All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2002 – Page 4
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PIS updated
DANISH State Railways and Banestyrelsen have introduced a new passenger information system developed by Atkins Danmark using Siemens technology. VICOS I replaces the previous EMPS technology which Atkins Danmark (formerly ScanRail Consult) helped to develop in the mid-1980s. The Windows-based VICOS I draws on automated traffic management systems, timetable ...
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Pointers
n A study into the potential for reopening the Slavonice - Fratres border crossing between the Czech Republic and Austria is underway.n Tenders will be called shortly for construction of a 38 km spur from BHP Billiton’s existing line to the iron ore deposits in Mining Area C of the ...
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Vialia progress
UNDER the second phase of its Vialia programme to develop retail and leisure facilities at 16 major stations, Spanish National Railways has awarded Riofisa a contract covering A Coruña and Vigo. Metrovacesa will be building and letting new premises at Lleida and Logroño.Involving €601m of investment, Vialia has already seen ...
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Publications
Rail Map of Europe, 13th EditionThe Thomas Cook map of Europe’s passenger rail routes has been revised and updated to mid-2001. The main map shows the area from the Atlantic in the west to Moscow and the Crimea in the east at 1:4000000 scale. On the reverse of the sheet ...
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Tactical retreat
NETHERLANDS Railways confirmed last month that it had withdrawn from bidding for three regional rail franchises in Nordrhein-Westfalen. NS prequalified for the Sauerland, WestMünsterland and Haard concessions, but the Managing Director of the company’s International Business Group Anton Valk said NS would not be ’able to submit a sufficiently high ...
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TGV traffic still rising
FRENCH National Railways’ policy to win passengers to its Grandes Lignes long-distance inter-city business is paying off. The number of journeys is 35% higher than five years ago, with turnover up by 62%.This year SNCF plans to increase TGV traffic by over 10%. By March 23 the number of journeys ...
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West Side study
NEW YORK MTA called bids by May 1 for consultants to design a proposed extension of its Flushing subway, Line 7. The idea is to extend the existing two-track tunnel southwest from Times Square to the Jacob Javits Convention Center on 11th Avenue between 34th and 39th Streets. The project ...
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Not suburban
Sir - Your article ’Hillside EMU shipped to Melbourne’ (RG4.02 p208) says ’fitting out will take place at Ballarat in the Melbourne suburbs’. Well, I know that Melbourne suburbs extend quite a fair way out, but Ballarat is 118 km from Melbourne, by road or by rail. This is about ...
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