All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2002 – Page 4
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NewsKuala Lumpur's airport in the city opens for business
The 57 km standard gauge rail link serving Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Malaysia’s new administrative capital opened last month. Andrew Grantham sampled the ride
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AEAT Rail grows
IN WHAT IT describes as ’the largest single-office letting in Derby for more than 25 years’, AEA Technology Rail will move its head office to Jubilee House this month. The 6500m2 building will house over 400 staff out of a total complement that has grown from 300 to over 900 ...
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Rolling motorway advice on offer
EUROTUNNEL has received a number of requests for advice from other companies providing rolling motorway services. This has prompted thoughts of long-term expansion, probably in partnership with other companies, to help develop and possibly operate similar services to the lorry shuttles it runs between Cheriton and Coquelles. According to Planning ...
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Rails across the roof of the world
INTRO: Unprecedented challenges face the engineers building the Golmud - Lhasa railway across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Over 85% of the route lies more than 4000m above sea level, where permafrost demands special construction techniques and the rarified atmosphere affects both men and machinesBYLINE: Hou Wen-weiChief Editor,China Railway ScienceXINING, the provincial ...
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Open access is crucial to international freight revival
INTRO: From March 2003 the 50000 km Trans-European Rail Freight Network should be fully open to international freight train operators, whether state or privately owned, and by 2006 the EC hopes to see competition on all routes. Jean-Arnold Vinois told Richard Hope why open access is now seen as absolutely ...
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UIRR members want open access too
INTRO: Europe’s combined transport companies have suffered a dramatic increase in delays during the last three years, stunting previously robust traffic growth, but they get no compensation from the national railways. UIRR Director General Rudy Colle backs the EC’s efforts to promote competition as one way out of this impasseTHE ...
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Customer service academy opened
RICHARD Bowker, Chairman of Britain’s Strategic Rail Authority, opened Midland Mainline’s Customer Service Academy in Derby on April 5. The three-storey building houses training facilities for drivers, train managers, catering staff and booking office personnel.Ian Buchan, Chief Executive of National Express Group’s Rail Division, owner of Midland Mainline, said that ...
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Network Rail launches £9bn Railtrack bid
The Company Limited by Guarantee intended to succeed Railtrack as owner of the British railway infrastructure launched a formal bid for Railtrack plc on March 25. This was lodged with Railtrack Group, and a copy was sent to administrators Ernst & Young. Chairman Ian McAllister said he hoped to reach ...
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