All Policy articles – Page 97
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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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Smallest state in privatisation vanguard
Estonia is on course to be the first former Soviet state to transfer rail operations to the private sector. Richard Hope reports keen bidding for rapidly growing transit freight through the port of Tallinn, although thereis a tussle over passenger subsidies
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PKP poised to take the privatisation plunge
Jan Janik, President of the Management Board and Director General of Polish State Railways, discussed with Murray Hughes in Warszawa how he is preparing the network for a rapid process of transition, first to a restructured business-led railway and then truly into the private sector.
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Deregulation changes the face of Canadian railroading
Since the Canada Transportation Act came into force in 1996, the country's rail industry has undergone a dramatic transformation, with modernisation and restructuring at the two big national operators matched by a mushrooming of small and medium-sized feeder railways
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'I don't want to privatise, and I don't believe we need it'
Etienne Schouppe, Managing Director of Belgian National Railways, is treading a delicate path of reform in a country where performance of the national railway is a deeply political issue. The restructured company lends itself to privatisation, but Schouppe told Murray Hughes in Brussels that the changes were needed to put ...
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Links drive Danish upgrading
Within a couple of years Banestyrelsen will form the key section of an unbroken rail corridor between Scandinavia and mainland Europe. Director General Erik Elsborg told Andrew Hellawell how he plans to expand capacity for growing domestic and international traffic while encouraging both new and established rail operators
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Railway closure error recognised
JAMAICA’S government in 1992 suspended all rail services on its 147 year old network. At the time only 206 of the 330 route-km was in use, and that was suffering badly from neglect and lack of maintenance. Inevitably, this was the cue for vandals to damage or destroy many of ...
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Infrastructure separation: will it work?
Splitting railway infrastructure and operations is seen by politicians and economic gurus around the world as a panacea to problems of road-rail competition, poor cross-border service quality, and many other ills. But will the methods being adopted achieve the desired results? In an exclusive survey for Railway Gazette International, David ...
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Bosporus tunnel project launched
TURKEY: Construction of a fixed link between the European and Asian parts of the Turkish rail network could get under way next year, according to Transport Minister Necdet Menzir. He was speaking at a seminar organised by the State Planning Office on February 23 to unveil the latest proposals to ...
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Czech branches back on the block
After five years of debate, plans to sell over one-third of the CD network go back to parliament later this month
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Channel Tunnel Rail Link concession collapses
In an emergency statement to the House of Commons late on January 28, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, said London & Continental Railways had notified him at 20.00 that it could not finance the Channel Tunnel Rail Link to London. The day before, LCR had asked for a further ...
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'This is not privatisation, it is a change to make the railway more competitive'
January 1 saw the hiving off of Danish State Railways' infrastructure business to form the new authority Banestyrelsen. Chris Jackson spoke to DSB Director General Henrik Hassenkam about the restructuring