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REFURBISHED TGV TAKES ON EUROPE

ARTICLE - ISSUE 25 - by EURAILmag

REFURBISHED TGV TAKES ON EUROPE “Make us a European TGV” was the SNCF’s brief to the team of creatives brought in to revamp 60 high-speed trains running on the LGV Rhin-Rhone. “This meant going beyond the traditional values of the TGV – speed, punctuality, state-of-the-art technology à la française – to introduce innovation centred around the comfort and well-being of passengers,” says Régine Charvot-Pello, CEO of RCP Global Design.

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PLEASE TAKE YOUR SEATS
The profit engine of British Airways (BA) is its ‘Club World’ seating. The ‘fully flat’ bed offers Business Class passengers the chance…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 26 - by EURAILmag
EXPLORING INFLUENCES ON THE COATINGS INDUSTRY
When PRA first published their long-range IRFAB study Global Industrial Coatings Market Report 2006-2020*, the economic situation was not at all…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 26 - by PRA’s Irfab team
VINYLS & HIGH GLOSS FOR NORTHERN RAIL
When Northern Rail refurbished its 15-year-old Class 323 fleet of rolling stock it had a choice of three options for…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by EURAILmag
PEOPLE-CENTRED DESIGN FOR RAIL INTERIORS
Andrew Baker argues that people-centred design identifies new opportunities for innovation, reduces development risk and ultimately results in rail interiors that…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 18 - by Andrew Baker, director, Davis Associates Ltd
CLASS 407 – BETTER BEHAVIOUR ACROSS THE BOARD
The latest generation of high-speed EMUs by Siemens – the Class 407 ICE or Velaro D – has been specifically designed to operate…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by EURAILmag
NAT TRAINS FOR SUBURBS IN ILE-DE-FRANCE
On November 20, 2006, Bombardier won the contract for the Nouvelle Automotrice Transilien (NAT) – a fleet of 192 new trains to be…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 17 - by Patrick Audrerie, Transilien SNCF
SIMULATOR TRAINING DRIVES RAIL FORWARD
Wider approaches and attitudes to training, research and simulators, new perspectives opening up on a European level…. To stay competitive in today…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by EURAILmag
NEW TECHOLOGY IN NEW GENERATION VEHICLES
We are currently busy developing our next generation Siemens EMU with over 80 engineers looking at building a new train to meet…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 19 - by Ralf Beyer, Siemens Mobility
MATERIALS – INSIDE & OUT
Needs must. Over the years the rail industry has been adapting its activities to better meet the needs of the present without…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 27 - by EURAILmag
ASHFORD MAINTAINS FLEETS THE JAPANESE WAY
Hitachi is making its presence felt in the U.K. rail market. Our first major project is the Class 395 for South Eastern…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 18 - by Andy Barr, maintenance delivery manager, Hitachi Europe
21ST CENTURY OF RAIL. INTERVIEW WITH JEAN-PIERRE LOUBINOUX, UIC
In April 2009, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux was appointed director general of the International Union of Railways (UIC). He spoke with EURAILmag about…

INTERVIEW - ISSUE 20 - by EURAILmag
RETROFITTING INTO THE FUTURE
Swiss Rail (SBB) is retrofitting its fleet of Eurocity trains for both domestic and international routes. The aim is to use these…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 20 - by Frank Schneider, project manager, SBB Passenger Operating
ZEFIRO – CAPACITY & COMFORT AT VERY HIGH SPEED
Reaching the 300km/hr mark is no longer the only goal driving the rail manufacturing industry. With speeds averaging 272km/hr in…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by EURAILmag
DE-ICING SWITZERLAND
A country of mountains and valleys, Switzerland is particularly subject to snow-fall, especially at altitudes. For this issue’s article on…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by EURAILmag
WORKING TOWARDS A MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT RAILWAY SYSTEM – RAILENERGY AT A GLANCE
The Railenergy project, targeted to increase energy efficiency of integrated railway systems, is reaching the home stretch. Over four years the work…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by Judit Sándor, project coordinator & Enno Wiebe, dissemination leader, Railenergy
INTERIOR PASSIVE SAFETY FOR EUROPE – RESEARCHING AHEAD
Occupant safety depends on the configuration and severity of an accident, as well as the degree of crashworthiness engineered into the overall…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by Roberto Palacín, Newcastle University, U.K.
VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS – REDUCING EMISSIONS IN RAIL
L’Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maitrise de l’Energie (ADEME) plays a key role in implementation of public policies…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by Christophe Stavrakakis, air pollution engineer, Entreprises et Eco Technologies Direction Productions et Energies Durables, Angers & François Boisleux, engineer, Direction Régionale Nord-Pas de Calais, ADEME
METAMORPHOSIS BY THALYS
Ten years down the line and in the run-up to market liberalisation in 2010, the Thalys fleet has received a timely…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 19 - by EURAILmag
MANTENING OPERATIONS
Mantena, the maintenance arm of Norwegian State Railways (NSB), maintains and repairs rolling stock in Scandinavia for both the incumbent operator and…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by EURAILmag
SYSTEMATIC DESIGN OF AN AUTONOMOUS HYBRID LOCOMOTIVE
Electric vehicles have been developed in three phases, separated by periods of disinterest or stagnation[1]. The demonstration by Gaston Planté at…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by Cossi Rockys Akli, Alstom Tarbes
IRIS CERTIFICATION – STATUS OF THE GLOBAL RAILWAY STANDARD
IRIS is a common, globally valid certification scheme recognized, endorsed and implemented by railway market leaders such as Bombardier Transportation, Alstom Transport…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 17 - by Bernard Kaufmann, IRIS & UNIFE
NEW LIGHTWEIGHT CONCEPTS FOR NEXT GENERATION ROLLING STOCK
The Institute of Vehicle Concepts at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Stuttgart, studies new, lightweight construction methods for railcar bodies. This article…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 16 - by Dipl. Ing. Gerhard Kopp & Prof. Dr. Friedrich E. Horst, German Aerospace Center
TAKING TRACTION INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
Alstom Transport has dug €21 million deep into its pockets to upgrade its traction activities in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of south…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 26 - by John Stanley
CLEAN RAIL DIESEL FOR EUROPE – TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF REDUCING EMISSIONS
CleanER-D* – Clean European Rail-Diesel – is a research project partly funded by the European commission under the 7th Framework Programme that…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 21 - by Judit Sandor, CleanER-D project coordinator, UNIFE
BRAKE TESTING – SIMEF BOOSTS INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE
For the past several years, SNCF’s rolling stock engineering centre (CIM) has been working towards an ever-greater automation of its…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 27 - by Mr Richard Chavagnat, Mr Alain Nicolas, Mr Franck Bourgeteau, SNCF CIM