All Railway Gazette International articles in February 1999 – Page 3
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CAPTION: On December 18 Berlin’s Transport Senator Jürgen Klemann celebrated a ’Christmas present for 100000 Berliners’ when he inaugurated a 2·9 km extension of the city’s tram network. Looping through Alexanderplatz, the new tracks link Mollstra§e and Hackesche Markt, with connections to the east-west Stadtbahn. In the western suburbs, S-Bahn ...
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IC order launches Chinese joint venture
Bombardier Inc and the Power Corporation of Canada have signed a joint venture agreement to build passenger coaches in China. The deal follows a memorandum of understanding signed with the Chinese government in November 1997.The local partner is Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works in Qingdao, part of the ...
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Moscow seeks cheaper metro options
WITH CONSTRUCTION of its heavy metro largely suspended for lack of funding, the Moscow city government has announced plans to develop a network of small-profile mini-metro lines. The use of 4000mm diameter tunnels accommodating four-car trains of 12m long vehicles is expected to cut the cost of construction by half. ...
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Charm offensive stepped up
IT’S TIME to deploy the big guns. Certainly the Japanese government thinks so. Vice-Minister for Transport Katsuji Doi invited himself to Beijing in December - taking the initiative for what will be a crucial 12 months as Japanese and European groups slog it out for rights to build the 1300 ...
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Powder River challenge
THE US Surface Transportation Board has given preliminary approval to the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern’s ambitious proposal to extend to Wyoming’s Powder River coalfield. On December 10 the STB ruled that the scheme met legal requirements on feasibility, financial fitness, harm to existing carriers and the need for capacity. A ...
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Talgos take over Cascade corridor
INTRO: Amtrak and Washington State DoT have put new tilting trains into service in the US Pacific Northwest, where traffic has doubled in the last five years. Julian Wolinsky reportsTHREE STYLISH new Talgo Pendular 200 trainsets began running in the Pacific Northwest of the United States last month, giving passengers ...
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NY car order
ON December 28 New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority ordered an initial build of 100 large profile metro cars for its L-Canarsie subway line connecting lower Manhattan with Brooklyn. This route is to be the testbed for transmission-based train control over the next few years. The US$190m contract awarded to Kawasaki ...
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Political capital
Cheapest fare on the Mitre and Sarmiento commuter networks in Buenos Aires is due to rise from US$0·40 to US$0·50 this month, the first of a series of increases that Trenes de Buenos Aires has secured from the government to help fund a US$2·2bn investment programme under its renegotiated concession, ...
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Calgary expands
CALGARY TRANSIT launched a drive to expand its 29·3 km light rail network in December, when it ordered 11 SD-160 LRVs from Siemens Transportation Systems for US$26m. Similar to the cars ordered by Denver and Salt Lake City, they will augment a fleet of 83 U-2s.To serve a rapidly expanding ...
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Industry In Brief
Australia: Evans Deakin Industries has abandoned its attempt to takeover Australian National Industries (RG 1.99 p51) and will sell the 18% of ANI shares it has acquired to rival bidder Smorgon Steel.Czech Republic: Construction company Subtera Praha has purchased a 90% stake in track maintenance contractor Stavební obnova zeleznic, which ...
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End of year blues
ON JANUARY 13 French National Railways revealed that passenger traffic had responded well to the range of service enhancements and fares initiatives it had introduced last year. Long-distance business (measured in passenger-km) was up by 5·3%, with the figure for all passenger traffic up 4·4%. SNCF’s aim this year is ...
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Shenzhen bids to follow Guangzhou
CEREMONIES were held in two southern Chinese cities on December 28 to mark significant developments on their respective metro networks.Guangzhou Metro celebrated the official completion of its 18·5 km Line 1, five years to the day since the start of construction. Linking Xilang with CR’s East station, Line 1 has ...
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Istanbul bidding
FIVE consortia have submitted prequalification bids to supply electrical & mechanical equipment for the Istanbul metro extension from Taksim to Yenikapi. They include SNC Lavalin of Canada, Adtranz and ABB with Yapi Merkezi, Alstom with Gülermak, Guris and Yüksel, and Gama Endüstrie. The municipality has received bids from Siemens, Alstom ...
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'I don't want to privatise, and I don't believe we need it'
Etienne Schouppe, Managing Director of Belgian National Railways, is treading a delicate path of reform in a country where performance of the national railway is a deeply political issue. The restructured company lends itself to privatisation, but Schouppe told Murray Hughes in Brussels that the changes were needed to put ...
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Union wins Belgrano at last
ARGENTINE President Carlos Menem participated in a ceremony on December 18 to transfer the country’s last state-owned railway to a private-sector consortium. Railway trades union Unión Ferroviaria gains control of Ferrocarril Belgrano Cargas SA after operating the 10000 km metre-gauge network on a temporary basis since mid-1997. At that time, ...
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Bangalore deal
INDIA’s United Breweries group has been authorised to form joint ventures with three foreign firms in order to develop its planned US$16m elevated light rail network in Bangalore. UB is working with US-based ICF Kaiser Engineers, Transportation & Transit Associates and Nippon Sharyo Ltd of Japan. The Reserve Bank of ...
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Axe falls on FOX
JEB BUSH, son of former US President George, took office as governor in Florida on January 5. One of his first actions was to dash the plans to build a 515 km high-speed line linking Miami, Orlando and Tampa. Saying ’we have to be good stewards of the taxpayers’ money’, ...
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Saboteurs arrested
TORNADO jets and army helicopters patrolling main lines were among the more drastic measures taken in Germany before Christmas in a short-lived but deadly serious battle to prevent saboteurs derailing trains if a DM10m ransom were not paid. German Railway was first alerted by telephone calls to its Frankfurt headquarters ...
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Amtrak joins loyalty scheme
Alaska Airlines has extended its frequent flyer programme benefits to allow air-miles to be redeemed against rail tickets for the Coast Starlight and local trains in Amtrak’s Pacific Northwest region. Mileage is accumulated by flying Alaska or using partner airlines Northwest, TWA and KLM.While a first class return ticket for ...
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Kok puts Amsterdam on the HS map
NETHERLANDS Prime Minister Wim Kok revealed details on January 15 of the arrangements for funding and building the HSL Zuid high speed line between Amsterdam and the Belgian border. The public-private partnership formula developed by the government’s HSL Zuid planning agency will see the state procure the civil engineering works, ...
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