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Wien buys MoMo cars
WIEN City Transport has ordered 25 six-car trains worth €192m from a consortium headed by Siemens. They are to be used on Lines U1 and U2, and will be among the first to be built to the MoMo modular concept (RG 8.00 p473).The order represents the first tranche of rolling ...
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CIS business unit sold
INTERNATIONAL transport company Transfracht Internationale Gesellschaft für Kombinierten Güterverkehr has sold its Commonwealth of Independent States business unit to InterRail Services. The price was not disclosed, and the deal is backdated to September 1. IRS is a 50:50 joint venture of Intercontainer-Interfrigo and Transasia Holding AG.TFG is adopting a strategy ...
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Leuven - Liège brings the European high speed network a step closer
Belgium's second purpose-built 300 km/h line will bring the capital of Europe closer to the east, and improve communications between the Ile de France and the Ruhr
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Koreans resume border link
SEPTEMBER 18 saw a ceremony at Dorasan to mark the formal resumption of work on reconnecting the Gyeongi line across the Demilitarised Zone from Seoul to North Korea. Bilateral talks at the end of August were followed by the signing of a technical agreement on September 12 at Panmunjom between ...
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Better service on line
WE ARE pleased to announce that Railway Gazette International is now offering a weekly update of our on-line railway information service, www.railwaydirectory.net Frequent changes in staff, organisation and business structures make it hard to keep track of all developments in the worldwide railway market, but railwaydirectory.net is now better able ...
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‘Light rail’ ready in Beijing
THE OPENING to passengers of the trial section of the 41 km ’light rail’ line through Beijing’s northern suburbs was scheduled for September 28, after final commissioning runs that commenced 24 days earlier had been completed. Designated Line 13 on the capital’s planned metro network, this is the first to ...
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CAIB becomes VTG Rail UK
VTG-Lehnkering, part of the Hapag-Lloyd Group, in co-operation with Banker MM Warburg, has acquired the European rail logistics activities of Brambles European Rail Division.The UK arm, formerly CAIB UK, becomes VTG Rail UK Ltd. The former ERD’s 120 personnel and fleet of 21000 vehicles has been integrated into VTG-Lehnkering.
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Rail profits at Balfour Beatty
BALFOUR Beatty’s interim results for the half year to June 29 showed pre-tax profits of £48m. The rail sector had a profit of £16m, up from £7m in the equivalent period last year. There was a significant improvement in performance of the European electrification and power and US trackwork and ...
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Belgrano bail-out
THE ARGENTINIAN government has agreed to provide Belgrano Cargas with 24m pesos to secure operations and fund an emergency repairs programme. In return, the consortium which holds the Belgrano concession will be required to find a private-sector partner who might acquire up to 50% of the company.The consortium is currently ...
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Scully backs LRT
NEW South Wales Transport Minister Carl Scully announced in August a feasibility study that could see Sydney’s 6·6 km light rail line extended through the city centre to Circular Quay, where the cross-harbour ferries dock. The network could possibly be expanded to other routes, to replace bus services after a ...
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Short-term franchises are back
NEWS that Govia, a joint venture of Keolis and The Go-Ahead Group, has had its proposed 20-year South Central franchise commuted to seven years or less by the Strategic Rail Authority (p606) effectively marks the end of plans for more long-term franchises in Britain. Chiltern Railways has the sole 20-year ...
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Flood repairs may siphon away investment funds
’WATER IS THE enemy of the track’ remarked Isabela Mila, a senior Polish Railways manager responsible for investment on the Warszawa - Berlin corridor to us some time ago. She had good reason for concern, for severe flooding in Silesia in 1997 had absorbed funds that were badly needed for ...
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CTRL awards
UNION Railways (North) Ltd has awarded the ACT joint venture a contract to design, install and commission track and overhead line equipment on Section 2 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. ACT is formed of Alstom Transportation Projects, Carillion Construction and French infrastructure maintenance company Travaux du Sud-Ouest. Valued ...
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Autoripage moves Shortlands box
AFTER A 76h closure for major civil engineering work, the section of Railtrack’s Chatham main line between Herne Hill and Shortlands in the southeastern suburbs of London was handed back for traffic 40min ahead of schedule at 03.20 on August 27. The line had been closed to enable a 4500 ...
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NRC rehabilitation approved
A 25-YEAR ’strategic vision’ for the rehabilitation and development of Nigeria’s ailing national rail network at a cost of US$40bn was approved at the beginning of September (RG 4.02 p174). No funding has been identified, but the government hopes to raise 80% from external sources. Speaking on September 10, at ...
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Ankaray bidding
ANKARA metro operator EGO expects to call new bids shortly for civil engineering works and E&M equipment on the northeast extension of the 9 km Ankaray light rail line from Dikimevi to Siteler and Onder. Construction bids for these Phase 2 works were originally invited in 2000 and submitted on ...
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A real alternative to flying
BYLINE: Dr-Ing Dietrich G Moeller Dipl-Ing Josef W Fischer BYLINE: Dr-Ing Dietrich G Moeller is President, Trains, at Siemens Transportation Systems. Dipl-Ing Josef W Fischer is General Manager of the Subdivision High Speed, Spain & PortugalINTRO: Siemens is building a fleet of 16 high speed trainsets designed to link Madrid ...
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IR goes alone
LASTMONTH an inter-ministerial committee headed by the Ministry of Finance agreed to push ahead with the planned separation of Israel Railways from the country’s ports authority, despite objections from the Transport Minister Dr Ephrayim Sne. IR will be set up as a stand-alone limited company with the possibility of privatisation ...
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Airport contracts
ON AUGUST 29 Alstom Transport confirmed that it had won a €134m contract from Hellenic Railways’ construction arm Ergose, for project management and engineering design on the 30 km link to Spata international airport near Athens. Due to be completed for the 2004 Olympic Games, the route uses 10 km ...
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More rivals in the air
CAPTION: THE IMMINENT launch of German Wings, yet another no-frills European airline, obliges us to flag up once more the competitive threat from the air. Low-cost carriers have already forced British Airways and Lufthansa to revise their fares structures in Europe, and SAS in Scandinavia is following suit. Simple Internet ...