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Freight accord
OCTOBER is due to see the launch of a joint venture company based in Paris to co-ordinate wagonload freight traffic between France and Germany. The move follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Hannover on June 23. Participating in the ceremonies were DB Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn and SNCF ...
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Loco pools stoke the open access fire
INTRO: Germany’s railway reforms paved the way for open access operators to enter the freight business, sparking a demand for motive power available on short or long-term lease. Ralf Roman Rossberg looks at the ’rent-a-loco’ business set up by suppliers who have established pools of locomotives, lending encouragement to DB ...
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Prescott promises £60bn spending bonanza
BRITAIN’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has unveiled plans for a massive increase in public and private investment in rail over the next 10 years. Presenting Transport 2010 on July 20, Prescott set a target of lifting passenger-km on the national network by 50% and freight tonne-km by 80% by ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2000: Giant event storms to success in Berlin
INNOTRANS: Over 800 exhibitors from nearly 30 countries will be present at the InnoTrans event on September 12-15, filling some 20000m2 of hall space within the Berlin exhibition grounds. Organiser Messe Berlin reports that the number of exhibitors is up 75% from the last InnoTrans event in 1998. Once again, ...
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Class 185 pioneers use of ETCS
INTRO: Three pre-production dual-system Class 185 freight locos for German Railway are equipped to operate using ERTMS/ETCS, although delays in the development of Specific Transmission Modules in each country to form the interface with existing signalling mean that conventional train protection systems will be used initiallyTRIALS with a trio of ...
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TV at your table
TO DEMONSTRATE its TrainView passenger entertainment and information system to operators, the Passenger Rail Division of The Network Connection (TNCi) has unveiled a ’simulator’ at its British headquarters in Derby. Furnished with seats supplied by Antolin Loire, the simulator features seatback and table-mounted 8·4in LCD screens. TrainView has been developed ...
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Workshops restructured
SWISS Federal Railways has decided not to hive off its workshops to an external supplier, but to reorganise them into service centres to trim SFr100m off the current rolling stock maintenance budget of SFr600m a year by 2005. The programme, dubbed ’Redesign Service Rollmaterial’, will mean cutting the number of ...
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PEOPLE
JR East President Masatake Matsuda becomes Chairman in succession to Shuichiro Yamanouchi, who has been appointed President of Japan’s National Space Development Agency. Vice President Mutsutake Otsuka steps up to the Presidency. In a separate move, Chief Rolling Stock Engineer Yoshihiko Sato has joined JR East’s affiliated company Nippon Rolling ...
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Pacific revival
THIS MONTH is due to see the start of work on the renovation of Colombia’s Pacific rail network, serving the port of Buenaventura. The work is being done by a consortium of four local engineering firms, with Rites of India. Rites stepped in to replace the Spanish engineering firm Sacyr, ...
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Market
Australia: Goninan has been selected to supply nine new Prospector DMUs to Westrail by 2003 at a cost of A$59m. The fleet will comprise one three-car and two two-car 200 km/h sets for Perth - Kalgoorlie and a 150 km/h two-car set for AvonLink services to Northam.Azerbaijan: AZR has called ...
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Maghreb metamorphosis
CIVIL WAR has long precluded serious interest by outside parties in the fate of the 4219 km Algerian Railways network. The murderous feuds of the recent past will not be forgotten, but it looks as though opportunities to revitalise what was once a busy and growing railway are at hand. ...
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Six in Jerusalem race
THIS MONTH is due to see the shortlisting of between three and five consortia for the build-operate-transfer concession to develop the first of eight light rail lines in Jerusalem (MR00 p36). These firms will then be required to submit final tenders during September.On June 21 the municipality announced that six ...
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Tussle over iron ore
WITH Pacific Rim economies recovering swiftly from the 1998-99 recession, pressure is mounting to open up new sources of iron ore in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Two of these are located at West Angelas and Hope Downs, both 400 km from the sea but within easy reach of ...
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NewsTaskforce reports on Northern Ireland rail options
UK: This month should see an interim report presented to Britain's Department of Regional Development setting out options for the future of Northern Ireland Railways. Drawn up by a taskforce of three civil servants, the report was ordered following an assessment commissioned from A D Little by Translink on ...
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intelligence
Australia: The Commonwealth government has appointed Macquarie Bank as financial adviser on the sale of National Rail Corp, with Blake Dawson Waldron providing legal advice. Sparke Helmore and Arthur Anderson are also assisting.Brazil: América Latina Logística has ended the use of 3 kV DC electric traction between Rubião Júnior and ...
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Leasing innovations
ON JULY 14 British rolling stock lessor Angel Trains, now owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, announced it was forming a European subsidiary in co-operation with German equipment supplier Vossloh AG. Trading as Locomotion Partners, the new venture will be formed as two companies. London-based Locomotion Capital, 90% owned by ...
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Industry News
Australia: ERG Ltd, Telstra and ANZ Banking Group are to form the ECard Pty Ltd joint venture to develop a smart card solution suitable for application across Australia. ERG has also taken a 10% share in card.tec AG, a smart card operating company created by Deutsche Telekom subsidiary DeTeCard Service ...