All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2002 – Page 6
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Border accord
CEREMONIES were held at the Dresden Friedrichstadt yard on February 14 to mark the start of cross-border freight working between Germany and the Czech Republic. Czech Deputy Transport Minister Pavel Stoulil and Sachsen Land President Stanislaw Tillich greeted the first rolling motorway service which arrived from Lovosice behind a CD ...
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Chapter of accidents
FEBRUARY saw four serious accidents that killed a total of 405 people in Africa and Europe, with Egypt’s worst rail disaster capturing the headlines. Transport Minister Ibrahim al-Demeri and ENR Chairman Ahmed el-Sherif both resigned after fire gutted seven out of 16 coaches of a stopping train that left Cairo ...
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LA seeks 50 light rail cars
SPEEDY delivery of 50 articulated LRVs is sought by Los Angeles MTA, together with two options for a further 33, in an invitation to bid issued last month. With traffic burgeoning on the Blue and Green lines and higher ridership estimates for the new Gold line (formerly the Pasadena Blue ...
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Tehran Line 4
DURING a visit by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to Austria last month, Siemens secured a letter of intent worth around €1bn for work on Line 4 of the Tehran metro.Line 4 will run on an east-west alignment, providing interchange with both the north-south Line 1 and with Line 2, which ...
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Class 377 order
GOVIA announced on March 11 that it had ordered 460 more Electrostar EMU cars from Bombardier Transportation for its South Central franchise. The deal follows a renegotiated contract for 240 similar vehicles transferred from Connex with the South Central franchise last August (RG 10.01 p654), lifting the total investment to ...
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CFL plans i3bn spend
LUXEMBOURG Transport Minister Henri Grethen signed an accord with the board of the national railway on January 24 approving a long-term development strategy known as mobilitéit.lu. The aim is to boost public transport’s market share from 13% to 25% by 2020.Following the abandonment of plans to develop a dual-mode light ...
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TransRussia 2002 focuses on transit corridors
INTEREST in the potential of Russia’s Trans-Siberian rail landbridge is growing considerably, and the topic will be one of several up for debate at TransRussia 2002, the seventh International Transport & Logistics Conference being held on March 25-26 at Moscow’s Renaissance Hotel. Speakers at the plenary session will include newly-appointed ...
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Intelligence - March 2002
Afghanistan: Plans to build a 1815 km rail network, based on a scheme drawn up in the 1970s (RG 6.76 p204), were revived at January's International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance held in Tokyo. Australia: Freight Australia's request for the Commonwealth government to take control of access to Victoria's rail network ...
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First 20-year franchise
M40 Trains has secured the first 20-year franchise awarded by Britain’s Strategic Rail Authority. The new Chiltern Railways agreement was signed on February 18 and starts this month. M40 won the original seven-year Chiltern franchise in July 1996, but the SRA called bids for a longer replacement and chose M40 ...
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Bilbao to invest i1·5bn
AIMING to increase the number of passengers using public transport in Bilbao from 90million in 1999 to over 200million by 2025, the Basque regional government has unveiled an infrastructure investment programme totalling €1·5bn. Expansion of the metro, expected to carry over 134million passengers a year, has been allocated €115m; projects ...