All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1307
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Milano - Bologna to open in 2006
INTRO: Italian high-speed line authority TAV SpA is due to award a formal contract to the Cepav-Uno consortium this month for construction of the Milano - Bologna route at a cost of 8 995bn lire. Chris Jackson talked to project managers Galliano Ballarani and Giovanni Caccia *BYLINE: * Galliano Ballarani ...
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Surf Board to rule in 2001
NEW REGULATIONS for consideration of US railroad mergers will be published by the Surface Transportation Board on June 11 2001. Board Chairman Linda Morgan announced the date on March 31, confirming the timescale set in the March 17 decision to suspend consideration of all mergers, including the proposed US$6bn BNSF-CN ...
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HSR 2000
ON MAY 31-June 2 Railway Gazette International and AiC Worldwide are staging the High Speed Rail 2000 conference in London. With a strong business focus, the event has attracted eminent speakers from the world’s high speed operators. They include: Chris Green, Chief Executive of Virgin Trains; David Azéma, Chairman & ...
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NewsIntelligence - May 2000
Australia: The federal government has granted a 30-year access agreement to the Asia-Pacific Transport consortium which has been selected to build the Alice Springs - Darwin railway. NSW FreightCorp is preferred bidder for a 10-year contract to move 6million tonnes of coal a year from Blackwater to Gladstone in Queensland, ...
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VIA volte-face
HAVING considered privatisation of VIA Rail Canada, the federal government may now be prepared to ensure its survival in the public sector, and, to boot, stabilise its precarious financial position. Transport Minister David Collenette has apparently convinced his cabinet colleagues of the merits of using a healthy pre-election budget surplus ...
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Sidetrack
Training cats and dogsFebruary saw another railway first, when Eurotunnel carried a small party of dogs and cats from France into Britain, heralding the dismantling of Britain’s pet quarantine laws. Introduced a century ago to prevent rabies spreading from mainland Europe, the regulations looked increasingly anachronistic as cases of la ...
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Virgin Voyagers to roll this summer
TAKING shape at Bombardier Transportation's BN plant in Brugge are the first of 352 DEMU cars for Virgin Rail's Cross-Country franchise in Britain. The first unit is on course to roll out in June, just 18 months after the £1060m contract was placed (RG 4.99 p223). The 34 four-car non-tilting ...
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Publications
Save the CityThis video from the International of Public Transport argues that ’without mobility, a city is no longer a city’. Aimed at increasing awareness of the role of public transport amongst decision makers and opinion formers, it highlights examples of good practice in land use and transport planning from ...
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Re-franchising progress
CHIEF EXECUTIVE of Britain’s Shadow Strategic Rail Authority Mike Grant announced on March 14 the six shortlisted bidders to negotiate for the first three replacement franchises. Both incumbents have been selected for the two London commuter franchises. Connex will be competing with Thameslink franchisee GOVIA for Network South Central, while ...
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PEOPLE
Netherlands Railways Chairman Rob den Besten is to step down in August. He will be succeeded by NS Reizigers Director General Hans Huisinga.Amongst recent Russian Railways appointments, Yevgeni M Plokhov succeeds A S Levchenko as President of the Kuyibishev Railway and Alexander S Bogatyryov becomes President of the North Caucasian ...
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Shanghai orders
LAST MONTH, Shanghai’s public-private metro development consortium Jiushi ordered a fleet of 152 metro cars to operate the city’s Xinming ’light rail’ line, which runs 14 km southwest from the Line 1 terminus at Xin Zhuang to Ming Hang (RG 1.99 p29). They will be built to Alstom’s modular Metropolis ...
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Seoul openings
METRO CONSTRUCTION is forging ahead in the South Korean capital, with 57 km to open this year. Announcing the start of operations on the 9 km Son Su - Shin Pung section of Line 7, with eight stations, on February 29, Seoul Subway Construction Corp confirmed the schedule for ...
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TINA opportunity must be taken
AS THE European Union prepares to welcome new members from eastern Europe, transport politicians are taking stock of progress in existing member states and attempting to assess the needs of tomorrow’s community. At the Pan-European Railway Conference staged by the International Union of Railways, the Community of European Railways and ...
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Metros
Estonia: Tallinn city government is seeking separation of commuter rail operator AS Elektriraudtee from national railway Eesti Raudtee. The aim is to merge the city’s electric railways with the tramways operated by Trammi-ja trollibussikoondis and sell them to the private sector as a single entity.Germany: München airport authorities are proposing ...
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Market
Albania: HSH is negotiating with Czech companies for supply of spare parts to put back into service the bulk of the main line fleet of 62 Type T669.1 Co-Cos supplied by CKD Praha in 1968-70.Australia: Alstom Engines’ Paxman Division is to supply 21 diesel engines to SRANSW for repowering its ...
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Lausanne metro rebuild
ON MARCH 6, the Swiss canton of Vaud confirmed that it had chosen Alstom to supply new rolling stock and train control systems for the Lausanne metro, which is to be rebuilt and extended by 2005. The former Lausanne - Ouchy funicular, subsequently converted to a steel-wheeled rack railway, is ...
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Kyiv prototype
CZECH rolling stock supplier Skoda Dopravní technika has won a contract to supply a prototype five-car metro trainset to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, in conjunction with the Russian firm Vagonmash St Petersburg. The unit is due to be delivered in November, after which Kyiv Metro expects to order a series ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Argentina: Looking to broaden its traffic base beyond bulk commodities, Belgrano Railway (RG 1.00 p12) has introduced Buenos Aires - Salta container services. The company also has a stake in the consortium holding the concession to operate the port of Santa Fe.In addition to the purchase of new locomotives for ...