All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1158
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Phillippine National Railways and Siemens are to carry out a 100m peso feasibility study for the Mindanao railway project, which would link Butan, Davao and General Santos.A consortium of local industries and broad gauge operator Nuevo Central Argentino is reported to have expressed interest in acquiring a stake in Belgrano ...
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PEOPLE
Magdalena Álvarez Arza has been named as Secretary of State for Transport in the new Spanish government.A government reshuffle in France sees François Goulard appointed as Secretary of State for Transport under Gilles de Robien. who remains as Transport Minister.RFF Director-General Jean-Marie Bertrand was elected Chairman of the European Rail ...
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Yarra Trams takes over
At 03.01 on April 18 Yarra Trams became the new name for Melbourne’s entire privatised tram network when the company assumed responsibility for the former National Express Swanston Trams franchise operated under the M>Tram brand.Yarra Trams Chief Executive Hubert Guyot drove the first tram, a Siemens Combino low-floor car, from ...
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Nusantara Tunnel plan unveiled
PROPOSALS to develop a fixed link between Sumatra and Java were unveiled by Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency at the end of March. The aim is to start construction next year, with opening envisaged in 2008.The plan is to build a twin-bore tunnel between Banteng and Lampung, through which electric ...
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Mitropa sold
SELECT Service Partner, the international concessions arm of catering services business Compass Group, is to acquire Mitropa AG from German Railway for a net consideration of €17·6m.Now separated from DB’s on-train catering business, Mitropa has catering concessions at more than 60 German railway stations. It reported sales of around €115m ...
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Market
Argentina:Under a contract worth 1·3m pesos, Luis Carlos Zonis has begun work to repair track on the network operated by Buenos Aires port authority AGP.Austria:ÖBB has awarded Kapsch TrafficCom a five-year contract to implement a train management and telephone communications system using its Mulitmedia Access IP Dispatcher technology. Bulgaria:Koncar Ellok ...
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SBB ticket machines
LATER this year SBB will begin replacing portable ticket machines used for on-train sales with 2000 almex.mobile portable ticket machines from Höft & Wessel. Up to 1GB of data on available tickets and fares can be stored in the almex.mobile terminals, and a radio link can be used to obtain ...
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Minuetto leads regional revival
Minuetto leads regional revivalINTRO: Styled by Giugiaro Design, the Minuetto is intended to bring a note of elegance to regional services in Italy. Alstom Transport is due to deliver 70 electric and 67 diesel multiple-units by December 2005ONE OF the most recent additions to Alstom’s Coradia family, the Minuetto is ...
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KTZ starts on Trans-Asian link
KAZAKHSTAN Railways has started work on an ambitious US$3·5bn project to build a 1435mm gauge railway linking Asia and Europe, paralleling the broad gauge Trans-Siberian corridor in Russia. According to KTZ First Vice-President Kanat Zhangaskin, the standard gauge Trans-Kazakhstan Railway between China and Iran would cut journey times by up ...
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La Réunion plans inter-urban link
LYON-BASED consultant Semaly has won a contract to study and design an inter-urban ’tram-train’ project on the French island département of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean.Leader of a consortium with Scetauroute, Thales and Dubus Richez, Semaly is already working on preliminary studies and expects to complete an assessment of ...
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Intelligence
Australia:Mining company Xstrata has announced that it will go ahead with a planned open-cast coal mine west of Rolleston in Queensland, which will include a 110 km rail link (RG 4.03 p183). To be built by QR, Abigroup, John Holland and Connell Wagner at a cost of A$230m, it ...
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Integrated warnings
A TRAIN-mounted Electronic Train Protection & Warning System which combines Thales Communications’ Electronic Automatic Warning System with a TPWS aerial in a single module is under test on 10 of GNER’s inter-city electric locomotives.Intended for use by train operators who are upgrading their existing Automatic Warning System, the combined E-TPWS ...
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On-line tickets printed at home
ON MARCH 12 Belgian National Railways launched a new facility allowing passengers to book domestic rail tickets over the internet and print the travel documents using their own printer. Online payment is made by credit or debit card. The railway had developed the technology itself, and claims that it is ...
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Locating trains on the Hochbahn
HAMBURG’S Hochbahn is to fit more than 300 metro cars with TagMaster heavy-duty radio-frequency identification tags as part of a total operations monitoring and control system being supplied by Vossloh Information Technologies.The 800 tags will be used to provide accurate information about train locations and travel direction, and 190 readers ...
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President Goh inaugurates KTX
'ON APRIL 1 Korea will speed up with KTX' announced the huge banners decking Seoul station on March 30. Hundreds of invited guests from across the world joined in the celebrations when South Korea's Acting President Goh Kun formally inaugurated the world's eighth high speed railway. Following the inauguration ceremony ...
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NewsGNER internet link
SWEDISH supplier Icomera AB announced on April 7 that it had been appointed to install its Wireless Onboard Internet technology on 10 refurbished Mk IV trainsets (RG 11.03 p698) used by British inter-city operator GNER. The deal follows successful trials with an initial three trains (RG 9.03 p550). Users ...
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Giant T makes steady progress
ITALY's high speed lines are being built in the shape of a giant T with the spine stretching from Milano in the north to Napoli in the south. The bar of the T is formed by an east-west route that will link Torino to Trieste. After the final section of ...
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Osaka gateway
WEST Japan Railway has announced plans to redevelop Osaka station by 2011, to create a showpiece gateway to the city. Work will begin this year on a new terminal building, designed for improved accessibility. Additional escalators and lifts will help to smooth passenger flows and simplify transfer between different services. ...
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SNCF under fire
A BOOK entitled La Machine Infernale published by Le Cherche Midi has ruffled the feathers of everyone involved in railways in France. Written by Nicolas Beau, a journalist with the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé, Marc Fressoz of La Vie du Rail and Laurence Dequay, a writer for the magazine ...
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Finance
Brazil:Railway projects have been allocated 4·5% of the US$13bn that the federal government is to invest through its 2003-07 transport infrastructure programme, hoping to attract a further US$13·96bn from state development bank Bndes, international funding organisations and the private sector. New legislation now allows infrastructure projects to be taken forward ...