Infrastructure news – Page 282
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Nottingham LRT to go ahead
CONSTRUCTION of a fifth British light rail network is to get under way this year. Nottingham Express Transit will get revenue support worth £167m under the government's local authority Private Finance Initiative scheme. Announcing the award on December 3, Transport Minister Dr John Reid said that as this ...
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LKAB invests in 30 tonne axleloads
Swedish mining giant LKAB is investing SKr1·1bn in three new trainsets and nine locos for the Malmbanan iron ore corridor. Heavier axleloads to boost rail capacity and cut transport costs form a key element in the company's strategy to boost production from 20 to 30 million tonnes a year
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Concessionaire prepares to launch the Arlanda Express
The first four-car Arlanda Express train is on trial in Sweden, and private-sector concessionaire A-Train is on schedule to launch services on the shuttle route next year. Andrew Hellawell toured the project site
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ILTIS to set routes at Vinh
VIETNAM: The third largest city, Vinh, is getting the latest in network management systems under a contract with Siemens Integra Verkehrstechnik to install power signalling covering the station area. Vinh is 319 km south of Hanoi on the main coastal trunk line. ILTIS provides supervision from computer workstations of all ...
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Prescott deal rescues CTRL
An ingenious rescue package unveiled by Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott on June 3 could see the Channel Tunnel Rail Link completed to London St Pancras by 2007. Provided the European Commission approves the package by September 30, work will begin in October on the 68 km Phase 1 ...
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München - Augsburg quadrupling work begins
DESPITE driving rain, ceremonies were held on May 4 in the Bavarian town of Kissing to mark the start of work on four-tracking of German Railway's trunk line between München and Augsburg. Taking part were the Federal Finance Minister Dr Theo Waigel, Bavarian President Dr Edmund Stoiber and DB Board ...
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Master Plan will add 900 km to IR network
ISRAEL RAILWAYS, encouraged by the public’s enthusiastic response to a steady programme of rolling stock modernisation and service expansion, has drawn up a Master Plan that could see nearly 900 km of new lines built by 2020 at a total cost of around US$3·7bn. The present 610 route-km network is ...
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End of the line for Hopewell project
THAILAND: Sad news reaches us from the city of eternal metro planning: the Thai government appears to have dashed any remaining hopes of resurrecting Hopewell Holding's ambitious Berts project to build a 60 km network of elevated transit lines in Bangkok with motorways on top. With only rows of ...
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Bosporus tunnel project launched
TURKEY: Construction of a fixed link between the European and Asian parts of the Turkish rail network could get under way next year, according to Transport Minister Necdet Menzir. He was speaking at a seminar organised by the State Planning Office on February 23 to unveil the latest proposals to ...
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Czech branches back on the block
After five years of debate, plans to sell over one-third of the CD network go back to parliament later this month
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Channel Tunnel Rail Link concession collapses
In an emergency statement to the House of Commons late on January 28, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, said London & Continental Railways had notified him at 20.00 that it could not finance the Channel Tunnel Rail Link to London. The day before, LCR had asked for a further ...
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Natural disasters
SERIOUS flooding has damaged railways in both Europe and North America this summer, resulting in at least two passenger train derailments because of bridge collapses. One was Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which left the track at around 145 km/h while traversing a damaged bridge over a desert gully in northwestern Arizona ...
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JR East launches Akita Shinkansen
EAST JAPAN Railway President Masatake Matsuda was up early on the morning of March 22 to give the first Tokyo-bound train on the Akita mini-shinkansen a high-level send-off from the northeastern city. Also present on the platform to flag away the 06.12 Komachi departure was Akita Governor Kikuji Sasaki. In ...
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Laos signs rail construction accord
LAOS: Trains are set to reach Laos by the end of next year, with the signing of an agreement in mid-February between the government and Thai conglomerate Shaviriya Group. This paves the way for the private sector steel, information technology and property group to develop a network of up ...
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Railtrack reshapes Thameslink 2000
With a £600m upgrade of the north - south link through London underpinned by contractual agreements, Richard Hope asked Chris Jago, Director of Railtrack's Southern Zone, how the project is taking shape