All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2001 – Page 4
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Seven Nozomis an hour to challenge the airlines
INTRO: Faced with growing competition from deregulated airlines, JR Central plans to run seven ultra-fast Nozomi trains every hour between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka. JR Central President Yoshiyuki Kasai revealed his strategy to Murray Hughes in NagoyaAFTER many years of continuous growth, traffic volume on the Tokaido Shinkansen peaked in the ...
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Upgrade accords
RUSSIAN Minister of Railways Nikolai Aksyonenko signed a co-operation agreement with Siemens AG board member Volker Jung on January 23, during a visit to Germany. It covers technical assistance and supply of equipment by Siemens Transportation Systems for modernisation of signalling and train control, construction of locomotives and rolling stock, ...
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U4 to the Messe
STADTWERKE Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt-am-Main held a ceremony at Festhalle/Messe station on February 10 to mark the opening of the long-planned extension of U-Bahn Line U4. Participating in the event were Mayor Petra Roth, Federal Transport Minister Kurt Bodewig and the Hessen Minister for Economy, Transport & Development Dieter Posch.Construction of the ...
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$30bn bonanza proposal
TRUE TO their promise made during the waning days of the last Congress, Amtrak supporters introduced a revised bill on January 31 that would provide about $12bn over the next 10 years for development of inter-city passenger services. The bill submitted in the Senate with strong bi-partisan support would allow ...
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282 high speed trains planned
SPEAKING on February 9, Development Minister Francisco Álvarez-Cascos outlined the rolling stock orders that are likely to be made as the 2000-07 Railway Infrastructure Programme takes the Spanish high speed network to 7200route-km. By 2010, routes from Madrid to Sevilla and Barcelona and the French border are expected to be ...
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Privatisation delayed until 2004
INTRO: Appointed as Director General of Taiwan Railway Administration in October, D C Huang talked to Murray Hughes in Taipei about the need for investment in the 1067 mm gauge network and his plans to restructure TRA ready for a move to the private sector in 2004WITH PRIVATISATION of the ...
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