FLB
Friends of Latin American Railways
up to 14th October 2011:
PR Department: Samuel Rachdi, Bahnhof,
CH-6422 Steinen SZ; Tel. +41/41/832.01.34;
Fax +41/41/832.01.35
from 16th December 2011 on:
PR Department: Samuel Rachdi
Im oberen Gern 52
CH-8409 Winterthur-Hegi
Email: fahrplancenter@fahrplancenter.com
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Brill and Wadloper railcars at Montevideo
Photograph: M. Benoit, Montevideo
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VOLTA O TREM
Information Organ of the Association
Friends of Latin American Railways
15th Year, Number 7
30th September 2011
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FLB NEWS
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FAHRPLANCENTER NEWS
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THE NEXT FLB EVENTS
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FLB COMMITTEE MEETINGS
on Saturdays:
On 19th November 2011, 13 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus 3 etc. see below)
General Business
On 04th February 2012, 13 h 30
at Restaurant Friedtal, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus No. 3 from Railway station Winterthur
in
direction Rosenberg as far as
Bachtelstrasse stop),
the restaurant ist just at the bus
stop
Preparation of the Annual General Assembly
Board members may participate in any
case
regardless if they are participating
at the
main meeting or not. Please inform
us!
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THE FAHRPLANCENTER
ONLINE:
www.fahrplancenter.com
The offical home page of FLB is
under:
http://www.ferrolatino.ch
and NEW also under http://www.ferrolatino.com
The official home page of AIFFLA
is under http://www.aiffla.com
Calls for meetings, orders etc.
may also be made by email:
fahrplancenter@fahrplancenter.com
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MEMBERS' MEETINGS
on Saturdays
On 19th November 2011, 14 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus 3 etc. see below)
SWR/ARTE-Film Chile; various photographs,
amongst others from Guatemala, news from Latin America,
AIFFLA info regarding the development
in Paraguay
inscriptions up to 15/11/2011 per e-mail
to:
fahrplancenter@fahrplancenter.com
On 04th February 2012, 14 h 30
Annual General Assembly
at Restaurant Friedtal, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus No. 3 from Railway station Winterthur
in
direction Rosenberg as far as
Bachtelstrasse stop),
the restaurant ist just at the bus
stop
101 years Lima – Huancayo
Incas del Peru offers a superb rail
voyage through Peru. By train from Lima to Huancayo, then to Huancavelica,
Cuzco - Machu Picchu, Cuzco - Puno, museum tram Barranco, suburban railway
Lima, car barn visits, etc. Details see under
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/
AIFFLATicketHuancayo.html
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FOR BOOKS ON LATIN AMERICAN RAILWAYS
PLEASE CONSULT:
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/
Buecher-Lateinamerika.html
FOR TIMETABLES ON LATIN AMERICAN RAILWAYS
PLEASE CONSULT:
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/LatinoIndex.html
Co-operative
AIFFLA
In 2011 the International Co-operative
for the Development of Latin-American Railways AIFFLA is already five years
old.
Up to now AIFFLA is still heavily dependent
from its mother organisation FLB. This should change now. Buy AIFFLA bonds
and help to make AIFFLA independent and powerful. AIFFLA is already working.
Buy bonds to make AIFFLA strong and
independent. For yourself or as a gift to friends and relatives who like
Latin America and railways.
AIFFLA has already helped in Uruguay
with the purchase of a rail bus for the co-operative Urutren. Urutrain
is a co-operative which has been founded in the spirit of AIFFLA.
In addition AIFFLA has accepted to contribute
to the reconstruction of a Locobreque of the old São Paulo - Santos
incline, as soon as a corresponding financing and work plan has been established
These are only two activities; more
will follow soon.
Inform yourself on the home page www.aiffla.com
There are bonds of CHF50.00 and CHF100.00
which can be acquired in unlimited quantities. The co-operative is established
according to Swiss law. Co-operative bond holders are only liable to the
sum of bonds acquired and not any further.
