All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2000 – Page 3
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Ballast recycling eases logistics of track renewal
ON JANUARY 17 track maintenance contractor Wiebe & Swietelsky took delivery of what its supplier claims to be the largest track renewal and formation rehabilitation machine in the world. Within two weeks the company had set it to work on a 2 km section of track near Bonn in Germany. ...
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Eurotrain fights back in Taiwan tussle
ON FEBRUARY 10 Eurotrain lodged an appeal with the High Court in Taipei in a further round in its battle to obtain the contract to supply electrical and mechanical equipment for Taiwan’s high speed line from Taipei to Kaohsiung. On December 28 Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp had announced ...
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NewsLondon's PPP promises fresh thinking on asset management
London Underground has embarked upon a course of radical change that will see infrastructure and rolling stock managed, maintained and upgraded by the private sector under three contracts each lasting up to 30 years. Robert Preston reports on the drive to secure long-term funding through the Public-Private Partnership
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Athenians celebrate metro’s arrival
INTRO: The first sections of the long-awaited Athens metro were officially inaugurated on January 28. Artemis Klonos joined the crowds at Syntagma SquareCEREMONIES were held in Athens on January 28 to mark the inauguration of the Greek capital’s metro network. Amongst the participants at the event were the President of ...
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Smart card questions move from technology to applications
The 5th UITP fare collection conference in Bologna on February 2 - 4 signalled a turning point in the prospects for widespread use of smart cards. No longer were delegates asking if the technology was ready; now the key question is the best management and operating structure to meet individual ...
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Amtrak’s figures challenged
ALTHOUGH the Amtrak Reform Council said its annual report published on January 28 was ’not in any sense a finding’, it immediately generated controversy. Approved on an 8 to 3 majority vote, the report disputes Amtrak’s assertion that it is on schedule to be free of taxpayer subsidy by the ...
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Alstom scoops Bordeaux turnkey
ON FEBRUARY 7, the French municipality of Bordeaux announced that it had selected a consortium led by Alstom to build the 22·2 km first phase of the city’s planned three-line light rail network. Awarded a formal declaration of public utility at the end of January, the three lines are due ...
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Japanese now alone in high speed maglev stakes
IT HAS long been clear that the much-hyped project to build a Transrapid magnetic levitation line between Hamburg and Berlin was going nowhere fast. The only question was how much longer it would cling to life as successive governments chose weasel words in their statements about its future to avoid ...
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CFR Calatori restructured again
ROMANIA’s passenger train operating company has been split with effect from February 1. Formed during the break-up of the former state railway in October 1998, CFR Calatori has now been dividedinto a national inter-city operator and eight regional companies. Announcing the restructuring, Transport Minister Traian Basescu said the new structure ...
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China adopts AEI
THE CHINESE Ministry of Railways has decided to adopt radio-frequency transponder tagging for automatic vehicle identification, compatible with the standards adopted by the Association of American Railroads and the UIC.On January 28 the Dallas-based Amtech Systems division of Intermec Technologies announced that it had won an initial contract from MoR ...
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PR board abolished
PLANS to restructure Pakistan Railways have been announced by the government. As an interim measure, the PR board has been disbanded, and its functions assumed by the Ministry of Railways. A new 15-member advisory board is to be formed, including the PR General Manager, Finance Director, the Managing Directors of ...
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Thalys traffic up 5·5%
ACCORDING TO figures released on February 7, Thalys high speed services between France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany carried a total of 4·98million passengers in 1999, up 5·5% on the previous year. Of this traffic, 53% was carried between Paris and Brussels where high speed rail is now the market ...
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First North Western launches Class 175
UK: First North Western unveiled the first five of 27 Class 175 diesel multiple-units at its newly-built depot in Chester on February 4. Part of Alstom’s Coradia family, the trains will enter commercial service in May on routes from Birmingham and Chester to Holyhead and Manchester to Llandudno. Later they ...
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Clinton funding plan boost for 11 US cities
FUNDING approval is being sought for urban rail projects in 11 US cities under the federal budget for fiscal 2001. A total of $6·3bn has been allocated to public transport, an increase of 9% on the current year but less than the $7·3bn previously authorised under the TEA-21 legislation. The ...
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