All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1261
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Alstom wins Firenze
ALSTOM FERROVIARIA has been selected to build and equip the first of three planned light rail lines in the Italian city of Firenze. This follows a second round of international tenders, as none of the bids lodged in July 2000 proved acceptable. Local transport operator ATAF has been allocated 240bn ...
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Alpine study group formed
DETAILED design studies and exploratory works for the Lyon - Torino rail link and base tunnel project are to get under way ’immediately’, according to Sergio Pininfarina, President of the intergovernmental commission set up to oversee the project. Meeting in Torino on July 24 to follow up the June 28 ...
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Alameda Corridor East
CALIFORNIA Transportation Commission has appropriated $153m to start construction of a second grade-separated freight corridor in the Los Angeles Basin. Running 56·3 km from East Los Angeles to Pomona, ’Alameda Corridor East’ will act as an extension of the 32 km Alameda Corridor between the city centre and the ports ...
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Sheremetyevo gets airport link
CONSTRUCTION work is due to get under way next year on a rail link to Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, following the signing of an agreement in July between Russian Railways Minister Nikolai Aksyonenko, the Vice-Premier of the Moscow City Government Iosif Ordzhonokidze and Aeroflot Director-General Valery Okulov. The decision to connect ...
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Putin and Kim agree Trans-Siberian strategy
MEETING in Moscow on August 4 (p572), Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean President Kim Jong-il backed plans to connect the Korean rail network into the Trans-Siberian landbridge corridor, confirming that ’the two countries will start working on reconnecting [the two lines] in the very nearest future.’Following the accord, ...
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Line 9 contracts awarded
ON JULY 31 the Catalunya regional government announced the award of its largest ever package of public works contracts, comprising design, construction and technical assistance for Barcelona metro Line 9 (RG 7.01 p437) worth a total of Pts119·5bn. The largest single contract worth Pts64·4bn has been awarded to a consortium ...
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Developing wheelsets for 30 tonne axleloads
BYLINE: Roger Lundén, Johan Marais and Stefan Schrader *BYLINE: * Roger Lundén is Director of Charmec, and Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics at Chalmers University of Technology in G
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More tilting TRDs
SPANISH National Railways has awarded CAF a contract worth Pts15·8bn to supply and maintain 21 TRD tilting DMUs for its Regional business unit. As with recent high speed orders (p517), Renfe has reserved the right to undertake up to 20% of construction and 50% of maintenance.Each powered by four 338 ...
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Tranz Scenic sale
THE BREAK-UP of Wisconsin Central’s overseas operations moved ahead at the end of June with the selection of a preferred bidder for the Tranz Scenic long-distance passenger services in New Zealand. Tranz Rail has signed non-binding heads of agreement with Australia’s West Coast Railway, which operates services between Melbourne and ...
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Silk Road study
SEVEN groups of consultants have been shortlisted to undertake detailed design studies for the planned Silk Road rail corridor linking Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China (RG 4.01 p223). Work on the project is expected to get under way shortly, following the signing of a formal accord by Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev ...
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Station redevelopment
Hungarian Railways has prepared a 10-year HF24·5bn plan to rebuild 25 major stations. This will require a doubling of MAV’s present investment budget.Intersite Property Management Services of South Africa has received 140 tender proposals for the R30m project to rebuild Pretoria station, which was burnt down on February 19 by ...
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Publications
2001 Public Transportation FactbookThe 52nd edition of APTA’s annual factbook contains statistical data on all aspects of the public transport industry in the United States. There is also additional information covering Canada. Sections cover finance, operating statistics, modes of travel, vehicles, federal grants and the Federal Transit Act. US data ...
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Wheel press technology
ARKANSAS Industrial Computing Inc is supplying computerised wheel press management equipment, to be used with presses manufactured by Simmons Machine Tool Corp.The AIC Wheel Shop Management System features modern data collection hardware controlled by AIC’s proprietary software. It uses a combination of industrial computers, hand-held barcode scanners and wireless barcode ...
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Pointers
n Best and final offers from shortlisted bidders for the US$400m build-operate-transfer LRT project in Jerusalem will be due within two weeks of publication of the tender documents, expected before the end of July. Contract signing would take place within 12 months, allowing work to start early in 2003.n With ...
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PKP starts the privatisation process
The restructuring of Polish State Railways reaches a crucial phase on October 1 this year when new companies responsible for regional passenger services, freight, traction power supplies, telecommunications and IT begin trading as wholly-owned subsidiaries of PKP. With various measures planned to reduce the state railway's historic debt, some operations ...
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People
Sango Ntsaluba has been appointed Executive Director of Spoornet. Pat Malaza has become Executive Manager, Financial Management. Roy Allen has been elected Chairman of the International Heavy Haul Association, with Ronaldo Costa as Vice Chairman. Edith E Holiday has been appointed to Canadian National's Board of Directors. Vernon Murphy has ...
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SNCF orders
FRENCH National Railways has ordered a further 180 Prima electric freight locos from Alstom, with an option for another 120. As with the existing order for 120, the locos will be split between dual-system Class 427000 (25 kV 50Hz/1·5 kV DC) and three-system variants: Class 437000 with 15 kV 162/3 ...
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Market
Australia: Victoria’s Department of Infrastructure has called tenders for consultants to study likely patronage of a rail link to Melbourne Tullamarine airport, using either the Broadmeadows or Albion suburban lines.Australia Southern has awarded contracts worth A$6m to EDI Rail for refurbishment of eight locos and 26 fixed pairs of rail-carrying ...
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Link revived
THROUGH PASSENGER services between Kolkata and Dhaka are set to resume by the end of this year, following a trial run from Tangail to Kolkata and back on July 11-12. The Joint Secretary at the Bangladesh Communications Ministry M Ataur Rahman signed an agreement with Indian High Commissioner M L ...