All Railway Gazette International articles in March 1999 – Page 3
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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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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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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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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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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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Intelligence
Metros Australia: The federal government is to provide A$65m towards the construction of Brisbane's revised light rail project, also supported by the state government and the city council (RG 2.99 p71). Canada: Edmonton city council has amended its 20-year transport plan to include an LRT extension from the ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: British civil engineering contractor Balfour Beatty Rail Engineering announced at the beginning of February that it had completed the first phase of track renewal at London’s Euston terminus under a £100m remodelling contract which forms part of Railtrack’s £2bn West Coast main line upgrading
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INTELLIGENCE
FinanceChina: Hong Kong’s MTR Corp has raised HK$1bn through a fixed rate note issue, split into equal tranches of four-year notes with a coupon of 7·28% per annum and five-year notes at 7·43%. A further US$750m has been provided by a 10-year global bond issue.Europe: Eurotunnel has completed the refinancing ...
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INTELLIGENCE
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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INTELLIGENCE
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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Konkan Ro-Ro
INDIA’s Konkan Railway Corp announced in January that it was to launch a piggyback service to carry lorries between Kolard, south of Mumbai, and Suratkal near Mangalore. The 700 km trip is expected to take around 20h, compared to three days for a road journey on the congested coastal highway.KRC ...
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TBM launched
CEREMONIES were held in Bangkok on February 5, when Thai Prime Minister Chuan commissioned the first tunnel boring machine for the northern section of the Blue line metro. According to the Mass Rapid Transit Authority, work on the 11 km northern section from Rama IX Road to Bang Sue is ...
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Letters
Maunsell tooSir - Whilst we were delighted to see your article on the København Metro (RG 1.99 p35), we were disappointed that you did not acknowledge the important role that Maunsell Ltd has played as principal designer to Comet, the civil works contractor, in the design and construct contract. The ...
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Market orientation
ELECTED as Chairman of the Union of European Railway Industries in Brussels on February 16, Rolf Eckrodt confirmed that he planned to continue the strategy of his predecessor Kaare Vagner in making Unife more market oriented. In this he will be backed up by new General Manager Drewin Nieuwenhuis.Eckrodt identified ...
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Market
Argentina: COMSAT Mobile Communications of the USA has been awarded a contract worth up to US$500000 a year by Ferrocarril Belgrano Cargas (RG 2.99 p66), to provide mobile satellite communications for train dispatching and control. By April this year 89 locomotives will be equipped to receive movement orders from FBC’s ...
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Melbourne shortlist
NINE consortia lodged indicative bids in January for the five rail-based passenger operations being franchised by Victoria’s state government. British bus and rail operators such as Stagecoach, National Express and FirstGroup are well represented, and a shortlist of final bidders was due last month. Largest of the operators set up ...
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NEWS
British engineering contractor John Laing Group is to acquire a controlling interest in M40 Trains, which operates the Chiltern Railways franchise linking London, Aylesbury and Birmingham. Subject to approval by the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, Laing will buy the 23% stake owned by venture capitalist 3I, and another 35% ...
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NEWS
Spanish National Railways is to invest Pts68·9bn during 1999, including Pts17bn for new and refurbished passenger rolling stock, principally for its Main Line, Suburban and Regional business units. Of the Pts26·8bn earmarked for infrastructure projects, Pts17·8 is to be spent on upgrading main lines and suburban networks.
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China’s Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute has ordered traction equipment from Adtranz Switzerland for 10 new generation passenger locos to be built in 2000-01. The streamlined locos rated at 4·8MW will operate on the Guangzhou - Shenzhen quasi-high-speed line.Spain’s Valencia regional government has unveiled a programme costed at Pts14bn that ...
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Product News
By this summer, a Sitrail ir track-to-train CCTV system developed by Siemens Industrial Projects & Systems should be in operation on all 106 new trains supplied to London Underground’s Northern line by Alstom. Platform-mounted digital video cameras transmit pictures via radiating tube transmitting antennae mounted along the length of each ...
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