Main line rail industry news – Page 1450
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Link up down underSir - Your report that Australian businessmen are planning a 4000 km 250 km/h Melbourne - Darwin line (RG 5.97 p282) will arouse a degree of scepticism among many of your readers.The most needed railway in Australia is from Alice to Tennant Creek, about which the politicians ...
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Longer concession is the last hope
A PROSPECTUS due last month explains the deal with banks holding more than £8bn of junior debt which Eurotunnel hopes will enable the company to continue trading. Despite last November’s fire which will cost Eurotunnel and its insurers more than £200m, the restructuring deal is essentially unchanged from the package ...
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Barajas link to open in 1999
AIRLINE passengers will be able to reach Madrid’s Barajas airport by rail from the end of 1999. Funding has been agreed for construction of a 4·5 km metro extension to the airport from Mar de Cristal on Line 4, giving a 25min journey time from the airport to Plaza de ...
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Real time management becomes a reality
TENDERS will be called by German Railway this month or next for the first three of seven Advanced Train Control Centres that will ultimately take over train operations from thousands of existing signalboxes. These will be turnkey projects of substantial size, with around 150 workstations each, and great complexity, especially ...
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In Brief
n Canadian Pacific transferred 1839route-km in the US Midwest to I&M Rail Link in April for US$250m. Formed by Montana Rail Link owner Dennis Washington, I&M includes a route from Kansas City to the Chicago area plus branch lines in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.n A consortium headed by privatisedBrazilian steel ...
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Australia: Adtranz Australia and Walkers Ltd have won a joint contract to build five two-car EMUs for Westrail; they will be similar to the existing fleet, and first delivery is due in November 1998.Queensland’s Department of Transport has called tenders for a consultancy study to improve efficiency and best practice ...
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Rotterdam shuttles to handle 1m TEU/year
IF ROTTERDAM has become the focal point for chartered intermodal shuttle trains around which the European Union’s first Freightways are to be constructed, NS Cargo has been a willing and enthusiastic partner in ironing out the obstacles.Bas C van Nes, NS Cargo’s Director, Combined Transport, says that ’rail’s share of ...
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Transrapid survives another review
WE HAVE lost count of the number of times that high speed maglev projects have been given green lights, go-aheads and approvals in Germany. The latest came at the end of April when Transport Minister Matthias Wissmann said the project to build a Transrapid line between Hamburg and Berlin would ...
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London Underground happy with first private train deal
Two years into the 400m lease-and-maintain agreement under which GEC Alsthom is building 106 trains for the Northern line, Richard Hope explains why London Underground expects a growing proportion of investment to be privately financed
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Finance
Bulgaria: BDZ has secured a total of $170m in loans from the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, and other sources, to fund modernisation projects up to the end of 1998.Finland: Finland’s Ministry of Trade & Industry with Rautaruukki Corp have launched a share offering of 13 ...
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Industry
Great Britain: London & Continental Engineering, the Channel Tunnel rail link design and management consortium, has been renamed Rail Link Engineering.Thrall Car has announced plans to build wagons in Great Britain; Wisconsin Central subsidiary EWS plans to order up to 500 wagons each year.Malaysia: On March 20 Ansaldo Signal announced ...
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Intelligence
CAPTION: Italian State Railways received the first of 20 Class E412 three-system locomotives at a ceremony in the Vado Ligure works of Adtranz. Present were Rolling Stock supremo Mario Moretti and Transport Minister Claudio Burando. Able to run in Austria and Germany, the 200 km/h locos are also able to ...
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CAPTION: Union Carriage & Wagon has rolled out the first of 44 three-car stainless steel EMUs for KTMB’s Komuter services on Kuala Lumpur suburban routes. Three-phase traction equipment is supplied by GEC AlsthomCAPTION: Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen formally opened a new rolling stock assembly works for Adtranz at Berlin Pankow ...
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Light metro strategy approved
THE MUNICIPAL government in Napoli has announced plans to develop an 86 km light metro network by 2011, with the aim of removing 200000 car journeys per day from the city streets. Replacing proposals to expand the heavy metro (DM96 p55), the 5500bn lire programme will be implemented in two ...
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Mozambique eyes export markets
PLANS to boost export coal traffic from the near-mothballed Moatize coalfield will revive rail routes in northern Mozambique. The first phase would see a US$30m upgrading of rail and port facilities at Nacala to handle up to 1000 tonnes an hour. This would help to clear a stockpile of 200000 ...
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Euromed arrives
Spanish National Railways will introduce six Euromed trains to the Barcelona - Valencia - Alicante Mediterranean Corridor in June, following the completion of the first phase of an infrastructure upgrading programme. Built by GEC Alsthom Transporte at a cost of Pts15bn, the trainsets are 1668mm gauge versions of the 1435mm ...
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Gatwick Express EMU order
UK: National Express Group has ordered eight 8-car EMUs from GEC Alsthom Metro-Cammell to operate its Gatwick Express franchise linking London Victoria to Gatwick Airport. The £100m train service provision package requires delivery of the first 160 km/h trainset in December 1998, with fleet service to start in May 1999. ...
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Utah makes TRAX
APRIL 10 saw a formal sod-turning ceremony for the TRAX light rail line in Salt Lake City. This followed the award of contracts by Utah Transit Authority on March 26 for conversion of the existing railway between the city centre and the southern suburb of Sandy (RG 10.96 p645). Carter-Burgess/Jacobson ...
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Third metro programme approved
SEOUL Metropolitan Government has approved plans for a third phase of metro construction in the South Korean capital, adding a further 120 route-km by the end of 2005. Hong Jong-min, Head of the city’s Office of Subway Construction, announced on March 12 that work on Lines 9 to 12 should ...
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CR tries 3-phase locos as Nanning - Kunming line is completed
CHINESE Prime Minister Li Peng attended a ceremony at Baise on March 18 to mark completion of tracklaying on the 898 km Nanning - Kunming line linking the southwestern provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. Revenue services on the electrified route are expected to begin by the end of the year, ...