> -----Original Message-----
> From: All aspects of railways, past, present and future.
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> Sent: 18 February 2005 09:33
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> Subject: Re: Train Ferries
>
>
> Dear Mr Boodoo,
>
> The most recent introduction of a train ferry service is that
> between the Chinese mainland and the island of Hainan. We did
> a study about three years ago about the landing stage and
> vertical transition curves for the railway tracks. The
> service was inaugurated in 2004. There are train ferries
> across the Straits of Messina (Italy), between Russia and
> Sachalin, Finnjet between Germany and Finland,
I'm curious: what's the point of doing Germany-Finland? There's a gauge
difference.
Peter Excell
Bradford Univ.
the night
> ferry between Germany and Sweden, the Black Sea or Caspian
> Sea or both. Messina, Hainan and Malmo all carry passenger
> trains as well as freight.
>
> The Danes can split a train into 4 parts and put it on the
> ferry tracks in less than 10 minutes! It is a slick
> operation. There is interest in reopening Dover to Dunkerque
> for hazardous goods.
>
> Please give my regards to your boss!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> FELIX.
>
> On 17 Feb 2005, at 0:45, Anzir Boodoo wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking for information on train ferries. Specifically, does
> > anyone have information on the train services operated (and which
> > ports handled the loading of trains onto ferries to and
> from the UK)
> > and what they heyday of this type of operation was.
> >
> > Do train ferries continue to operate in any part of the world?
> >
> > Are there any significant drawbacks to using such services today,
> > aside from the obvious ones that the rolling stock is
> required to be
> > conveyed on ferry for long periods of time, and that a
> ferry is much
> > shorter than a freight train. Does loading a train onto a
> ferry take
> > longer than transshipping its contents?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Anzir Boodoo MRes MILT Aff. IRO
> > transcience, Leeds Innovation Centre, 103 Clarendon Road, LEEDS LS2
> > 9DF
>
>
> Felix Schmid
> Senior Lecturer in Rail Systems Engineering
> Department of Mechanical Engineering
> University of Sheffield
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> Sheffield S1 3JD
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