All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2003 – Page 4
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Underground withdraws 700 cars after derailment
COMMUTERS on London Underground’s Central line faced weeks of disruption after a detached traction motor derailed the rear half of an eight-car train approaching Chancery Lane station at 13.53 on January 25. There were only minor injuries as the derailed cars were tightly confined within the 3·57m diameter tunnel, the ...
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Rail-Tech Europe 2003
WE ARE delighted to be supporting the Rail-Tech Europe 2003 event being staged in Utrecht on April 1-3. Organised by Europoint, Rail-Tech Europe 2003 will be held in the Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs with a three-day exhibition and a technical congress themed on noise, vibration and the environment. Day 1 of ...
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NewsPointers March 2003
The government of Uzbekistan has decided to accelerate construction of the Tashguzar - Baysun - Kumkurgan railway serving the southern part of the country, with the aim of completing the work by 2007. Last month Israel's Finance Minister Silvan Shalom designated the construction of a high speed rail link ...
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Line 2 upgrading
BUDAPEST City Council voted at the end of January in favour of an HF53bn refurbishment of Line 2 over the next four years. The modernisation of the 30-year-old Red line will be partially funded by a 25-year HF30bn EIB loan which was approved in December. According to Mayor Gabor Demszky, ...
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Beijing Line 13 completed
JANUARY 28 saw the start of full operation on Beijing's City Rail light metro line, following four months of partial services. Trains had begun running on the western portion of the 40·6 km horseshoe route at the end of September (RG 10.02 p609). The line has cost 6·57bn yuan to ...
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Level 1 gets thumbs down
THE THREAT that Britain might be faced with a legal requirement to spend more than £6bn on installing ERTMS Level 1 or 2 on lines where trains exceed 160 km/h before it is fully developed as a reliable product, and before existing signalling is life-expired, has been lifted. On February ...
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