All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2001
All articles published this month.
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Upgrade on track
LAST MONTH was due to see the completion of track and overhead renewals on São Paulo suburban Line C, as part of a R$450m upgrading which is expected to be finished by the end of this year. CPTM’s 24 km cross-city line links Osasco in the west of the conurbation ...
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Touch-screen ticketing
ON March 26 the first of 600 new ticket vending machines entered service at Amsterdam Centraal. Offering both single and return fares, the Ascom Autelca machines can sell 80% of ticket combinations, accepting payment by smartcard only. Maximum transaction time of the euro-compliant machines is 25 sec, faster than ...
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Sidetrack
Metro goes to the dogsMoscow Metro Director Dmitry Gayev has announced the creation of a dog breeding centre to supply up to 80 dogs to sniff out explosives and drugs at stations.Stressing that violent crimes are not rising and that the Metro is working with the Federal Security service to ...
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Publications
Competition, Regulation & the Privatisation of British Rail by Jon ShawPart of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Transport Geography Research Group’s Transport & Mobilty series, this 244-page monograph reviews the process of rail privatisation in Great Britain, covering the ideology, the different models considered, and the actual processes ...
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PEOPLE
President Bush has nominated Allan Rutter as Administrator of the US Federal Railroad Administration. He had been Director of Transportation Policy in the Texas Governor’s Office since 1995.British Columbia Railway has appointed Robert Phillips as President & CEO.Queensland Rail has made a number of appointments. Mike Scanlan has become Group ...
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Neckar S-Bahn
MARCH 20 saw the signing of an accord between German Railway and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar to expand the scope of the planned Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn network. First proposed in 1996 to serve the region around Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, the S-Bahn is due to be launched with the December 2003 timetable ...
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PPP nears the ’point of no return’
ON APRIL 17 Mayor of London Ken Livingstone joined Commissioner for Transport in London Bob Kiley to attack the British government’s decision to press ahead with the Public-Private Partnership for London Underground (RG 3.01 p139). On April 10 Transport for London had been granted permission to seek a judicial review ...
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Reform pressure mounts
YET ANOTHER official report has recommended major reform of Indian Railways. This time it originated with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways, which last month published a document in response to IR’s requests for grants in 2000-01. The report went much further than commenting on the grants, making strong criticism ...
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Metro news
Argentina: Revised plans for the redevelopment of the Retiro complex in Buenos Aires unveiled by the city government include a metro station on the proposed Line H and a relocated terminus for Trainmet’s San Martín commuter services. A light rail line from Retiro to the Puerto Madero waterfront development area ...
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Letter
Belgian rail problemsSir - Your article on SNCB (RG 4.01 p253) brought a smile to my face. A Prime Minister intervening in the Belgian Railway administration! That can’t have been what Brussels had in mind with Directive 91/440, can it?Seriously though, new rolling stock and new lines may be all ...
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IR spends more
ON APRIL 5 Israel Railways put into service new buildings at Nahariya station, which is being rebuilt at a cost of US$1m. Traffic here rose by 50% last year, to 100000 passengers a month. Completion of a second platform next year will allow the launch of a half-hourly service, with ...
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intelligence
Brazil: Work is to start in June on the first phase of the Transnordestina project, between Sobradihno and Salgueiro. The scheme has been allocated R$240m by the federal government and the state of Pernambuco. The World Bank is providing R$100m, with the rest of the R$571m funding package provided by ...
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Inchon signalled to handle growth
INTRO: Line 1 of Inchon Rapid Transit Corp’s network carried over 57million passengers in its first year of service. Use of some of the most up-to-date signalling equipment with ATP and ATO allows 2min headways and contributes to high levels of reliabilityBYLINE: Jung-Ho Lee and Ernst Ploog*SERVING a major port ...
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Vasona groundbreaking
SANTA CLARA Valley Transportation Authority held ceremonies at San Jose station on March 29 to mark the start of construction of its Vasona light rail line. The $236m first phase diverges from the Guadalupe line and runs 8·5 km to Winchester with nine stops. The line is expected to generate ...
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Finance
France: The European Investment Bank has granted RFF a 300m euro loan towards the construction of the first phase of TGV-Est between Vaires-sur-Marnes and Baudrécourt.India: Indian Railway Finance Corp is planning to raise Rs30bn to part finance the Railways’ 2001-02 Annual Plan through private placement of taxable bonds, lease financing ...
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OverNight Express marries passengers with freight
INTRO: An innovative international service has been operating between Amsterdam and Milano for almost a year, and further routes are under discussion. Richard Hope finds that Netherlands Railways sees considerable potential for expansionCOMBINING time-sensitive freight with overnight sleeper trains has proved to be a commercially successful formula between Amsterdam and ...
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NewsIndustry's role in ERTMS
EUROPE: Unisig, a voluntary grouping of Siemens, Alstom, Adtranz, Invensys, Ansaldo and Alcatel, defined a minimum set of functions for ETCS/ERTMS that was approved on April 25 2000 by the European Commission, the International Union of Railways and the Union of European Railway Industries (Unife). This has become known as ...
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NewsExpress Rail Link Desiros take to the rails
Two types of Desiro EMU are being constructed for use on Malaysia’s Express Rail Link and Commuter Rail Service