All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2000 – Page 4
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Kasai warns against total sell-off
WITH A general election due in Japan this month, the President of Central Japan Railway Yoshiyuki Kasai has renewed his attack against government plans to sell its remaining shares in the JR companies. Although the government has already indicated that it does not expect to push through a bill for ...
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Acela must slow down
DESPITE the generous loading gauge normally available in North America, the New York - Boston schedule for Amtrak’s 240 km/h Acela Express will be 15min longer than the 3h planned for last December’s start of service. Amtrak’s latest estimate for the launch is ’the beginning of August’. Last month endurance ...
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DB and NS to pool ICE3s
German Railway and Netherlands Railways signed an agreement on June 13 to operate their multi-voltage ICE3 sets jointly on the K
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U3 bidding soon
INTERNATIONAL tenders are to be called within the next two or three months for electrical and mechanical systems on Germany’s first purpose-built automated metro line. Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg has now put together the funding package for construction of U-Bahn Line U3, which is due to be operational by the end of ...
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Linx readies to launch in June 2001
INTRO: From early 2002 international services in the Nordic Triangle linking København, Stockholm and Oslo will all be worked by tilting trains, offering shorter journey times and a higher quality of customer service. To run the Oslo - Stockholm and Oslo - København routes, SJ and NSB have founded a ...
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Shanghai Line 2 inaugurated
ON JUNE 11 Chinese government officials joined Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuang-di to inaugurate the first 16·3 km of the city’s second metro line. This section runs from Zhongshan Park to Long Dong Lu in the suburb of Pudong (RG 1.99 p27). Test running on Line 2 began last October using ...
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Roger 1000 ready to roll
NORWEGIAN rail infrastructure authority Jernbaneverket has taken delivery of its Roger 1000 track and overhead line recording car from MerMec of Italy (RG 3.98 p169). The Roger 1000 is a key element in the authority's programme of network upgrading to accommodate tilting trains. It is carried on ETR470 Pendolino bogies, ...
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Line 10 extends
MADRID City Council has selected two consortia led by Dragados y Construcciones and by NECSO and FCC for civil engineering on a southern extension of metro Line 10, at a cost of Pts25bn. The 3 km first stage of the extension, valued at Pts11bn, will run from Puerta de Bat
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