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Possession or ownership?
IT LOOKS as if political decisions determining the future legal status of Deutsche Bahn AG will be taken next month. But don’t expect anything simple or clear cut.At least the options are being narrowed down. A joint parliamentary committee charged by the government with investigating the privatisation of DB AG ...
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On July 12 Anne-Marie Idrac (below) was appointed as President of SNCF, succeeding Louis Gallois who has stepped down as head of the French national rail operator to become Co-Chairman of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. Idrac had been head of Paris transport operator RATP since 2002, and was ...
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Rail welding plant
ON JUNE 27 Lithuanian Railways’ Gelmagis subsidiary inaugurated a long-welded rail plant in Silenai, removing the need for LG to buy-in welding services from Latvia and Belarus. Geismar supplied equipment worth 20m litai for the plant in the north of the country, which employs 16 staff. In addition to supplying ...
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Subsidiaries progress RZD reforms
JULY 1 saw the formal start of operations for Russian Railways’ Federal Passenger Board, which has been established as an early priority for the third stage of the RZD reform programme.The reform of RZD’s passenger operations is based on splitting the commercial and social services into separate businesses. According to ...
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Radio silence
ALMOST EXACTLY four years ago, on June 28 2002, the California Public Utilities Commission formally approved the use of Advanced Automatic Train Control on the Bay Area Rapid Transit network in Oakland and San Francisco. Being developed for BART under a $40m contract awarded to Harmon Industries in 1998 (RG ...
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World of tickets
THALES has announced a series of metro ticketing contracts involving contactless smart card technology.Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp has awarded a consortium of Thales, LG and local company Beikong a contract to replace the existing system of paper tickets inspected at gate lines with a contactless system covering 1184 ...
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UltraCaps win out in energy storage
Richard Hope explains how double-layer capacitors have broken through the economic barriers to capturing braking energy on a Mannheim light rail vehicle
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Valencia Line 1 gets €300m upgrade
VALENCIA metro operator FGV is embarking on an upgrade programme for its 80 km Line 1, which is to receive €300m up to 2010 for improvements to infrastructure, power supplies and customer facilities, including accessibility. The train service frequency is to be doubled and 34 new trainsets are to be ...
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Phase 1 opens in Valenciennes
THE FIRST PHASE of the light rail network in the French city of Valenciennes was officially opened on June 16 by Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister of Employment and President of the greater Valenciennes authority. From June 17 to 30 the 9·5 km route with 19 stops between Dutemple and Université was ...
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Alvia cuts Madrid - Barcelona to 4h 15min
THE FASTEST journey time between Madrid and Barcelona was cut to 4h 15min on May 17 when Renfe brought its fleet of 12 Class 120 EMUs into service under the Alvia brand. Equipped with CAF’s Brava system, the self-propelled trains pass through the new gauge-changing installation at Puigverd de Lleida ...
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Market July 2006
Angola: Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co is to supply the Benguela Railway with two SDE16N locos powered by Cummins QSK60-L engines rated at 1640 kW. Bosnia: Funded by a €67·7m loan from the Spanish government, Patentes Talgo is to supply BHZJK with nine trainsets of nine cars each ...
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Intelligence July 2006
Africa: Last month Ghana's Minister of Harbours & Railways Prof Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi told the second meeting of the Joint Committee of Burkinabe & Ghanaian Railway Experts in Ouagadougou that the Canadian International Development Agency has provided funds to study the feasibility and impact of constructing a 795 km single ...
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World urban rail news July 2006
Algeria: A consortium of Semaly and Ingerop has been awarded a €9·6m contract to design, tender and supervise construction of a 9 km tramway in Constantine on behalf of Alger Metro Co. Running from Place des Martyrs to the Rhumel Industrial Zone and Zouaghi, the topography will demand substantial engineering ...
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N700 to start next year
AFTER MORE than a year of test running with its prototype N700 tilting Shinkansen trainset, Central Japan Railway announced on May 26 that a series build will be introduced into commercial service on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen from the summer of 2007.JR Central and JR West have agreed a ...
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Still no access to Pilbara ore lines
DESPITE A draft recommendation in March from the National Competition Commission that railways owned by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton should be made available for use by other train operators, Australia's federal Treasurer Peter Costello decided in May not to grant access to BHP's 295 km Mount Newman line. The ...
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Edinburgh - Glasgow link goes ahead
THE Airdrie - Bathgate Railway & Linked Improvements Bill was introduced into the Scottish Parliament on May 30 by Network Rail. The objective is to restore a route between Glasgow and Edinburgh serving industrial areas in the Scottish Lowlands that last saw through passenger trains in the 1950s. This is ...
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Climbing the Andes with dual-fuel power
Following successful trials at an altitude of 4781 m above sea level, Ferrocarril Central Andino of Peru is converting seven locomotives to run on compressed natural gas and diesel fuel, reducing both emissions and the fuel bill
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No approval for Belgrano transfer
Appearing before a congressional committee on June 1, Argentina’s Transport Secretary Ricardo Jaime said that the government was still considering proposals to transfer a majority shareholding in Belgrano Cargas to a consortium of Macri, Roggio, Emepa and Sanhe Hopefull Grain & Oil (RG 5.06 p244). He added that if a ...
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Arctic iron ore line proposed
DETAILED plans are taking shape for a heavy-haul iron ore railway on Baffin Island in northern Canada. The line is intended to link the Mary River deposits with a deep-water port from which the ore would be shipped to steel producers in Europe.The Mary River deposits were identified in the ...