Orders may be placed at:
FAHRPLANCENTER, S. Rachdi, Bahnhof,
CH-6422 Steinen SZ, fahrplancenter@fahrplancenter.com
, your order will be forwarded. Interested customers in EU countries may
pay to a German account, excluding high international money transfer rates.
Thank you for supporting AIFFLA.
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FLB INTERNALS
ITINERARY TO THE MEETING POINT
RESTAURANT STERNEN
FOR MEETINGS FROM APRIL 2009 ONWARDS
How to reach Restaurant Sternen:
From Winterthur main station take bus
No.3 towards Rosenberg, get off at the bus stop Bachtelstrasse, go across
the street crossing and then go down along Bachtelstrasse towards Veltheim
town centre, turn left into Löwenstrasse, and the Sternen Restaurant
is just across the street from a school building.
The Löwenstrasse can be found on
the town map under: http://maps.google.ch/maps?hl=de&q=Winterthur,+Schweiz&ie=UTF8&ll=47.506824,8.724539&spn=0.006682,0.019999&z=16
MEETING of
Saturday, 19th November 2011, at 14
h 30
The German TV station SWR has finished
a film about the Chilean Railways; it can be viewed on ARTE October 20
at 19.30 and FLB will get a copy on DVD which will be presented at the
meeting of 19 November 2011 at Winterthur. We have already received
permission from SWR to present the film.
Important information
FAHRPLANCETER moves.
It finally happened and a new home could be found
for FAHRPLANCENTER at Winterthur Hegi.
The shop at Steinen will close October 14 and
it will reopen at the new address December 16, 2011, with the opening hours
Fridays 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-17.00, once per month the shop will also
open Saturdays, for these dates please consult www.fahrplancenter.com.
Between October 20 and November 10, 2011 no "Volta o Trem" will be published.
Fahrplancenter News 47 will be available before this period.
The new address will be:
FAHRPLANCENTER
Samuel Rachdi
Im oberen Gern 52
CH-8409 Winterthur-Hegi
Switzerland
LATIN AMERICA NEWS
ARGENTINA
The Spanish TER train was refurbished by Tren Patagonico
after a longer period out of use. Since September 15 it runs twice weekly
between San Carlos de Bariloche and Ingeniero G. Jacobacci.
UEPFP/Ferrobaires has discontinued train services
between Bahía Blanca and Stroeder.
On September 13 a bus was crossing a level crossing
at TBA’s Flores station (Sarmiento Line), despite functioning flashlights
and a half lowered barrier arm. An arriving train crashed into the bus
and derailed and collided head-on with a second train on the opposite track.
Seven people died and over 120 have been injured. This was the most recent
accident on the Buenos Aires suburban network in recent times; two more
occurred on the state run UGOFE San Martin line, others on TBA lines.
COLOMBIA
The Tourist train "Ruta del Café y
del Azúcar" (Coffee and Sugar) from Calí to different destinations
like Buga, Zarzal, La Cumbre, Palmira and La Tebaída is operating
more often than ever; until November it operates every Saturday, Sunday
and Holiday and in December it will run daily except December 31.
Authorities have forbidden that the tourist
train Girardot - Flandes will continue to run. Over 70% of sleepers and
fasteners of the line are missing or heavily damaged. The municipalities
of Girardot and Flandes are now looking for finances to rehabilitate the
line.
HONDURAS
In April 2011 construction of a national
railway museum commenced on the grounds of the former railway station of
Progreso, an investment of HNL12million(Lempira) (USD620’000).
MEXICO
The local passenger train Torreón -
Felipe Pescador has apparently been suspended; it is no longer registered
in governmental documents.
PERU
The Danish local railway Østbanen (Eastern
Railway) has sold four Uerdingen built motor coaches and four control trailers
to the Peruvian railway Huancayo - Huancavelica (Tren El Macho).
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