All Railway Gazette International articles in July 1999 – Page 2
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Virgin bus links
ON MAY 27 Britain’s Virgin Trains and Stagecoach Holdings unveiled a package of feeder buses and through ticketing schemes, due to start with the timetable change on May 30. The RailLink initiative has been developed to honour a commitment made to the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising when Stagecoach acquired ...
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Bus operators share metro
SHARES in Singapore Bus Services jumped by 24% on May 28 following the announcement that the firm had been selected by the Land Transport Authority to operate the island’s North East Line heavy metro now under construction. But shares in the rival Trans-Island Bus Services soared by 37% the same ...
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CD in search of commercial freedom
INTRO: General Manager Dalibor Zeleny is convinced that he could turn Czech Railways into a viable business. But this will only happen if CD is given political freedom as a joint stock company. Murray Hughes reports from PrahaBYLINE: Dalibor Zeleny General Manager Czech Railways GIVEN THE cries of doom that ...
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QR claims narrow-gauge record
On May 23 one of Queensland Railways’ two six-car tilting EMUs set a new world record speed for a passenger-carrying train on narrow-gauge tracks. The 1 067 mm gauge trainset reached 210 km/h near Bundaberg on the recently upgraded Brisbane - Rockhampton line.On board for the record run were QR ...
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NS clings on
NETHERLANDS Railways has retained a tenuous foothold in the bidding to run trains on the HSL Zuid high speed line linking Amsterdam and Antwerpen. The process got under way last month, with HSL Zuid releasing a consultation document and inviting NS to bid to operate domestic services on the route. ...
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Dragados wins in Colombia
SPANISH civil engineering group Dragados announced on June 14 that it had been selected as preferred bidder for a 30-year concession to renovate and operate the 1470 km Atlantic rail network in Colombia. The group has a 60% stake in the bidding consortium, which includes Spanish National Railways, a Colombian ...
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Siemens tries MoMo concept
SIEMENS Verkehrstechnik has signed a co-operation agreement with FA Porsche for the development of a design-led production concept to build modular metro vehicles. The MoMo concept has been under development for the last 18 months, starting with the technical features and then moving on to interior fittings and image.According to ...
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Consolidated designs to serve high-speed partnerships
INTRO: The race to develop new high-speed trains is slowing down, as railways in Europe and the Far East concentrate on management and service quality. Gordon Pettitt reviews the market, and suggests that international management consortia may offer the best way for rail to present an attractive and cost-effective alternative ...
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Corridor upgrade cuts transit times
Murray Hughes travelled in a PKP inspection saloon to view improvement works on the E20 corridor between Warszawa and Poznan
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Export corridor
MALAWI Railways is to resume work on its 27 km cross-border extension from Mchinji to Chipata in southeastern Zambia. Started in the 1980s, the line is intended to provide a rail corridor from eastern Zambia to the port of Nacala in Mozambique, which is shorter than the lines to Dar ...
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Tags cut smart ticket cost
LOW-COST silicon tagging technology being developed for the airline and postal industry by Motorola offers the potential for cheap single-trip metro tickets compatible with smart card applications. With smart cards costing up to US$5·00 each, most rail applications to date have retained paper or magnetic-stripe tickets for single trips and ...
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Rail milling may cut noise
TRIALS with a rail milling train suggest that the technique may have an assured future. Operated by German maintenance contractor Schweerbau, the prototype train was developed by Austrian machine tool specialist Linsinger Maschinenbau which exhibited at the VDEI event for the first time this year.According to Linsinger’s Prok Ing Walter ...
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Darwin deal
CONTRACTORS are to be selected over the next few months for construction of the 1420 km rail link between Alice Springs and Darwin, following the announcement on June 6 of a preferred bidder for the A$1·2bn build-own-operate concession. Australia’s federal government, together with South Australia and Northern Territory, selected Asia-Pacific ...
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Delhi tenders
INDIA’s Ministry of Railways invited three prequalification tenders in May for work on the 55·3 km Delhi Mass Rapid Transit metro network which was officially launched last October (RG 9.98 p567). According to the ministry ’all the bids are global and are open to Indian or international companies who can ...
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Invensys Rail to develop ETCS
INTERNATIONAL signalling and braking specialist Invensys Rail has launched a strategy to develop technology to meet the parameters and specifications of the European Train Control Systems project. Whilst the company is involved with project management of the ERTMS on-board Kernel test programme in Spain, it was not a founder member ...
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New Jersey orders diesel GTWs
ON JUNE 7 Adtranz Switzerland and Stadler Fahrzeug AG received an order worth SFr90m to supply 20 low-floor railcars for the Camden - Trenton light rail project. A diesel-electric version of the GTW2/6 design, the first cars will shipped to New Jersey in August 2001.Following the FRA ruling on ...
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One down, but so many to go
ON APRIL 22 President Menem of Argentina signed Decree 393/99, giving legal force to the contract renegotiated with Metrovías, concessionaire for the Subte metro and Urquiza commuter line in Buenos Aires. Confirming an extension to 2017 and an investment programme worth a total of 1·4bn pesos (RG 2.99 p65), it ...
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Traction renewal heads investment drive
POLISH State Railways has announced plans to update its rolling stock fleet. Investment in 1999-2010 will include acquisition of 16 tilting trains from Fiat Ferroviaria, 42 Type EU11 locomotives from Adtranz-Pafawag, and eight dual-system EU43 units from the same supplier. The locos are already being assembled, and the first has ...
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Sumatra expansion study
INDONESIA’S Ministry of Communications has launched a project to develop the rail network on the island of Sumatra. At the beginning of June the ministry commissioned a comprehensive study and master plan from a team of consultants led by Mott MacDonald. Due for completion next July, the study being funded ...
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Madrid plans more expansion
THE 5·4 km extension of Madrid Metro Line 8 from Campo de las Naciones to Barajas Airport was formally opened on June 14 by the President of the Communidad de Madrid Alberto Ruiz Gallardon. The airport station is directly connected to international terminals T2 and T3, and the Pts18bn extension ...
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