All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2019 – Page 51
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Great Walton Railroad (GRWX)
Runs north from interchange with CSX’s Georgia Subdivision at Social Circle to Monroe, carrying mainly plastics, minerals, grain woodchips and pulp. A former second route has been abandoned in Newton County between Covington and Newborn. Southeast of here into Jasper County the line to Machen, on Norfolk Souther’s Madison District, ...
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Transport UK Group Ltd (TUG)
This franchise holding company was formerly Abellio UK, the UK subsidiary of Netherlands Railways’ (NS) Abellio Group. On August 23 2022 NS announced it was withdrawing from the UK, divesting the business to a management buy-out. This concluded on March 1 2023. Transport UK Group is the operator of, or ...
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Independent Regulators’ Group - Rail (IRG-Rail)
Founded in 2011, IRG-Rail provides a platform for co-operation and sharing best practice between the regulatory bodies of 31 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, ...
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Gruppo Torinese Trasporti SpA (GTT)
Opened 2006. Single route serving 23 stations, plus eight tram routes. See Torino network map. GTT was created in 2003 by merger of local transport operators ATM and Satti. Its local public transport division operates eight tram routes; it also has a division Ferrovie which runs the line north from ...
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Guiyang Urban Rail Transit (GYURT)
Opened 2017, China’s 31st metro. Four lines, serving 92 stations. See Guiyang network map. The first section of Line 1 opened December 28 2017, linking Xiamaixi in the northwest with North high-speed railway station (12·9 km, 10 stations). This was continued south to Xiaomeng on December 1 2018 (20·2 km, ...
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Hakodate-shi Kigyo Kyoku Kotsu-bu
Two-route conventional tramway opened 1897, electrified in 1913, serving 26 stops. The network grew to around 18 km, but closures since the 1970s have left a “Y”-shaped network linking the port and Yashigashira in the west via the main station to Yunokawa in the east. Address15-1-13 Kobama-choHakodate-shi Hokkaido 042-0935JapanPhone+81 138 ...
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Hakone Tozan Railway
Opened in 1919, this Odakyu Group railway runs west from Odawara (interchange with JR East’s Tokaido Line) to Gora in the Hakone mountains to the southwest of Tokyo, but since 2006 it has been operated in two separate sections with a change of gauge at Hakone-Yumoto: Odawara – Hakone-Yumoto: ...
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Halberstädter Verkehrs-GmbH (HVG)
First line opened 1903. Tramway comprises 2 routes (plus weekends-only route) with 23 stops. AddressGröperstraße 8338820 HalberstadtGermanyPhone+49 3941 56615Fax+49 3941 566163Emailhvg@stadtverkehr-halberstadt.deWebsitewww.stadtverkehr-halberstadt.de Traffic Passenger journeys2·7 million (all modes)Information year2017 Network data Gauge1000 mmLength11·7 kmElectrification11·7 km - 600 V DCRolling stock16 LRV/tram cars
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Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) - The Tide
Construction began in 2007, and this initial section of The Tide light rail line from EVMC / Fort Norfolk via down-town Norfolk east to Newtown Road opened on August 19 2011. Extension of the line east to Virginia Beach was considered, but the scheme was discontinued after a 2016 referendum ...
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Hangzhou Metro (HZM)
Opened 2012, China’s 18th metro; 12-line network serving 258 stations. See Hangzhou & Shaoxing network map. Lines 1 & 5 are operated by Hangzhou MTR, a joint-venture with MTR Corp, whilst other lines are operated by Hangzhou Metro Corp. Line 1. Work began in 2006, opening on November 24 ...
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Harbin Metro (HRBM)
Opened 2013, China’s 19th metro. Three route network serving 73 stations. See Harbin network map. Line 1 from Harbin East station southwest to Harbin South station opened on September 26 2013 (17·5 km, 18 stations), extended south to Xinjianglu on April 19 2019 (8·6 km, 5 stations); two infill stations ...
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Hedjaz Jordan Railway
The Jordan railway system originated in the Hedjaz Railway line from Damascus in Syria to Medina in Saudi Arabia. HJR now controls a total of 496 km, of which 169 km (Menzil to Batn el Ghul) is leased to the Aqaba Railway Corp, and a further 110 km is out ...
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Hefei Metro
Opened 2016, China’s 29th metro. Six-line network with 172 stations. See Hefei network map. A 4 km test section of Line 1 completed in 2012 was extended to form the initial metro route running north from Jiulianwei in the southern Yandun district via the high-speed Hefei South station and city ...