Main line rail industry news – Page 1391
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Arab Railway StatisticsStatistics for 13 members of the Arab Union of Railways covering 1997 show that Moroccan Railways carries the most freight, followed by Tunisia, whereas Egypt has the highest passenger traffic. Various network and traffic statistics are complemented by a directory of operators and suppliers in Arab countries. Eng ...
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Building Britain's first high speed line
Section 1 only impinges on the urban fabric at Ashford, but Section 2 penetrates to the heart of London where driving 36 km of single-track bored tunnel through some difficult ground beneath existing railways and other structures presents a major engineering challenge
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Real progress, but more is needed
PUBLIC HEARINGS called this month by the Productivity Commission will seek views on the way railway reform is being handled in Australia. A draft report was published by the Commission on March 30, and its final report is due in August. Despite huge changes in the way government owned railways ...
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Karachi tries Circular Railconcession
MAY 20 is the deadline for submission of proposals to revitalise the Karachi Circular Railway as a high-capacity commuter carrier. Pakistan’s National Mass Transit Authority envisages awarding a 25-year build-operate-transfer concession, with railway-owned land and stations forming a government equity stake in the project.NMTA is looking for private sector promoters ...
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Economic growth is spur to expansion
INTRO: CB Transportes is using its business acumen to turn round run-down railways in Latin America. The company is operating successfully in Chile and Bolivia and is seeking more opportunities to expandBYLINE: Gonzalo Grebe NFinance Manager, CB Transportes SAOVER THE last decade commerce within the southern cone of Latin America ...
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Toronto beckons urban rail suppliers
AROUND 7000 visitors and delegates are expected to converge on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on May 23-27. Prominent among them will be delegates attending the 53rd Congress of the International Union of Public Transport, which is sharing this modern venue with the City Transport 99 exhibition. Supporting events include ...
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Network with revenue potential
ECI Telecom has supplied a US$5m Syncom SDH telecommunications network to Singapore MRT. Linking 60 stations with trackside optic fibre cabling, it can transmit information at speeds of up to 400gigabits/sec. It supports SMRT’s telephone network and also carries data and pictures from station CCTV cameras to the control room.The ...
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Arsenal climate chamber will be hot property
SNOW OR SUNSHINE can be produced at will in the climate chamber at Wien-Arsenal, where rolling stock of all kinds is sent to check its performance in extreme weather conditions. Built in 1960 mainly to serve the research arm of the UIC, the test centre was refurbished in 1977. It ...
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West Coast conundrum
THE SWEDISH government has selected a private consortium as preferred bidder to run passenger services on the West Coast main line between Gøteborg and Malm
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CN-IC merger approved
ON March 25 the US Surface Transportation Board voted unanimously to approve the merger of Canadian National and Illinois Central. The STB will issue its written decision on May 25, and this is to become effective on June 24. CN’s 25600 route-km and IC’s 5420 route-km will be integrated from ...
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Westrail sale will start soon
EXPRESSIONS of interest are to be called shortly for a private concessionaire to operate rail services in Western Australia; the intention is to complete the sale this year. The state’s Rail Access Committee presented its recommendations to the government last month.Westrail’s rolling stock, depots, terminals and existing contracts are to ...
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DB fixes on radio
BY THE END of this year radio-based signalling should be operational on German Railway’s route from Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken-Grumbach. The branches from Bielefeld to Dissen-Bad Rothenfelde and from Mainz to Gensingen-Horrweiler, Alzey and Monsheim are to follow shortly afterwards, kicking off a programme to convert 16000 route-km of mainly regional ...
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MAV boosts investment
HUNGARIAN Railways announced plans in March to invest around HF65bn in upgrading and network development this year, with a similar amount to be spent in 2000. Around three-quarters of this will come from international agencies such as the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, the European Investment Bank, Kreditanstalt für ...
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Tel Aviv starts suburban line
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and National Infrastructure Minister Ariel Sharon participated in ceremonies in March to mark the start of work on Israel Railways' Tel Aviv suburban network. The first line to Kfar Sava is costed at US$160m for infrastructure and US$88m for rolling stock, but IR ...
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Taiwan breaks ground twice
CEREMONIES were held in Kaohsiung on March 26 to mark the formal groundbreaking for construction of the 345 km Taipei - Kaohsiung high-speed line. Participants included Vice-President Lien Chan and Transport Minister Lin Feng-Cheng. President Vincent Siew joined Lin for a second event at Taipao in his home state of ...
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Chinese plans
CHINESE Railways is to invest 55bn yuan during 1999, the Ministry of Railways announced in March. Under the five-year development plan launched last year (RG 9.98 p611) this year will see the construction of 1320route-km of new line.Last month CR completed feasibility studies for two alternative routes to the Tibetan ...
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Russian port links progress
LAST MONTH was due to see the completion of new lines totalling 100 km serving ports on Russia’s Taman peninsula. Under a national strategy to develop ports on the Azov and Black seas, RZD is building links from the Krasnodar - Kavkaz line at Vyshesteblevskaya to Taman on the southern ...
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Dutch tunnels make progress
ON MARCH 17 Netherlands Transport Minister Tineke Netelenbos officially launched work on the country’s first bored rail tunnel. The double track Botleks tunnel under the Oude Maas will carry freight trains between the docks and the Betuwe line. The twin 1835m bores will replace the Botleks bridge on Rotterdam’s harbour ...
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Line 9 reaches Arganda del Rey
ON APRIL 7 Madrid Metro inaugurated its 18·3 km suburban feeder line between Puerta de Arganda and Arganda del Rey. Operating above ground along a former industrial railway alignment, the route is worked as an extension of Line 9 with intermediate stations at Rivas Urbanizaciones, Rivas Vaciamadrid and La Poveda.Operating ...
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NJ Transit tests investments
On MARCH 22 New Jersey Transit held the first demonstrations of its Hudson-Bergen light rail line through Jersey City. One of the new Kinki Sharyo low-floor cars took invited guests on a 10 min trip along the 4 km test section from the Caven Point maintenance depot via Richard and ...