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Open access proposal threatens profitable harmony
INTRO: Four years after the amicable separation of Finland’s rail infrastructure administration and restructuring of Finnish State Railways as a profitable commercial company, the government has decided to introduce more competition. Chris Jackson discussed the implications with RHK Director-General Ossi Niemimuukko and VR Group President & CEO Henri Kuitunen ON ...
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Stuttgart goes AC motored
THE first of 23 DT8.10 Stadtbahnwagen A articulated LRVs for Stuttgarter Straßenbahn AG was handed over by Adtranz and Siemens on April 16. The air-conditioned all-steel vehicles are a derivative of the standard-gauge design which SSB has been ordering since 1984, and will bring the fleet to 114 cars.The cars ...
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Production VAL208 arrives in Lille
Transpole has taken delivery of the first production VAL208 trainset. Matra Transport International is building 60 two-car sets for the Lille metro (MR98 p42), including the 16 station 12·5 km Line 2 extension from Fort de Mons to Tourcoing Centre, due to open on August 18. Trial running starts on ...
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Mubarak opens Cairo Line 2 extension
EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak formally inaugurated the third phase of Cairo metro Line 2 at the end of April. The 5 km extension carries the line below the Nile en route to the southwestern suburb of Giza. Starting from the interchange with Line 1 at Sadat, the Line 2 extension ...
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Metro Report 1999
SUBSCRIBERS will receive with this issue a copy of Metro Report 1999, our annual snapshot and overview of the latest developments in urban railways worldwide. Articles contributed by chief executives from metro and urban rail operators describe investment plans and programmes in cities ranging from Ankara to Taipei.Also in Metro ...
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Westrail sale will start soon
EXPRESSIONS of interest are to be called shortly for a private concessionaire to operate rail services in Western Australia; the intention is to complete the sale this year. The state’s Rail Access Committee presented its recommendations to the government last month.Westrail’s rolling stock, depots, terminals and existing contracts are to ...
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Under or round
AT THE behest of Bavarian Transport Minister Otto Wiesheu, German Railway has been asked to examine proposals to increase capacity for cross-city services in München. Specifically, he wants DB to assess the feasibility of upgrading the southern ring linking the main station and the Ostbahnhof, with four tracks throughout and ...
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Arab Railway StatisticsStatistics for 13 members of the Arab Union of Railways covering 1997 show that Moroccan Railways carries the most freight, followed by Tunisia, whereas Egypt has the highest passenger traffic. Various network and traffic statistics are complemented by a directory of operators and suppliers in Arab countries. Eng ...
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PEOPLE
As part of the Canadian National corporate restructuring to integrate Illinois Central, announced on April 14 (p261), President & Chief Executive Officer Paul M Tellier has named Michael Sabia as Executive Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer and E Hunter Harrison as Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer. Senior Vice-President, Network ...
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On April 15 Guatemala President Alvaro Arzu Irigoyen and Transport Minister Fritz Garcia-Gallont joined Ferrovias Guatemala Chairman Henry Posner III and General Manager Renato Fernandez Ravelo to celebrate the return of freight services to the 914mm gauge network after a three year break. The thrice-weekly train will haul cement 60 ...
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Finnish infrastructure authority Ratahallintokeskus expects to call tenders this month for the extension of 25 kV electrification from Oulu to Rovaniemi and Tuomioja to Raahe. This forms part of a two-stage programme to wire the remaining trunk lines in northern Finland.CAPTION: Russian Railways’ Demikhovo EMU factory has completed a prototype ...
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Network with revenue potential
ECI Telecom has supplied a US$5m Syncom SDH telecommunications network to Singapore MRT. Linking 60 stations with trackside optic fibre cabling, it can transmit information at speeds of up to 400gigabits/sec. It supports SMRT’s telephone network and also carries data and pictures from station CCTV cameras to the control room.The ...
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Real progress, but more is needed
PUBLIC HEARINGS called this month by the Productivity Commission will seek views on the way railway reform is being handled in Australia. A draft report was published by the Commission on March 30, and its final report is due in August. Despite huge changes in the way government owned railways ...
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Argentina: The government is to call tenders for the design, construction and operation over 30 years of a rail link between the centre of Buenos Aires and Ezeiza Airport, with the fastest journey time over the 40 km not to exceed 40min. Initial proposals include an extension of metro Line ...
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Mandurah plan
PROPOSALS for an 82 km outer-suburban rail link between Perth and Mandurah have been endorsed by the Western Australia state government. Costed at A$940m, the line would bypass the existing commuter line through Fremantle to serve the rapidly-growing southern outer suburbs of Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah.State Premier Richard Court proposed ...
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Managing a project with many masters
INTRO: Ken Turnbull of Bechtel, who is Project Director of Rail Link Engineering, told Richard Hope how the £4bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link survived last year’s crisis, and is now running smoothly despite complex client-contractor relationships resulting from the rescue deal reached in June 1998JUST 12 MONTHS AGO, the fate ...
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Mutiny in the Mall
RICHARD WHITE has a problem. As General Manager of the Washington DC’s metro network, now nearing completion after 23 years, he saw a 70% increase in train failures in March and April compared to February. At the same time, daily ridership hit an all-time-high of 617000 passengers on April 7. ...
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Russian port links progress
LAST MONTH was due to see the completion of new lines totalling 100 km serving ports on Russia’s Taman peninsula. Under a national strategy to develop ports on the Azov and Black seas, RZD is building links from the Krasnodar - Kavkaz line at Vyshesteblevskaya to Taman on the southern ...
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Milano launches light metro
DETAILED planning has started for a fourth metro line in Milano. The 15 km route running from the southwest to the east of the city will serve a heavily-used bus corridor and relieve pressure on the parallel Line 1 between Cadorna and Pagano-Bisceglie. It will be totally underground.Metropolitana Milanese is ...