All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1386
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High speed, regular interval
FRENCH National Railways’ long-distance passenger division is to relaunch its Paris - Lyon and Paris - Lille high-speed trains as a regular-interval shuttle service, christened TGV Navette. From the start of the winter timetable on September 28, departures from Paris Lyon and Lyon Part-Dieu will be on the hour, with ...
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Harder heads reduce rail wear
INTRO: Continuous casting of round billets has been combined with a Japanese head-hardening technique to enable the production in Pueblo of premium long-welded rails with a Brinell hardness of 390BYLINE: Mark McLeanManager, Rail ProductsCF&I Steel LPIN MAY this year CF&I Steel LP uprated the specification of its premium head-hardened rail ...
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Guiding the way
A SIX-MONTH trial of an electronic way-finding system to assist blind and partially-sighted passengers was launched at London Underground’s Golders Green station on July 17. The REACT system developed by GEC Marconi has been installed by the Joint Mobility Unit of the Royal National Institute for the Blind and the ...
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Funding starts Randstad Rail
NETHERLANDS Transport Minister Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebink has allocated 65m guilders for work on the first stage of the ambitious Randstad Rail strategy to integrate public transport in the belt between Rotterdam and Den Haag. This is one of five pilot projects for new light rail networks in the Netherlands. The province ...
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First segment floated out
A KEY MILESTONE in the construction of the Øresund fixed link between København and Malm
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Underground relies on private finance
NEXT MONTH Britain’s Department of the Environment, Transport & Regions is due to receive a report from accountants Price Waterhouse giving ’financial advice on a range of possible options for public-private partnerships for the London Underground’. The review was ordered by the new Labour government in June, and when the ...
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Finance
Czech Republic: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed an Ecu200m loan towards upgrading the Czech section of the Warszawa - Wien corridor between Ostrava and Breclav.France: District de l’Agglomération de Montpellier has received a Fr375m loan from the EIB to fund construction of its planned 15 km light rail ...
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Tigers invest in urban rail expansion
Urban rail development is proceeding apace in an arc of the Pacific Rim from Singapore to South Korea. Chris Jackson looks at some of the projects which are setting the pace
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ÖBB to renew electric fleet
AUSTRIAN Federal Railways has ordered a fleet of 230 km/h electric locomotives from Siemens, following a fiercely contested bidding race with Adtranz. According to Director-General Dipl-Ing Dr Helmut Draxler, final bids were received on July 24 and the ÖBB Board approved the deal on July 29.The Sch3bn contract covers supply ...
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Railcard sales drive
BRITAIN’S Association of Train Operating Companies, representing all 25 passenger franchises, has targeted young and ’young elderly’ travellers in its year-long drive to add 200000 more people to the 2 million holders of railcards granting up to one-third discount on many tickets. Sales of railcards, valid for 12 months, and ...
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Super power down south
Having carried 1·9 million tonnes of freight in the first five months of this year, an astonishing 43% up on the same period in 1996, freight concessionaire Nuevo Central Argentino is expecting to see another 600000 tonnes a year move over the former General Mitré network from October. Minera Alumbrera ...
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Natural disasters
SERIOUS flooding has damaged railways in both Europe and North America this summer, resulting in at least two passenger train derailments because of bridge collapses. One was Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which left the track at around 145 km/h while traversing a damaged bridge over a desert gully in northwestern Arizona ...
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ERRI leads the quest to cut railway noise
INTRO: While railways can rightly claim many ’green’ credentials, noise reduction is one field where they need to make rapid progress. The European Rail Research Institute is tackling the issue urgently BYLINE: Brian Hemsworth BSc, CEng, FIOA and William Bird MA, CEng, MIMechE, MCIT*BYLINE: * Brian Hemsworth is Manager, Noise ...
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Talgo curving trials
The US Federal Railroad Administration has allowed Amtrak and Burlington Northern Santa Fe to test a Talgo 200 Pendular trainset at higher speeds on curves between Portland, Oregon, and Blaine, Washington, just south of the Canadian border. During the three weeks of trials, which began on August 5, the train ...
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Crane delivered to Tanzania
KIROW Rail & Port AG, based in Leipzig, has completed a KRC 900 rail-mounted rescue crane, and delivered it to Tanzanian Railways Corp. Work is now under way on a similar crane for Ghana.Kirow has completed the take over of Kocks Krane International, which specialises in container and heavy-lift cranes, ...
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Russians implement cost saving programme
SWEEPING proposals to reduce the cost of operating Russia’s 87469 km rail network are being implemented under an ’anti-crisis programme’ agreed at a board meeting of the Ministry of Railways in July. Recently appointed Railways Minister Nikolai E Aksyonenko said that the restructuring of Russian Railways (RG 3.97 p149) was ...
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Cross-Manila conflict
ON AUGUST 1 Philippine National Railways Assistant General Manager Rafael Jiminez called for the planned Manila - Calabarzon Express (MCX) commuter rail network and the Northrail link to Clark Air Base to be integrated to offer through services between north and south Luzon via central Manila. Developer Ayala Land Inc ...
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US suppliers convene in Kansas City
NORTH AMERICAN track maintenance experts and suppliers will be congregating in Kansas City, Missouri, this month, for the Expo 97 show organised by the Railway Engineering-Maintenance Suppliers Association. Running from September 7 to 10, Expo 97 will be held in the H Roe Bartle Hall of the Kansas City Convention ...
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No reason to celebrate
SWISS Federal Railways’ sesquicentenary celebrations this summer were marred by a series of unhappy events ranging from the suicide of Personnel Director Jean-Pierre Kalin on July 29 to a clutch of failures by the high-profile Cisalpino tilting trains. Arguments over who should take responsibility for the Cisalpino problems spawned much ...