All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2002 – Page 2
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Tenerife bids
TENDERS will be called later this year for a 16·7 km light rail line on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Costing €178m, the 12·5 km first phase will link Intercambiador in central Santa Cruz to La Laguna. An extension to the airport and a branch from Hospital Universitario to La ...
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Boardroom farce
READERS following the political tragi-comedy being played out in Brussels will recall that we left them in suspense at the end of the last act (RG 6.02 p281). Candidates for the post of Managing Director of Belgian National Railways had been invited for the third time, with the hero of ...
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Capacity boosted
IRANIAN firm Wagon Pars Co has installed a new rolling stock production line, doubling the company’s production capacity to 200 vehicles/year. The company is exporting 66 passenger carriages to Bangladesh Railways under a US$18m order, and hopes to participate in supply of the 18000 freight vehicles Iranian Islamic Republic Railways ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Hertz has signed a deal to provide rental cars at 24 DB stations.X2000 trainsets began operating Oslo - Stockholm services on June 16, reducing the journey time to 4h 50min. In the autumn Linx high speed trainsets will be introduced, reducing journey times by a further 20min.A £150m redevelopment of ...
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Products in Brief
DB’s PPSFR-Zug schedule planning software is using ILOG View components as part of its graphical user interface.Holland has supplied a MobileWelder road-rail flash-butt welding vehicle to Lion Pacific of Kuala Lumpur, and a containerised welding unit to Estonian Railways.ITW Switches has developed a range of illuminated vandal-proof switches for use ...
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Industry News in Brief
Romanian wagon builder Remar Pascani is to lay off 710 of its 2400 staff by the end of the year. The company is currently working at 70% of its capacity, with orders until March next year.In 2001-02 India’s Rail Coach Factory at Kapurthala in Punjab produced 1204 carriages, including double-deck ...
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Renfe buys more
THE MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT has given its approval for Spanish National Railways to invite bids for the supply of 80 commuter EMUs within a budget of €344m. As the Madrid network extends to Colmenar Viejo, gains a new cross-city tunnel between Atocha and Chamartín and faces increased demand as routes ...
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Cape Town redevelopment
COMMERCIAL redevelopment of Cape Town’s main station is planned, following the city council’s decision to approve SA Rail Commuter Corp’s application to rezone the site.Over the next five years 32000m2 of retail, 86000m2 of office and 17000m2 of mixed office and residential accommodation will be created by Intersite, SARCC’s property ...
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Caspian corridor
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has backed proposals for a north-south rail freight corridor linking the Baltic Sea with the Persian Gulf, via a Caspian Sea train ferry. A formal agreement to develop the corridor was signed in St Petersburg on May 21 by Russian Railways Minister Gennadi Fadeyev, Iranian Transport ...
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Changes urged at Tranz Rail
HAVING been ejected three years ago from his position as Chairman of Tranz Rail - along with other outposts of the former Wisconsin Central empire - Ed Burkhardt told New Zealand’s Business Herald that the present board ’ought to be forced out’ after Tranz Rail shares plummetted on July 5. ...
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Sydney circle
CONSTRUCTION WORK is expected to get underway later this year on the northern section of Sydney’s orbital suburban rail link, following the award of a contract at the end of June. The 14 km between Chatswood and Epping is to be built by a consortium of Thiess, Hochtief and Alstom, ...
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UK wagon works to close
ON JUNE 28 Trinity Rail GmbH, the European subsidiary of Trinity Industries of the USA, announced that it was proposing to close the former Thrall Europa wagon manufacturing plant in York. With a five-year contract for English Welsh & Scottish Railway nearing completion and ’no foreseeable further orders from any ...
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Jaén to join the high speed club
AS THE FIRST STEP towards creating a high speed route from Madrid to Jaén via Alc
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Connex wins Norrland routes
ON JUNE 25 Swedish transport authority Rikstrafiken announced that Connex Transport AB had been selected for a five-year contract to run passenger services to northern Sweden. The contract will start on June 15 2003, and includes an option for a three-year extension.Rikstrafiken is responsible for procuring uncommercial inter-regional services. The ...
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Railway sector is 'not considered strategic'
Andrew F Saxe takes his annual look at the railway supply industry, and finds that prospects for profitability are being dented by poor performance among rail operators
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Why using contractors has triggered a cost explosion
OF THE many problems that have beset Britain’s national rail network since privatisation in 1996-97, the most serious today is a frightening leap in the cost of renewal and enhancement projects. A routine doubling or trebling in real terms above pre-privatisation costs was firmly established by 2000, but the cost ...
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Traffic control workstation update
Canadian National and Siemens Transportation Systems are to develop and implement a new rail traffic control system, which is to be installed at 46 traffic control workstations in the CN control centres at Montréal, Toronto and Edmonton. The package will use a modified version of Siemens Vicos
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Funding deal
INDIAN Railways is to set up a Special Purpose Vehicle to raise funding for upgrading work on six main lines in the so-called Golden Quadrilateral linking Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai. These routes are expected to account for Rs120bn out of the railway’s current Rs260bn investment programme. The six lines ...
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Delhi subcontract
Korean rolling stock builder Rotem has awarded Bharat Earth Movers a US$8·6m subcontract to manufacture 180 electric multiple-unit cars at its Bangalore plant. The steel-bodied vehicles for Delhi Metro Rail Corp will have glass fibre-reinforced plastic interiors, and BEML hopes to use the production line to supply similar vehicles to ...
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US streetcars delivered
TWO EXTRA low-floor trams for the successful Portland Streetcar line arrived at the port of Vancouver, Washington, on July 3; they are due to enter service next month. The first five Czech-built Astra 10T trams are carrying an average of 4500 passengers a day, and the city expected that the ...
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