I’ve had a bit of a computer failure. A new hard drive is now installed and hopefully things will be recoverable, but if anyone has e-mailed me in the past month or so and not had a reply, it might be worth re-sending.
News from Railway Gazette International- Train energy consumption standards published March 12, 2010INTERNATIONAL: A Technical Recommendation to enable benchmarking of locomotive and rolling stock energy consumption has been published by UIC and UNIFE. The total net energy consumed at the pantograph or from the fuel tank is calculated over a predefined service profile based on the operation of the train or a standardised profile for a particular service ca […]
- London - Birmingham starts high speed railway to the north March 11, 2010UK: Transport Secretary Lord Adonis published the government's high speed rail strategy on March 11, setting out details of a planned 400 km/h high speed railway between London and Birmingham which could open by 2026 as the first part of a Y-shaped network serving Leeds and Manchester. The route developed in detail by High Speed Two Ltd starts at London […]
- Locomotive delivered for north Norway reopening March 11, 2010NORWAY: Vossloh Locomotives has delivered a G1000BB diesel-hydraulic to Sydvaranger Gruve, which is restarting iron ore production at a mothballed mine at Kirkenes in the far north of Norway. The locomotive will make up to 20 trips a day along an 8 km isolated standard gauge railway which links the mine to Kirkenes harbour. It is powered by an MTU 8V 4000 R […]
- Train energy consumption standards published March 12, 2010