All Railway Gazette International articles in April 2005 – Page 4
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Pointers
During an official visit to Chile, Argentinian President Néstor Kirchner announced in Santiago on March 14 that tenders would soon be called for work to restore the central rail crossing of the Andes between Mendoza and Los Andes.Chinese Railways expects to start work this year on an underground link between ...
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Publications
End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of America’s Passenger Trainsby Joseph VranichIf you thought that Amtrak had some redeeming features, you will have forgotten them by the time you reach the end of this well-researched book.Author Joseph Vranich, a former Amtrak public affairs spokesman ...
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Rails to be rolled in Scunthorpe
CORUS announced on February 17 that rail production will be transferred from its Workington plant to Scunthorpe steelworks by November 2006.The steelmaker is to spend £130m at Scunthorpe, creating a rail production facility at the existing section mill, as well as an on-site service centre offering rail in lengths of ...
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Simulating the world’s railways
CORYS Training & Engineering Support Systems is supplying train simulators to railways across the world from its base in Grenoble. The company has recently completed the modification of a cab simulator used to train Acela Express drivers to represent four additional types of vehicle, covering the majority of Amtrak’s fleet.The ...
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RandstadRail starts to take shape
Work is getting underway on a €1bn conversion of two heavy rail corridors serving Rotterdam and Den Haag into metro and light rail routes that will start operation next year. Harry Hondius MSc reports
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No ride in Tainan
WE JUMPED to the wrong conclusion last month in our report on events in Taiwan on January 27. It appears that, although there were indeed around 500 guests at Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp’s ceremony in Tainan, they were not in fact allowed to ride on the Series 700T trainset. ...
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Sidetrack
DieterNot the whole storyOUR Swiss cartoonist was fortunately not strolling across the Place Saint-Laurent in Lausanne on February 22, when tunnelling work for the city’s rubber-tyred M2 metro project brought about the collapse of a section of the square. Parts of the area had to be cordoned off, residents were ...
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Step-by-step training
ROYAL Navy training facilities are to be used in a £30m Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme launched by Network Rail.The company is to recruit 200 school leavers each year over five years for the three-year courses, which include a residential first year. The courses will be based at a purpose-built centre within ...
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Television on the subway
MARTA has signed a 10-year contract with Atlanta-based company The Rail Network for the installation of five 15 inch flat digital television screens in each of the 338 Atlanta metro cars. Television news programmes will be updated four times daily, and there will be three music channels. An information channel ...
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