All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2001 – Page 4

  • News

    Publications

    2001-05-01T10:00:00Z

    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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    Sidetrack

    2001-05-01T10:00:00Z

    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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    Touch-screen ticketing

    2001-05-01T10:00:00Z

    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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    Upgrade on track

    2001-05-01T10:00:00Z

    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 ...