All Railway Gazette International articles in March 2004 – Page 3
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Passenger News in Brief
National Express Group’s UK on-line ticket retailer Qjump Ltd has merged with The Trainline. Stagecoach has withdrawn from the project, leaving Virgin Group owning 86% of Trainline Holdings and NEG 14%.Metrorail suburban services from Cape Town were extended to Worcester in February. The 175 km route has a daily return ...
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Industry News in Brief
Interfleet Technology has acquired safety case and risk management consultancy RSE Management Ltd from GB Railways Group plc, which became part of First Group last year. RSEM was formed in April 2003, and provides auditing, project management and environmental services.All rail-sector companies in the Lloyd’s Register Group, including Lloyd’s Register ...
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Products in Brief
Thales has commissioned Infotec to produce next train indicators which comply with strict fire safety regulations for installation at underground and surface stations on WAGN’s Northern City Line in London. The LED-based displays include glass screens, low-smoke paint and have silicon rather than rubber seals.Infotec, UKReader Enquiry Number: 144The Omron ...
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Chinese plan border rail link
PROPOSALS to develop a 1380 km rail corridor paralleling the border with North Korea were unveiled by the Chinese government at the beginning of February. To be built over 15 years, the line is expected to revitalise primary industries in the run-down northeast of the country and open up another ...
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Bombardier restructures
A MAJOR shake-up of rail activities was announced by Bombardier Inc President & Chief Executive Paul Tellier on January 29. The position of President & Chief Operating Officer at Bombardier Transportation is to be split into separate roles. A President will be appointed by the end of March, with Tellier ...
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Short of a billion
HERE’S a little anecdote to add to our story on rebuilding the railways of Iraq on p160. Back in the 1980s Korea Overseas Construction, a consortium of Hyundai Engineering & Construction and Namkwang Construction, was assigned the job of building the 242 km line between Haditha and Kirkuk in northern ...
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De Palacio berates slow progress on freight
SPEAKING at the Community of European Railways’ annual reception in Brussels on February 17, Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio expressed alarm at the slow progress being made with turning round Europe’s rail freight businesses.’The overall situation of rail freight is really worrying. The rail market share continues to drop, quality ...
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Basque Y tenders
ON FEBRUARY 13 the Spanish cabinet gave its approval for GIF to call tenders for three contracts to design and undertake civil works on the first eight of the 15 sections of the Y-shaped high speed network that will connect Bilbao, Vitoria, San Sebasti
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Pajares base tunnel started
SPANISH Development Minister Francisco Álvarez-Cascos joined First Deputy Prime Minister Rodrigo Rato on February 11 to mark the start of work on the 25 km base tunnel under the Pajares pass on Renfe’s León - Oviedo route. Last year GIF awarded four separate tunnelling contracts worth a total of €1·38bn ...
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Northwestern mineral line awaits results of a ’bankable’ study
PROPOSALS to build a heavy haul freight line conencting Saudi Railways Organisation's existing main line with mineral deposits in the northwest of Saudi Arabia have been gestating for some time. The Communications Ministry approved in principle the construction of a new line following a World Bank study in 2000. But ...
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Expansion plans attract 'substantial interest'
Murray Hughes asked Eng Khaled Alyahya, President, Saudi Railways Organisation, about plans to expand the Saudi Arabian network that include transfer of SRO's core assets to the private sector
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Container landbridge will assure RZD’s future prosperity
INTRO: Technical advances and more efficient operating methods are helping to boost capacity on Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway, enabling RZD to win more of the traffic between the Pacific Rim and EuropeBYLINE: Gennady FadeyevPresident, Russian Railways LtdTHE TRANS-SIBERIAN Railway is unique. For more than a century, the line has played a ...
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Capacity expansion flags up asset management challenges
INTRO: Attention to vehicle and track component life at high axleloads has enabled BHP Billiton Iron Ore to boost the capacity of its Mount Newman rail operationsBYLINE: Mike Darby, Peter Mutton and Graham Tew ** Mike Darby is Vice-President, Railroad, at BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd. Peter Mutton ...
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Second try to privatise Aqaba phosphate haul
ANOTHER ATTEMPT is to be made to move Aqaba Railway Corp into the private sector. An earlier effort to privatise ARC collapsed after an agreement had been signed for a consortium to take over the line in 1999. There were several reasons for this, according to Eng Laith Dababneh, General ...
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BV investment funds approved
BANVERKET Director-General Bo Bylund has welcomed the go-ahead for a 12-year rail investment programme following government approval of a national infrastructure package on February 19. According to Sweden’s Infrastructure Minister Ulrica Messing, the SKr373bn package provides SKr107·7bn for investment in the rail network and SKr38bn for maintenance and operating support.One ...
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Alstom to refit regional EMUs
FRENCH National Railways awarded a €48m contract last month to an Alstom-led consortium for the refurbishment of Class Z2 electric multiple-units used on regional services. The deal includes follow-on options worth a total of €12m. Alstom will act as project manager and be responsible for equipment supply, bringing its share ...
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Algerian upgrading takes off
ALGERIA: Five contracts to assist with modernisation of the Algerian rail network were announced at the end of January. SNTF has provisionally awarded a €88m contract to an Alstom-led consortium for electrification of three suburban lines radiating from Alger by the end of 2007. Three substations will power the 25 ...
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AirTrain JFK opens for service
THE CENTENARY of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight on December 17 2003 was a significant date for aviation in North America. Opening of AirTrain JFK on the same day finally saw New York’s JFK International Airport linked to the region’s rail network.As project sponsor, the Port Authority of New ...
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Two transcontinentals forge ahead
INTRO: Two huge railway construction projects that will cut transport costs for highly productive agricultural land are making good progress, now that the Paran
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Open access operator warns
of monopoly riskRail4chem President Matthias Roth warned at EuroRail that the open access freight business was not yet attractive for investors. Claiming that his company had 50% of Germany’s private freight market, with the rest shared by less than a dozen other firms, he said 90% of the rail freight ...
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