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Osaka gateway
WEST Japan Railway has announced plans to redevelop Osaka station by 2011, to create a showpiece gateway to the city. Work will begin this year on a new terminal building, designed for improved accessibility. Additional escalators and lifts will help to smooth passenger flows and simplify transfer between different services. ...
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NewsGNER internet link
SWEDISH supplier Icomera AB announced on April 7 that it had been appointed to install its Wireless Onboard Internet technology on 10 refurbished Mk IV trainsets (RG 11.03 p698) used by British inter-city operator GNER. The deal follows successful trials with an initial three trains (RG 9.03 p550). Users ...
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Locating trains on the Hochbahn
HAMBURG’S Hochbahn is to fit more than 300 metro cars with TagMaster heavy-duty radio-frequency identification tags as part of a total operations monitoring and control system being supplied by Vossloh Information Technologies.The 800 tags will be used to provide accurate information about train locations and travel direction, and 190 readers ...
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On-line tickets printed at home
ON MARCH 12 Belgian National Railways launched a new facility allowing passengers to book domestic rail tickets over the internet and print the travel documents using their own printer. Online payment is made by credit or debit card. The railway had developed the technology itself, and claims that it is ...
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Integrated warnings
A TRAIN-mounted Electronic Train Protection & Warning System which combines Thales Communications’ Electronic Automatic Warning System with a TPWS aerial in a single module is under test on 10 of GNER’s inter-city electric locomotives.Intended for use by train operators who are upgrading their existing Automatic Warning System, the combined E-TPWS ...
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Intelligence
Australia:Mining company Xstrata has announced that it will go ahead with a planned open-cast coal mine west of Rolleston in Queensland, which will include a 110 km rail link (RG 4.03 p183). To be built by QR, Abigroup, John Holland and Connell Wagner at a cost of A$230m, it ...
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KTZ starts on Trans-Asian link
KAZAKHSTAN Railways has started work on an ambitious US$3·5bn project to build a 1435mm gauge railway linking Asia and Europe, paralleling the broad gauge Trans-Siberian corridor in Russia. According to KTZ First Vice-President Kanat Zhangaskin, the standard gauge Trans-Kazakhstan Railway between China and Iran would cut journey times by up ...
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Minuetto leads regional revival
Minuetto leads regional revivalINTRO: Styled by Giugiaro Design, the Minuetto is intended to bring a note of elegance to regional services in Italy. Alstom Transport is due to deliver 70 electric and 67 diesel multiple-units by December 2005ONE OF the most recent additions to Alstom’s Coradia family, the Minuetto is ...
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SBB ticket machines
LATER this year SBB will begin replacing portable ticket machines used for on-train sales with 2000 almex.mobile portable ticket machines from Höft & Wessel. Up to 1GB of data on available tickets and fares can be stored in the almex.mobile terminals, and a radio link can be used to obtain ...
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Market
Argentina:Under a contract worth 1·3m pesos, Luis Carlos Zonis has begun work to repair track on the network operated by Buenos Aires port authority AGP.Austria:ÖBB has awarded Kapsch TrafficCom a five-year contract to implement a train management and telephone communications system using its Mulitmedia Access IP Dispatcher technology. Bulgaria:Koncar Ellok ...
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Mitropa sold
SELECT Service Partner, the international concessions arm of catering services business Compass Group, is to acquire Mitropa AG from German Railway for a net consideration of €17·6m.Now separated from DB’s on-train catering business, Mitropa has catering concessions at more than 60 German railway stations. It reported sales of around €115m ...
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Nusantara Tunnel plan unveiled
PROPOSALS to develop a fixed link between Sumatra and Java were unveiled by Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency at the end of March. The aim is to start construction next year, with opening envisaged in 2008.The plan is to build a twin-bore tunnel between Banteng and Lampung, through which electric ...
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Yarra Trams takes over
At 03.01 on April 18 Yarra Trams became the new name for Melbourne’s entire privatised tram network when the company assumed responsibility for the former National Express Swanston Trams franchise operated under the M>Tram brand.Yarra Trams Chief Executive Hubert Guyot drove the first tram, a Siemens Combino low-floor car, from ...
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PEOPLE
Magdalena Álvarez Arza has been named as Secretary of State for Transport in the new Spanish government.A government reshuffle in France sees François Goulard appointed as Secretary of State for Transport under Gilles de Robien. who remains as Transport Minister.RFF Director-General Jean-Marie Bertrand was elected Chairman of the European Rail ...
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Pointers
Phillippine National Railways and Siemens are to carry out a 100m peso feasibility study for the Mindanao railway project, which would link Butan, Davao and General Santos.A consortium of local industries and broad gauge operator Nuevo Central Argentino is reported to have expressed interest in acquiring a stake in Belgrano ...
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Praha refurbishment
A CONSORTIUM including ING Real Estate Development, Supod Praha and Moravka Centrum is to refurbish Praha’s Masarykovo station at a cost of up to KC8m.CD has taken an initial 51% stake in the consortium, in exchange for providing the buildings and land. As the other partners fund the refurbishment, the ...
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Profits up
ENGINEERING company Balfour Beatty reported a 10% increase in pre-tax profits to £130m for the year to December 31 2003, including provision for anticipated costs arising from the ’surprising and disappointing’ termination of its three Network Rail maintenance contracts.The order book grew 14% to £5·8bn.Balfour Beatty’s share in two of ...
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Upgrading programme
AN INFRASTRUCTURE improvement programme for the Montréal metro costing C$309·4m was announced on March 22 following approval by the federal, provincial and city governments.Forming part of the Infrastructure Canada-Québec 2000 Programme, the work includes replacing 41 escalators and two moving walkways in the initial 26-station network. Other elements in the ...
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Transport Projects, Programmes & PoliciesEvaluation needs and capabilitiesEditors: Alan Pearman, Peter Mackie and John NellthorpForming part of the Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences series, this volume collects together selected papers from international specialists in the application of economic evaluation to the transport sector. These were presented at a workshop ...
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Septa retenders
AMID charges of favouritism and political interference, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority on March 19 cancelled a $236m order for 104 stainless steel commuter cars from the Rotem-led United Transit Systems consortium.Septa board Chairman Pasquale Deon blamed the potential cost of defending a lawsuit brought by Kawasaki Rail Car, one of ...