All Railway Gazette International articles in May 1998
All articles published this month.
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Security restricts Tunnel’s potential
EUROTUNNEL’s financial restructuring was finally completed on April 8, 30 months after the company suspended interest payments on £8bn of bank debt. Executive Chairman Patrick Ponsolle said ’restructuring provides financial stability for the years to come’, but warned that ’this in itself is not sufficient’. The first quarter of 1998 ...
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Pointers
nIndia’s Ministry of Railways is drawing up a 10-year programme to install automatic train protection on the IR main line network at an anticipated cost of Rs70bn. A decision between conventional signalling and satellite train location is expected shortly.nSouth African power generator Eskom is considering the feasibility of building two ...
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Metros
Argentina: The Soldati group is planning to develop leisure attractions including cinemas, theme bars and amusements for children at stations along its 15 km Tren de la Costa light rail route, linking Maipu and Delta in the Buenos Aires suburbs. The company has confirmed that it is considering the sale ...
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Marketplace
Canada: Quebec North Shore & Labrador Railway Co has ordered 11 C44-9W diesel locomotives from General Electric.Egypt: Alexandria Passenger Transport Authority has called tenders for 15 LRVs with asynchronous drives and IGBT inverters. Each 65 to 70% low-floor vehicle with three sections must accommodate 60 seated and 140 standing passengers.Egyptian ...
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Swedes to manage ZR revival
ZAMBIAN Transport & Communications Minister Rev Anoshi Chipawa confirmed on March 19 that a Swedish consultancy had been selected to manage and restructure Zambia Railways over the next 2 1??2 years. He revealed that an agreement with Hifab International AB had been signed in December, after four years of negotiations ...
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On-screen loco management
ALK Associates has been retained by Union Pacific to design and implement a locomotive management system for its Harriman Dispatching Centre in Omaha, Nebraska. Designed to improve service reliability and help UP make the most effective use of its available motive power, the system will provide information on trains and ...
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New lines in the west
DESPITE the economic meltdown in South East Asia, the Hamersley Iron Railway set a new record by moving close to 60 million tonnes of ore for shipment from the port of Dampier last year. Iron ore sales were 20% up on 1996, resulting in what HIR’s owner Rio Tinto called ...
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Shinkansen under way at last
CEREMONIES were held in Japan at the end of March to mark the formal start of work on three more shinkansen extensions, following their approval by Transport Minister Takao Fujii on March 12. Construction of the three routes is expected to be spread over 20 years because of limitations on ...
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INTELLIGENCE
Argentina: Trenes de Buenos Aires was due to begin a station refurbishment programme on the Mitre commuter network at the start of April. This includes the installation of automatic fare collection equipment, after its introduction to TBA’s Sarmiento route in January.Ferrosur Roca and Ferrocarril del Pacífico of Chile have introduced ...
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Infrastructure separation: will it work?
Splitting railway infrastructure and operations is seen by politicians and economic gurus around the world as a panacea to problems of road-rail competition, poor cross-border service quality, and many other ills. But will the methods being adopted achieve the desired results? In an exclusive survey for Railway Gazette International, David ...
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Station hotel revival plan
Railodge has unveiled plans to provide dedicated hotel, restaurant and business facilities at key stations in Britain. The concept is based on the success of budget hotels for motorists, but will be enhanced by railway theming. Railodges will be designed to make use of existing buildings as part of refurbishment ...
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Wires head north
RUSSIA’S Northern Railway is pushing ahead with 25 kV 50Hz electrification of its Vologda - Archangelsk line, under a project started two years ago. Following energisation of the 90 km from Konosha to Nyandoma in November (RG 12.97 p837), work has switched to the 120 km Nyandoma - Plesetsk section. ...
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Portable structure gauging
AVAILABLE for purchase or hire from manufacturer Laser Rail, LaserSweep is a portable structure gauging system designed for use by a single operator. It comprises a measuring head mounted on an outrigger that spans the track, and a Husky FC computer to log the data. Data is saved as a ...
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Holidaymakers ride free
GERMANY’S Association of Public Transport Operators (VDV) has signed an agreement with tour operator NUR Touristic GmbH that allows holidaymakers to use public transport at no extra charge. Air tickets issued by the NUR group under the Ride & Fly scheme can be used on services provided by the VDV’s ...
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Finance
Australia: Evans Deakin Industries Ltd has completed a placement of 8·99million fully-paid ordinary shares with institutional investors, at an issue price of $4·20. Representing 9·99% of the company’s issued shares, the placement raised $37·75m.Canada: Canadian National Railway Co is to issue up to US$1·8bn in debt securities and warrants to ...
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Eastern timetable reorganisation
The summer timetable change sees the cutting-back of the Ost - West Express to east of Warszawa only, with a new Jan Ciepura EuroNight train introduced between K
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MetroLink heads east
CONSTRUCTION work is getting under way on the first phase of the extension of the St Louis MetroLink light rail network to serve St Clair County (Illinois), following a ceremony at Belleville on March 6. Scheduled for completion in 2001, the 28 km line will run east from the existing ...