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May 2004

Halcrow to present at Railway Engineering 2004

Experts from Halcrow, one of the UK’s leading rail consultancies, will be presenting a number of papers at Railway Engineering 2004 – the Commonwealth Institute’s 7th international conference and exhibition for leaders in the rail industry.

Held over the 6th and 7th July 2004, at the Commonwealth Institute in London, the event is the transport industry’s premier showcase for consulting services, innovative products, designs, cutting edge technologies, systems and equipment.

Halcrow specialists will present three papers and also be taking part on the accompanying exhibition. Malcolm Cope, market sector director for Halcrow's UK rail infrastructure business comments “Halcrow's involvement in Railway Engineering 2004 is an ideal opportunity for our rail specialists to exchange ideas and keep up-to-date with colleagues and clients from around the World. We will be highlighting our international presence, and our position as one of the world’s leading consultants. It is an opportunity to display our multi-disciplinary nature and the input we have had to permanent way, maintenance and asset management, signalling and train control, electrification, rolling stock, railway bridges and geotechnics.”

Halcrow papers:

Dublin Light Rail
The Dublin Light Rail project involves building a tramway through the congested streets of Dublin.

Mark Campodonic will describe the computer aided design (CAD) methods he developed to design the vertical alignment. The need to match the levels with existing roads, ensure proper drainage falls, acceptable kerb heights and preserve access to neighbouring properties imposes multiple constraints.

Mark's technique generated upper and lower bound envelopes based on surveys and digital terrain models and the tramway vertical alignment was then optimised within the critical constraints.

New underground railway below central Stockholm
The Swedish railway administration (Banverket) plans to construct a new underground railway below central Stockholm to increase the capacity for commuter services between the Stockholm Central and Southern stations.

Bjorn Kufver will describe the development of the alignment for the new twin track railway together with two new intermediate stations. The City Rail project will be developed in a number of phases and the optimisation took these into consideration, which in turn required modification of the alignment corridor and location of stations.

High speed railway corridors in Germany
High speed (300 kph) railway corridors in Germany have been constructed in both asphalt slab track as well as concrete, which has required the development of matching turnouts.

Malcolm Cope will co-present a paper with the manufacturers BWG describing the construction of high speed turnouts on asphalt slab-track, which were installed on the new ICE line Hanover-Berlin and offer potential advantages for improved stability and reliability of heavily trafficked rail junctions.

For more details on Railway Engineering 2004, please visit geotechnicalseminars.com

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