All Railway Gazette International articles in January 1998 – Page 4
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UK passenger-km 'to double by 2010'
RAILTRACK has warned the government that it expects total passenger-km on Britain's national rail network to double within 13 years, leading to a serious shortage of track capacity in key areas. Giving evidence before the House of Commons Transport Sub-Committee on November 26, Chief Executive Gerald Corbett said the forecast ...
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Passante aims for completion in 2003
INTRO: Following the official opening of the first section between Bovisa and Porta Venezia, completion of Milano’s cross-city route is now expected to take a further five years. Robert Preston reportsOFFICIAL OPENING of the first section of Milano’s Passante cross-city suburban railway was scheduled to take place on December 21. ...
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Line 2 gets under way
GROUNDBREAKING ceremonies for Manila light metro Line 2 were held on November 15, with President Fidel Ramos inaugurating the project at a site in Aurora Boulevard in Quezon City. To be financed by Japan’s Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund, the 14 km elevated line is to be completed by 2001.Costed at ...
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Rail Business Report 1998
SUBSCRIBERS should receive with this issue a copy of our annual Rail Business Report. A review of investment and market developments during 1997 reveals that around 2000 electric locomotives are on order, under construction or planned as options on existing tenders. This sector alone is worth about US$7bn, while orders ...
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Vaglia tunnel advances at 10m a day
CONSTRUCTION of Italy’s third high speed railway is forging ahead. Following completion of the Roma - Firenze direttissima in 1992, preliminary work began two years later on the 220 km Roma - Napoli leg of the Alta Velocità network, and the main civil engineering work got under way in 1995 ...
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