Features & Analysis – Page 67
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World Speed Survey 1997
Japan's railways have wrested back the record JAPAN's railways have wrested back the record for the world's fastest scheduled passenger trains, which they first won in 1965 but lost to France in 1983 following the launch of TGV services between Paris and Lyon. According to a survey in ...
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Tigers invest in urban rail expansion
Urban rail development is proceeding apace in an arc of the Pacific Rim from Singapore to South Korea. Chris Jackson looks at some of the projects which are setting the pace
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Chuo Shinkansen will be 'a national project'
As JR Central prepares for a stock market listing in October, President Yoshiyuki Kasai tells Murray Hughes that the Chuo Shinkansen superconducting maglev line will only be built as a strategic national project
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Tramlink enters the construction phase
A 28 km light rail network to open in Croydon in 1999 will greatly improve east-west orbital journeys through south London and alleviate growing road congestion in Britain's eleventh biggest centre
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'This is not privatisation, it is a change to make the railway more competitive'
January 1 saw the hiving off of Danish State Railways' infrastructure business to form the new authority Banestyrelsen. Chris Jackson spoke to DSB Director General Henrik Hassenkam about the restructuring