All Railway Gazette International articles in March 1997 – Page 2
-
News
Finance
Canada: CN reported a profit for 1996 of C$142m, compared to a C$1·1bn loss in 1995. Much of the 1996 fourth-quarter loss of C$166m was blamed on restructuring costs of C$365m to cover job losses. CN has announced plans to consolidate its four revenue management centres at a single Toronto ...
-
News
Nouvelle Génération will expand the TGV family
INTRO: SNCF’s Rolling Stock & Traction Director François Lac
-
News
IR projects edge forward
ISRAEL RAILWAYS has confirmed plans to step up the trial service on the Tel Aviv - Ashdod route, following encouraging loadings after the Rechovot service was extended in October 1996. The aim is to run five trains an hour once upgrading and double-tracking costing US$90m is completed.Another Tel Aviv commuter ...
-
News
Denver light rail extends
GROUNDBREAKING ceremonies were held on January 21 for Denver’s 14 km Southwest Corridor light rail extension. Regional Transportation District Chairman Ben Klein said the event marked ’the culmination of a dozen years of studies, planning and preparation.’ Detailed engineering design is due to be finished by the end of this ...
-
News
Tube in deep trouble
LONDON Underground could be sold after a general election expected on May 1, although a memo from Transport Secretary Sir George Young to Prime Minister John Major warns that it will be ’a unique and very difficult privatisation to sell to the public’. Higher subsidies required to clear an investment ...
-
News
Osaka opens cross-city link
MARCH 8 sees the inauguration of a 12·3 km cross-city rail link in the Japanese city of Osaka. Built by a public-private third sector company, the Katafuku line links existing JR West stations at Kyobashi and Amagasaki. The route includes 10·2 km in tunnel under the heart of the city. ...
-
News
Creating a path to the future
Superconducting MaglevINTRO: Interest at this month’s high speed railways conference in Okayama commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sanyo Shinkansen will focus on the 300X experimental train, but JR Central is poised to start levitation trials with the maglev train on the Yamanashi test lineBYLINE: Yoshiyuki Kasai PresidentCentral Japan Railway ...
-
News
Counting passengers by laser
The Transcomp trackside passenger-counting system from Eres Industrie comprises a laser transmitter unit and a counting unit installed on existing signalling or electrification masts facing each other across the track. Programmed with the operating timetable for the route in question and equipped with trackside vibration detectors, the equipment scans passing ...
-
News
Tramlink enters the construction phase
A 28 km light rail network to open in Croydon in 1999 will greatly improve east-west orbital journeys through south London and alleviate growing road congestion in Britain's eleventh biggest centre
-
News
Conrail stalemate
CHIEF EXECUTIVES David M LeVan of Conrail, John W Snow of CSX and Norfolk Southern’s David R Goode emerged from a private meeting on January 31 having failed to agree a formula for replacing the three major eastern US railways by two. On January 17, Conrail shareholders rejected overwhelmingly a ...
-
News
Composite trams
BASLER Verkehrsbetriebe has ordered 28 low-floor centre sections from Schindler Waggon AG at a cost of SFr16·4m, to enlarge its Be4/6 articulated trams delivered in 1990-91. This will increase their capacity by 30%, with 14 extra seats and space for wheelchairs or prams. The first car is due to be ...
-
News
TNT storms Queensland citadel
Queensland Railways has stood aloof from the chaotic ’liberalisation’ process under way on Australia’s standard gauge interstate network - until January 23, that is, when the National Competition Council revealed that Carpentaria Transport Pty Ltd had initiated an open access bid. The TNT subsidiary wants the right to run its ...
-
News
Time for change
A software tool developed by Cognos Ltd is helping London Underground to keep ticket machines in full service.Deciding when to refill specific machines with change, so that passengers did not have to enter the exact fare only, was previously up to the judgement of station staff. Instead station managers can ...
-
News
Casting the Net wider
Companies and organisations of all complexions within the global railway industry are embracing the Internet. From discussion groups and bulletin boards run for and by enthusiasts to the research programmes of academic institutions, information on railways is being presented by an ever-growing number of bodies to an ever-growing number of ...
-
News
Car orders
ANGLO-French rolling stock supplier GEC Alsthom announced in February that it had won two contracts to supply metro and commuter rail trainsets to South America.On February 11 GEC Alsthom won a Fr300m order to build a further 6 seven-car trains for Lines 1 and 2 of the Santiago metro. They ...
-
News
Calculating RailNoise
WS Atkins Noise & Vibration has developed RailNoise, a software package for the calculation of operational noise following an official procedure published in 1995 by Britain’s Transport Research Laboratory. A three-dimensional site model is constructed incorporating the railway (of any type) and natural or man-made features that may reflect, ...
-
News
Siemens group takes Bursa light rail
CONTRACTS for construction of a 21·5 km light rail line in the Turkish city of Bursa were signed at the beginning of February. The municipality has selected a consortium led by Siemens Verkehrstechnik, together with Ansaldo Trasporti and three local firms. The deal is valued at DM500m.The first phase of ...
-
News
RZD eliminates regional boundaries
RUSSIAN Railways is implementing a sweeping reorganisation programme that sees the number of regional managements cut from 19 to six. Foreshadowed last May at a special railway congress held in Moscow (RG 7.96 p403), the restructuring has now been approved by both parliament and government. Each of the new regions ...
-
News
Investment boost
Norfolk Southern revealed on January 23 that it will spend $792m on capital projects in 1997, an $84m increase on 1996. A week later Union Pacific announced that its 1997 capital spending would total $2·2bn, including more than $500m to implement the merger with SP.NS has allocated over $100m towards ...
-
News
Operators must be on board at the outset
INTRO: UITP Secretary General Pierre Laconte warns that consortia formed to design, build and fund light rail projects must have operating expertise available from the start or court financial disasterTHERE SEEMS little doubt that cities will face increasing difficulties in raising funds from traditional state sources for major light rail ...
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page