signing of ...
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NEL results awaited
Sir - In RG 4.00 (p235) you reported the development of the Non-Electric Locomotive as a prototype high-speed traction unit for Amtrak. NEL is a very interesting approach introducing a powerful gas turbine producing 3140 kW for traction. However, knowing the track standard and considering the numerous sharp and irregular ...
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AVE link plan
PUBLIC consultation began at the end of May for construction of a direct link between the Sevilla and Barcelona AVE lines in the southern suburbs of Madrid. The Ministry of Development has also commissioned an environmental impact study for its preferred route as part of the public enquiry process. The ...
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Integrated signalling, ATP and train radio on the Øresund Link
INTRO: Opening of the Øresund fixed link on July 2 physically connects two railways. Ensuring that trains can pass seamlessly from one to the other at up to 200 km/h required ingenuity in integrating the different signalling, communications and train protection systemsBYLINE: Konrad Hove and Niels Brejnbjerg Buch*WHEN commercial services ...
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Alstom gains control of Fiat
ON JUNE 20 Alstom and Fiat reached agreement for Alstom to take a 51% stake in the rolling stock subsidiary of the Italian company, Fiat Ferroviaria. The deal gives Alstom full access to Fiat’s tilting train technology, bogie designs and other components, and strengthens Alstom’s position in the Swiss and ...
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Rolling room with a view of the Alps
INTRO: Rhaetian Railway has launched panorama cars on its Bernina Express routeMORE THAN half the passenger fleet on Switzerland’s metre-gauge Rhaetian Railway is over 30 years old. The railway’s express services are very popular, and RhB is acutely aware of the need to raise comfort standards.RhB has made a start ...
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TEE alliance plans tilting fleet
TENDERING is expected to start within the next three months for a fleet of around 130 tilting trainsets to operate international services between Germany, Switzerland and Austria, at an estimated cost of DM3bn. Due to enter service in 2005, the trains are to be ordered and operated by a tripartite ...
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Night trains still alive
ZURICH-BASED overnight services operator CityNightLine, now part of DB Reise & Touristik’s subsidiary DB AutoZug GmbH, has turned a corner. With fares revenue up by more than 4% in 1999 at SFr56·8m, the number of passengers rose 6% to reach 394000. The company had been loss-making since its inception in ...
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Airport alliance
ON MAY 29 Bombardier Transportation signed a memorandum of agreement with Kumho Engineering & Construction to bid for construction of an automated light metro in the South Korean port of Pusan. The municipal government had called bids by June 7 for a 23·9 km rail link from the city centre ...
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Line H bidding starts Buenos Aires expansion
THE BUENOS AIRES city government is expected by the end of this month to award the first contracts for civil works on Line H, a north-south addition to the city’s metro network that will eventually link Retiro with Nueva Pompeya. Bidders were asked to quote a total price covering two ...
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Japanese sign THRSC agreement
TAIWAN High Speed Rail Corp signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 13 with the Taiwan Shinkansen Consortium for the NT$95bn E&M systems contract to equip the Taipei - Kaohsiung high-speed line. The deal was signed by THSRC Senior Vice-President Lee Kuo-hsiung and TSC representative Yoshiyuki Yokota. 'By signing this ...
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Kasai warns against total sell-off
WITH A general election due in Japan this month, the President of Central Japan Railway Yoshiyuki Kasai has renewed his attack against government plans to sell its remaining shares in the JR companies. Although the government has already indicated that it does not expect to push through a bill for ...
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Acela must slow down
DESPITE the generous loading gauge normally available in North America, the New York - Boston schedule for Amtrak’s 240 km/h Acela Express will be 15min longer than the 3h planned for last December’s start of service. Amtrak’s latest estimate for the launch is ’the beginning of August’. Last month endurance ...
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DB and NS to pool ICE3s
German Railway and Netherlands Railways signed an agreement on June 13 to operate their multi-voltage ICE3 sets jointly on the K
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U3 bidding soon
INTERNATIONAL tenders are to be called within the next two or three months for electrical and mechanical systems on Germany’s first purpose-built automated metro line. Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg has now put together the funding package for construction of U-Bahn Line U3, which is due to be operational by the end of ...
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Linx readies to launch in June 2001
INTRO: From early 2002 international services in the Nordic Triangle linking København, Stockholm and Oslo will all be worked by tilting trains, offering shorter journey times and a higher quality of customer service. To run the Oslo - Stockholm and Oslo - København routes, SJ and NSB have founded a ...
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Shanghai Line 2 inaugurated
ON JUNE 11 Chinese government officials joined Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuang-di to inaugurate the first 16·3 km of the city’s second metro line. This section runs from Zhongshan Park to Long Dong Lu in the suburb of Pudong (RG 1.99 p27). Test running on Line 2 began last October using ...
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Roger 1000 ready to roll
NORWEGIAN rail infrastructure authority Jernbaneverket has taken delivery of its Roger 1000 track and overhead line recording car from MerMec of Italy (RG 3.98 p169). The Roger 1000 is a key element in the authority's programme of network upgrading to accommodate tilting trains. It is carried on ETR470 Pendolino bogies, ...