All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2003 – Page 3
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RZD’s date with destiny
RUSSIAN railway reform reaches a key stage on May 18, when new laws come into force paving the way for creation of Russian Railways as a public company. RZD should be operational as a public company before the end of this year. Announcing the date on April 8, head of ...
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Dublin’s DASH for growth
DUBLIN'S hard-pressed suburban services will gain a 30% increase in capacity at a cost of €170m under Phase I of the DART & Suburban Enhancement (DASH) project announced by Iarnród Éireann on March 24. Platforms at 23 stations will be increased from six to eight-car length, and two other stations ...
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CTA sets its wish list
SIX MAJOR projects figure in Chicago Transit Authority’s application to the US Congress for New Start funding under the six-year reauthorisation of the TEA-21 programme. There is strong political backing for the proposals, some of which are already at the planning stage; they have a $4·4bn price tag.Four extensions to ...
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Megatren eases Manila crush
APRIL 5 saw the start of public service on Manila Light Rail Transit Authority Line 2, the city’s third rapid transit line. Philippine President Gloria Arroyo inaugurated the service and joined the first passengers on the initial 4·3 km section linking Santolan and Cubao. Dubbed Megatren on account of its ...
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Suburban vision faces cost hike
INTRO: In recent years commuter rail has become a favoured way of tackling road congestion in the USA. But costs are rising and federal funding is getting harder to obtain, reports Julian WolinskyOUTWARD sprawl of US cities shows no signs of abating, despite the best efforts of planners to redirect ...
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Road-rail conversions
LH GROUP has set up a road-rail division, which will supply guidance systems to convert road vehicles for rail use, and lease vehicles to engineering contractors. LH Access Technology will benefit from engineering designs purchased from the now-defunct Two Way Technology, from which LH has also recruited a number of ...
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NS conversion
NEDTRAIN’S Haarlem works is currently refurbishing 257 inter-city coaches built for NS by Talbot (now Bombardier) at Aachen in the 1980s. A batch of 22 second class BKD inter-city coaches will be rebuilt as driving trailers, with the former kitchen and van area replaced by a new cab with an ...
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Consultants flourish in strong market
INTRO: Rail businesses offering engineering services and management advice are holding up well, despite an economic downturn in many countriesHong Kong-based Mott Connell, jointly owned by Mott MacDonald and the Connell Wagner Group of Australia, has been appointed lead consultant for design package SDC100 on KCRC’s Sha Tin - Central ...
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NewsCondition-based decision-making minimises track costs
Stanislav Jovanovic explains how software developed by ERRI in 1991-98 is increasingly being used in Europe, North America and Australia to plan maintenance and renewal over long periods, based on the observed and forecast condition of track elements
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Metronet consortium completes PPP deal
ON APRIL 4 the Metronet consortium of WS Atkins, Balfour Beatty, Bombardier, Seeboard and Thames Water achieved financial close on its two contracts for the London Underground Public-Private Partnership. Over the following weekend, 2585 LU staff at Infraco BCV and 2510 at Infraco SSL transferred to the private sector firms ...
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Competition will reshape Europe’s railways
MARCH 28 saw the Council of Transport Ministers vote to accelerate proposals to introduce more competition on Europe’s rail network. The Council’s position on the Second Railway Package brings forward from 2008 to January 2006 full deregulation of international rail freight, not just on Terfn routes where competition became legal ...
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A tale of two cities - more electronics and more software
This month sees the world's two largest track maintenance exhibitions take place just five days apart on different continents. David Burns highlights the latest developments that jetsetters can compare at the Railway Engineering Maintenance & Supply Association show in Dallas and the German Railway Engineers' Association (VDEI) exhibition in Münster
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Sitram orders Citadis
MULHOUSE transport authority Sitram has ordered 20 Citadis trams from Alstom at a cost of €48m, with an option for a further seven. On delivery in 2005, the all-low-floor cars will run on the initial 12 km urban section of the city’s Tram-Train network.The urban network will consist of an ...
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Change in the wind
UNDER the tutelage of its ousted Chief Executive Etienne Schouppe, Belgian National Railways remained largely unscathed by the European Commission’s directives aimed at introducing intra-modal competition. Separation of infrastructure and operations was nominal at best, but there are signs that Karel Vinck, appointed as Managing Director last year (RG 8.02 ...
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UITP to debate ’the ultimate challenge’
AROUND 2000 delegates are expected to attend the 55th World Congress of the International Union of Public Transport, being held in Madrid on May 4-9. Theme of the event is ’The Challenge of Integration: Turning Multimodality into Seamless Mobility’. UITP Secretary-General Hans Rat says ’the integration of transport services is ...
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Smart cards in Madrid
FUENLABRADA, a town of 200000 inhabitants 17 km south of Madrid, is the location for live trials started last month of the BIT city-wide smart card ticketing system, which has been under development since 1997. The multimodal card will eventually encompass all public transport-metro, EMT bus and Renfe suburban trains- ...
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Cross County ground broken
CONSTRUCTION of St Louis Metro’s Cross County light rail extension was inaugurated on April 9 with a ground-breaking ceremony at the site of Forsyth station, Missouri. The 13 km route links the existing Forest Park station, which will be rebuilt, with Clayton and Shrewsbury, running largely at grade but with ...
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Linx signs broadband deal
FROM JUNE 1 Nordic inter-city operator Linx AB will offer broadband internet access in First and Business class on all X2000 trainsets operating Stockholm - Oslo and G
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Industry News in Brief
Czech rolling stock builder CKD Vagonka has reported sales worth KC760m last year, up from KC273m the previous year. A significant contribution came from a KC850m order to supply 16 DMU cars to Finland’s VR by 2006.Holland LP’s Railroad Mechanical Group has opened five M-Bar-D wagon repair and inspection facilities, ...
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Passenger News in Brief
Venice Simplon-Orient Express and Queensland Rail are to suspend services of the Great South Pacific Express luxury train from June 8, blaming a downturn in the international tourist market.Hellenic Railways real estate wing GaiaOSE has appointed Planet Ernst & Young to advise on the development and management of its real ...
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