All Railway Gazette International articles in January 2003
All articles published this month.
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Sidetrack
Dieter CAPTION: Wiener Linien has begun publishing a daily list showing which of its gateless metro stations will have revenue protection staff carrying out ticket checks. This has been criticised for enabling fare dodgers to avoid checks, but WL believes that 'if only one person buys a ticket because of ...
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Publications
Separation Philosophy of the European Union - Blessing or Curse?by Dr Carlo PfundEuropean Commission Directive 91/440 triggered radical reforms of member states’ national railways, and similar changes are occurring outside the EU. Dr Pfund argues that no examination of the concept of separating infrastructure from operations has been made in ...
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Pointers
n Canadian National Railway says it will invest C$30m in Ontario Northland if its bid for the company is accepted. ON is currently owned by the Province of Ontario.n Watch for SBB Cargo to order 18 dual-voltage locomotives this month to haul cross-border services to and from Italy.n Russian Railways ...
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Passenger Portfolio
Ticketing change in Germany GERMAN RAILWAY is now selling all long-distance tickets priced at €21 or more online, with credit card payment. The launch was timed to coincide with the introduction of market-priced fares on December 15 (RG 2.02 p98). Tickets are sent by post at no extra charge to ...
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Seeing the old year out
SOME PEOPLE will be celebrating the turn of the year in an unusual way. German Chancellor Gerhard Schr
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Norfolk Southern spends
A $798m capital improvement budget for 2003 was announced by Norfolk Southern on December 9. Over the last three years, the annual NS capital spend has ranged from $705m to $806m. The largest slice in 2003 is earmarked for infrastructure, with $383m to be spent on rail, sleepers, ballast and ...
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Rosario regional network
PLANS have been unveiled in Argentina to create a regional rail network serving Rosario, a city of 1million inhabitants in Santa Fe province. The Remfer project is being led by former Argentine Railways executive Jaime Remolins, who says ’the intention is to create an efficient transport system where trains do ...
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Metros
Australia: The first four of 59 Siemens Combino trams (RG 4.02 p178) ordered by M>Tram were put into service on the Melbourne University - Glen Iris Route 6 on November 30.China: Siemens and Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology are to supply Sicas interlocking and LZB 700M continuous ATC for ...
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Persistance may yet pay off
AEA Technology Rail is expected to complete shortly the installation of a Hitachi dual-voltage traction package in a British four-car Class 310 EMU at its premises in Derby. Equipment includes a transformer, IGBT inverter and four traction motors with a nominal rating of 270 kW. The train will include a ...
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Market
Brazil: Siemens is to maintain 10 Class 3000 four-car EMUs for CPTM of São Paulo under a five-year contract worth €9·5m.China: Barclay Mowlem (Hong Kong) Ltd has won a five-year contract to maintain the infrastructure on MTR’s Tseung Kwan O line from July. An option would extend the contract by ...
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Pacific loan
REHABILITATION of Colombia’s Pacific Railway between Buenaventura, Cali and Cartago will benefit from a private finance deal supported by the Japan Bank for International Co-operation. JBIC confirmed on November 14 that it had signed a guarantee agreement for a US$120m loan, which is coming from a syndicate led by Mizuho ...
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Sheppard line opened
TORONTO Transit Commission’s first new heavy metro line for 36 years opened for revenue service on November 24, following official dedication ceremonies at Don Mills station two days earlier. The inaugural train was operated by Kevin Brown, whose late father Ed drove Toronto’s first subway train in 1954 and also ...
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More money for UK light rail
ANNOUNCING on December 10 transport funding allocations to local authorities in England outside London for 2003-04, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling confirmed that a package of £520m had been agreed for extending the Manchester Metrolink light rail network to Oldham, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Airport. Total cost is £820m, of which ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: A ceremony was held at Dunmarra on December 13 to mark the final weld linking together rails laid southbound from Katherine and northbound from Tennant Creek on the Alice Springs - Darwin railway.Public consultation is underway for construction of the direct Perth - Mandurah line, following the passing of ...
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Inside Industry
Talgo arrives in Kazakhstan THROUGH its German subsidiary Talgo Deutschland GmbH, Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Patentes Talgo SA has formed a 50:50 joint venture in Kazakhstan with local maintenance company Remvagon. Known as Tulpar-Talgo, it is expected that the new company will maintain Talgo trainsets operated by Kazakhstan Railways under ...
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GSM-R testing
LATEST addition to the Willtek Communications range is the 4202R mobile tester for use with GSM-R radios, telephones and peripherals.In addition to standard measurements for mobile telephone testing and alignment, the 4202R supports incoming and outgoing group calls at various priority levels. It simulates a network, initiating test calls to ...
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Grid success
NOTTINGHAM University’s School of Civil Engineering has won the Royal Society’s £250000 Brian Mercer Innovation Award for its research into reinforcement of ballast using polymer meshes. The award will fund research staff, an experimental facility and test rig.This testing facility will feature a three-sleeper section of track. It will use ...
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Gijón tunnel
AS PART OF THE Metrotrén Asturias project (RG 1.02 p9), the Spanish Ministry of Development is to call tenders for the construction of a 3·54 km tunnel under the centre of Gijón. Starting at a depth of 20m below the existing Renfe terminus, the tunnel will run to Viesques with ...