All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2005 – Page 4

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    Ministers agree high speed timetable

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    MEETING in Lisboa on May 4, Spanish Development Minister Magdalena Álvarez and Portuguese Minister of Public Works, Transport & Communications Mario Lino confirmed the timetable for completing high speed links between the two countries. A Vigo - Porto route would open in 2009, followed by a Lisboa - Madrid route ...

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    Heavy haul railways address a booming market

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    As the world's experts in heavy haul technology gather in Rio de Janeiro for the 8th IHHA Conference on June 14-16, China's insatiable demand for iron and steel is driving the pace of development on the world's heavy haul railways. Operators of iron ore lines on three continents are moving ...

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    Tracking machines across borders

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    DANISH infrastructure manager Banedanmark has ordered tracking equipment to monitor the location and utilisation of around 700 wagons and maintenance machines.The DKr4m contract for GSM-GPS tracking technology was won by Pivotex Oy, which will begin supplying its PivoTrack package this month. PivoTrack will work across national boundaries regardless of the ...

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    EWS acquires bogie portfolio

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    BRITISH rail freight operator English Welsh &Scottish Railway announced on April 28 that it had acquired the assets of wagon suspension developer and supplier Probotec Ltd. The Cardiff-based company had been placed in administration earlier in the month.Formerly known as Powell Duffryn Rail, Probotec has 40 staff and offices in ...

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    Open access sorted

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    WHEN THE state government of Victoria leased most of V/Line’s network outside the Melbourne commuter zone to Freight Australia in 1999, the issue of access by competing operators was ignored. As Minister for Transport Peter Batchelor pointed out last month when introducing his Rail Corporations (Amendment) Bill, ’no third-party operator ...

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    Broad gauge ICE3 in sight

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    RUSSIAN Railways continues to prepare the ground for signing a detailed contract with Siemens for supply of high speed trains (RG 2.05 p61), with RZD President Gennady Fadeyev announcing on May 5 in Moscow that the German company will assemble the trains in Russia. Technology transfer looks set to be ...

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    1000 cars in Bangkok package

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    FORMAL proposals for a package of new metro lines and extensions in Bangkok totalling 94 km were submitted to the Thai government by the Mass Rapid Transit Authority on May 12.In January MRTA was authorised to begin design for two new lines and two extensions, which are expected to be ...

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    Steel boom will drive MRS Logística past the 100 million tonne level

    2005-06-01T10:00:00Z

    Several of Brazil's freight railway concessionaires have flourished since the federal railway network was broken up in 1996. John Kolodziejski looks at progress at two of them

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    One hundred years and still rolling

    2005-06-01T08:57:00Z

    SURVEYING the world railway industry in mid-2005, on the occasion of our Centenary, it is clear that steel wheels on steel rails still have formidable potential for further development. In the following pages we have indulged in the luxury of looking back, with our 170-year history mapped out on ...

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    Modern construction methods mastered on Mashhad - Bafgh line

    2005-06-01T08:51:00Z

    Iranian engineers designed and built around 1000 km of new line through difficult terrain

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    'Friendship Corridor' opens up trade route from Central Asia to the Gulf

    2005-06-01T08:42:00Z

    Murray Hughes travelled to Mashhad to join the ceremony marking opening by President Khatami of Iran of the Mashhad - Bafgh railway

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    Iron and coal will dominate traffic flows

    2005-06-01T08:41:00Z

    On the occasion of opening of Iran's new railway between Mashhad and Bafgh on May 3, RAI President Mohammad Saiednejad discussed the project with Murray Hughes in Mashhad