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Network Rail takes over
OCTOBER 1 saw the formal lifting of the Railway Administration Order served on Railtrack plc last year, following a 6h hearing in the High Court in London. This cleared the way for the sale of the infrastructure company to the government-backed ’not-for-dividend’ company Network Rail, which was completed at 07.00 ...
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Metros
China: Shanghai Metro has awarded Bombardier a €11m contract to overhaul 96 Line 1 cars by 2005.The government has approved the start of work on the 22 km Shenyang metro Line 1, which will begin in June 2003 for completion in 2006.France: Ile-de-France transport authority STIF has given its approval ...
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Market
Australia: NSW passenger operator City Rail has selected Goninan to supply 13 DMUs for its Hunter Valley services.France: The first Z-TER EMU was formally handed over to SNCF by Alstom Transport at its Bellevue test track in La Rochelle on October 4. Alstom has awarded Bombardier a €6m contract to ...
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SLR looks north
THESRILANKA Ministry of Transport and Sri Lanka Railways have commissioned a detailed study for reconstruction of lines in the north of the country, following the presentation of a feasibility study last month. This concluded that many bridges and stations needed to be rebuilt, and signalling and communications should be replaced ...
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Madrid - Lleida opens next year
THE FIRST 450 km of the Madrid - Barcelona high speed line is due to open to traffic on January 1 2003, following an official opening ceremony that the Ministry of Development is planning to hold on December 20 or 21. Pending the arrival of its new Siemens and Talgo ...
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LIRR and MNCR to merge
A FAR-REACHING restructuring of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority was announced on October 9 by MTA Chairman Peter S Kalikow. Subject to approval by the state legislature, the changes will be phased in over two years. Establishment of five subsidiary companies is the start of a campaign to make ...
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Russian private line opens
SIBERIAN-Urals Aluminium Company held a ceremony on September 20 to open its 158 km railway linking the Middle Timan bauxite deposits with the RZD network. The line is the first privately-owned railway in Russia since the 1917 revolution. Over 3000 people were involved in construction works on the route, which ...
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RailNetEurope launched
JOINT MARKETING of international freight train paths across Europe was initiated on September 24, when representatives from 18 infrastructure managers signed a co-operation agreement at InnoTrans in Berlin. The symbolic launch of RailNetEurope foreshadows the start of open access on the Trans-European Rail Freight Network in March 2003. Role models ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Argentina: On September 26 Metropolitano inaugurated 10·4 km of 25 kV 50Hz AC electrification between Glew and Alejandro Korn south of Buenos Aires (RG 5.02 p238), undertaken at a cost of US$3·45m. Work to electrify the Temperley - Florencio Varela route was due to begin last month.Czech Republic: On October ...
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Industry News
Canada: Global Railways Industries has competed its acquisition of door and replacement part maker Prime Steel Inc for C$3·3m cash and taking over C$155000 of debt.Czech Republic: Siemens is to move steel bodyshell and VAL mini-metro car production to the Siemens Kolejova Vozidla plant in Praha over the next ...
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Inside Industry
Angel targets railcar marketUK-BASED rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains International announced on September 24 that it is to launch a new subsidiary for the local passenger multiple-unit sector. From January 2003 the Angel Trains Europa GmbH office in K
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Westward ho!
REVERED father of Britain’s Great Western Railway and broad gauge proponent Isambard Kingdom Brunel would surely have applauded. But when on October 17 First Great Western announced a six-month study to assess the prospects of a dedicated high speed line between London and the west of England, the Strategic Rail ...
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Highliner renewal
MEETING on October 11, the board of Chicago commuter rail operator Metra approved plans to buy new double-deck EMUs, to start the replacement of the former Illinois Central Highliner gallery car EMUs on the electrified line from Randolph Street to University Park.The 26 stainless-steel cars will be assembled by Super ...
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IR zones go live
INDIAN Railways Minister Nitish Kumar joined ceremonies at Hajipur in Bihar on October 1 to mark the formal inauguration of the East Central Railway. IR Board Secretary R R Jaruhar handed over a commemorative authorisation to General Manager S C Gupta.Indian Railways is pressing ahead with the creation of seven ...
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Lahore may get LRT
A consortium led by Interglobe and Nonolite International is offering to build a 25 km elevated light rail line connecting Shahdara in Lahore to the new airport on a build-operate-transfer basis. A Memorandum of Understanding enabling project development to proceed was signed by the Punjab government on August 24.The line ...
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Tehran plans four more lines
PROPOSALS for expansion of the Tehran metro were unveiled last month by the Chairman & Managing Director of Tehran Urban & Suburban Railway Co Hashemi Bahramani. He confirmed that TUSRC expects to complete its initial five-line network by March 2005.Two urban metro lines and the suburban route to Karaj are ...
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SBB picks Flirt
SWISS Federal Railways announced on September 26 that it has ordered 42 low-floor EMUs from Stadler Bussnang AG for €330m. First deliveries are scheduled for autumn 2004, beginning with 12 sets for S-Bahn services around Zug. The other 30 for the Basel S-Bahn will start to arrive in mid-2005. The ...
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Finance
Africa: The African Development Fund has approved a US$3·3m regional railway feasibility study for the Economic Community of West African States.Cameroon: The French government has awarded Camrail a US$12·5m loan to rehabilitate the 263 km Ka’a - Belabo - Pangar line and acquire six locomotives and additional rolling stock.Czech Republic: ...
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Germans fastest
AS RAILWAYS continue to vie for the coveted title of fastest train in the world, it has emerged that Germany once again holds the blue riband for the top speed in commercial service. German Railway joined the 300 km/h club with the opening of its new line between Köln and ...