All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2002 – Page 3
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Rebodied EMUs take over South African commuter routes
INTRO: Unable to afford new trainsets, South African Rail Commuter Corp is fitting new bodies to old EMU underframes. Rollo Dickson has the storySTRIKINGLY refurbished rolling stock is appearing in Johannesburg and Cape Town, where the electric multiple-units that work South Africa Rail Commuter Corp’s suburban services are typically 30 ...
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Advanced Commuter Train pioneers changes on Tokyo’s suburban network
INTRO: Testing of East Japan Railway’s prototype Advanced Commuter Train is now in hand. Breaking with several conventions, the articulated EMU makes extensive use of on-board information technology to reduce operating costs and increase reliabilityBYLINE: Takashi EndoDirector, Advanced Railway System Development CentreEast Japan Railway CoJR EAST operates 17 suburban routes ...
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Westbahn upgrading adds capacity to priority transit corridor
INTRO: Austrian Federal Railways’ 317 km Westbahn between Wien and Salzburg is being modernised to handle growing transit traffic as the European Union prepares for expansionBYLINE: Dipl-Ing Helmut Hainitz and Dipl-Ing Rudolf Koller*AUSTRIA’S location at the heart of Europe obliges it to handle heavy flows of transit traffic, both north-south ...
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Shinkansen network tops 2000 km
INTRO: December this year sees the opening of the Morioka - Hachinohe extension of the Tohoku Shinkansen, taking the length of Japan’s high speed network to 2047 km. The first part of the Kyushu Shinkansen will open next year, and work is proceeding on two other extensions BYLINE: Hiroshi KanazawaDirector, ...
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