All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1345
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CAPTION: On December 20 Hong Kong’s MTR Corp unveiled its first Tsuen Wan line EMU refurbished by A Goninan & Co under a HK$1bn mid-life modernisation programme. The unit, which was ceremonially ’handed back’ by the contractor at Tsuen Wan depot two days earlier, is the first of 95 sets ...
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Australia: QR is to upgrade its Rockhampton - Townsville line for 20 tonne axleloads and 100 km/h freight operation between mid-1999 and 2002 at a cost of A$240m. Concrete sleepers will be supplied by Austrak and Rocla.Clyde and Bluebird rail are refurbishing five ex-AN diesel locos for Great Northern Railway, ...
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Riding the ICT
ON DECEMBER 17 Railway Gazette International was invited to sample the ICT high speed tilting train on a special trip from Frankfurt Airport station. This was the first time that passengers had been carried on the five-car ICT test formation.Speed on the run to Darmstadt and Mainz was limited with ...
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ICF restructures
THIS MONTH is due to see the start of a restructuring at the European intermodal and refrigerated freight co-operative Intercontainer-Interfrigo. The aim is to link costs and revenues directly, and focus attention on the quality of service provided by the 29 partner railways. ICF will become a holding group, and ...
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Poles upgrade IC
Polish State Railways is planning to introduce a range of improved long-distance trains under the banner Inter City Plus. PKP is to launch the first train, the Kilinski, between Warszawa and Poznan at the request of the Poznan Trade Fair company. Two more services (the Lech and Warta) will also ...
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Historic US stations revitalised
On December 11 Florida’s Ocala station was formally reopened after a $2m refurbishment as a multi-modal transport hub with rail, bus and taxi services. The 1917-built structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was restored using funding from state, local and federal sources to become the ...
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High-speed network starts to grow
INTRO: Financing and construction of the Belgian high-speed network has had to evolve to meet changing circumstances. But work is now under way on almost every element in the jigsaw, with completion of the northern and eastern branches envisaged by 2005BYLINE: Ir Johan MeynsChief ExecutiveTUC Rail SAALL ACROSS THE rolling ...
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Turf track for a greener ride
As part of the ongoing modernisation of tram routes in Dresden, turf track supplied by Sedra Asphalt Technik is being installed in several locations. The Sedra¨ Turf Track system is based on surrounding the rail with Sedrapur¨ filler blocks, made of a mixture of materials including polyurethane and recycled matter ...
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Finnish orders
ON JANUARY 12 Finnish Railways Ltd announced that it had ordered a further 20 Sr2 electric locos from Adtranz at a cost of FM450m. The last of the initial build of the Lok 2000-derived design was expected to enter service last month, and the new build will follow in 2001-03. ...
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Microfelt oil filters
BTR Environmental Ltd is supplying oil filters for 90 6DZC-1000/144A diesel engines being built by Anglo-Belgian Corp. The six-cylinder units each rated at 1150 kW are being supplied for diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives ordered from Siemens by Belgian National Railways (RG 8.97 p499).Incorporating Vokes Microfelt cartridges in synthetic, positively spaced and ...
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ERTMS on Neubaustrecke
GERMAN RAILWAY’s Nürnberg - Ingolstadt Neubaustrecke will be the first high-speed line in Europe to be equipped from new with ERTMS/ETCS Level 3 transmission-based train control. On January 4 DB Netz AG announced that DB’s project management subsidiary Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit had awarded a DM120m contract for electrification, signalling ...
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Freight mergers herald the end of Europe’s national railway structures
INTRO: DB Cargo Director Dr Eberhard Sinnecker has a vision of European rail freight where multinational competing networks are fed by short lines in a pattern that mirrors the US railroads. Murray Hughes met Sinnecker in Mainz and found him determined to sweep away the national structures that he believes ...
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Scissor table eases engine handling
To handle 3m long combined engine and transmission units weighing 3 tonnes which power the Class 168 DMUs, Adtranz has installed a twin scissor lifting table from Wilmat Handling at Aylesbury depot. Adtranz built the trains for Chiltern Railways and is also responsible for maintenance.The electrically-powered lift runs on ...
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Dual-system network
THE GERMAN city of Braunschweig has unveiled proposals for two dual-system light rail routes, using existing DB tracks. One would link serve Gifhorn and Uelzen, whilst the other would run from Wipshausen to Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. Future extensions could see LRVs running over DB tracks as far as Helmstedt, Goslar and Bad ...
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Seat suppliers gear up to meet demand
WITH numerous builds of rolling stock reaching the delivery stage in Germany, Italy, Britain and elsewhere, it is a busy time for Europe’s seating manufacturers. All types of seat are in demand, the key issues being low weight and resistance to vandalism. Several suppliers have developed modular designs to suit ...
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Galicia cut-offs
A Pts2·6bn package of improvements for the Monforte - Orense - Vigo corridor was approved by the Spanish government at the end of December. It forms part of a Pts30bn strategy to improve speeds on the main rail links in Galicia in 1999-2002; under an accord signed last April, this ...
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Cross-London plans delay Underground sell-off
UK: A proposal to join up suburban services east and west of London through existing metro tunnels, which has been put forward by Railtrack, owner of Britain’s national rail network, has caused the process of privatising London Underground’s physical assets to be put on hold for several weeks. In March ...
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Cross-city doubling
THE BUSY cross-city tunnel under the heart of Madrid between Atocha and Chamartín stations is to be duplicated at a cost of Pts30bn. In January the Ministry of Development signed an agreement with the City of Madrid for construction of an 8 km tunnel parallel to the existing bore completed ...
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Wiring continues
ON DECEMBER 28 Russia’s Far Eastern Railway inaugurated electric operation on an 81 km section of the Trans-Siberian, between Kotikovo and Bikin. Only 350 route-km remains to be wired, between Bikin and Ussurisk. Speaking at the inauguration, Far East Railway President A Strelnik said the 150 km from Bikin should ...