All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2000
All articles published this month.
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Sidetrack
INTRO: Mirror, mirror on the floorCoy Japanese are starting to address the issues arising from a doubling in suicides over the last 20 years, particularly now that more and more people are choosing ’public’ methods such as jumping under trains. Faced with substantial costs when services must be halted to ...
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Privatisation sequel is worth reading
SUCCESSOR to our annual Rail Business Report, this inaugural edition of Rail Investment is designed to meet the need for an authoritative publication covering trends in railway spending. As in Rail Business Report, we include the World Bank's railway performance database which offers a valuable picture of ...
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PEOPLE
Freightliner Ltd has appointed Operations Director Alan Galley as its new Managing Director in succession to David Rutherford who has left the company. In addition, four new board members have been named: Peter Maybury, Neil McLean, Eddie Fitzsimons, and Robert Goundry.Jon R Roy has been elected President & Chief Executive ...
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Operators turn professional
MAY 11 saw the launch in London of the Institution of Railway Operators. Set up to give formal recognition to the profession of railway operating, IRO aims to recruit 5000 members within five years, according to its first Chairman, the Shadow Strategic Rail Authority’s Technical Director Richard Morris. He told ...
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Metros
Egypt: A total of 22 companies applied to pre-qualify for the Giza extension of Cairo metro Line 2. The National Authority for Tunnels was expected to produce a shortlist by the end of May.Europe: The European Commission has appointed AEA Technology Rail to provide an overview and analysis of, and ...
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TGV track reaches Marseille
WITH civil works including several major structures now complete, the latest addition to the French high speed network is due to open on June 1 2001. Tracklaying on the 250 km TGV Méditerranée to Marseille and Nîmes (RG 1.99 p43) began in May 1999, involving some 150 locomotives and 1600 ...
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Market
Australia: Hamersley Iron has ordered 240 ore wagons from Smorgon Steel’s Bradken subsidiary at a cost of A$25m; first delivery is due in September.Canada: In May CPR signed a C$28m three-year contract with Bell Nexxia covering all its telecommunications needs.Bids closed on May 30 for seven diesel locomotives sought by ...
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Puget Sound makes progress
GROUNDBREAKING ceremonies were held in Seattle on April 26 for a $43m maintenance depot to be shared by Amtrak and Sound Transit. Amtrak is contributing $21m, and Washington State will invest $22m. Opening in 2003, the depot will service Amtrak’s Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, the Cascade Talgos, and the ...
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Transnet restructuring can wait no longer
BYLINE: Saki MacozomaManaging Director, TransnetINTRO: Managing Director of Transnet Saki Macozoma reveals to Murray Hughes proposals for a programme of sales and concessioning that will bring radical change to South Africa’s 1067mm gauge national network. Both heavy haul operations will be concessioned within the next 18 monthsRECOGNITION that Spoornet had ...
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Letter
INTRO: Tilt troublesSir - The derailment of an ICE-T trainset in Berlin (RG 4.00 p212) was apparently caused by a sticking non-return valve, causing a hydraulic tilting actuator to block. As a result, the car body twisted and the bogie derailed. When the train was hauled away, the damaged coach ...
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Pendolinos to serve Jerusalem
ISRAEL RAILWAYS' mothballed rail link to Jerusalem should be reopened within 18 months, following the approval in principle of an investment package by the government. The announcement followed a meeting on April 17 between IR General Manager Amos Uzani and Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who is currently responsible for transport. ...
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IR spends to redress problems
INTRO: Rail freight’s market share in India will increase from 40% to 50% if IR can push through a package of commercial incentives and improvements for customers proposed in the 2000-01 budget. There are ambitious plans to build new lines and continue the gauge conversion programme, but Chris Bushell finds ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: The Victoria government has allocated A$70m towards the cost of extending Melbourne’s electrified suburban network to Craigieburn, South Morang and Cranbourne East, as well as a tramway extension from East Burwood to Knox City.Freight Australia Chief Executive Marius van Onselen has called on the NSW government to reopen the ...
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Investment pace hotting up
THE LAST month has seen furious activity in Britain as the industry struggles to keep pace with constant change. A ’Rail Summit’ attended by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was scheduled for May 25, prompting many parties across the industry to try and demonstrate that they were pulling their weight.Among ...
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High speed joint ventures
AN AGREEMENT signed in Brussels on May 8 paves the way for the creation of a four-railway ’project company’ to manage high-speed passenger services on the TGV Est européen corridor linking Paris, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Basel (p379). To be based in Luxembourg, Rhealys will be owned by French National ...
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HCM upgrade
VIETNAM Railways has commissioned Japan Transportation Consultants and Southern Transport Engineering & Design Inc to undertake a feasibility study for a 47·2 km reconstruction of the southern end of its main line into Ho Chi Minh City through the province of Dong Nai. DSVN hopes to fund the project with ...
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Hamburg studies light rail
CITIZENS in the German port of Hamburg were due to make submissions by May 15 on priority measures to be put in place for the city’s planned light rail network. The formal consultation paves the way for award of a contract for detailed design of the first route.The city is ...
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Seetalbahn goes low-floor
ON APRIL 28 Swiss Federal Railways announced that it was to order a fleet of 17 low-floor articulated trainsets to operate its Seetalbahn line between Luzern and Lenzburg. The eight-axle GTW cars will be supplied by Stadler Fahrzeuge AG and Adtranz for SFr100m, and will have seats for 160 passengers ...
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Mehdorn seeks more upgrading funds
GERMAN RAILWAY Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn does not want much. Speaking at DB’s 1999 annual results press conference on May 10 in Berlin, Mehdorn called for both federal government and the Länder to provide further funding for infrastructure modernisation to deal with a ’huge backlog’ from previous years. The backlog was ...