All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2019 – Page 132
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Yuzhno-Uralskaya Railway
The Yuzhno-Uralskaya (South Ural) Railway is a regional railway forming part of Russian Railways serving the Urals and Volga Federal Districts. It comprises four divisions based at Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Orenburg and Petropavlovsk (Kazazhstan). AddressRevolutsii Pl 3454000 ChelyabinskRussiaPhone+7 3512 684400Fax+7 3512 684848Emailinfo@rzd.ruWebsitewww.rzd.ru Network data Gauge1520 mmLength4 807 km
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Zabaikalskaya Railway
The Zabaikalskaya (Trans-Baikal) Railway is a regional railway forming part of Russian Railways serving the Far Eastern Federal District. It comprises three divisions based at Chita, Mogocha and Svobodny. AddressLeningradskaya ul 34672092 ChitaRussiaPhone+7 3022 974316Fax+7 3022 260573Websitewww.rzd.ru Network data Gauge1520 mmLength3 340 km
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Zapadno-Sibirskaya Railway
The Zapadno-Sibirskaya (West Siberian) Railway is a regional railway forming part of Russian Railways serving the Siberia Federal District. It comprises four divisions based at Barnaul, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and Omsk. AddressVokzalnaya Magistral ul 14630004 NovosibirskRussiaPhone+7 3832 294400Fax+7 3832 294848Websitewww.rzd.ru Network data Gauge1520 mmLength5 863 km
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Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) - RapidX
National Capital Region Transport Corp (NCRTC) Ltd
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Refservice
This subsidiary of Russian Railways was established in 2006, specialising in refrigerated and insulated freight transport. Address12 Novoryazanskaya ul107228 MoskvaRussiaPhone+7 495 262 0574Fax+7 495 262 2833Emailsecretary@refservice.ruWebsitewww.refservice.ru Company size Employees3 764 Network data Gauge1 520mmRolling stock11 000 Freight wagons
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Stadtbahn Regensburg
Restoration of a tram network was proposed, but rejected in a 2024 referendum. Description of scrapped proposal Regensburg’s original tram network opened in 1903, but was abandoned in 1964. In June 2018 the city council approved plans to revive tram services, with a 15 km two-line light rail network ...
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Regio S-Bahn Rhein-Neckar
The S-Bahn network serving the Mannheim region was established in 2003. There are nine operating routes serving 113 stations. See Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Heidelberg network map. The network spans the Rhein and border between Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Württemberg, connecting the Ludwigshafen – Mannheim – Heidelberg conurbation and with some services reaching Hessen and Saarland. ...
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Verband Region Stuttgart (VRS)
Plans, co-ordinates and finances public transport in the Stuttgart area. AddressKronenstraße 2570174 StuttgartGermanyPhone+49 711 227590Fax+49 711 227 5970Emailinfo@region-stuttgart.orgWebsitewww.region-stuttgart.org
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Regiotram Utrecht
Opened 1983. Three operating routes serving 32 stops. The Utrecht–Nieuwegein Sneltram opened on December 17 1983, with the Doorslag branch extended to Ijsselstein on December 14 1985 (total 20·7 km, 23 stops). A route from the main station across the south side of the city to Uithof in the ...
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Železnice Slovenskej Republiky (ŽSR)
ŽSR was set up in 1993, comprising the Slovak part of the former Czechoslovak State Railways, first line opened 1848. In 2002 it was separated into an operating company (Železničná Spoločnosť, as) for passenger and freight traffic, and an infrastructure manager ŽSR responsible for the management, operation and maintenance of ...
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SNCF Réseau
National track authority for maintainenance and operation of rail infrastructure. See France network map. In 1997 Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) was separated from national railway SNCF and given ownership and financial control over rail infrastructure; it remained state-owned and assumed SNCF’s infrastructure debt. Under reforms approved in June 2014, ...
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Rhônexpress
Single interurban tram route, opened 2010. See Lyon network map. This premium-fare interurban tram-train route links central Lyon at Part Dieu station with the airport and TGV station at Saint-Exupéry with two intermediate stops. It shares the inner 15 km of route with Métro de Lyon’s tram route T3, and ...
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Tramwaje Slaskie SA
First line opened 1894. This extensive network serves the Upper Silesia industrial area with 30 routes. Initially inter-urban steam tramways were built to 785 mm gauge, with electrification from 1898 and standard gauge routes from 1913 around Bytom. Subsequently the network was divided between Germany and Poland, with conversion to ...
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Samarqand Tramway
Tramway opened 2017; two routes serving 29 stops. See Samarqand network map. Work on an initial 6·4 km line began October 16 2016; the route from the main station south to Sat-Tepo opened on April 15 2017, using a fleet of trams from the defunct Toshkent network. Trial operations over ...