All Railway Gazette International articles in July 2019 – Page 95
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MTR Corp (Hong Kong)
Opened 1979, this metro is since 1997 China’s second oldest. Nine metro and commuter rail lines serving 99 stations. See Hong Kong network map. MTR operates a network serving Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. High speed connections between Hong Kong International Airport and the city centre are ...
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Mumbai Railway Vikas Corp (MRVC) Ltd
MRVC is a joint venture of the Ministry of Railways and the government of Maharashtra and was established in July 1999 to implement the rail element of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). Faced with extreme overcrowding and network capacity constraints, the project aims to segregate suburban operations from mainline ...
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New Zealand Railways Corp
KiwiRail is a state-owned enterprise at the core of New Zealand’s integrated transport network, consisting of four business units: KiwiRail Freight (which also provides locomotives for passenger services); KiwiRail Infrastructure & Engineering (which includes train operations and rolling stock maintenance; KiwiRail Interislander ferry services; and KiwiRail Passenger. The latter runs ...
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Norfolk Southern Corp (NS)
Norfolk Southern Corporation’s railway subsidiary is Norfolk Southern Railway. It operates across 22 states and the District of Columbia, serving every major container port in the eastern United States, with routes west as far as New Orleans, Shreveport, Memphis, Kansas City and Chicago. See USA & Canada network map. It ...
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Pipavav Railway Corp Ltd (PRCL)
This public-private partnership, jointly owned by the Ministry of Railways and Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd, was set up to improve access to and from the port of Pipavav by converting Western Railway’s 250 km metre-gauge Surendranagar–Pipavav line to broad-gauge, construction of a new 20 km link into Pipavav Port, and ...
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Railroad Development Corp (RDC)
Operator of, and investor in, railways in the USA and Latin America. Affiliates include: Iowa Interstate Railroad (USA) America Latina Logistica SA (ALL Central and ALL Mesopotámica, Argentina) Ferrovias Guatemala (Guatemala) Ferrocarril Central Andino (Peru) Ferrocarril del Pacifico (Colombia) It also a shareholder in UK-based rolling ...
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Nagpur Metro Rail Corp Ltd
Opened 2019, India’s 13th metro. Two routes with 36 stations. See Nagpur network map. Government approval for a two-line, 37 station metro was given in February 2014, with the first section of Line 1 opened for limited service on March 8 2019 from Sitabuldi on the south side of the ...
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Patna Metro Rail Corp
Metro opened October 2025; single line serving three stations. See Patna network map. An initial phase of a metro for Patna was approved by Cabinet on February 13 2019 (31 km, 24 stations), consisting of two lines with completion planned by 2028. On March 10 2020 Delhi Metro Rail ...
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Taoyuan Metro Corporation
Opened 2017, single line serving 21 stations. See Taipei and Taoyuan network map. The Taoyuan Airport MRT began trial running on February 2 2017, with full opening on March 2 2017 (51·0 km, 21 stations). It incorporates the Blue line of the Taoyuan’s metro between Huanbei and the airport, also ...
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Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC)
Opened 2019, India’s 11th metro. Single line serving 21 stations. See Delhi network map. Approved in 2014 with construction begun in 2015, Phase 1 opened on January 25 2019 (29·7 km, 21 stations). It runs from Noida Sector 51, near Delhi Metro’s Blue line/Line 3 Sector 71 station, on an ...
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Metrotramvia di Cosenza
A €98m contract for the design and construction of a 9·4 km tram line in Cosenza was signed by the Calabria regional authority and a consortium led by construction company CMC in July 2017. The line would run from Piazza della Riforma to the University of Calabria campus in Rende, ...
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Ministry of Public Works & Transport, Costa Rica
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transporte
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Nuevo Tren de la Costa SA
Opened in 1995, single route serving 11 stops in the northern coastal suburbs of Buenos Aires. The line uses a former broad-gauge railway alignment linking Maipú and Delta, regauged and modernised for light rail operation. The federal agency SOFSE took over operation of the line on June 6, 2013 ...
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Ministry of Public Works, Transport & Telecommunications, Côte d'Ivoire
The Ministry, amongst its other roles, has technical and administrative responsibility for railways. AddressPO Box V6Postel 2001rue LecoeurAbidjan 01Côte d’IvoirePhone+225 347315/347316Fax+225 211 7329
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North County Transit District (NCTD)
Two mainline commuter routes serve Oceanside, to the southeast of the Los Angeles connurbation. See Los Angeles network map. The Sprinter line is referred to as “light rail” by NCTD, but is a conventional branch line operated by DMUs between Oceanside and Escondido (15 stations), opened 2008. NCTD also runs ...
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Oil Creek & Titusville Lines (OCTL)
This short line in Pennsylvania, affiliated with the New York & Lake Erie Railroad, links Rouseville with Titusville, carrying mainly plastic pellets, silica, fertilisers and forest products; also run tourist trains. Address50 Commercial StreetGowanda, NY 14070USAPhone+1 716 532 5242Fax+1 716 532 9128Websitewww.nylerr.com/OCTL.php Network data Gauge1435 mmLength24 kmRolling stock4 ...
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Ministry of the Sea, Transport & Infrastructure, Croatia
The Minister’s responsibility extends to all transport modes. The governement restructured the national railway in 2005, establishing an infrastructure body and operators for passsenger and freight services: Hrvatske Željeznice (HŽ) Infrastruktura doo HŽ Putnički prijevoz doo HŽ Cargo doo See network map of Croatia. AddressPrisavlje 14pp 25610000 ZagrebCroatiaPhone+385 ...