All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2003 – Page 3
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BC Rail shortlist
THE GOVERNMENT of British Columbia has shortlisted four companies for a concession to operate the BC Rail network. According to BC Transport Minister Judith Reid, the province will retain ownership of the infrastructure but lease out the operation and management of the railway.The province is seeking to divest itself of ...
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Bandits nabbed
Police in Jersey City are celebrating the successful break-up of a gang that has been robbing freight trains for more than a decade. The Conrail Boyz used night vision binoculars and other modern technology whilst stealing consumer goods and designer clothes worth millions of dollars. According to Stephen Hanes, director ...
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Motorway ban will favour rail
RAIL TRAFFIC using the Brenner transit route through Austria stands to gain a substantial boost on August 1. From that day the Tirolean regional government is banning lorries carrying specified goods over a 46 km section of the A12 Inn valley motorway. Banned cargoes include cereals, wood, cork, iron and ...
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DB backs down on fare structure
FROM August 1 German Railway introduces a revised suite of fares following heavy criticism and dissatisfaction among passengers with the arrangements launched last December. These required advanced booking and compulsory reservations to secure discounts on long-distance journeys, and quota controls limited the number of reduced tickets available. Speaking at the ...
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Belt line backed
FOUR YEARS of negotiations have culminated in an agreement to proceed with a $1·5bn programme to upgrade rail freight corridors across Chicago over the next 12 years. The city is the only place where all six US Class I railroads meet, with 1200 freight trains and 37500 wagons a day ...
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Open architecture of GIF’s Da Vinci system operates on three levels
The Da Vinci architecture is made up of three distinct management levels, each serving a specific role within the overall railway management scenario. These are a Real Time Network, a Quasi Real Time Network, and the Corporate network/intranet/internetThe system that was built for GIF is illustrated in Fig 1. In ...
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Shareholders give approval
ALSTOM’s annual shareholders’ meeting on July 2 approved the reduction of the nominal value of the company’s shares from €6 to €1·25, and authorised the board of directors to increase the share capital by the issue of shares, with maintenance of preferential subscription rights.Chairman & Chief Executive Patrick Kron said ...
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Alger metro contract
CONSTRUCTION of the next section of Alger metro Line 1 could start this year, following the award of an engineering contract on June 24. Entreprise du Métro d'Alger has selected a consortium of Systra and SGTE to design the 4·1 km Hamma - Hai El Badr section of the capital's ...
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BART extends to the airport
THE LONG-awaited BART extension to San Francisco International Airport was opened on June 21 with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at the airport station. Participating in the celebrations were California Governor Gray Davis, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, several local members of Congress, BART board ...
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Neubaustrecke funds agreed
GERMAN Transport Minister Dr Manfred Stolpe and DB Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn signed an agreement on June 20 to fund construction of a further section of high speed line in the München - Berlin corridor. Costed at €1·9bn, the 122 km section from Gr
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Plan agreed
ON JULY 2 the German cabinet approved the 2003 national transport infrastructure plan (BVWP). Setting a planning framework up to 2015, it includes numerous rail projects.There are 26 schemes already in hand requiring government funds totalling nearly €18bn. Most are upgrading projects such as Hamburg - Berlin and K
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Nacala accord
A SIGNING ceremony in Washington DC on June 27 marked a milestone for Central East African Railway’s plans to develop an integrated rail corridor linking Zambia and Malawi with the Mozambique port of Nacala.CEAR Chairman Robert Pietrandrea signed an accord with the President & CEO of the US Overseas Private ...
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N700 pushes the speed envelope
INTRO: JR-Central and JR-West are developing a trainset that fully exploits line speed limits on the Tokaido and Sanyo ShinkansenMARCH 2005 should see completion of a pre-production N700 trainset for trials on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen. Being developed jointly by JR-Central and JR-West, the N700 is a 16-car train ...
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Da Vinci will manage Spain’s first 350 km/h line
INTRO: As the first section of the new Madrid - Barcelona line near completion, Indra is commissioning at Zaragoza an integrated train and infrastructure management system derived from air traffic control. As well as regulating train operations, Da Vinci provides real time data on power supplies and the physical condition ...
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Guangzhou Line 2 completed
JUNE 28 saw the formal opening of Guangzhou metro Line 2, bringing the city's network to 36·8 km serving 31 stations. Limited services had been introduced on the northern section of Line 2 between Sanyanli and Xiaogang on December 28, but these were suspended in May to allow final commissioning ...
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