All News articles – Page 417
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Spares & repairs
LAST year Nigerian Railways Corp took delivery of some spanking new 1067mm gauge rolling stock from China. There were 50 Class 2101 diesel locos rated at 2400hp, coaches that included air-conditioned first-class cars from Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works, a fleet of railbuses, plus 400 freight wagons. The package ...
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Profit priority at Siemens
After recording a pre-tax loss of DM759m in the financial year which ended on September 30 1998, Siemens Transportation Systems is expecting to reduce its losses ’substantially’ in 1998-99 by further strengthening systems competence which represents a ’unique competitive advantage’. According to the Siemens annual report for 1997-98, Trans-portation Systems’ ...
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PEOPLE
Gerald Davies has joined Kansas City Southern as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. Bill Lyman takes over as Senior Vice President, Operations, succeeding Ab Rees who becomes Senior Vice President, International Operations. Robert D Krebs, Chairman, President & CEO of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp, has been elected ...
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PassengerPORTFOLIO
CAPTION: INAUGURAL runs for VIPs were staged on November 30 with the first of three Talgo Pendular sets for Amtrak Cascades services from Seattle to Portland and Vancouver after trials at up to 200 km/h at the Transportation Test Centre in Pueblo, Colorado. The end cars have tall fins acting ...
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PassengerPORTFOLIO
In Briefn On November 26 London Transport extended its ’Home-Link’ taxi connection to and from five Underground stations in southwest London. Passengers using Morden, South Wimbledon, East Putney, Southfields and Wimbledon Park stations can book a cab to collect them for a flat fare of £2·50.n Harmon Industries’ subsidiary SES ...
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NEWS
CAPTION: Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and Long Beach Mayor Beverley O’Neill participated in ceremonies on November 16 to mark completion of a 116 m long bridge over the Los Angeles River. The first major structure to be completed as part of the US$1·2bn Alameda Corridor freight route (RG 9.97 ...
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Monorail link
ON NOVEMBER 26 the Governor of Tokyo Yukio Aoshima participated in ceremonies to inaugurate the first section of an orbital monorail linking the capital’s western suburbs. Also participating were Construction Minister Akira Kiyazaki and Vice Transport Minister Motoo Hayashi. To be operated by a subsidiary of the Tokyo Municipal Government, ...
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Letters
Wrong styleSir - We were interested to read the article in your October issue on the Spanish IC2000 tilting trains (RG 10.98 p693), as Giugiaro Design was involved in the exterior design of these trains. Unfortunately the picture caption attributes this role to our competitor Pininfarina, and I would like ...
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Our latest publications
DISTRIBUTED to subscribers with this issue is Rail Business Report 99. This edition includes the World Bank performance database, a review of investment plans in Europe, an assessment of the US rolling stock market, and articles about railway developments in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, West Rail in Hong Kong, and ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: On November 18 Adtranz MAV Dunakeszi Kft handed over six refurbished couchette coaches to Hungarian State Railways for use by lorry drivers travelling on Hungarokombi piggyback trains. Rolling motorway trains have a 12% market share of the 700000 lorries that cross Hungary each year
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: Western Australia’s government has set up the Rail Advisory Council to look at rail access, sale of Westrail, and access to North Quay, Fremantle, including possible double-stack operation.BHP Iron Ore was due to receive the first of six AC6000CW diesel locos from General Electric in December for use on ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: The first Gatwick Express EMU built by Alstom Transport in Birmingham to the Juniper design was due to start test running on December 18
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: The first four spans for the cable-stayed high bridge on the Øresund fixed link were in position by December 11 and the last span on the 3·7 km eastern approach was installed on December 3. The last of the immersed tube tunnel segments is to be positioned this month
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Swiss support huge rail spend
NO CLEARER signal could have been given. On November 29 the Swiss population voted by a majority of 63·5% to support a massive investment programme in their rail network. The Bern government now has a mandate to spend SFr30·5bn on rail projects over the next two decades, including the much ...
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TRTC readies Hsinchung line
TAIPEI Rapid Transit Corp President Richard Chen confirmed in November that the city’s third metro line would open before the end of 1998. The 7·8 km Hsinchung line combines the northern half of the Hsintien (Green) line between the Main station and Kuting and the southern section of the Chungho ...
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London’s light railway grows up
INTRO: The original Docklands Light Railway cost £77m, but Richard Hope found that total investment is approaching £1bn as a third extension nears completion - and there is more to comeBYLINE: Ian BrownChief ExecutiveDocklands Light Railway LtdBYLINE: Bill ShepherdProject ManagerLewisham ExtensionLRG ContractorsCHRISTMAS WAS DUE to see a major software upgrade ...
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Frozen fortune
LAST MONTH we reported on problems affecting Russian Railways’ Trans-Siberian main line and proposals to rejuvenate its role as a landbridge. At the 7th conference of the Co-Ordinating Council on Trans Siberian Transport in Bremen, concern was expressed about the drastic fall in container traffic from 120000 units a year ...
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Train ferry plan
CHINESE Railways has decided to run a train ferry across the Yangtze river at Jiang’in, east of Nanjing. Work will start on the project this year for opening in 2001. The ferry will form part of the 642 km Xinyi - Chanxing line to open up the eastern seaboard between ...
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Valencia to expand metro
A FIVE-POINT plan to expand the Valencia rail network at a cost of Pts15bn was unveiled by the President of the Generalitat Valenciana Eduardo Zaplana in November. This sets out future priorities following the inauguration of the Line 3 cross-city tunnel in September (RG 11.98 p753). The regional government has ...
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EWS penetrates German market
ON DECEMBER 1 English Welsh & Scottish Railway dispatched its first through freight train to Germany via the Channel Tunnel. Leaving Wembley in north London at 00.07, it was scheduled to reach K