All Railway Gazette International articles in June 2007 – Page 7
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Light rail arrives in Charlotte
LIGHT RAIL has a key role to play in Charlotte, North Carolina, where an initial line is now under construction. Between 1990 and 2000, the city's population grew by almost 37%, and planners expect this increase to continue, with employment forecast to grow by almost 50% by 2025. With sprawling ...
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RZD reform makes good progress
RUSSIA is a country of extremes. The territory is vast, the climate is cold, and the population density is low. Above all, Russia is transport-intensive.Within Russia, the railway has always played a major role. Formerly known as the Ministry of Communications or MPS, it is now called Russian Railways (OAORZD). ...
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RandstadRail to get sneltram cars
ROTTERDAM operator RET has ordered 21 articulated LRVs from Bombardier Transportation for the RandstadRail project (RG 4.05 p209), with an option for a further 27 cars. Destined to work between Slinge (Rotterdam Zuid), Rotterdam Centraal, Blijdorp, Melachtonweg and Den Haag Centraal, they will be delivered between January and December 2008.The ...
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Tenerife's PPP tram moves ahead
WORKIS now underway on a 12·4 km light rail route in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which is being built under a Public-Private Partnership between the island authority and the Tenemetro consortium. Revenue service is due to start in March 2007.Phase 1 of Tenerife's light rail programme runs from Intercambiador to ...
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Smoothing Sweden's path planning
THISMONTH, Swedish infrastructure manager Banverket is expected to start using a new web-based bidding procedure for train operators to apply for access to its tracks.Around 20 different train operators use the Swedish network. Responsibility for planning the use of the tracks lies with Banverket's Trafik division, which has around 1000 ...
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Streamlined structure at DB
Prof Nicholas K Baltas has been named as President of Hellenic Railways Organisation with the appointment of a new board of Directors in April. Anastasios Efstathiou is Vice-President, and Konstantinos Giannakos Managing Director. Members are J Avramides, K Kefalogiannis, F Tsagga, A Fragopoulos, D Karapanos and A Argyriou.President Bush has ...
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Fire Protection in Vehicles & Tunnels for Public Transport
PREPARED by the Association of German Transport Undertakings, this 504 page bilingual softback provides an overview in German and English of fire prevention and fire-fighting methods. The book is intended to help with the development and specification of new tunnel projects, and to aid the revision of practice in existing ...
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Refurbishment in Brief
By autumn JR East will have fitted all 1117 of its Shinkansen cars with Braille maps showing the carriage layouts and locations of doors, different types of waste bin and onboard facilities. The toilets are being fitted with Braille plans showing the locations of the operating buttons and emergency alarm. ...
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Whole-life planning to optimise heavy haul rail infrastructure
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 BRAZIL'S ONLY cross-border rail company is also the only one to be listed on the stock market. America Latína Logísticais probably the first ...
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Grain giant targets cross-border logistics
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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Are there better times ahead?
The prospects for Argentina's freight operators are set to brighten once the protracted process of renegotiating their concession contracts comes to an end, but government funding will be needed for infrastructure investment if rail is to meet its full potential. Enrique Garibotto reports BY THE END of the 1980s the ...
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UITP returns to Roma
'Public Transport 2020: Making the Connection - People - Environment - Business' is the theme for the 56th World Congress of the International Association of Public Transport Having previously staged its biennial World Congress in Roma in 1928 and 1971, UITP's return to the Italian capital on June 5-9 marks ...
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Global changes at YSD and Rafna
REVENUE at Global Railway Industries Ltd for the year to December 31 2004 was C$34·7m, up 34% from 2003. This includes C$4·8m from Youngtown, Ohio, based YSD Industries Inc, which was purchased in April 2004. Restructuring of YSD continued into the first quarter of 2005, with an anticipated loss ...
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CroBIT provides a European data platform
Development of an international information platform will allow all parties involved in cross-border rail freight operations to share data Eckhard KuhlaEkonsult GmbH, Germany THE DEMAND for international freight movement in Europe is growing apace - except in the rail mode. There are many reasons for this, but a key element ...
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Freight reform tops the agenda
With passenger traffic growing steadily, long-term profitability at SNCF will depend on the restructuring of its freight business which reaches a crucial stage in 2005. Robert Preston spoke to SNCF Executive Vice-President Guillaume Pepy in Paris FRENCH NATIONAL Railways Executive Vice-President Guillaume Pepy expects to be able to report 'a ...
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SNCF sets service level on TGV Est
ON FEBRUARY 2 SNCF announced details of services planned over the TGV Est Européen line when it opens on June 15 2007. In contrast to other French high speed lines where there has been a gradual build-up, TGV Est Europ‚en will offer frequent services from day one with 85% of ...
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Cross-city tunnel holds the key to Leipzig S-Bahn project
After many years of delay, the long-planned cross-city tunnel in Leipzig is finally under construction. The 4·3 km twin bores serving four stations will be used by S-Bahn and regional express services. Ralf Roman Rossberg reports It has been a long wait. But now, after more than a century of ...
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Joetsu Shinkansen fully restored after earthquake damage
THROUGH services between Tokyo and Niigata on JR East's Joetsu Shinkansen resumed on December 28, more than two months after a train travelling at around 200km/h was derailed by an earthquake (RG 12.04 p826). JR East has now released further details of what happened and the measures it has taken ...