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Pendolino to attack the London - Manchester market
INTRO: Virgin Trains showed off its Class 390 Pendolino on December 16 with a high speed run from London to Manchester and back. Murray Hughes wason boardON JANUARY 27 Virgin Trains planned to launch its first Pendolino Britannico in revenue-earning traffic between London and Manchester. Virgin had originally intended its ...
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Malaysian export ambition
MMC Metal Industries plans to enter the Asian passenger rolling stock market, according to Chief Executive Officer Lew Chin Hoi. The company hopes to build metre-gauge vehicles in Malaysia for export to Myanmar and Vietnam. ’Most of the Asean countries use metre gauge, and this creates a niche for us’, ...
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Cabling under the Alps
NEXANS has been awarded a €30m contract to supply power cables and optic fibre links for the L
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Railtrack agreements
AS PART of its voluntary liquidation process, RT Group plc (formerly Railtrack) reached an agreement with Marconi Corp in December covering the Ultramast joint venture. This was established in December 2000 to construct and operate telecommunications masts for use by mobile and fixed wireless networks. Marconi provided cash and the ...
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AFE restructures
THE MINISTRY of Transport & Public Works in Uruguay has begun the task of splitting operating functions from infrastructure at the state railway company AFE. On the basis of the railway’s Southern, Eastern and Northern regions, the ministry is to assume responsibility for infrastructure management and maintenance as well as ...
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S-Bahn tunnel accord
MEETING in München on December 19, German Railway Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn and Bayern Transport Minister Otto Wiesheu announced the go-ahead for a second cross-city S-Bahn tunnel. Construction is expected to begin in 2006 for completion by 2010. Running up to 40m below ground, the new tunnel is expected to cost ...
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Lugano accord sets up north-south freight corridor
MEETING in the Swiss town of Lugano on January 9, transport ministers from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a rail freight corridor stretching from Rotterdam to northern Italy. The agreement covers a range of short, medium and long term measures lasting until 2015. ...
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Swedes test high speed on-board internet access
ON JANUARY 30, a Swedish high speed train will become the first in the world to offer passengers real-time internet access on the move. One Linx X2000 tilting trainset operating between Göteborg, Malmö and København has been fitted with a wireless communications network which can also support passenger information and ...
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A$56m funds model railway
WORK has started on an ambitious research programme to develop a national repository for computer modelling and simulation tools for the Australian rail industry. Funded by an A$56m partnership between the federal government, rail industry and universities, the Co-operative Research Centre for Railway Engineering & Technologies will be based at ...
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Spain sets i4·4bn spend
INVESTMENT by the Spanish Ministry of Development and its agencies including GIF, Renfe and Feve is expected to total €4·4bn in 2003, with the high speed programme once again at the head of the list with a planned spend of over €3·6bn. Of this, €3·3bn will be spent by GIF, ...
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225 km/h diesel option
WITH more than 90 High Speed Trains dating from 1976-79 still in use by four British operators, decisions must be made soon on a replacement for these pioneering 200 km/h diesel trainsets. MAN B&W based near Manchester has re-engineered its 18-cylinder VP185 engine for rail traction specifically to address this ...
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Civils complete on CTRL Section 1
LONDON & Continental Railways marked completion of civil engineering work on Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link between the Channel Tunnel and Fawkham Junction on January 21 with a ceremony at Mersham near Ashford. Transport Minister John Spellar unveiled a plaque in a meadow created on a structure ...
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Sidetrack
Dieter CAPTION: Wiener Linien has begun publishing a daily list showing which of its gateless metro stations will have revenue protection staff carrying out ticket checks. This has been criticised for enabling fare dodgers to avoid checks, but WL believes that 'if only one person buys a ticket because of ...
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Publications
Separation Philosophy of the European Union - Blessing or Curse?by Dr Carlo PfundEuropean Commission Directive 91/440 triggered radical reforms of member states’ national railways, and similar changes are occurring outside the EU. Dr Pfund argues that no examination of the concept of separating infrastructure from operations has been made in ...
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Pointers
n Canadian National Railway says it will invest C$30m in Ontario Northland if its bid for the company is accepted. ON is currently owned by the Province of Ontario.n Watch for SBB Cargo to order 18 dual-voltage locomotives this month to haul cross-border services to and from Italy.n Russian Railways ...
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Passenger Portfolio
Ticketing change in Germany GERMAN RAILWAY is now selling all long-distance tickets priced at €21 or more online, with credit card payment. The launch was timed to coincide with the introduction of market-priced fares on December 15 (RG 2.02 p98). Tickets are sent by post at no extra charge to ...
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Seeing the old year out
SOME PEOPLE will be celebrating the turn of the year in an unusual way. German Chancellor Gerhard Schr
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Norfolk Southern spends
A $798m capital improvement budget for 2003 was announced by Norfolk Southern on December 9. Over the last three years, the annual NS capital spend has ranged from $705m to $806m. The largest slice in 2003 is earmarked for infrastructure, with $383m to be spent on rail, sleepers, ballast and ...
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Rosario regional network
PLANS have been unveiled in Argentina to create a regional rail network serving Rosario, a city of 1million inhabitants in Santa Fe province. The Remfer project is being led by former Argentine Railways executive Jaime Remolins, who says ’the intention is to create an efficient transport system where trains do ...