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Jerusalem light rail works start
PREPARATORY works have started along the route of Jerusalem's first light rail line. This follows approval in June by the National Council for Design & Construction of an overall plan that would see eight lines totalling 54 km built in the city. The rights-of-way required for the LRT network are ...
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High speed is on the right track
BYLINE: Philippe RoumeguèreChief ExecutiveInternational Union of Railways (UIC)INTRO: Over 1500 delegates will assemble in Madrid for the fifth EurailSpeed congress on October 23 - 25HIGH SPEED RAIL is enjoying phenomenal success in Europe, expressed in terms of network length, traffic growth and market share. New lines are under construction in ...
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Line H slips
THE ECONOMIC crisis in Argentina may have delayed the project, but the city government is confident that the latest addition to the Buenos Aires metro network will be completed. Touring worksites on the first 3·34 km section of Line H between Incl
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Govia gets seven years
BRITAIN’s Strategic Rail Authority announced on August 29 that it had decided not to award a 20-year franchise for Govia to operate the South Central suburban network. Instead, the consortium of The Go-Ahead Group and Keolis will get a franchise running for up to seven years from January 1 2003. ...
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Roma restores Line G
ON SEPTEMBER 23 Roma metro operator Met.Ro. restored passenger services on interurban Line G between Torrenova and Grotte Celoni. The 7·7 km Torrenova - Pantano section has been closed for several years to allow double-tracking and upgrading. Met.Ro. began test running on the completed section to Grotte Celoni on September ...
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Parcels express
DHL is working up plans to operate 300 km/h trains moving standard air-freight containers between Brussels, Amsterdam, K
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Steel range expands
CORUS Rail marked 125 years of rail production at its Workington site in northwest England during September. The company has also launched a new website at www.corusrail.com to provide technical information on its rail and other products, and to raise awareness that the Corus Rail family now also includes sleeper, ...
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Engineering sale
SCOTTISH-based rail infrastructure maintenance contractor First Engineering Holdings Ltd is to be acquired by Peterhouse Group for £65·3m, subject to approval by Peterhouse shareholders at an Extraordinary General Meeting on October 4. The only remaining independent rail infrastructure maintenance contractor in the UK, First Engineering was formed in February 1996 ...
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EDI sales at record high
ON August 26 Australia’s Downer EDI announced record revenue of A$2·4bn for the year ended on June 30, with profits after tax up at A$56·4m compared with A$45·5m in 2001. Turnover for the rail division soared by 145% to A$428·4m; this represented 16·5% of the business.Downer EDI Managing Director Stephen ...
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Swazi downsizing
TROUBLE is brewing on Swaziland Railway, which operates 301 km of 1067mm gauge line between Golela and Goba, providing a key link between South Africa and Mozambique. Our correspondent reports that SR wants to halve its 600-strong workforce to improve its financial performance. Early retirement is being offered to employees ...
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WC technology develops
Microphor has introduced a water-saving, air-assisted flush toilet for applications where water conservation is important. Microflush models LF-810 and LF-820 require less water per flush than other designs available from Microphor. This extends the time interval between servicing, thus allowing the vehicle to be in operation longer.A cost-effective alternative to ...
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CTRL power supply order
LONDON Electricity Services has awarded a £4m contract to ABB Utility Power Systems for the supply of Static VAr Compensators. These are for use at the Singlewell and Barking feeder stations on Section 2 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Due to be installed next year, the SVCs will stabilise ...
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Courts fuel insurance worries
MORE than four years after a resilient wheel broke up at nearly 200 km/h, killing 101 people on June 3 1998 when a derailed ICE1 brought down a road overbridge at Eschede, three professional engineers found themselves in the dock at Celle on August 28. Volker Fischer and Joachim Thilo ...
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Victoria to renegotiate Melbourne contracts
THREE YEARS after they were awarded by the state government of Victoria, all five franchises for the operation of passenger trains and trams in and around Melbourne had effectively collapsed by the end of August. The three operators, National Express, Connex and Yarra Trams, faced unsustainable losses if the 12 ...
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Design of Taiwan’s high speed train fleet confirmed
INTRO: A fleet of 51 trainsets derived from the successful Series 700 shinkansen design will operate 300 km/h services on the Taipei - Kaohsiung high speed line. Detailed design changes are now being finalised, and the first unit is on course to roll out in April 2004WHEN THE government of ...
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Millennium line complete
VANCOUVER’S Skytrain expanded further on August 31 when Line 2, also known as the Millennium line, was formally opened between Broadway-Commercial and Columbia by British Columbia’s Transport Minister, Judith Reid, in a ceremony at Lougheed Town Centre station. There are 14 stations on the new line including the two that ...
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Coal contract
CONSTRUCTION of the 46·5 km North Bowen Basin rail link serving the Hail Creek coal mine in Queensland is expected to be completed by October 2003. An A$70m contract for the project was awarded on August 27 to civil engineering company Abigroup in partnership with Queensland Rail.The Hail Creek branch ...
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JR Central opens Komaki research centre
CENTRAL JAPAN Railway has opened its own research centre at Komaki in Aichi prefecture, about 20 km north of Nagoya. Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute already operates a major research facility with a wind tunnel at Maibara, but JR Central says that the RTRI wind tunnel is in great demand ...
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CARE selected for Docklands
CITY Airport Rail Enterprises is the preferred bidder to design, finance, build and maintain for 30 years the latest 4·4 km extension to London’s automated Docklands Light Railway. DLR says it expects contracts to be signed in mid-December, with work starting in January.Capital cost of the project that will see ...
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Spare capacity for upgrade
LONDON’S Docklands Light Railway is planning a £20m mid-life refurbishment of its fleet of 70 automated metro vehicles, to bring the whole fleet up to the same standard as 24 new vehicles now entering service. To increase reliability, mechanical and electrical equipment will be modernised, using experience gained since the ...