All Railway Gazette International articles in April 1999 – Page 4

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    Acela relaunches Northeast Corridor

    1999-04-01T10:00:00Z

    As the first of Amtrak's fleet of high-speed trainsets for the Washington DC - New York - Boston corridor prepares to start test running at Pueblo, infrastructure upgrading is in full swing along the route.

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    Series 700 derivative will replace Doctor Yellow

    1999-04-01T10:00:00Z

    INTRO: JR Central is developing a Shinkansen infrastructure inspection train able to measure track and overhead wire parameters at 270 km/hBYLINE: Seiichi IshizuChief Engineer, Technical Research & Development Division, Central Japan RailwayKNOWN as Dr Yellow because of its bright canary paint scheme, JR Central’s Shinkansen Multiple Inspection Train is a ...

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    Brief Encounter with Mega 3

    1999-04-01T10:00:00Z

    INTRO: Richard Hope takes a ride with an innovative multi-purpose piggyback/container wagon designed for the restrictive British loading gaugeA TEST RUN from Derby to Carnforth and back, one of three carried out during February by Serco, provided an opportunity to assess the ride quality at 145 km/h of Babcock Rail’s ...