All Railway Gazette International articles in July 1999 – Page 4
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Alstom’s first year success
PRESENTING Alstom’s first annual accounts following flotation last June, Chairman & CEO Pierre Bilger told his board of directors on May 25 that the year to March 31 1999 had been ’a year of solid results’. He highlighted the ’benefits of Alstom’s focus on the high-margin segments of its ...
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DLR ticketing agreement
On June 9 Schlumberger announced that it had been selected to supply a new ticketing network for London’s Docklands Light Railway, following the rapid growth in patronage over the past seven years. The package includes 92 new vending machines at 36 stations, linked to a Windows NT-based central management system ...
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Adtranz gets two years to move into profit
UNVEILING a full-size mock-up of the Innovia peoplemover at the City Transport exhibition in Toronto (right), Adtranz President & CEO Rolf Eckrodt confirmed on May 24 that the company was relying on its modular product platform strategy to return the business to profit within the next two years.Officially known as ...
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Active suspension trials head research objectives
THIS MONTH should see Alstom and French National Railways conclude a programme of trials with a TGV modified to demonstrate that ride comfort can be significantly improved in the 300 to 350 km/h speed range. Four cars of a TGV Réseau set have been fitted with a form of active ...
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Valencia Line 5
THE Valencia regional government has awarded the Iberinsa consultancy a Pts300m contract to undertake project development for the proposed Line 5 of the city’s metro network. With 2·5 km in tunnel and the remainder running as light rail on the surface, this 4·7 km route would connect Alameda on Line ...
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Building the 21st Century Talgo
INTRO: With nearly 50 years of operating experience, Patentes Talgo is now developing the Talgo XXI trainset, featuring diesel or electric power cars with gauge-changing capability. The latest Series 7 cars will also form the basis of a high-speed train aimed at the Spanish marketBYLINE: Francisco de LorenzoChief Executive OfficerPatentes ...
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Ticket offices to go by 2010
IN THE FACE of protest from consumer organisations and staff, NS Reizigers has postponed to 2010 the closing of staffed ticket offices across its network. Under a programme costed at 50m guilders, NS had hoped to replace these offices by 2003 with ticket vending machines, redeploying staff to assist passengers ...
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Bahn 2000 tunnel
CEREMONIES were held at Gorgier-St Aubin on May 27 to mark completion of Swiss Federal Railways’ latest Bahn 2000 upgrading project. The 2250m long Sauges tunnel is the longest of four for the double-tracking of 10·5 km between Neuchatel and Yverdon. SBB Infrastructure Director Pierre-Alain Urech told the guests that ...
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Nanjing Line 1 started
CONSTRUCTION work has finally started on the first line of the long-planned metro for the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. The 16·8 km Line 1 will run north-south across the city centre, and is costed at 5·4bn yuan.Proposals for the metro were approved by the National Planning Commitee in mid-1994 ...
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