All Railway Gazette International articles in May 2004 – Page 4
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Private sector kick-starts two-stage airport line
A private-sector consortium has won a 30-year concession to build and operate the 58 km link now under construction between central Seoul and Incheon Airport. The first phase will open in 2007
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Brown and Red lines go ahead
ILLINOIS Governor Rod Blagojevich and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced on April 13 that the Federal Transit Administration had approved funding for a $530m project to expand capacity on Chicago Transit Authority’s Brown Line linking the city centre with Kimball/Lawrence in Ravenswood.Bids for the five-year programme of work are due ...
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Freight Australia sale agreed
ON MARCH 29 RailAmerica announced that it had reached agreement to sell its Victorian operating subsidiary Freight Australia to Pacific National for A$285m. The deal is subject to ratification by the Victoria state government and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.RailAmerica purchased Freight Australia from the Victorian government in 1999 ...
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CR speeds up again
INTRODUCTION of Chinese Railways’ new timetable on April 18 saw the launch of the fifth national speed increase, bringing the total route length cleared for 160 km/h operation to 7700 km.The new timetable sees CR’s fastest Beijing - Shanghai journey time cut from 14h to 11h 58min, and the number ...
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Kenya tries again
PRIVATISATION in East Africa is moving ahead, albeit slowly. Although the Kenyan, Ugandan and Tanzanian heads of state were agreed on the desirability of a single concessionaire, Tanzania had already called for expressions of interest. Only a lone bidder came forward (RG 2.04 p72), and the process is to be ...
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African road-rail
SPOORNET has acquired 20 double-cab Isuzu KB250 road-rail inspection vehicles in a R12m lease-back agreement.Adapting the vehicles for use on 1067mm gauge railways required the chassis to be modified behind the cab and around the wheel arches. Additional leaf springs have been fitted to the rear axle, and an Isuzu ...
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Safetram addresses crashworthiness of trams and light rail vehicles
An EU-funded three-year research programme to develop cost-effective structural safety improvements for trams and light rail vehicles has produced two modular bodyshell designs
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Line 9 forges on
THE CATALUNYA regional government has awarded a consortium of Dragados, Necso, Comsa, ACS and Soirgué a contract worth €89·8m to build the Sagrera-Meridiana - Onze de Setembre section of Line 9 on the Barcelona metro network.The contract also includes the boring of a 12m diameter tunnel for the largely parallel ...
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Roma - Napoli postponed until 2005
INTRO: Construction work on the 205 km high speed line between Roma and Napoli is nearly complete, but progress has been slow because of archaeological treasures found along the route and the need to complete trials with ETCS Level 2. TAV Managing Director Antonio Savini Nicci briefed Murray Hughes in ...
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Urban rail news in brief - May 2004
Argentina: The contract to build the 2·9 km extension of metro Line A from Primera Junta to Nazca (RG 4.04 p186) was signed in Buenos Aires on April 12. Civil works began 10 days later, with new stations expected to open at Pu? n and Carabobo in 2007 and at ...
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Metro Report 2004
DISTRIBUTED to subscribers with this issue is the 2004 edition of our annual supplement on urban rail developments, Metro Report. Senior executives from 13 cities worldwide report on current and future investment plans, and other articles include a detailed review of the low-floor tram and light rail market. An analysis ...
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Northrail starts as Line 2 grows
ACEREMONY was held in Manila on April 5 to mark the start of work on the long-planned Northrail project to rehabilitate the former Philippine National Railways Main Line North. Closed since 1982, the single-track 1067mm gauge line is to be rebuilt as a double-track route able to carry 350000 passengers ...
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