All Railway Gazette International articles in March 1999 – Page 2
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DB Cargo - MThB pact
GERMAN Freight operator DB Cargo signed a co-operation agreement with Switzerland’s Mittelthurgau Railway on February 2. MThB operates the 40 km line from Konstanz on the German border to Wil, which already carries 1 million tonnes of freight a year.Both railways see considerable potential for growth, and the agreement is ...
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City NEWS
CAPTION: Helsinki Transport has started testing the first of 20 Variotrams ordered from Adtranz and Rautaruukki Oy in July 1996. The bodies were built at Otanmäki, to a design styled by Creadedesign, with trucks from Siegen, six IGBT inverters from Mannheim and 12 x 45 kW traction motors from Wien. ...
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CN plans for the next millennium
BYLINE: Paul M TellierPresident & Chief Executive OfficerCanadian National RailwayCANADIAN NATIONAL has taken decisive steps to meet the challenges and opportunities of the next millennium. By the end of this year CN and its customers will be positioned to reap the benefits of the increasing integration of the North American ...
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Virgin Rail signs West Coast train order
On February 9 British inter-city train operator Virgin Rail Group signed the long-awaited Train Service Provision leasing deal for Alstom Transport and Fiat Ferroviaria to design, supply and maintain a fleet of 225 km/h tilting trains to operate its West Coast inter-city franchise. The deal is valued at 1·8bn euros, ...
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Contracts cut commissioning
Substantial efficiency gains have been achieved by Denmark’s infrastructure manager, Banestyrelsen, thanks to a law introduced on January 1 1997 which requires materials and work to be procured by open tender - although it has not been fully applied yet.Director of Infrastructure Services Jesper Toft told AiC’s Infrastructure Maintenance & ...
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Gayssot completes TGV Est funding package
CONSTRUCTION of the long-planned high-speed line between Paris and Strasbourg will begin next year, with revenue services expected to start in 2005-06. On January 29 French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot signed an accord with other partners in what is now known as TGV Est-Européen. This sets out the funding for ...
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Thessaloniki metro concession
GREECE: On February 5 the Greek Ministry for Environment, Physical Planning & Public Works signed a build-operate-transfer concession for the construction of a 9·4 km automated mini-metro in the city of Thessaloniki. The 20-year concession has been awarded to an international consortium led by French civil engineering group Bouygues SA ...
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Octra concessioned
GABON: Belgian consultancy Transurb Consult, part-owned by SNCB and Brussels transport authority STIB, is to operate the 650 km Trans-Gabon railway under a 20-year concession awarded to a multinational private-sector consortium. The Gabonese government announced on January 6 that it had selected the Transgabonais consortium as preferred bidder to take ...
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Lufthansa’s TGV connection
SNCF and Lufthansa have implemented an accord which provides TGV feeder services to Lufthansa flights from Paris Charles-de-Gaulle. This enlarges the extent of air-rail co-operation from joint marketing or frequent flyer packages (RG 2.99 p85) to integrated ticketing. From February 1 passengers have been able to purchase a single ticket ...
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Tax cut would cripple interstate rail freight
A proposed tax reform in Australia threatens to wipe out interstate freight hauls below 1000 km. This comes just as private rail freight operators prepare to compete for the modest tonnages available between the five mainland state capitals. Incredibly, economists who proposed the tax change argued that it would level ...
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Via reaches a critical watershed
BYLINE: Rod MorrisonPresident & Chief Executive OfficerVia Rail CanadaAT THE END of the 1990s, Via Rail Canada has a new spirit of vitality and a commitment to explore the fresh thinking needed to take Canada’s passenger rail services into the next century. Over the past two decades we have delivered ...
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DB sells itself
GERMAN RAILWAY is to launch a series of marketing offensives aimed at keeping passengers on trains following an increase in the base kilometric tariff. This sees a unified structure applied across all Länder for the first time since reunification.To counterbalance the fares increase, DB is changing a number of ticketing ...
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HZ loan deal
CROATIAN Railways General Manager Marjan Klaric announced on January 18 the award of a US$101m modernisation loan from the World Bank. HZ will use this to launch a further investment programme later this year, as part of a recstructuring and renewals package.The biggest elements are US$33·4m to cover the redeployment ...
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EMA fault detection
Alstom Train Services, the British-based maintenance, overhaul and technical support division of Alstom Transport, expects by the middle of this year to be able to offer a wheel and axle inspection service using electro-magnectic array technology. The planned Electro-Magnetic Metal Fatigue & Crack Inspection Service (EMMFaCIS) would be based on ...
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Mid-City link to open early
THE MISSING LINK in the Washington DC Green Line is to open on September 18. WMATA announced in January that work on the $643m 4·7 km segment would be completed three months ahead of schedule. With stations at Columbia Heights and Georgia Avenue-Petworth, the mid-city section will finally link ...
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UIC sets European emissions standards
INTRO: Diesel traction offers flexibility for international freight operation in a liberalised European market, but railways need to maintain their green credentials at a time of growing environmental awareness and ever-stricter emissions limits. Revised UIC emissions standards offer an alternative to individual tests by national approval authorities BYLINE: Hans PaukertProject ...
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Gauge-changing EMU on the road to success
Last November, Japan's Railway Technical Research Institute unveiled the world's first multi-voltage gauge-changing trainset. Following tests on JR West, the unit will be run at up to 250 km/h in Pueblo from April
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Expansion ends innovations
LAST MONTH Canadian Pacific’s eastern subsidiary St Lawrence & Hudson was to boost the capacity of its Montreal - Toronto roll-on, roll-off piggyback service by putting into revenue service the original experimental Iron Highway trainset. This is a holding move pending the arrival of another 240 platforms ordered from National ...
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Subway expansion floated
A surge of Subway building reminiscent of the 1930s could engulf New York City under a grandiose scheme dubbed MetroLink by the Regional Plan Association. It would cost $13bn, add 20% to the network length, serve new areas of the city and add capacity for 250000 daily riders, says RPA.The ...
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Flangeways at risk
A RULING by the Supreme Court of Canada on January 28 could have a serious impact on the ability of rail to service industry over tracks laid in public highways, common in North America.Murray Ryan was badly injured in 1987, when the wheel of his motorcycle dropped into the flangeway ...
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