All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2004 – Page 4

  • News

    North-South link accord

    2004-07-01T10:00:00Z

    THIS MONTH is due to see the publication of proposals for a joint venture which will finance and build a 511 km railway along Iran's Caspian Sea coast, as part of the North-South rail corridor being promoted by Russian Railways. The scheme is being developed by a working group set ...

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    Bombardier accelerates plant closures

    2004-07-01T10:00:00Z

    BOMBARDIER has announced that it will not re-open its mothballed US rolling stock assembly plant at Barre in Vermont, and is to sell the site.Opened in 1981 to help meet the Buy America requirements of federally-funded US rolling stock contracts, the plant was mothballed in November 2002 on the completion ...

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    SLRA to be abolished

    2004-07-01T10:00:00Z

    SRI LANKAN Transport Minister Felix Perera announced at the end of May that the newly-elected government had decided to abolish the Sri Lanka Railway Authority set up by the previous administration and transfer its powers back to a revitalised Railways Department.Although the legislation creating SLRA was approved in 1993, the ...

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    ARTC prepares to spend $A1·3bn

    2004-07-01T10:00:00Z

    As forecast in RG 6.04 p317, Australia’s Federal Government published a White Paper on June 4 promising A$11·8bn for land transport spending over the next five years. On the same day, Australian Rail Track Corp signed a 60-year lease under which it takes over management of lines in New South ...