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Belgians to run CFR upgrade
MODERNISATION of Romania’s principal east-west rail corridor over the next three years is to be managed by a consortium of Belgian high-speed line promoter TUC Rail SA and Brussels-based consultancy Transurb Consult. CFR SA General Manager Viorel Simut signed a US$9·2m technical assistance contract on November 16, together with TUC ...
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Skytrain takes off with a bang
Fireworks, a baby elephant, dancers carrying a royal barge mock-up, and two Russian ballet dancers joined forces in a spectacular celebration to mark completion of the world's first modern metro network to be totally funded by the private sector.
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ECO backs Asian links
THROUGH freight and passenger trains between Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are due to start next year, with the backing of the Economic Co-operation Organisation which groups 10 Central Asian countries. Meeting in Lahore, six of the transport ministers agreed to launch an Almaty - Toshkent - Mashhad - ...
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WCML cost almost trebles
RAILTRACK finally announced on December 15 that its flagship project to modernise the West Coast Main Line linking London with Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow by 2005 is going to cost £5·8bn. This is 176% more than the £2·1bn previously stated. The original total comprised £1·35bn of ’core investment’ (now ...
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Nürnberg airport U-Bahn link opens
OBERBURGERMEISTER Ludwig Scholz and Bavaria’s Interior Minister Günther Becker were the guests of honour on November 27 when Nürnberg Transit celebrated the extension of U-Bahn Line 2 to the city’s airport. The 3·5 km extension northwest from Herrnhütte cost DM180m, including an intermediate station at Ziegelstein which lifts the network’s ...
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EC tries again to revive rail freight
AS EXPECTED, the EU Council of Transport Ministers backed the Commission’s ’railway package’ when they met in Brussels on December 9 - 10. Even France voted in favour of a circumscribed form of open access; only Portugal abstained. Three draft directives, amending 91/440 and 95/18 and replacing 95/19, are now ...
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NewsRailtex 99 review
RAILTEX: We present a selection of news and products from the Railtex 99 exhibition held in London on November 30 - December 2
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ETCS ready to go, but operators shun Level 3
’WE ARE STARTING to leave technical matters behind and move to commercial developments.’ This was the message with which Chief Executive Philippe Roumeguère opened UIC’s seventh annual conference on ERTMS/ETCS and GSM-R in Paris on November 25. Some 450 delegates were present. Certainly, the good news was mostly on the ...
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Railways in the first decades of the 21st Century
INTRO: With the industry recently undergoing changes that few would have expected, it is perhaps foolhardy to predict the future of railways in any detail. But five broad ideas are likely to influence developments in the opening decades of the new centuryBYLINE: Louis S ThompsonRailways AdviserThe World Bank IN THE ...
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Brenner by 2015
ITALIAN State Railways and Brenner Eisenbahn GmbH have set up a joint venture called Brenner Base Tunnel EWIV to mastermind a two-year planning process that should culminate in a report setting out detailed design for the 54 km bore. Launched on November 17 in Brussels, the jv is based in ...
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India to install ATP on 15000 route-km
A RECOMMENDATION from India’s National Railway Safety Commission that automatic train protection should be installed on some 15000 route-km of main lines over the next seven years has been accepted by the government. The cost is likely to be around US$1bn.The decision to install ATP follows the head-on collision at ...
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railwaygazette.com
OVER the past 21/2 years we have been developing our web information service at www.railgaz.co.uk. Gratifyingly, we have recorded a steady growth in visits, with thousands of professionals from all sectors of the rail industry registering to use the site. In order to provide an even better service to our ...
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Publications
Jane’s Urban Transport SystemsNow edited by Tony Pattison, the 1999-2000 edition of this heavyweight annual continues in its traditional style covering the world’s rail and road public transport. 388 pages are dedicated to the world’s major cities from Aachen to Zürich. The remainder of the book’s 660 pages cover manufacturers, ...
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Pointers
n Australia’s Speedrail consortium hopes to sign Heads of Agreement with the federal and New South Wales state governments by the end of this year for the A$3·7bn Sydney - Canberra high-speed line, so that construction can start during 2000.n The Transport Ministers of Bulgaria and Macedonia have agreed to ...
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PEOPLE
On September 14, the Chairman of the German Railway Supervisory Board, Dr Dieter Vogel, announced that Hartmut Mehdorn will be taking over as Chairman of the DB Management Board with effect from January 1. Formerly Chairman of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, he will succeed Dr Johannes Ludewig. At the same time, ...
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Product NEWS
BYLINE: Containers without terminalsthe container handling system developed by Swing Thru International has been designed for mounting on wagons and road vehicles, enabling intermodal traffic to be loaded or unloaded at locations without cranes or paving for reach-stackers. Available with a lifting capacity ranging from 10 to 35 tonnes, the ...
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Øresund network takes shape
AN INTEGRATED network of regional train services is being developed to link the towns and cities around the Øresund following the opening of the fixed rail link between Denmark and Sweden next year. The link was physically completed with the installation of the final bridge segment on August 14 (RG ...
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Market
Brazil: MRS Logística has ordered 270 mineral wagons from Maxion and 180 from T’Trans, under a US$20m 10-year leasing deal with Debis Finance Corp; deliveries are due by December.China: Kowloon - Canton Railway Corp has awarded Maunsell two design and construct consultancy contracts for the 11·4 km Ma On Shan ...
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Single track maglev
JUST BEFORE he left the post of Transport Minister in the German government (p626), Heinz Münterfering ruled that the Hamburg - Berlin Transrapid maglev project was to be built initially using a single track (RG 6.99 p346), with provision made for vehicles to pass - presumably a reference to a ...