All Railway Gazette International articles in January 1997
All articles published this month.
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Swedes to revive Zambia Railways
ZAMBIA’S Ministry of Transport & Communications announced on November 22 that agreement had been reached for Swedish consultants to take over the management of Zambia Railways for two years, in order to rescue the struggling company and allow bulk freight including export copper traffic to be switched back from road ...
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Pointers
n Look for the Swiss government to authorise a further tranche of funds for the NEAT base tunnel works; SFr645m was requested on November 25.n Indian Railways is to invite international tenders shortly for the supply of advanced technology track maintenance machinery. n Watch for development in the United ...
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People
Mr Amos Uzani has been named General Manager of Israel Railways. A lawyer, he moves from the Ports Authority, where he was Deputy Manager, Personnel.Mr Jerry Davis, President of Union Pacific Railroad has been elected Chairman of the Association of American Railroads; he will succeed Mr John W Snow of ...
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More time, more money
GIANCARLO Cimoli, who assumed the chief executive’s mantle at Italian State Railways after the arrest of Antonio Lorenzo Necci last September, is getting to grips with the complex world of railway politics. Necci had set up an array of subsidiary companies that dabbled in all kinds of peripheral activities, but ...
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Market
Brazil: GEC Alsthom, CAF and Adtranz are to supply 30 commuter trains for São Paulo under a US$205m contract due to be signed last month; manufacture of six of the four-car EMUs will be carried out locally, with Adtranz responsible for traction equipment.Sécheron has won a contract to supply its ...
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Letters
Turbos fasterSir - The two articles dealing with Amtrak’s efforts to increase passenger train speeds in the Northeast Corridor (RG 11.96 pp721-28) contained several statements deserving further clarification. I was a personal friend of the late Alan R Cripe, acknowledged as one of the foremost rail equipment designers in the ...
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AN to be sold by June
WITHIN the next six months Australia’s federal government intends to sell most of Australian National to the private sector, along with its 45% equity stake in National Rail Corp. Only the interstate trunk routes will remain in public ownership, to be managed under an open access regime by a ’national ...
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Intelligence
CAPTION: Israel Railways has started testing its latest inter-city coaches supplied by GEC Alsthom Transporte of Spain and assembled at Haargaz Zriffin. The four air-conditioned coaches and a driving power van trailer (inset) were hauled on their first run from Lod (above) by a General Motors GT26W CAPTION: One ...
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Intelligence
CAPTION: JR Central and Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute tested the experimental MLX01 maglev vehicle on its guideway in Yamanashi prefecture for the first time on December 2. The three vehicles were hauled from their depot to the test control centre about 7 km along the 18·4 km guideway by ...
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Intelligence
Australia: SRANSW opened the 1·6 km Cumberland line between Harris Park and Merrylands on November 2. The ’Y-Link’ curve west of Granville cost A$80m, and carries CityRail trains from Campbelltown to Parramatta and Blacktown.Queensland Rail and Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express Ltd have set up a joint venture to run a luxury tourist train ...
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Industry
China: Adtranz signed a joint venture agreement with Changchun Car Co on December 10; Changchun Adtranz Railway Co Ltd was due to be set up on January 1, with planned capacity of 160 vehicles per annum.Czech Republic: CKD Tatra was renamed CKD Dopravní Systémy on November 28; it is widening ...
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Metropolitan to link Hamburg and K
German Railway is setting up a subsidiary called Metropolitan GmbH to operate a pilot service of limited-stop trains between Hamburg and K
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Frontiers frustrate parcels giant
Which single company provides US railways with the most revenue? According to Bob Longenecker, Vice President Transportation, it is United Parcels Service at $500m a year. He assured the Intermodal 96 conference in London on December 5 that ’UPS is a customer of every American railroad’; while this is hyperbole ...
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Investment flows as UP restructures
JANUARY 2 sees the start of a major reorganisation of Union Pacific’s Operating Department as part of the merger with Southern Pacific. Four ’regional leadership teams’ were formed on December 1 to manage the transition, which is due for completion by February 28. The Central and Northern regions are based ...
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Tunnel fire offers important lessons
INTRO: Richard Hope examines the fallout from what could be the most costly accident in railway historyIN TERMS OF personal safety, Eurotunnel coped well with the major fire which raged through the rear half of a freight shuttle in the Channel Tunnel for several hours from 22.00 on November 18. ...
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Finance
Argentina: The World Bank is to provide US$150bn to replace 30 level crossings within the Buenos Aires city limits with road underpasses.Czech Republic: CD secured DM200m in state-guaranteed credit from Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau on November 25 for modernisation of the Breclav - Petrovice u Karviné line, and a further ECU200m ...
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Franchising starts on the final lap
ONE YEAR AGO we were writing about a legal battle delaying the award of the first of 25 franchises to run passenger services on Britain’s rail network. At the time we were deeply sceptical about the private sector’s willingness to enter the rail business. Yet, as we have chronicled in ...
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Trinity Express starts
JANUARY 20 sees the start of revenue operation on the Trinity Express commuter rail line from South Irving to Dallas Union Station, where it interchanges to the city’s light rail line (RG 10.96 p639). Trains were to begin on December 30, but without all 13 rehabilitated Budd diesel railcars, restricting ...
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New York megalopolis plans regional rail expansion
INTRO: The backlog of under-investment in New York’s urban railways has been made good, and they are now poised to expand. Integration to create a true regional network is seen as the way to support economic growth and enhance mobilityBYLINE: William D MiddletonWITH A population of nearly 20 million and ...