All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2003 – Page 4
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Metros
China:ABB has received an order worth US$7m to supply 152 gas insulated switchgear units for Shenzhen’s metro Line 1 by September this year, and 237 of the 33 kV devices worth US$11m to Guangzhou metro Line 3 next year.Arup has been appointed as engineering consultant and DesignCorp International as architect ...
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New York subway orders
MTA New York City Transit has awarded a $90m contract to Kawasaki Rail Car Inc for another 80 R142A subway cars. They will be similar to 520 cars now in service on the Lexington Avenue line, which have proved to be one of NYCT’s most reliable fleets, achieving an average ...
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NS station works
TWO NEW stations are to be built at Tilburg Reeshof and Almere Oostvaarder, following the approval by the Dutch cabinet of a €6m package of works, which also include lengthening of the platfoms at Driebergen-Zeist.In another station improvement scheme, the main hall at Amsterdam Amstel was formally reopened on April ...
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PEOPLE
On May 20, German Railway announced that its Board Member for Passenger services Dr Christoph Franz and Passenger Marketing Director Hans-Gustav Koch were leaving the company. Passenger services will pass to Board Member Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch, whose responsibility for technology will devolve to Stefan Garber, formerly Director of Purchasing. The ...
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Pointers
n Look for the European Union to put forward a revised list of priorities for the Trans-European Network projects, following the setting up of a high-level review group under former Transport Commissioner Karel van Miert. TEN projects will be split into five categories under new guidelines to be adopted later ...
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Restructuring progresses
SEPARATION of infrastructure company Rete Ferroviaria Italiana from the Ferrovie dello Stato group, previously planned for this year, has been postponed to 2004 as the government has yet to decide how to proceed. One option is a change of ownership of RFI through a sale of shares in FS. At ...
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A promise unfulfilled in Victoria
When National Express withdrew from its franchises in Melbourne last year, privatisation in the state of Victoria was called into question. John Kirk reviews what has happened and concludes that there are deep flaws in both state and federal policies
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Restyling TGV
SNCF has selected a consortium of MBD Design, seat manufacturer Compin and fashion house Christian Lacroix to develop new interiors for a refurbishment programme that will treat 183 TGV Atlantique and Réseau trainsets by 2008. Interiors proposed by three bidders had been installed in one TGV which visited 40 towns ...
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