All Railway Gazette International articles in March 1999 – Page 2
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CAPTION: Metro Rail Transit Corp is pushing ahead with construction work on the first phase of Manila Line 3, which is due to be completed by November this year (Metro Report 98 p49). One of the most distinctive civil engineering structures to be put in place in the last few ...
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Australia: Australia Southern Railroad has secured long-term contracts from Australian Wheat Board, Australian Barley Board and South Australia Cooperative Bulk Handling, which is to upgrade loading facilities at Bowmans and Gladstone. Trains of up to 50 grain wagons will use the Tailem Bend - Pinnaroo line converted to standard gauge.Austria: ...
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Ibara Railway inaugurated
JAPANESE Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki attended ceremonies on January 11 to mark the opening of the 38·4 km Ibara Railway, linking Kiyone on JR West’s Hakubi line with Kannabe on the Fukuen line Also attending were Governor Masahiro Ishii of Okayama Prefecture, and the President of Japan Railway Construction Public ...
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Kashmir link heads IR plans
INDIAN RAILWAYS Construction Corp (Ircon International) has been instructed to start work on a rail link to Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. Railways Minister Nitish Kumar says that construction of the 90 km Kashmir Valley section linking Baramula, Srinagar and Qazigund near Anantnag should get under way in the current ...
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Golden promise and major threat
EXTRA CASH for urban rail projects, diverted from fuel taxes dedicated to road construction, has been proposed by President Clinton for the US fiscal year commencing October 1 1999. He wants Congress to endorse a 14% increase in transit funding to $6·1bn, even more than the $5·8bn projected in last ...
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Scrap into gold
WHAT DO you do when you have converted over 5000 route-km of metre-gauge line to broad gauge, and have an fleet of relatively modern rolling stock surplus to requirements? That was the question Indian Railways posed to Rail India Technical & Economic Services.Rites was asked to find new uses for ...
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Mixed fortunes in the railcar market
INTRO: The wide variety of lightweight diesel railcar designs ordered for regional services in Europe are proving popular with passengers, but most have failed to meet the operators’ ambitious delivery timescales. Harry Hondius MSc Eng reviews developmentsLOOKING AT THE lightweight diesel railcar industry at the end of 1998, it is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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