In Hong Kong, the majority of people live in high-rise buildings, many of them right next to one of the rail lines crossing the city, radiating noise that intrudes into adjacent apartments.
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Publication Date: August 2004 Numerous large businesses have become intensively involved in the development and introduction of varnishing systems in protection against graffiti vandalism in the area of public passenger transport. The Mader Lacke Group has developed various concepts in this area.
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Publication Date: August 2004 Induction motors, inverter drives, soft starters and transformers are playing a major role in a drilling machinery package that is helping to construct the world's longest railway tunnel in the Swiss Alps.
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Publication Date: August 2004 In 2002 about 80percent of the rail infrastructure around Dresden, Germany, was destroyed by floods. At Mueglitztalbahn (Mueglitz Valley Train), near Weesenstein, the floods washed away the railway embankment and the connecting slopes.
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Publication Date: August 2004 LeiLa is a special research project to develop a freight car bogie with reduced noise and low weight. Several industrial partners and the Technical University at Berlin, Germany, are working together on this project - supported by the federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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Publication Date: August 2004 Because of the technical advancement in trains, more and more electrical and technical systems are frequently installed. This increases the need to properly seal cables, or pipes, as they pass through the structures.
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Publication Date: August 2004 Renk Test System GmbH has designed a new test rig inco-operation with German Railways DB Regio AG for use at its facility in Bremen.
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Publication Date: August 2004 With ever-increasing safety and commercial pressures on rail operators, the need to ensure rail vehicle and staff safety while maximising vehicle availability and minimising operating costs has never been greater.
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Publication Date: August 2004 FAG, a brand of the Schaeffler Group is exhibiting at InnoTrans Trade Fair, Berlin, Germany, between 21st - 24th September, 2004.
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Publication Date: August 2004 With the ever increasing demand for passenger comfort, safety, speed and environmental issues, all provided cost effectively, the tasks for research and quality assurance are becoming increasingly complex.
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Publication Date: August 2003 The automation of cooling system valves inside the Channel Tunnel presented and unprecedented list of challenges to overcome.
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Publication Date: August 2003 Modern technology has transformed the manually intensive, yet essential, task of filling train sand boxes.
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Publication Date: August 2003 Brake beam failures are increasing for the North American fleet of cars. Here John J Steffen reports on ongoing efforts to halt this trend and reduce vibration problems caused.
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Publication Date: August 2003 By devising a system where a significant proportion of long-distance delivery is carried out on the rail network rather than by road, intermodal transportation significantly reduces environmental factors such as road noise and air pollution as well as decreasing the volume of traffic on already overcrowded road networks.
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Publication Date: August 2003 Although the UK rail industry may be suffering from the loss of engineering expertise after privatisation, the development of rail monitoring and repair products should improve the situation in the future and help improve standards on other railways around the world. Eric Russell reports.
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