All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2002 – Page 3
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Dutch examine a national metro
NETHERLANDS Railways and the Ministry of Transport are studying a plan to operate the 2808 km national network as if it were a metro. The network would be divided into 12 regions, and up to six fast and six slow trains an hour would run in each direction between cities ...
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EMU joint venture
SIEMENS Transportation Systems confirmed on July 8 that it had signed contracts with Spanish National Railways setting up Nertus Mantenimiento Ferroviario SA to maintain electric multiple-units used in Barcelona (RG 2.02 p72). Siemens owns 51% of the joint venture and Renfe 49%. Two representatives from each company sit on the ...
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Night stock enters service at last
TEN YEARS after they were ordered to operate overnight services between the UK and continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel (RG 3.92 p133), the first Alstom-built European Night Stock vehicles finally began carrying passengers on June 23. But not in Britain, or even in Europe.Rechristened as the Renaissance cars, the ...
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Tonnage records fall
QUEENSLAND Rail finished its financial year at the end of June with more than 153 million tonnes of freight hauled. This was more than 6% up on 2000-01 and an astonishing 50% increase over the 91 million tonnes hauled just five years ago.The vast majority of QR’s freight is export ...
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Faster to Pusan
LAST MONTH saw the start of work on the 118·3 km second phase of the Seoul - Pusan high speed line, now costed at 5000bn won. On July 8 the Ministry of Transport confirmed that Korea High Speed Rail Construction Authority had signed contracts with two construction firms for civil ...
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Finance
Brazil: The World Bank is providing a loan of US$209m to begin work on São Paulo metro Line 4. JBIC is providing similar funding, and São Paulo state and private investors are supplying the remainder of the US$934m cost.Europe: Eurotunnel has reduced its total debt by €686m following completion of ...
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Hired Gunn starts firing
ON PAGE 423 you can read David Gunn’s views on how he plans to turn Amtrak round. On July 10 he appeared before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transport, noting that he expected the operating loss for the year to September 30 to be about $1bn, roughly equal to ...
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‘There are no quick fixes or short-term solutions’
Last month we reported David Gunn’s warning on June 20 that Amtrak was ’near the point of no return’. His blunt speaking secured a $100m short-term federal loan that will keep the trains running until September, but the long term is another matter. Murray Hughes asked Gunn what lies ahead
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ÖBB’s IC refit
AUSTRIAN Federal Railways’ President Rüdiger vorm Walde joined ceremonies on June 16 to mark the introduction of the first refurbished inter-city coaches on principal routes. First service to benefit is the Wien - Innsbruck - Feldkirch Euro-City 662/663 Gustav Klimt, which has also been accelerated by 45 min.Under the 4-S ...
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Industry News
Europe: Société Industrielle du Hanau has signed an agreement to sell the French trackwork supplier Cogifer Group to Vossloh AG of Germany. Vossloh is to sell its interests in VAE of Austria.France: SNCF has decided not to exercise its option to purchase the 49·99% of Telecom Développement held by Cegetel. ...
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On-board information upgrade
VOSSLOH System-Technik is equipping 1200 DB inter-city carriages and 145 locomotives with communication networks to improve passenger information.There will be route indicators on carriage exteriors, interior displays providing up-to-date information on arrival times and connections, and seat reservation displays. All screens will be modernised, with a uniform design. The on-train ...
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Northern Ireland invests
UK: New stock for Translink's Northern Ireland Railways and a rapid transit network in Belfast are the key rail elements in a 10-year Regional Transportation Strategy announced by regional development minister Peter Robinson last month. As part of the government's 25-year Regional Development Strategy, £1·4bn is to be invested ...
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KCRC wins Sha Tin link
ON JUNE 25 Hong Kong’s Acting Secretary for Transport Paul Tang Kwok-wai announced a feasibility study into the merger of MTR Corp and Kowloon - Canton Railway Corp. A merged company would have net assets worth HK$148bn, and analysts estimate that savings worth up to HK$100m a year would be ...
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Ultra light rail
THE TOWN of Kalamata in the southern Peleponnese, which has 55000 inhabitants, has backed plans to build a metre-gauge ’ultra light rail’ line, using equipment from the UK-based Sustraco consortium. Funding for the £5m scheme will come from the Greek government and European Investment Bank, including money allocated for earthquake ...
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Millennium line ready
THIS MONTH is due to see the start of full services on Vancouver’s second SkyTrain line. The initial section of the 20·9 km Millennium line from Columbia to Braid opened on January 5 (RG 2.02 p65). The remainder from Braid to Commercial Drive will open on August 31, adding nine ...
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Lounge upgrade unveiled
EUROSTAR opened its refurbished first class lounge at London Waterloo International station (right) on June 20. Branded as Le Salon, refurbishment of the eight-year-old lounge was overseen by French designer Philippe Starck as part of the company's £35m 'Welcome to the new Eurostar' project. Starck said he based his 'unique ...
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Market
Austria: Bombardier has won a €16m contract from ÖBB to supply 258 heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units to upgrade coaches used on international services by April 2006.Europe: The Intergovernmental Commission developing the cross-border link between Perpignan in France and Figueres in Spain has picked the Euroferro consortium as preferred bidder ...
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Metros
Canada: Toronto Transit Commission Chairman Brian Ashton confirmed last month that the C$934m Sheppard metro line will open on November 24.Czech Republic: Later this year Most-Litvinov will take delivery of a second 20m low-floor Skoda Type 03T tram. Skoda has again won a contract to supply 15 of the vehicles ...
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PPP progress is mixed
THE UK Health & Safety Executive announced on July 10 that it had accepted Version 3.1 of London Underground’s Railway Safety Case. This contains the necessary modifications to the existing Version 3.0 to permit the transfer of the three infrastructure companies to the private sector under the Public-Private Partnership proposals ...
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VR orders more
FINNISH Railways announced on June 26 that it had exercised two options to buy additional rolling stock from Alstom. The first, worth €115m, is for eight 220 km/h six-car Pendolino tilting trains to be delivered from spring 2004.The second is for a further 20 Class Sr4 suburban EMUs for operation ...
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